From bathing in girls’ blood to making homemade conjoined twins, we’ll look at a few famous psychopaths who are truly some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world. Plus, whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history’s oddest individuals put modern-day eccentricities to shame.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Lead-In
00:01:04.405 = Show Open
00:02:18.195 = Diogenes : A Crazy, Homeless Philosopher
00:04:25.438 = Tarrare: the Man Who Man Have Eaten a Baby
00:06:56.792 = Lucky Lord Byron
00:10:58.843 = Hetty Green: Taking Miserly To a New Level
00:13:51.801 = Henry Cyril Paget: Married His Cousin And Lived Life Luxuriously
00:17:00.927 = Carl Tanzler: He Couldn’t Live Without His Love, Even After Her Death
00:19:44.980 = Gloria Ramirez: The Toxic Woman
00:23:29.245 = Anneliese Michel: She Endured 67 Exorcisms
00:25:55.913 = Sawney Bean: The Scottish Cannibal
00:27:56.815 = Margaret Howe Lovatt: Intimate Relations With a Dolphin
00:32:01.535 = King Leopold II: Slaves And Slaughter For Rubber And Ivory
00:33:46.355 = Pol Pot: Created a Nation of Peasants, Poverty and Punishments
00:35:24.413 = Ivan IV of Russia: Better Known as Ivan The Terrible
00:37:01.333 = Elizabeth Bathory: Eternal Youth Through Murder
00:38:22.119 = Heinrich Himmler: The Second Worst Nazi
00:39:30.141 = Adolph Eichmann: Claimed He Did His Duty By Killing Millions
00:42:01.830 = Tomás de Torquemada: Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition!
00:43:23.989 = Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death
00:44:25.066 = Vlad Tepes: The Impaler That Inspired Dracula
00:45:56.819 = Jim Jones: The Kool-Aid Serial Killer Cult Leader
00:47:36.479 = Show Close, Verse, and Final Thought

SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“History’s Oddest Individuals” and “Sinister Psychopaths” by John Kuroski for AllThatsInteresting.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9ca245, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mpvbsn6e
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Originally aired: March, 2022
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/OddIndividuals