112: The Angel Makers of Nagyrév

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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A murderous midwife develops a cult-like following in World War I era Hungary. Website: http://www.ghosttownpod.com New YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/VbRZbtFEbF8 Support Ghost Town on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Follow Ghost Town on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3gozVqp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights and come with me into the weird darkness.
0:15.0	I'm Darren Marler, host of Weird Darkness, where I share stories of the paranormal,
0:21.0	supernatural, legends, lore, mysterious, macabre, unsolved,
0:27.0	unsolved, and unexplained.
0:29.0	Recently named one of the best storytellers in podcasting for 2019 by Podcast Business Journal.
0:35.0	Whether it's ghosts, cryptids, true crime, or creepy positives, you'll find it all in
0:40.6	weird darkness. Episodes uploaded seven days a week. Search for
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0:58.0	The murderous midwife.
1:00.0	I'm Jason Horton.
1:01.0	I'm Rebecca Leib.
1:02.0	And this is Ghost Town. I love a good poisoning.
1:22.6	I love a good murder mystery.
1:24.4	I love when a killer uses poi-
1:27.8	like I love like the toxicology.
1:30.2	But today I want to talk about the angel makers of Nijirev, who were a group of women led by this midwife,
1:36.3	Julia Fizakus, who lived in Nijirev Hungary.
1:40.8	And between 1914 and 1929, they dosed hundreds of people with arsenic, successfully
1:46.0	killing poisoning to death around 300 people.
1:50.7	It's incredible because they didn't get caught within this time and they were also very famous for this.
1:56.0	This town got famous for being a place where you may get poisoned.
2:02.0	You have to get pretty close to somebody
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