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

327: Tarrare The Spy

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7928 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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