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62 • The Krakow Vampire

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Jack Luna

True Crime, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A Deadtime story. Karol Kot.



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0:00.0

Hi, buddy. Hey, it's the time to do it.

0:13.0

The Crackout Vampire

0:17.0

Carol Cot was born on December 18th, 1946, in Crackout, Poland.

0:23.0

A weary city in an exhausted country that had just come under the rule of Communism the year before.

0:29.0

And in some sad way was beginning to experience a semblance of stability as a result following the horrors of the Holocaust,

0:37.0

which had claimed upwards of five million Polish lives.

0:41.0

Lives taken in a way that permeated the mood of not only every traumatized survivor, but of the air, the sky, the buildings.

0:51.0

Carol Cot was born into a great world, one that the boy was destined to tinge red.

0:58.0

A difficult feat in a place like this, equivalent to provoking the cheeks of a corpse, to flush.

1:07.0

Looking back, it wasn't particularly hard for those who knew Carol to imagine him being responsible for the attacks.

1:15.0

He was an odd boy, the type to always openly be fantasizing about the macabre, though his peers suspected Carol did this for attention and never took him seriously.

1:27.0

He enjoyed torturing and killing animals, frogs, chickens, cats, calves, anything that was relatively easy to catch and not much of a threat to harm him as he harmed it.

1:41.0

He was abusive towards his little sister, an eight-year-old who was no match for her teenage brother.

1:47.0

Carol had learned to be cruel in clever ways, pushing, pinching, suffocating.

1:54.0

Most all siblings fight, it's not uncommon, but Carol was terrorizing his sister.

2:01.0

Feeding off of her fear, and he knew how to do it in a way that made her seem like a whiner.

2:07.0

When in reality she was living in a kind of hell, one where if she did not do as her brother wanted, he would lock her in a closet or, tired to a chair.

2:18.0

He behaved as warden of his own personal prison where the little girl was as lone inmate.

2:24.0

This troubling behavior was likely inspired by a school trip he thoroughly enjoyed.

2:30.0

One where he'd realized he'd missed his true calling.

2:35.0

Carol caught wish he could have been a Nazi experimenter, a doctor of death, like Joseph Mengele.

2:43.0

His classmates had seemed to strut following their tour of Auschwitz, but Carol had been inspired.

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