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True Weird Stuff

Sweet Baba

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

Science, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today's True Weird Stuff -  Sweet Baba

 

When you think of serial killers, the most notorious ones come to mind: Ted Bundy. Jack The Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. But an accomplished chemist, a woman known as Baba Anujka, earned her reputation by concocting a “love potion” that was used to kill as many as 150 people. In the words of Bell Biv DeVoe…”That girl is poison.”

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0:00.0

Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.

0:08.5

Not again. No, stouti, gazam tea, brahava, cucko. Not again. No, not another night of his

0:17.0

raging, his drunken bellowing, his hot breath in her face, the stink of Rakeha betraying

0:23.2

where he's been.

0:24.4

What is it this time, she thinks frantically.

0:27.2

What did I do?

0:29.0

She ducks, his fists colliding instead with the wall, his other hand grabbing a fistful

0:34.8

of her hair and yanking her backward.

0:38.1

No, no, no, no.

0:44.3

Tomorrow she'll do it.

0:46.7

She'll go to the old woman, the one they call Baba.

0:50.7

She has the money now and Baba will help.

0:54.3

She is seen with her own eyes.

0:56.6

Just what Baba can do.

1:00.9

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

1:03.3

Oh, real, right. Have you weird

1:18.7

Weird stuff

1:20.8

Have you ever had food poisoning?

1:27.4

Oh, it's miserable.

1:28.9

There's a reason why the word poison is in the name.

1:32.4

Stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, fever.

1:36.5

It's super common today with about 600 million people per year worldwide getting sick from contaminated food. Over 400,000 of those people

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