Hello, my dark darlings. I'm Markia, and this is the Something Scary podcast. To our veteran listeners

and those just voyaging into the dark with us for the first time, welcome. Women are smart,

brave, compassionate humans, capable of incredible things, but like any human, we can be complicated.

When the circumstances are perfect, tensions are high, and the supernatural get involved.

Women of all kinds can be capable of the most wicked things imaginable.

In honor of women's month this march, turn off the lights while we tell you some of

their terrible stories. First, it's good for the skin, followed by killer restraint. Then hell

hath no fury like a witch scorned. Finally, in our featured story, The Curse of Medusa. I receive hundreds

of creepy story submissions every single week, and of those, the scariest ones make it into our

podcast, along with the story that we've chosen to animate and post over at YouTube.com slash

snorled. If you have a tale you're dying to share, send me an email at something scary at snarl.com.

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It is so helpful to us, and the best part is that you can listen to Something Scary ad-free.

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So, want to hear something scary.

Wicked women.

In the year 1590 in Hungary, a series of events began that would end in the death of possibly hundreds of girls and young women. This is the true story

behind the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Anna stepped into the room, trying to conceal

her trembling. There have been rumors about this place, girls and young women coming to stay but

never returning. She'd fought against it, but her parents had not believed her, chastised her for saying

such wicked things against such an important lady. She would go to the castle and there learn the

requisite etiquette and decorum fit for a young woman of noble birth.

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