Episode 176: Torture Deaths of the “Ghost Girls”
The dead list - well, he called it the “List of the Doomed.”
On there was a long meticulously written list of 50+ local young girls. In the years to come he would sit down, pull out his little dead list, and in red pen he would methodically write “D” next to a name.
D for dead. Another one dead.
It didn’t matter if the girls on the list knew they were doomed. It didn’t matter how much they tried to protect themselves. Once they were on the Doomed List they were going to die a painful death.
Not a single girl on the list would survive.
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Source notes:
Book: “Radium Girls” - by Kate Moore
(Honestly such an impactful moving book - I would recommend this to literally anyone. Please give it a read)
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/science/a-glow-in-the-dark-and-a-lesson-in-scientific-peril.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.lgrossman.com/pics/radium/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclide-basics-radium#:~:text=Radium%20(chemical%20symbol%20Ra)%20is,%2D226%20and%20Ra%2D228
https://ehss.energy.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_9_2.html#:~:text=As%20its%20name%20implies%2C%20radioactivity,to%20a%20more%20stable%20configuration
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/
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