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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

41: The Papin Sisters

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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TGIF Cult Babes, a little 1920’s murder to take you into the weekend. Shared psychosis? Orphans? Eyeballs? We’ve got it at all. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Cult Leader Early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:07.0

You're listening to a morbid network podcast.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. What is up Cult Babes? How the hell are you?

0:43.0

I have a lot to talk about today.

0:46.0

So let's start with once upon a time in Hollywood, the new Quentin Tarantino film. I saw it. I loved it.

0:52.0

I thought they did a really good job and I won't give away any spoilers. But I think that Margot Robbie did a really good tribute to Sharon Tate.

1:02.0

The ending was super satisfying to watch. And you can kind of like feel why Sharon Tate's sister was so pro. I don't know if any of you guys are following along with that kind of stuff.

1:13.0

But her sister was really pro this movie being made. And I think after seeing it, I'm like, oh, okay. That makes sense. Why?

1:20.0

So you guys will see if you've seen it. If you've already seen it, you know what I'm talking about. Another thing that I noticed during the movie, which like I already knew this about Quentin Tarantino, but my friend didn't.

1:31.0

She's like, wow, there's a lot of feet in this movie. Like the dude is a foot freak. Like he has like a really intense foot fetish. So you'll notice that in the movie. If you didn't notice it before, you're welcome, I guess.

1:42.0

Okay. And lastly, make sure that you're following along on my Instagram at Spencer Henry because actually my sister Olivia came up with this idea. And I think it's so fun. I'm going to start putting a hint as to what the next week's episode will be about in the background of one of my Instagram posts during the week.

2:00.0

So make sure you pay attention to my pictures and make sure you're following along. You can try and guess in the comments. And I won't confirm obviously anything until the episode comes out. But I think it's going to be a fun little game for us.

2:14.0

Look a little scavenger hunt. So let's just get to the good stuff. Today's episode we are going to be taking it way back to the 1920s.

2:23.0

Q the music from in system. The Papin sisters are one of the most infamous cases of folia do in history.

2:30.0

Folia do is a term that defines shared psychosis, particularly in relation to delusional behaviors.

2:36.0

All right. So does anybody remember a little case I covered on episode 22 called the Ericsson twins?

2:44.0

If not, I highly recommend going back and listening if you like today's episode. It's a more recent case.

2:50.0

It's a really good example of folia do in the true crime community. Today's story all takes place in the 1920s in limon's France.

3:01.0

And it's just like it's wild pretty much from the get go. I'm going to give you a quick timeline. We have the parents Gustave and Clements Papin.

3:11.0

Now there's a lot of details here. So I'm just going to try and go through it. So just at least listen closely for this part.

3:19.0

Gustave and Clements are a couple that probably should have never decided really to get married in the first place.

3:24.0

Clements was sleeping with her boss behind Gustave's back. Gustave found out, but at the same time Clements discovers that she's pregnant.

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