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The History podcast with your egregious host, Katie Charlwood, giftgiver and reader of books.

So if you hear the sound of knocking on the door, it's just a cat.

And so Valentine's Day is coming up and I thought what says romance more than somebody who steals money from women murders murders them and drains their blood.

Okay, so let me just have a little look here.

So today I thought, let's talk about Bella Kish, the vampire of Sengota.

Now, I did talk about this briefly on TikTok and I pronounce his name is KISS instead of

Kish because I'm an idiot who sometimes does not pronounce things correctly and I was quickly

corrected twice. Good, good for you. I was quickly corrected twice regarding my mispronunciation of

of kish, but it looks like k-I-S in English. So and I thought, well, that's actually pretty

funny because it's kiss, but also he, he, nobody learned to kiss and tell. I don't know.

I'm sure I had a pun in there somewhere.

So my sources are the encyclopedia of serial killers,

Brian Lane and Wilford Greg from 1992,

world famous murders, Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson, Rowan Wilson, lots of Wellsons in 1993, and Murderpedia and a WordPress, Cinco to Hungary, Europe between East and West.

Belakish is known as the vampire of Sincota and the monster of Sincota, because he was a serial killer.

So how do I tell you about Belakish?

Here's the thing. The beginning, his origins are a little bit fuzzy because, you know, nobody really

pays attention to somebody until after they start doing crimes. So people weren't really keeping

too much of a record of what was going on beforehand, but this is the best we got. So, Billa Kish was born in

1877. Where he came from, nobody knows. We don't really know much about his life before 1912,

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