327: Tarrare The Spy
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A spy with a strange habit makes his way through 18th France.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees? |
| 0:05.0 | Are you interested in exploring the paranormal? |
| 0:07.0 | Faffled by stories of previous lives. |
| 0:10.0 | Well so are we. |
| 0:11.0 | In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena |
| 0:17.0 | and some horrific true crime cases. |
| 0:19.0 | Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok |
| 0:22.5 | and join us every Tuesday, |
| 0:24.6 | wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | And be prepared to be totally and utterly, |
| 0:29.7 | perplexed. Welcome to Breakthroughs with FISA UK, the podcast where Pfizer invites experts from across the pharmaceutical industry to discuss the most pressing healthcare topics. |
| 1:00.8 | What is the biggest thing that saved the most lives in terms of public health ever? It is clean water. And the second thing is vaccination. |
| 1:08.4 | The science is really exciting because we're still learning about it all the time. |
| 1:13.7 | As you are tricking the body's immune system. |
| 1:17.2 | Listen and follow wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:22.4 | An Appetite for Revolution. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Jason Horton. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm Rebecca Leab. |
| 1:27.1 | And this is Ghost Town. We cover lots of disturbing subject matter on the podcast, but disclaimer for this week, |
| 1:50.7 | this might be one of the more bizarre episodes and not for the faint of heart. |
| 1:56.2 | Today we're taking you back to the 18th century to talk about a medical oddity who lived many lives in his |
| 2:02.0 | short 26 years on earth and whose insatiable appetite lent him a place in history books. |
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