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30 Morbid Minutes

Battling Vampires (and Tuberculosis) in the 19th Century

30 Morbid Minutes

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8731 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Did a deadly disease spark the legend of vampires? Or were bloodthirsty creatures really lurking in the shadows? We learn how the rampant spread of the "wasting disease" (tuberculosis) contributed to mass panic and vampire hysteria in the nineteenth century. Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) Follow Us 30MorbidMinutes Elyse Willems Jessica Vasami Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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is advised. Did a deadly disease spark the legend of vampires,

0:39.5

or were bloodthirsty creatures really lurking in the shadows? Sink your teeth into the truth on 30

0:45.6

morbid minutes. This is the podcast where we talk about topics, people, places, and things of a morbid macab, dark and downright grisly nature.

1:04.7

I'm Elise Willems.

1:05.9

And I'm Jessica Vasami.

1:08.1

Vampires.

1:09.9

Elise.

1:13.9

Do you love vampires? I know. Yeah, that's it, vampires. I do.

1:18.2

Salem's Lot is probably my favorite Stephen King book. I was a lot, I was about to ask you.

1:25.2

Yeah. I love. I know you love them. I do, but probably for all the wrong reasons, because I'm definitely like a, you know, one of my favorite shows of The Vampire Diaries, but I'm trying to remember the know I I'm one of my favorite shows is the vampire

1:29.0

diaries but I'm trying to remember the first time I ever watched like a vampire movie which

1:32.9

when it was I think it was fright night I'm pretty sure which is great the new fright night's

1:37.4

good too I haven't seen the new one but I loved the original one and I it legit scared me

1:43.3

lost boys Bram Stoker's Dracula.

1:45.7

Yep. All really good. We do have a fascination with them, but the real question is, did they

1:52.7

actually exist? You know, in past episodes, we've delved into the violent legacy of Vlad the Impaler,

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