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Hello everybody and welcome to episode 78 of

The Hillbilly Horror Stories.

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I'm going to put a different twist on it and it's as usual when I do a story that a lot of people have done.

I try to find a way to make it different and when I do that and find that one thing or a couple of things that's when it's time for us to actually do the show on it.

I think we've done this with this one. I think you're going to hear some things that are going to be different than you've probably heard in the past.

I'm not for you because you haven't heard any of it.

We're going to talk about Carl Tansler.

Carl Tansler has another famous name that most people know him by.

Count Von Kossel.

What you're going to find out is he's not a count by any means.

He's not a castle either.

He may be a castle and that's debatable.

He was born in February 1877 in Dresden, Germany.

Nobody really knows his real birth name.

George Carl Tansler is what's on his marriage certificate in Germany.

His US citizenship papers list Carl Tansler von Kossel.

That came at a later time.

The hospital we're going to get into where he actually worked in Key West.

He signed several papers as count.

You can see there's all kinds of variants there.

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