What The Halloween Mark 2
What The History
English - January 05, 2020 04:06 - 22.8 MBHistory Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this extra gristly Halloween episode Suzie discusses the stories surrounding Countess Elizabeth Bathory and Trevor checks into H H Holmes's gruesome hotel!
CONTENT WARNING: We discuss some details of murder and torture in this episode. Those who wish to avoid these details should skip from 16:25 to 17:17.
WHAT THE HISTORY?
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Sources:
COUNTESS ELIZABETH BATHORY
Breyer M 2012, ‘The Blood Countess: History's most prolific female serial killer’ https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/the-blood-countess-historys-most-prolific-female-serial-killer
Cavendish R 2014, ‘Death of Countess Elizabeth Bathory’ http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/death-countess-elizabeth-bathory
Craft K 2011, ‘Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory’ http://www.infamouslady.com/about_the_countess.html
Guinness World Records 2017, ‘Most prolific female murderer’ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-female-murderer
History Channel 2017, ‘This Day In History December 26th – 1610 Bathory’s torturous escapades are exposed’ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed
Holloway A 2014, ‘Elizabeth Bathory – 16th century deranged serial killer or victim of betrayal?’ http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/elizabeth-bathory-16th-century-deranged-serial-killer-or-victim-betrayal
Medical Bag 2014, ‘The Legend of Elizabeth Báthory: The Blood Countess’ http://www.medicalbag.com/grey-matter/the-legend-of-elizabeth-bathory-the-blood-countess/article/472831/
Sherman E 2017, ‘The Disturbing True Story Of Elizabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess’ http://all-that-is-interesting.com/elizabeth-bathory-true-story
Unknown author 2013, ‘Guilty or Innocent? Outlining a Historical Dilemma - Erzsbet Bathory – Portrait of a Killer? https://countessebathory.wordpress.com/
H H HOLMES
A double dose of the macabre - Michigan Today
Top 10 Hotels That Will Scare the Daylights Out of You - How Stuff Works
Inside The Incredibly Twisted Murder Mansion Of H.H. Holmes - All That Is Interesting
Hotel of Horrors: The Murder Castle of Dr. H.H. Holmes - The Line Up
Can You Visit H.H. Holmes' Hotel? The "Murder Castle" Isn't What It Used To Be - Bustle.com
Other stuff:
The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...
History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)
History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)
Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)
You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)
Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)
Fade out music - This Is Halloween - The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack (1993)
All music used under fair use provisions.