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Well...
Let me tell you, todays story is just...
(mimics twilight zone tune)
You know?
It’s like that.
Most of us, if not all of us,
maybe are familiar
with like the evil villain cliché,
that involves like a countess
bathing in her victims blood,
maybe to just retain beauty or youth.
But do you know like
where it comes from?
Because it actually comes
from somewhere, right?
Well...
Today, we're going to be talking about
one of history’s most
prolific female serial killers,
whose name you've
probably never heard of--
Or actually you probably have,
because I’ve been getting a lot of
requests to do this story.
Please welcome to the stage;
Elizabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess!
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Sorry, I had to, I just felt like that was
the right thing to do in that moment.
So today's story takes place in Hungary,
and you best believe, I’m probably going
to be pronouncing a lot of these words incorrectly.
I’m trying my best,
and that’s all I can do,
and I apologize, okay?
So, Countess Elizabeth Bathory,
she was born into the noble family
of the Bathory’s estate,
in either 1560, or 1561, so...
We’re going back like
20 years or something.
Historians, they actually really
don’t know exactly when she was born,
because there was no written record
of her exact birth date at the time.
So it’s just like around there.
Elizabeth’s father, his name was
Baron George VI Bathory.
He was brothers with the
voivode of Transylvania,
Andrew...
Don't even--
Bonaventura Bathory.
The voivode of Transylvania
was the highest-ranking official
within the Kingdom of Hungary,
from the 12th century to the 16th century,
so this dude is very powerful
is what I’m getting at.
He probably wouldn’t appreciate
me calling him a dude.
Sorry about that.
So this is the 16th century, you know?
And people back then,
they really didn’t play around,
because what’s going on was, Elizabeth,
her parents were actually blood relatives.
The noble family of
Bathory took the saying
“keep it in the family”
to like a whole other level.
Actually they were probably
the inventors of “keep it in the family”.
But the whole reason
why they would do this,
is because they wanted to
preserve their royal bloodline.
How do you do that?
You sleep with your cousin;
you know what I’m saying?
Don’t do that, but I’m just saying
that’s what they were doing.
So growing up, it seemed like
Elizabeth had it all.
You know?
She came from a family
that had extreme wealth,
she had education that
people could not get,
and she had tons of social power.
And just like you and I;
she had her own insecurities
as well, you know?
Elizabeth, she had faced some physical
issues throughout her childhood,
and well into her adulthood as well.
All of Elizabeth’s life, she would suffer
from intense and frequent seizures,
which historians have assumed
to be caused by epilepsy.
Epilepsy was extremely common in children
who were born as a result of family inbreeding.
No!
I’m not saying if anyone has
epilepsy then they--
No.
But that’s what...
(hums slightly)
Okay.
So the medicine workers in the 1500s,
can’t say, you know, they were experts on
epilepsy or epileptic tendencies,
but there were a disturbing...
Well, like a variety of
disturbing and creative...
“treatments”?
Used on those who were
looking to combat seizures.
I mean it’s the 1500's,
you gotta start somewhere.
I don’t blame 'em.
So one of these treatments--
Oh yeah, it's creative.
Included rubbing the blood of
someone, who was not epileptic,
on the lips of the person
needing the treatment.
So they would just get
some blood a be like:
(lip kissing)
You know?
Like I said, it's very creative.
How'd you think of that?
Another treatment involved
a concoction, a mixture of sorts,
consisting of a
non-epileptic person's blood,
and a crushed-up piece of their skull,
so the person had to be dead.
Take some of their blood,
get some of their skull, okay?
Crack it.
(imitates crack)
Mix it all together in like a pot, stew,
I don’t know, a drink.
But they would then drink it, okay?
And they believed that it was
helping or curing the seizures.
Oh yeah.
Could you imagine if medicine
was like that today?
"Go get a body!".
Many historians believe that, you know,
Elizabeth was doing this at a young age,
her parent would be setting her
up with a doctor--
A "doctor".
And having her do
these treatments and...
Many historians have speculated that these
treatments were so engrained in Elizabeth,
her lifestyle as a child, that she leaned on
similar practices in her adulthood,
when she began her murder spree.
Which we'll get into but,
maybe because she was
introduced to it at such a young age,
and did it throughout her life,
it was just kinda of...
I don’t know, normal
or something?
So besides the fact that they were super rich
and like owned everything,
Elizabeth grew up the same way
that any other girl, or royal girl, did.
Her parents raised her in
a very religious household.
In school she learned Latin,
German, Hungarian, and Greek.
And at the age of 10, she was
engaged to be married.
At 10.
So being assigned to specific marriages
was commonplace in royal families,
as these marriages often served as political
agreements between two powerful families,
and not so much about like
"Oh my god, I love this person".
It's assumed that this was the case
in Elizabeth’s arranged marriage.
Elizabeth was set to marry this man
named Ferenc Nadasdy.
I don’t know if that’s right,
I’m really trying.
And this man, Ferenc, he would later
become the chief commander
of the Hungarian troops, in the war
against the Ottomans.
Okay, so here’s where it gets a little drama.
Okay?
Like, this is where
it gets a little juicy.
Before their marriage,
when Elizabeth was 13 years old,
she allegedly gave birth to a child.
(quiet chuckle)
(deep breath in)
Oh yes baby.
A child that was not fathered
by her husband-to-be, Ferenc.
Oh nay nay.
Nay nay.
It's believed the parent of this child
was some 3kind of peasant boy,
who did work for the royal family.
A peasant?
(scoffs)
No.
Scandalous.
When Elizabeth’s family found out.
(gasping laugh)
I can’t speak for them obviously,
but I’m sure that they were not happy, okay?
They knew that this child
would ruin the family’s reputation,
and that would not happen.
No.
Now, it’s unclear if like Elizabeth
wanted to keep the baby.
What her feelings were at all.
But the family forced Elizabeth
to give the baby away to a local woman,
who was heavily trusted
by the Bathory family.
But they were pissed.
"You cannot have this baby, now go
sleep with your cousin!".
"Damn kids".
When Elizabeth was 15 years old,
and husband Ferenc was 19,
the two of them got married in one
of the royal palaces in 1575.
It was said that the royal wedding
was super grand.
There was over 4500 guests that attendance,
I’m sure they knew all of them.
So Elizabeth, she held a higher social
and political standing,
you know, than her new husband,
so it was best for Ferenc to take
the last name Bathory,
because she was much bigger than him.
So he did that, and they
kept the last name Bathory.
So a wedding gift to Elizabeth,
Ferenc, he gifted her his
family castle, right?
"Oh my god, a castle?"
"You shouldn’t have".
Before the couple moved
into their new castle,
Ferenc, he ordered his workers
to build a custom torture chamber
for Elizabeth to use on her victims.
And every inch of the chamber was
built to Elizabeth’s specifications.
She was like "Okay, I want
chains and whips over here".
And we will get into her
torture chamber in a minute.
I’m just kinda like
building up to it, okay?
Ferenc loved working; it's his favorite.
This passion of his, loving work and
dedication, would often mean that
he would be gone for months at a time.
And while Ferenc was away,
Elizabeth would play...
(fake chuckle)
And on top of that she would serve over their
estates and manage their business affairs.
So she did get work done too
when, you know, Ferenc was away.
But outside of her daily duties,
living in a castle,
Elizabeth was said to have
brought in various lovers
that kept her husband’s bed warm
while he was away.
Historians believe that Ferenc often participated
in Elizabeth’s tortuous hobbies as well.
But when he was there at home,
like Elizabeth wasn’t as bad,
because like she didn’t
wanna be judged.
But when he was away, she would
really amp up the torture.
So Elizabeth and Ferenc, they had
been married for 25 years,
when Ferenc, he died January of 1604.
All of the records surrounding his death,
state that he had been suffering
from some kind of illness,
for around three years
prior to his passing.
The illness was unknown at the time...
Aqua Tofana.
Ferenc was experiencing
extreme pain in his legs--
I think I’m saying his name wrong,
let me just triple check.
I just feel it in my soul
that this is incorrect.
- [Speaker On Phone] Ferenc.
- What?
Elizabeth’s husband had an illness
and it was unknown at the time,
but he was experiencing
a strange pain in his legs,
and the pain, it had gotten so bad; by 1603
he had become completely disabled.
After his death, Elizabeth had
essentially nothing preventing her
from torturing and killing
to her heart’s content.
The ways in which Elizabeth would torture
and murder her victims were brutal,
and they often varied depending
on what her mood was.
You know, she’s like
"I’m in a bad mood today."
and then it would be like really bad.
Her victims were almost always girls,
and they would be between
the ages of 10 and 14.
So, young girls.
In the beginning of
Elizabeth’s torture spree,
she mostly preyed on
young peasant girls,
as they were very easy to catch,
very easy to obtain, and rarely they sought after
when they went missing,
or they wound up missing.
Sad.
Nobody seemed to really care.
These girls were mostly
the daughters of servants,
who were lured into the Castle
on empty promises of work.
Elizabeth seemed to become a little
bored of the young peasant girls
and wanted to up it up a notch.
They were becoming too easy for her,
she’s like "Hm, who can
I shift my focus on?".
So instead, she began to
put all of her focus
toward taking the daughters of
the higher ups in the social class.
These girls were often sent to
Elizabeth’s “women’s quarters”
by their parents in hopes that they
would learn courtly etiquette.
Like; "Honey you’re gonna go learn
how to like set the table",
and instead they’d get murdered.
Elizabeth had four trusted collaborators
working with her.
On occasion, they would help like,
abduct the little girls
at random from
outside of the castle.
Elizabeth trusted them.
I’m sure they did it 'cause they probably
were gonna get murdered if they didn’t.
Elizabeth and her collaborators, they
showed no mercy for these young girls.
For them it was just like,
something to do to pass time;
something they did for
entertainment and satisfaction.
So what was described most consistently,
when it came to the killings,
included severe beatings, okay?
Burning or mutilation of the hands,
biting--
That’s right.
Biting the flesh off the faces,
arms, and other body parts.
Sometimes, they would simply freeze,
or starve their victims to death.
One victim had part of
her breast bitten off.
Yeah, her boob bitten off by Elizabeth,
and then the victim  was forced to both
cook and eat her own boob--
Flesh, her own flesh.
Elizabeth was infamous for
“jamming pins and needles under
the fingernails” of her victims.
Some victims that were badly beaten,
and hanging on to life,
Elizabeth would cover them, cover the body,
cover the victim in honey,
tie them down on a table,
and then get this;
and then the ants and the bees
would all come in,
slowly just torturing, biting, stinging,
and just going to town on this
person who’s covered in honey.
That’s different level of crazy.
Elizabeth is a different level of crazy.
She’s creative crazy.
Where it’s like "Where did you
think of that? Okay".
Occasionally, Elizabeth would
use red-hot irons,
coins, and even keys to leave
deep burn marks on her victims,
and she also did this in their
lower regions as well.
A lot of ladies--
This is a side note.
A lot of ladies don’t like
to be called crazy.
Like don’t call a lady crazy,
but I think it’s safe here to say that 
Elizabeth was flippin' crazy, okay?
Like Elizabeth, what are you doing?
I don’t think you sh--
Like how did she think of these
things to do, you know?
Elizabeth’s torturous crimes have led historians
to believe that they were sexually motivated,
but no one knows for certain what exactly
possessed Elizabeth to become
this horrible, disturbed b---h.
I said it, she’s a b---h.
She’s like a ghost I would be afraid of.
Don’t come for me.
Most assume she committed such
horrific crimes out of pure, sadistic pleasure.
So Elizabeth would lure these girls
into her little chamber, right?
And she would just, it really depended on
her mood what they were gonna get.
Like what we're gonna get; an iron,
or was she gonna eat them?
What?
Surprise me!
You know, it was like you just never knew.
And then once she was done, she would
drain her victims of their blood,
she would pour it into a cup, add just a slice
of lime, and she would drink it.
I’m kidding about the lime, but she did
drink the blood of her victims.
Again, it’s believed that she was drinking
the blood because it could help with her epilepsy,
but also, she believed that it would
keep her young and youthful,
healthy, vibrant, gorgeous, you know?
So she was drinking a lot
of blood, can’t be good.
As a result of her frequent
and intense cannibalism,
Elizabeth Bathory obtained
the nicknames of both
the “Countess of Blood”
and “Countess Dracula”.
That’s a good one.
Not good because
it’s a real story so.
I’m still can’t believe that
this is real, you know?
When I was reading this
whole story I was like "No, really?".
Just haven’t heard of
someone so crazy in so long.
I think the last time we heard something so
crazy was like Ed Gein, to this level.
Between 1590 and 1610,
Elizabeth was responsible for
kidnapping, torturing, and
murdering hundreds of young girls.
In one of her private journals,
Elizabeth claimed to have
taken more than 650 victims
over the course of 20 years.
Do you understand that?
650 victims?
She pretty much got
rid of the whole town.
I mean for years, and years, and years
Elizabeth was committing
these horrific crimes,
and Elizabeth truly felt like
she was untouchable.
"I'm in charge here".
You know?
I mean she was, she'd been doing it
20 years, and was getting away with it
because they couldn’t say
anything to her really.
Her family’s status in
local government meant that,
for the most part, like she could
be able to fly under the radar
and face no consequences for her actions,
because you know;
"I know people".
So then in 1610, Elizabeth
had been once again,
growing bored of the victims
that she was getting at the time.
They were "too easy".
She wanted victims with a
higher social status, you know?
Important people's kids.
I think that is like her--
It’s a power move.
Elizabeth and her four collaborators,
they began abducting the
daughters of local nobles.
Not a good idea.
Not a good idea.
The nobles, they’re not like
the lower class and peasants, okay?
They panicked when
their daughters disappeared.
The panic, unlike the concerns
of the servants, and peasants,
it was loud because
they were powerful people.
So more s--t was gonna get done
because they’re powerful people
being like "Where’s my
daughter? I can’t find..."--
You know?
And the servants and whatnot,
they just all ignored them.
It still kinda works like that today...
Fact.
So the noble families,
they got together
and started chatting about their
daughters disappearances,
and they’re like "Hey"
"Your daughter went missing,
your went missing.", you know?
Like they’re putting the pieces together.
They all sound pretty damn similar.
And the common denominator
seems to be:
Elizabeth.
Hm.
On December 10th, 1610, Count Thurzo,
he was really close to
Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s family.
Anyways, but he decided to investigate
the rumors that were going
around about Elizabeth
being involved with
the girls that are missing.
At the time, Count Thurzo was in charge
of judicial matters in Hungary.
The only reason he was even bothering
to investigate the allegations in the first place,
was because there were crimes
against young girls of the nobles.
There were rumors circling
around about Elizabeth before,
like this isn’t new information,
but it was coming from
servants and peasants, you know?
So they weren’t really considered important
simply because, you know; peasants ew.
So this isn’t new information necessarily,
but now that the nobles are involved
they’re like "We definitely have to go and
like search or investigate Elizabeth".
So this guy goes to...
You know, he heads to Elizabeth’s castle,
and he’s going there 'cause he needs to
look around and investigate the situation.
When he gets there, you know,
it’s all dark and spooky.
Well, I don’t know, but it sounds like
it would be in my mind.
Anyways, but he gets to the castle,
he goes inside, and he’s like
looking around for Elizabeth.
"I don’t see her. Where she at?".
He then hears like some noises
coming from like a room maybe,
a small room off in the corner, you know?
So he's going over there.
"Elizabeth? Is that you?".
He goes and he’s going to
check it out, right?
He peaks inside the room, because
the doors open, and what does he see?
Well, let me tell you.
He looks in, and he sees what
seems to be Elizabeth,
and what also seems to be
a young girl tied up.
And at that moment,
he had just realized that
he had just walked into the middle
of Elizabeth torturing someone.
There was a letter found from this man,
and he had written it like to his wife
after he had visited the castle.
It went on to say that, like he had
discovered one girl already dead,
and then he had saw another girl that had
been tied up to be preyed on in the near future.
So once this was found out,
Elizabeth and her four accomplices,
they were arrested
(clicks)
like that.
All of the people associated with
assisting Elizabeth in her crimes,
even those who were simply ordered
to bury bodies, they were also arrested,
questioned, and subjected to torture, until
every bit of the truth came out of them.
There were servants who were working for Elizabeth,
and also did help with her murder spree,
and they were also sentenced to death,
which kind of sucks,
because I feel like the servants
really had no choice.
Like if they didn’t help her,
they were probably going to get killed,
and if they did help her, they would--
I mean, obviously killed, and then
their kids are also getting murdered,
so it is kinda like a lose/lose for them.
(sigh)
What a rough time.
So the death sentences of the servants,
of course the murder--
I’m sorry, the execution, it went fast.
Like it just happened like that.
(clicks)
You know?
But officials were really struggling, like
wondering what they should do with Elizabeth,
because she’s from a royal family,
they can’t just execute her.
So they were debating
"What do we do?",
and they came up with
the stupidest idea.
Let me tell you.
Typical rich people s--t.
They didn’t want to put her family on trial,
because it would bring a lot of negative--
(stutters)
(laughs)
Publicity, and it would
ruin their reputation.
Local witnesses came forward, one by one.
And they were there to provide details
and information about, just, you know...
Various bodies that had been found,
beaten, and tortured to death.
Multiple servants admitted to having seen
Elizabeth prey on her victims,
and abduct them for her
evil, selfish purposes,
but they couldn’t say anything because...
They’re servants.
How'd I lose the cap in two seconds?
I lost the cap.
Are you serious?
It’s gone like that?
That’s so annoying.
Elizabeth’s private journal was combed
through in an attempt to determine
just how many girls the Blood Countess
had murdered over the years.
You know, they didn’t have
like an actual number.
But there was never a clear answer as to how
many victims there really were.
Most people believe that
she killed around 650 girls,
because in her diary she said that,
but like they don’t
really know, you know?
But they think, yeah maybe
it's around there more or less.
It’s a f---ing lot of people, okay?
Instead of being sentenced to death in the
same manner as her accomplices,
instead they put Elizabeth Bathory
into her castle.
You see what they did was, they
walled off a room with no windows,
they walled that off.
(imitates hammering)
Put some old bricks,
whatever they did.
They put her in there.
It was essentially a makeshift prison,
within the walls of her very own castle.
And there is where Elizabeth Bathory would
live the rest of her life in isolation,
in her own castle, in this prison.
Like do you think, do you think that
she really stayed up there, all the time?
They say that she had
a bodyguard, or like a--
I’m sorry, security or something,
making sure she stayed up there,
but I have a feeling, I’m sure at
one point maybe she was like
"Can I just like go out for a walk or some..."--
Like come on.
Come on!
On the evening of August 20th, 1614,
Elizabeth is remarked to have claimed
that her hands were cold.
The bodyguard overseeing
her house-arrest sentence,
told her, “It’s nothing,
mistress. Just go lie down.”.
At 43 years old, Elizabeth laid down
in her bed and died an uneventful death,
unlike those of her
hundreds of victims.
Yeah, she died super boring.
(disappointing tchip)
Lame.
And that my friends,
is the story of Elizabeth Bathory,
and how she did
some f'ed up shiz-nitz,
to almost, maybe, who knows?
650 victims.
That’s insane.
I mean this is--
This feels like a movie.
Like when I was reading it
and stuff, I was like
"This... Is this real? Is this real?"
"Is this real?"
(stammers)
"Is it?!".
I want to believe it is,
because it just sounds so perfect,
but the same time, what the f...
It's real.
(laughs)
Okay, anyways.
So f'ed up story, right?
And get this, this is what
like made me laugh;
Elizabeth’s parents were so
worried about their reputation
when she got pregnant with
that peasant boys baby, remember?
Well.
I wonder how they felt now, you know?
Or after the fact.
How'd that work out?
And that my friends, is the story about
Elizabeth Bathory, the "Blood Countess".
Lemme know your thoughts down below.
Do you think she had 650 victims?
Do you think she was bluffing?
Do think we really know the truth?
With these old stories,
it’s always hard to know like,
I mean I’m sure there
is this truth in there.
But how is it not like a--
It’s like a game of telephone.
You know?
I hate that.
That’s kinda why I avoid stories that
are this far back because it’s like...
Is it the truth?
We don’t know.
But, 650 victims, I feel like
is way too many.
Like that’s a whole village.
Nobody did anything?
I don’t know.
But I do think like
she killed people for sure.
I don’t know that’s
just my thoughts though.
I don’t know what I’m
talking about, I wasn’t there so.
But that’s just the facts that are out there
right now about Elizabeth Bathory.
Let me know your thoughts down below.
Thank you guys so much
for hanging out with me today.
I hope you have a wonderful
rest of your day.
Make good choices.
Yeah, lemme know who you
want me to talk about next week.
I really love and appreciate
you guys so much.
And, you know, that’s really
all I can say because I just do.
I hope you know that.
A big thank you to Juvia’s Place for
partnering with me on today’s video,
and helping me create this bomb look.
Hm, I love a smoky eye.
Smokin' pancake all day.
Alrighty, I’ll be seeing you guys later.
Bye.
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