112: The Angel Makers of Nagyrév
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A murderous midwife develops a cult-like following in World War I era Hungary.
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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 |
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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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