One quick note before we start, I have a brand new podcast from I Heart Radio called Popcorn

Book Club.

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gotten the Hollywood treatment.

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Take a listen.

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm & Myelt from Aaron

Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

For this episode of Noble Blood, I'll be doing something a little bit different.

Usually the stories I tell are ones filtered through decades, if not hundreds of years.

But sometimes I come across a story so bizarre, so fascinating, so well everything that I ever

want an episode of Noble Blood to be.

That even though we don't quite have the established consensus of history yet, I can't

resist talking about it.

And that's why today we're talking about the strange and mysterious happenings that

occurred in Southwest France when an aristocratic family fell under the spell of a con man,

named Terry Tilly.

But here's the thing, this story is from 2001.

This is still technically with appeals and ongoing court case in France.

So take everything I say with the caveat that the truth isn't yet available to us or

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