Episode 450: Elizabeth Báthory

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In the cold corridors of Čachtice Castle, Countess Elizabeth Báthory ruled with elegance—and terror. Born into nobility in 1560, she was beautiful, brilliant, and powerful. But behind her aristocratic grace lurked whispers of horror. Servants vanished. Noble girls sent to her finishing school were never seen again. By the time she was arrested in 1610, over 600 victims were rumored to have perished at her hands. They said she bathed in blood to preserve her youth. But was she a monster… or a pawn in a deadly political game? Entombed in her castle walls, Elizabeth died in silence. Her body may be lost, but her legend lives on forever... Click here to join our Patreon. Click here to get your own Inhuman merch. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.4	And you're listening to Inhuman, a truly frightening tale.
1:25.1	Okay. Let's just put that out there. If you saw the title, some of you may already know, but this story inspired the likes of books and movies like Bram Stoker's Dracula, Fright Night, and Lady Gaga's character in American Horror Story.
1:44.1	So if you're a fan of that show, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
1:48.8	All right.
1:50.2	This is the mostly true story of Elizabeth Bathory, aka the Blood Countess.
2:00.0	And she's believed to be the first ever female serial killer.
2:05.8	Okay.
2:07.1	Yes.
2:08.9	And so I just want to put this in there because I did get some of my research from a book titled Lady Killers, which was a gift from my husband, Matt.
2:21.2	Oh, shout out Matt.
2:22.8	Yeah, a couple years ago for Christmas, he gifted me that book.
2:25.8	And he actually was the first person to ever tell me about this case back when we very first started dating 15, 16 years ago.
2:33.8	I don't even know. I can't even do math at this point.
2:36.3	Wow. It's been a long time. But yeah, I had never, like I never knew because I loved, I still do,
2:43.7	but I loved vampires. Like, vampires are always so interesting to me, like books, movies,
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