This week, Jamie and Leo cover two stories that prove that history has never been particularly kind to animals in the most unbelievable ways possible.

First Topsy the elephant. Shipped across the world, worked to exhaustion as a circus animal, and ultimately sentenced to death after killing a man. What followed was one of the most disturbing executions in recorded history. She was fed cyanide, electrocuted, and hanged. All of that on the same day, in front of a live audience...

Then a pig in 14th century France is arrested, dressed in human clothing, put on formal trial for the killing of an infant, found guilty, and hanged for her crimes. In 1386. Because that was apparently a thing that happened.

Two animals. Two executions. Centuries apart. Both completely true. Welcome back to the Darkives.

Serious history. Told not so ...