S3 Ep13: Elizabeth Báthory, The Blood Countess

Devils in the Dark

True Crime, Comedy

4 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A real vampire from Transylvania? She was a noblewomen and an alleged blood-bathing serial killer, born in the 16th century. In this episode Helen and Danni dive into the notorious tale of Elizabeth Báthory, and find out all about her vampiric tendencies...

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Welcome to Devils in the Dark with me Helen Anderson and me, Danny Howard.
0:34.2	We're two best friends entering the world of true crime. We'll be sharing the stories of some of the worst and wildest true crime cases in history
0:40.4	and we're taking you along for the ride.
0:42.5	In this episode, we're looking at Elizabeth Bathori, the Blood Countess.
0:47.2	The Blood Countess. How are you?
1:04.6	I'm great. How are you?
1:06.2	No, I'm great. It's been very rainy.
1:09.3	Very, very rainy over the summer has just not
1:12.2	existed. We had a really great May and June and I was living for a living in it and I was like,
1:17.1	yeah, let's get paddle boards, Danny. I'm going to buy a camper van. This is our year to be
1:21.8	summer babes. And then it is just, we didn't buy a paddle board we've not been back since and it's just rained
1:28.7	the whole time poor team summer pals a helen's a convert now by the way i heard one of our
1:34.6	friends in the group chat started to be like oh it's only it's only this much or was it home
1:38.7	bargains and started selling Halloween stuff or autumn stuff and helen was she going there before i did
1:44.0	helen was like, it's summer.
1:46.2	I need it to stay.
	...

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