WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:20.280 We are down to the final two days of Halloween 2 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:27.120 week with Wicked and Grim. Welcome. My name is Jacko 3 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.359 and I will be your master of ceremonies for the 4 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:37.079 remaining two days. We hope you enjoyed last episode as 5 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.719 we conversed and dove into the world of the Black 6 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:47.840 Eyed Children. Hopefully it didn't entice any to come visit you, 7 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:57.119 but if they haven't, maybe they will. On All Hallosy today, however, 8 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:02.399 we are talking about something much more sinister then children. 9 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:10.799 We're talking about the Blood Countess herself. But to get 10 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:17.040 those details, as always, we need our hosts, So here 11 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:22.159 they are. Without further ado then and Nicole. 12 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.040 Thanks Jacko again for that awesome introductions. 13 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.120 Jacko is getting some stellar reviews. 14 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.079 He is like, people are fucking loving jack He's going 15 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.200 to be missed, I think so. I'm like already a 16 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:36.560 little bit heartbroken knowing that. 17 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.280 He's actually just saying that. My heart going to say, right. 18 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.920 Well, I mean the time with Jacko has been pretty awesome. 19 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:46.959 I'm sure he'll come back next year. 20 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.159 Oh, I'm sure he'll grace our presence again at one point. 21 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:53.319 I'm sure he will. I don't think we would be 22 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:58.519 allowed to get Jacko's flame snuffed out eternally now by 23 00:01:58.560 --> 00:01:59.159 the listeners. 24 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.319 I don't think it could happened. No, I don't think 25 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:02.040 he would allow it. 26 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.079 I don't think so. I am like willing to bet 27 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:11.120 that he would. Yeah, so black Eyed Children, that was 28 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:12.120 that was a ride? 29 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.960 Well, yeah, that intro like, holy shit, holy no one 30 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.039 has seen any of them, that little episode. That's a 31 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:19.840 little bit much. 32 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.599 So what have we covered so far? What have we gotten? 33 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.560 We got Robert the Dahl nineteen eleven, the baseball game, 34 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.159 we got the three epic urban legends, Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley, Yes. 35 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.560 Black Eyed Children? How many is that that we just listed? 36 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:39.439 Five? 37 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.159 I don't know. 38 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:45.759 Well, we're moving on today to a crazy story. 39 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:49.879 It just gets worse and worse here, or better and better, 40 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:51.120 whichever way you want to look at. 41 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.199 Well, it's more entertaining, but it's much more sinister as 42 00:02:54.240 --> 00:03:00.400 we go for this one. Like few women's crimes have 43 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:06.479 gone through history as much as those as the Countess 44 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:13.000 Elizabeth Bathory a k a. The Blood Countess, which is 45 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:19.719 who we're talking about today. This is a fucking holy 46 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:21.560 This is a this is a tale. Let me tell 47 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.680 you that. Yeah, are you ready for this. 48 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:24.960 I am. 49 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.280 As you're drinking red wine, I think, well, no. 50 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.919 It's not even red wine. It's actually raspberry cider. 51 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:31.000 Okay, but it's. 52 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.960 Very I was, and I'm like, sweet, I should have 53 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.199 maybe picked a different color. 54 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.280 Well, if you're familiar with this case, you know what 55 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.680 we're about to dive into. But even if you are 56 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.360 unfamiliar with the with the case and with the name 57 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.520 Elizabeth Bathory, the chances are you've actually heard the stories 58 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:54.400 about her legendary sadism period. Perhaps you're aware that she 59 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.919 holds maybe the honor of being the world's most prolific 60 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:05.439 female murderer. Oh yeah, as dictated by the Guinness Book 61 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:10.639 of World Records. In fact, yeah, or maybe I would 62 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.759 think so, but it is a title, or maybe you 63 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.360 would actually uh heard her mentioned as a key influence 64 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.639 for you know, just a little old novel named I 65 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:20.759 don't know, Dracula. 66 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:23.680 What oh yeah? Really? 67 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:24.839 Oh yeah? 68 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:26.000 Oh my goodness. 69 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.959 This sounds intriguing, and some even argue that she is 70 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.279 the legendary Bloody Mary herself. 71 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:35.399 Wow. 72 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.240 Now, Bloody Mary, of course, being the infamous urban legend 73 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:41.839 where you go into a dark bathroom approach the mirror 74 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:46.279 holding a lit candle, chant bloody Mary a number of times, 75 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.319 and there in the mirror she will appear covered in blood. 76 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.000 I've tried that before. 77 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:52.040 Were you successful? 78 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:54.560 No? And I think I, like fall didn't follow the 79 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.800 steps completely right because I actually was like subconsciously not 80 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:58.680 wanting to see the shit. 81 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.800 Well, who would want to see some scary bitch appeared 82 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:02.959 in a mirror covered in blood? 83 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.040 I definitely didn't do it right. Well, I was like 84 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:07.839 a child, and I was like, oh, I'll try this. 85 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.240 It's probably a good thing you didn't do it right 86 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.639 because could you imagine if she appeared, Oh, I. 87 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:13.720 Would have been scarred for life. Yeah, like I think 88 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.079 my whole life would probably have changed it. I wouldn't 89 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.279 be weird right now. 90 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.480 Well, chances are you might have not have survived that 91 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.360 encounter because there's like there's stories of her like viciously 92 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.879 attacking or gouging your eyes out and shit like. It's 93 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.879 of course the accounts vary, but oh my gosh, yes, 94 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.759 sometimes she's nice, sometimes she's mean, Sometimes she's a witch, 95 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.240 sometimes she's a zombie. Urban legends they go. 96 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.079 Along the place, right, Okay, I'm pop, this is gonna 97 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:39.600 be a good one. 98 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.879 All right, we'll buckley your seatbelts because this is the 99 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:49.399 tale of the blood Countess. Let's dive in. So Elizabeth 100 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:53.759 Bathory was born on a family estate in Hungary on 101 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:57.079 August seventh, in fifteen sixty. 102 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.120 Hotly, Yeah, it's a long time ago. 103 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:02.600 She was the daughter of Baron George's fifth Bathory and 104 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:07.680 Baroness and Bathory. She descended from multiple noble lineages, including 105 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:12.920 the King of Poland and the Prince of Transylvania. Like 106 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:16.920 we're talking fucking high up, like fancy dancing motherfuckers here. 107 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:22.680 The said bloodline was actually also a result of generational 108 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.920 inbreeding as well, so they kept it within the family, 109 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:30.360 which was not abnormal for that time, like royal with royal, 110 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.720 keep the royal bloodline clean, you know sort of thing. 111 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.040 Okay, I kind of snubbed it, but I guess that's 112 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:35.800 a long time ago. 113 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.759 I mean, it's still nasty, but that's just what the time. 114 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.000 Is worse, what happened. 115 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.920 Yeah, So, yeah, her parents were actually closely related, and 116 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:46.759 it's thought that this may have actually been the source 117 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.720 of number of health problems that Elizabeth had as a child. 118 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.600 She suffered from severe epileptic seizures that led to an 119 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.560 array of like pseudo cures that inspired many of the 120 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:07.040 ridiculously insidious stories and vampiric legends surrounding her. One speculative 121 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.439 story goes that the that a cure that they used 122 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.399 for her seizures was that they would rub blood of 123 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:20.040 a quote unquote non sufferer onto her lips, sometimes with 124 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:21.879 a piece of their skull. 125 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.439 Okay, what like they would kill people to do this? 126 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.079 Then, yes, and they would take a piece of the 127 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.240 skull with their blood and rub it on her lips. 128 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.959 Oh my gosh, in what right mind would you think 129 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:37.759 that would work? 130 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.120 I don't know. This is the fifteen hundreds. It's quite 131 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.240 a cracky cure where it's like, I don't know, you 132 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.600 got ghosts in your blood? Try cocaine. That's sort of 133 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:52.120 that type of stuff, you know. But wow, So these 134 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:56.199 are speculative stories. We don't know. Or another one is 135 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.800 that she was taught at a young age the cruelty 136 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:02.680 that she knew so well by her parents directly and 137 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.439 was introduced to witchcraft. 138 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.560 So the family had some things going on, is what 139 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.240 you're basically saying. Well, they might not have been the 140 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:12.000 best of people. 141 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:17.399 They're not. However, these stories. We don't know if they're true. 142 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:21.879 None of these stories can be backed up. What we 143 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:24.639 do we don't know much about her young age. This 144 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:27.639 is just urban legends that have gone on through the 145 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:33.440 age of sort of thing like documentary documentation is extremely 146 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.240 hard to come by, So anything that we do know 147 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:40.240 regarding her younger age is strictly theories. Basically. 148 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.559 Well, I've done cases that are from like the early 149 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.399 nineteen hundreds and I have found it hard. So yeah, 150 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.559 that's like way gone back. 151 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.080 What we do know about her younger years though, that 152 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.440 she was raised in luxury and had a level of 153 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.240 privilege that was denied to the vast majority of the 154 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:05.519 Hungarians citizens. I was going to say civilizations and citizens 155 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:10.360 at the same time, it just came out civilis. So 156 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:15.360 at the age of ten, Elizabeth was engaged to Phenic 157 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.919 nad Dasdy, a nobleman, an heir to one of the 158 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:25.399 wealthiest dynasties in the region. Although he was wealthy, he 159 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:31.240 was technically of lower social status standings than Elizabeth, even 160 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.360 at the age of ten, which is crazy. 161 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:35.960 And this was a man, yes. 162 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.360 Well it wasn't a man, it was They weren't that 163 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.440 far apart in age. Actually, they married when she was 164 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:44.799 fifteen and he was nineteen, so he's only four years 165 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.279 older than her. Yeah, so he would have been fourteen, 166 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:48.840 she would have been ten when they were engaged. 167 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.320 Okay. Could you imagine, though, Hey, like a fourteen year 168 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.720 old asking n ten year old to marry them. I 169 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:57.679 don't that's playground. 170 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.200 I don't know if that's like how this would work. 171 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.919 I think yeah, it would have more been like your 172 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.000 son will marry my daughter. Of course, cheers over this 173 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.799 elaborate dinner that we will have for the next ten days, 174 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:12.279 you know, like that sort of shit. 175 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:12.879 That's fair. 176 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.960 Yeah, that's true. So when they did get married, though, 177 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.799 his wedding gift to Elizabeth was his household. Whoa, but 178 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:24.519 it wasn't just it was not just a house. It's 179 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.960 not not even just a fucking mansion either, for that matter. 180 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.840 It was a fucking castle. A castle. 181 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.039 Well, I feel like I got jipped on the wedding 182 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:34.720 gift department. 183 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:40.039 Then the same it's castle and I'm gonna probably pronounce 184 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:41.840 this wrong. I had to look up phonetically how to 185 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:46.200 say it. Kachi check, but it's spelt really weird because 186 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.679 another language. But castle kuchi check. Which is located on 187 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:55.039 the lower end of Carpathian of the Carpathian Mountains. During 188 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.240 their marriage, they conceived at least five children. There's a 189 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.679 rumor of a sixth, but only three survived infancy. Okay again, 190 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.679 fifteen hundreds weird times. People die all the. 191 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.360 Time, right, Well, yeah, they didn't have like the means 192 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.600 of saving people really to the extent we do today. 193 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:18.120 Anyway, Yeah, Frenick was a part of many Hungarian wars. 194 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.480 He had a thirst for blood, and it's often said 195 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.399 that on the battlefield he would take the wounded soldiers 196 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.240 and impale them onto wooden stakes to watch them writhe 197 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:33.799 and scream in pain while they slowly died, a painful death, 198 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:36.639 much like that of someone who is said to be 199 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:42.799 related to Elizabeth Vlad the Impaler, who was the original 200 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:44.840 inspiration for Dracula. 201 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:50.200 Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, but like, who on earth 202 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.480 would enjoy watching something like that? 203 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:56.320 Yeah? No, shit, Uh, there's clearly some people. 204 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.200 Oh well, yeah, clearly there are. 205 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:03.200 Yeah, times have definitely changed, though there still are people. 206 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:05.480 Though there still are some, but I mean out there, 207 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.759 I'm sure. Like back at that time, it was like 208 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.000 people hanging from the gallows all the time. Yeah, and 209 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.320 like the townsfolk would come and watch like it was 210 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:19.639 a pastime activity, you know. Oh, anyways, hangings and imhalings aside. 211 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.000 It was only a few years after the wedding when 212 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:27.639 Farenik was promoted to chief commander of the Hungarian troops 213 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.399 and was sent to war against the Ottoman Empire, which 214 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.200 is where he spent most of his time away at war, 215 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:36.600 and it was here that he was actually given the 216 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:43.000 nickname the Black Night of Hungary, which sounds fucking badass, yeah, but. 217 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:44.639 It also sounds like he's an asshole. 218 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.600 Yeah, but I don't know which one sounds more badass, 219 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:52.200 the Black Night of Hungary or the Blood Countess. Probably 220 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:55.320 the Blood Countess. That's that sounds really fucking dope. 221 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:55.679 Yeah. 222 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.399 Scariest shit though, so after twenty nine years of marriage, however, 223 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.679 So this is a little A little while later, Frennick 224 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:08.279 was stricken with an unknown disease. Maybe it was karma 225 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:10.720 for you know, all the shit he did in the battlefield, 226 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.080 or maybe it was just the odds weren't in his 227 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.320 favor because disease wasn't exactly a thing that they could 228 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.480 cure or take care of in you know, sixteen hundred 229 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:24.399 sort of, yeah, regardless. On the fourth of January sixteen 230 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.519 oh four, at the age of forty eight, after twenty 231 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:33.600 nine years of marriage to Elizabeth, Elizabeth Frennick passed away. Now, 232 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.000 in Hungarian tradition, a widow generally stays out of the 233 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:40.480 public eye while mourning her husband's death for a year. 234 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:43.759 Oh wow, yes, a whole year, the. 235 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.960 Whole year of mourning, yes, which I. 236 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.000 Mean, grant you, it does take that long. But it's 237 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.200 just like interesting that they're not supposed to be seen 238 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:50.759 kind of thing. 239 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.679 Well, I'm sure you could be like seen, but like 240 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.919 generally you just not doing much, you know. 241 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.759 Well, and you have all the help at home and stuff. 242 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.480 So sure, if you want to go for a stroll 243 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:06.519 in the park or something, I'm sure that's acceptable, but 244 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:10.320 you're not out doing political things or whatever. Like Elizabeth 245 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.840 was right, Okay, So, like I said, she's out doing 246 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.720 other stuff. Clearly she didn't do this. She in fact, 247 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.240 first off, took a trip to Vienna and went on 248 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:24.759 elaborate shopping spree, buying fine clothing and weares for herself 249 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:26.279 as well as her servants. 250 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.440 Yeah, that's honestly one way to mourn. I mean that's 251 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:31.360 a huge distraction. 252 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:34.840 Yeah, that's true. It's definitely a distraction. You know, fucking 253 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:36.399 makeover man, let's do it. 254 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.080 Yeah. 255 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.799 Yeah, so yeah, that's that's what she did immediately. 256 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:42.679 Good for her. Really, I don't know, I think that's 257 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.320 not I don't know. I don't think that's a terrible thing. 258 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.600 It's definitely a coping mechanism. Whether she was coping or not, 259 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:52.879 that would definitely be a means of it. Yeah. So 260 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.559 when she got back, she stayed a public figure. Like 261 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.320 I said, she was involved in many political affairs. Her 262 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:03.440 and her late husband were actually owed several debts that 263 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.639 she wasn't about to uh you know, forget. 264 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:10.279 Oh she means business, yeah, this woman. 265 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.480 Yeah. It was about this time, however, that rumors of 266 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.200 Elizabeth's thirst for blood began to spread. Word of her 267 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:26.039 capturing young girls and torturing them. But these were just rumors, 268 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:32.240 right were they doubtful are infamous? Dun, dun, dun. 269 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.320 I'm doubting they're just rumors. 270 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.440 Well, given the name or title she has and the 271 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.080 Guinness Book of Record thing, yeah, I'm pretty sure you 272 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:46.399 can guess. The rumors kept growing and kept spreading and 273 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.240 it eventually began became too much to be ignored. In 274 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:56.120 sixteen ten, King Matthias the Second would assign two individuals 275 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:01.840 to collect evidence on the allegations and rumors made again her. 276 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.600 I think this is like interesting because these rumors went 277 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:12.440 on for like, was it like eight years before anything. 278 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:12.960 Was done about it. 279 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.679 Yeah, and it was six It wasn't even it was 280 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.000 like maybe like it was within the year. It was 281 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.840 still sixteen oh four when these allegations started spreading. Okay, 282 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.879 so her husband died, she went on this trip, she 283 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.440 was still doing stuff in the public eye, still within 284 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.600 that year, and all this is happening, and then rumors 285 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:33.720 began to spread the same year. And now we're at 286 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.799 sixteen ten and they're finally looking into it, actually. 287 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:39.840 Doing something about it. That's actually yeah, that's a long 288 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.759 time it is, I. 289 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.159 Mean fair enough. I understand she's a quite like high 290 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:46.039 wealth and status. 291 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.360 Yeah, that would be almost like a Rocky might not 292 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:49.120 want to turn over. 293 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:51.879 Yeah, but it's it's still just interesting to me that 294 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:54.600 they let it go for that long, Like, oh, she 295 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.919 could potentially be murdering children, Eh, she's rich, you know, 296 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:05.039 children young girls, yes, so like and stuff. Yeah, that's 297 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.240 the allegation. Young girls. 298 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.359 Oh geez, okay, not that it would be any better 299 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.240 if those older women, but I don't know. Lots of 300 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.000 times when they're young, like I mean, they just have 301 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.799 their life ahead of them, right, and then it taken away. 302 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:17.759 It's just extra. 303 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:21.440 Shitty, definitely, because I mean, they didn't get to live really, 304 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:27.279 you know, their potential nothing exactly. So hundreds of testimonies 305 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:32.559 were collected from townspeople, Elizabeth's staff members, and even apparent 306 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:36.759 survivors from her dealings. What they revealed was nothing short 307 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:44.720 of horrifying. Elizabeth was in fact abducting young girls on average, 308 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.559 apparently by the age of ten. They were anywhere from 309 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:55.200 the age of six to fourteen. What I found varying 310 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.119 accounts on those age seems like every source they went 311 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.920 to it was different, so it's like averages ten. But 312 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.799 I did find a few accounts of as low as. 313 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:08.960 Six geez, oh my gosh. Okay. 314 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:13.680 Yeah. So she would abduct these young girls and she 315 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.400 would hold them up in her property. There the girls 316 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:23.240 would be beaten severely and repeatedly by her. By her, 317 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.640 they would be mutilated, and they would be put into 318 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:35.480 freezing temperatures. And they would be left to starve to death. 319 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:42.960 Some girls were allegedly burned again repeatedly with hot tongs 320 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:47.599 and other burning pieces of iron. Others had parts of 321 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:54.640 their body, including their face, bitten off. What and some 322 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.200 were wounded and covered in honey then left for the 323 00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:59.880 ants and insects to dive. 324 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:06.240 Holy crap, that's like some brutal. 325 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:10.160 Shit she enjoyed inflicting pain. 326 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:13.000 Wow. 327 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:18.279 And those are children, yeah, on average between the age 328 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.519 of six to fourteen, from what I could find. 329 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.519 Okay, Like I just couldn't imagine just watching, like because 330 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.400 that's like a kid, yeah, struggling. 331 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:29.920 Yeah, and she would sit there, prod them with hot 332 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.799 irons and do all this, watch the screaming and crying, 333 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:38.119 and she would, I would assume, just laugh and keep going. 334 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.960 Holy shit, she's a monster. Yeah, Like that is a monster. Yeah, 335 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:44.440 Oh my gosh. 336 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.799 Now there are, of course, the infamous allegations that Elizabeth 337 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:52.200 would collect blood from her victims, and only virgin victims 338 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.200 in fact, and that she would bathe in the blood 339 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:58.720 to conserve her youth, you know, like putting moisturize here 340 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:03.319 on your skin sort of thing. Same thing, And to 341 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.200 be fair, you can't bathe in blood without also enjoying 342 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:09.680 a nice tall glass of it for good metag. 343 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:11.240 Oh my gosh, are you serious? 344 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:18.039 So there is also those allegations. However, however, those two accounts, 345 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:21.240 those stories didn't become part of her lore until she 346 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:25.960 was already dead for over a century. The claim first 347 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:29.359 appeared in print in seventeen twenty nine in the work 348 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.759 of a Jesuit scholar by the name of this is 349 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.119 can be really fucking hard to pronounce Laslow, but the 350 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:42.960 last name Turosi Troxy. No witness accounts from her trial 351 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:49.400 or testimonies ever make reference to baths of blood, so 352 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:51.240 as far as we can tell, those are strictly fiction. 353 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.519 But I do want to say one thing real quick. 354 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.119 Her biting in like the faces and body parts of 355 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:05.599 her victims could lead to the consumption of cannibalism, which 356 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:09.599 are at some allegations at times, and consumption of the 357 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:11.319 blood that is gross. 358 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:13.519 Okay, Well, just two really quick things. I just wanted 359 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.599 to say that she was because back then, like they 360 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:18.960 were like marrying really young and stuff. So that's why 361 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:20.680 I was just going so young if she wanted them 362 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:24.640 to be virgins or whatever, right, yeap? And then even 363 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:26.599 with that whole thing you had said at the beginning 364 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.759 where they were rubbing blood blood on her, she like 365 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:33.759 almost grew up with maybe the taste of blood. 366 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.240 Well, that's where that theory comes in, is that she 367 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:41.400 had this taste for blood. So this story is emerged 368 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.920 that for her seizures, this was a treatment which gave 369 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.640 her the development of a taste for blood. Yeah, However, 370 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.240 there is no proof of that treatment for her seizures. 371 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:55.920 That seems to strictly be legend and lore. 372 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:56.880 Oh okay. 373 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.799 As well as the consumption of blood. We don't know 374 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:04.079 sure though that the consumption of blood might be plausible, 375 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.000 but the bathing and blood there is zero evidence. 376 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:12.680 I'm really wishing that I brought a different drink choice 377 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:14.359 because now, like every time I go to drink this, 378 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:16.240 I'm just like, oh my gosh, Like does it need 379 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:18.279 to be bright red? Like? Does it need to be? 380 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:20.119 I think you chose a good one for this. 381 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:24.759 Oh okay, okay, yeah, Well. 382 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:28.920 We're going to get into her number here. Her number, 383 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:30.440 her body. 384 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.759 Count, oh boy, do we want to know? 385 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:38.319 Is said to be at least greater than eighty wow, 386 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:42.720 but upwards of six hundred and fifty. 387 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:49.920 What yes, holy shit, six hundred and fifty children. Yes, 388 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.839 did she like what kind of how many people lived 389 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:54.240 in the town that she lived in? 390 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:56.599 You're just fucking stammering. 391 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:02.000 Like, well, I'm just like fla humbergasted. Yeah, you people 392 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:03.400 lived in that fucking town. 393 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.079 I don't know, but now you understand the uh, the 394 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:11.240 how she got her Guinness World records. 395 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:13.880 Yeah, and now I really don't understand why it took 396 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:16.279 them so fucking long, because that is a lot of 397 00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:17.920 people to be going missing, that is. 398 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:21.200 But I mean, it's not like when people go missing 399 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.400 in that day and age. It's not like you go 400 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:24.000 to the police and report it and they write up 401 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:28.799