A Vampire and a Real Life Truly Horrific Love Story

About this episode

This episode explores the safety of crosswalks versus jaywalking, the story of Bella Kiss, and a morbid love story titled A Rose for Carl.

In today's episode, we start by looking at whether it’s actually safer to use a crosswalk instead of a just jaywalking as well as the actual origin of the word “jaywalk”. Next up, we jump into the main part of the show on the horrific tale of the dashingly handsome Bella Kiss, the Vampire of Cinkota, and the many, many women he murdered. Following that, we move on to a sickly sweet and more than a little morbid love story we’re calling A Rose for Carl. Relevant Pictures: ⁠Dear sweet Alive Helen⁠ ⁠Helen’s Crypt⁠ ⁠Helen’s Spaceship⁠ ⁠Helen really let herself go after she died apparently…⁠ On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Cloud10

Topics covered

• vampires
• true crime
• love stories
• history
• urban legends

Keywords

• vampire
• Bella Kiss
• Cinkota
• love story
• jaywalking
• true crime
• horror

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Cinkota

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