Phantasmal Crime Ep. 2 - The Bloodlust of the Harpe Brothers
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Serial killers have long fascinated true crime enthusiasts. We wonder what drives a human to hunt other humans. Is there really a compulsion there? A visceral need? Or do some serial killers just do it purely for the pleasure? The first recorded serial killers in America seemed to have a real bloodlust and they were cousins. The Harpe Brothers.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:15.0 | True crime can be strangely fascinating. |
| 0:18.0 | This true crime is odd, macaw, and haunted. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Pantasma Crime. |
| 0:31.0 | There are things out there that we can't explain. |
| 0:34.0 | Serial killers have long fascinated true crime enthusiasts. |
| 0:38.0 | We wonder what drives a human to hunt other humans? |
| 0:42.0 | Is there really a compulsion there, a visceral need? |
| 0:46.0 | Or do some serial killers just do it purely for the pleasure? |
| 0:50.0 | Individuals who commit serial murder have been among us from the dawn of human history. |
| 0:55.0 | The actual term serial killer is fairly new. |
| 0:59.0 | There are debates about who was the first to coin the phrase, |
| 1:02.0 | but most people credit FBI agent Robert K. Ressler |
| 1:05.0 | with popularizing the term in the late 1970s. |
| 1:08.0 | The first serial killer is more than likely lost to history, |
| 1:11.0 | being someone going back to ancient history. |
| 1:14.0 | The first recorded serial killers in America seem to have a real bloodlust, |
| 1:19.0 | and they were cousins, the heart brothers. |
| 1:28.0 | John and William Harp were Scottish brothers who decided to immigrate to America in the mid-1700s. |
| 1:48.0 | This was a peak period of immigration for the Scots Irish, |
| 1:51.0 | and many were coming for economic opportunities. |
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