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Disturbed: True Horror Stories

FEED DROP: Everything Everywhere - H.H. Holmes, America's 'First' Serial Killer

Disturbed: True Horror Stories

Evergreen Podcasts

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2817 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey there, listeners, we're dropping another show that we're sure you'll love to hear.

0:06.6

The podcast is Everything Everywhere, and they share a daily piece of history or culture.

0:13.5

Episode topics include serial killers, conspiracies, murders, and more.

0:19.9

And with all the realness you've come to expect here on Disturbed.

0:25.0

Here's an episode on the first American serial killer, H.H. Holmes.

0:30.5

If you like the episode, follow the link in the description to subscribe to their show.

0:35.5

Thanks, and we'll see you next time.

0:40.4

In 1893, the eyes of the world turned to the city of Chicago, which was hosting the

0:45.0

world's fair. The fair was the largest public demonstration at that point of the new technology

0:49.5

called electricity. However, there was a dark side to what was happening in Chicago. One man created a

0:55.9

building that's been dubbed a murder castle, and many of the people who entered his macabre structure

1:00.7

never left alive. Learn more about H.H. Holmes, the man who's considered to be America's

1:06.3

first serial killer on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

1:25.2

Music serial killer on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The man known to history as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes was born Herman Webster Mugget on May 16, 1861, in the town of Gilminton, New Hampshire.

1:35.5

He was, by all accounts, a very intelligent child, who grew up in a highly troubled household.

1:40.8

Both of his parents were very religious and strict Methodists. However, his father was also an

1:45.9

alcoholic and very abusive. Herman, however, was extremely bright and was able to attend the Phillips

1:51.7

Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. However, there he was also bullied by his classmates, who often

1:57.2

picked on him because of his intelligence. Later in life, he recounted one episode where there was a skeleton in one of the classrooms

2:03.7

that he was terrified of.

2:05.2

The boys in his class made him stand in front of the skeleton with the hands of the skeleton

2:08.9

on his face.

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