1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast, A long Delicious 2 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: Friends and welcome to her and what now the history 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: podcast That's not your History Class with me? Your host 4 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books. Speaking of books, 5 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: I have I think found the cover for my book 6 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: that's coming out in May twenty six with August Books. 7 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: I am beyond excited. You know when you see something 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: and it's like baby Beal's Porridge, you know, it's just right, 9 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: like the images, the colors, just like the vibe, like 10 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: it was sassy. It was me in book form, not 11 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: like an actual image of me, but like the presentation 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: of me, like metaphorically me. It was fantastic. I love it. 13 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: It's it's I'm so excited. I'm actually really I mean 14 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: I should be, obviously because I'm writing a book and 15 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: a publishing house is publishing it. Like that's wild, Like 16 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to be a published author, you know, once 17 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: I finally write these chapters. Ah, I know, I know, 18 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: I'm like two chapters behind, and so I need to 19 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: get on that. Like I have a full like writing 20 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: plan for this month, especially considering I've got like I've 21 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: got two festivals this month, so I've got two live shows. 22 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: Now that I'm no longer embargoed, I can talk about 23 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: it because on the twentieth of October, I'm in Dublin. 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: I'm in Tala at the Civic Theater, and I'm at 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: the Red Line Book Festival. So I've got that going on. 26 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: Fabulous love that journey for me, and it's it's sort 27 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: of I'm more focused on the city sides of certain 28 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: authors and it's a surprise. I will tell you about 29 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: it if you show up, because it's going to be fun. 30 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: All I'm saying is I will be talking about cocaine. 31 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: I mean, not cocaine raisins, and I'm kidding it as 32 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: actually cocaine anyway, that's a silly reference and the people 33 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: who get it, good for you. But I'm also doing 34 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: bram Stoker the City, Dublin City Council. That's it. It's 35 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: got such a long name, Dublin City Council's Bram Stoker Festival, 36 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: and I am I am talking in Trinity. Trinity. Gee, 37 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: I don't know how to convey how big of a 38 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: dealer is to be invited to talk in Trinity, like 39 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: it's worth a book of kells us like it's it's 40 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: it's oh, it's like an academic stream, Like it's one 41 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: of those things that I'm shocked that I have the 42 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: opportunity to do, and I'm really appreciative of it. And 43 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: so I'm doing the Victorians Ruined Everything, eighteenth Century Guide 44 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: to Mysticism, and more. Speaking of the dark and twisted, 45 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: it is October, the spookiest of months, and as such, 46 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: every episode this month is going to be specifically awful. 47 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: It's going to be creepy or dark, or spooky or 48 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: just plain horrible. History wouldn't be history without the dark 49 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: and the depraved. But I know what you're thinking, quite 50 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: your jipper chabber, in fact me, In fact you, I will. 51 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: But first we've got to get our source on. Our 52 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: sources are Lostairo's de Endrikita Martella Vampire de Barcelona, The 53 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,839 Speaker 1: Diaries of Enriquita Marty, The Vampire of Barcelona, edited by 54 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: Morales Trres, Enraquita Marty, The Vampires of bar Silona by 55 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: Tijana Radesca, Female serial Killers by Don Rolfe, Serial Killers, 56 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: True crim and Theology by Parker Erral. The Vampire of 57 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: Carreerponette and the Mysteries of Barcelona by josep Arias Velasco 58 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: and The Sky Underfoot by Elsa Plaza. I use it 59 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: incomfortably good. Then let's begin to day's tale of terror 60 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: starts where it ends in desperation and fear and people 61 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: trying to solve their problems in the absolute craziest of ways. 62 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: And I mean that I mean craziest. Now. Of course, 63 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: people of the past, they can be forgiven for their 64 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: beliefs in quackery and the like, because for a lot 65 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: of them it was the most logical option with the 66 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: reasoning and science of the time. We have the benefit 67 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: of scientific advancement, so it is absolutely what I could do. 68 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: We have people out there today who think that shagging 69 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: a vulgin will cure them of HIV, Drinking tonic water 70 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: will prevent you from catching COVID, bleach enemas will cure 71 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: the autism right out of your kid, and of course 72 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: the QAnon conspiracy of guzzling on the gizzards of children 73 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: to get adrenochrome so that you can be youthful and younger, 74 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: as opposed to you know, having lots of money, like 75 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: you look at celebrities and stuff like the reason that 76 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: they look so young and beautiful is because they have money. 77 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: It's money because it pays for trainers and nutritionists and 78 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: dermatologists and botoks and of photoshop and all that jazz. 79 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: Like it's just money. But yes, people are always looking 80 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: for solutions to problems, especially when it comes to health 81 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: and youth. We've all heard the story. In New Orleans, 82 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: Madame Lati would paint herself and the blood of her 83 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: victims in an attempt to regain her youth. In England, 84 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: the medieval cult of Saint Thomas Beckett would consume a 85 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: mix of water and the dried blood of the saint 86 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: as part of their rituals, which was their version of 87 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: the Eucharist. The Scythian warriors of ancient Siberia would drink 88 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: the blood of their enemies and the medicinal cannibalism. During 89 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: the Victorian era and in the early twentieth century in Barcelona, 90 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: there was a belief spreading through the city, a desperate 91 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: belief that consuming the blood of children will cure your consumption. 92 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: Consumption is just the old timey name for tibi tuberculosis, 93 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: and this is a period of time where tuberculosis no cure. 94 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: This is pre penicillin. If you got it like you 95 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: were gone. Ninety eight percent of the time. Most people 96 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: did not survive TB, a disease that spread through the city, 97 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: not quite indiscriminately, because the people who were lucky enough 98 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: to not live in cramped, crowded, impoverished, dirty conditions, they 99 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: unsurprisingly had less chances of catching TB. The city was 100 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: being ravaged by the disease, but that wasn't the only 101 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: thing causing dismay. On the streets, the children of the 102 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: city were disappearing. Rumors persisted that a man in black 103 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: was roaming the streets and stealing the children, like an 104 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,559 Speaker 1: even scarier version of the child catcher from Chitty Chitty 105 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: Bang Bang, and parents would often use this boogeyman concept 106 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: to chastise and control their children. You better do as 107 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: we say. You better be in it this time, because 108 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: otherwise the boogeyman will get you and he'll steal you away. 109 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter, if it is true, 110 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: the fate of these children was so much worse than 111 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: anyone truly considered. We all know the journalists of the 112 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: era were not the most scrupulous or characters and often 113 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: facts would be embellished and information would be altered and exaggerated, 114 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: you know, sensationalism to sell papers. And in this situation, 115 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: separating the fact from the fiction, the myth and lower 116 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: from what actually happened is a bit difficult. So much 117 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: information has been lost over time or gotten rid of 118 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: which of course made verifying information just slightly more difficult, 119 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: you know, along with the fact that most of the 120 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: information out there is in Spanish or Catalonian, which is 121 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: even harder to translate. I did my best, okay, but 122 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: this is where we're at, which brings us to the 123 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: legend of the vampire de raval more commonly known as 124 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 1: in Rikita marti aropolis In Rikita was born in San 125 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: Feliu de la Brigate in eighteen sixty eight. And Rikita 126 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: was born into poverty in a poor town on the 127 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: outskirts of Barcelona, Nike so many other girls of the era, 128 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: When she was of age, she was expected to go 129 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: off into the big wide world and ern a living. 130 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: So when she was fifteen, she upsticks and goes heads 131 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: into the big city Barcelona to go and get a 132 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: job and support herself. She manages to get a job 133 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: as a maid she probably knew somebody who knew somebody, 134 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: some other girl from the village. Your boy had gone 135 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: in and become a stable hand or a maid or 136 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: a cook or whatever and managed to get her position. 137 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: So for a good few years she bides her time, 138 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: does her work, just gets by, and then when she's twenty, 139 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,599 Speaker 1: the World's Fair comes to Barcelona. The World's Fair is 140 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: supposed to be like amazing, and I'm sure it is, 141 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: like I'm sure Crystal Palace was lovely back in the 142 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: day because it was actually a crystal palace. It doesn't 143 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: exist anywhere. Not the point. The point is the Worldfair comes, 144 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: and of course it's just exuberant. It is extravagant, and 145 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 1: it just shows how poor the poor are and how 146 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: wealthy the wealthy are. Like that gap is massive and 147 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 1: it does not go unnoticed by Enrikita. And as she's 148 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: spending her time there observing, very observant, she listens into conversations. 149 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: Being a maid, she's used to sort of being around 150 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: and being ignored, which helps her in many ways. But 151 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: there she is doing that, figuring it out, and just 152 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: I want to call her sleek it it's a wee 153 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: bit sleeky she's just slothering around and getting inflammation and 154 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: hearing what it is these rich folks talk about. So 155 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: for historical context of phones of the thirteenth of Spain, 156 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: you know, the randy royal, he who was hm, they've 157 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: got an episode on him. He made porn, or he 158 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: had porn made. He had his own like production company 159 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: that would make porn especially for him. That's the guy. 160 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: So he's only two at this point, again, eighteen eighty eight, 161 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: and that's where we are. We're like free, we're pre fascism, okay. 162 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, I know I said that tuberculosis, you know, 163 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: did not kill indiscriminately. But Alfonso's father, Alfonso the twelfth 164 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 1: of Spain, he died at the age of twenty seven 165 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: of tuberculosis. And Alfonso's mother, Christina, was pregnant at the time, 166 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: so I think they're probably doing a separation thing anyway, 167 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: just for old timey pregnancy rules. But yeah, he died, 168 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: and then Alfonso the thirteenth was born and was automatically king, 169 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: although the queen was his regent for you know, his 170 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: formative years. But that's where we are, and this is 171 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: the time the inrigator decides that she is no longer 172 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: comfortable with her current position and instead chooses a new one. 173 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: Being a maid just isn't for her, And so that 174 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: job walks out the door and then enters a brothel. 175 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: But not just any brothel. She's not just jumping on 176 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: a two penny down the street. Oh no, no, no, 177 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: she enters a high class brothel. Were they fucked so fancy? 178 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: And in this house of ill repute in the city center, 179 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: Enrikita does what she does best. No, not that listening. 180 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: She listens to the list of requests and requirements from patrons. 181 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: She listens to the ladies of the night discussing their 182 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 1: clientele with one another. The high class client tell from 183 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: the upper rungs of society, those who frequent the body 184 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: house to fulfill their fantasies and play out their perversions. 185 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: And she works and she listens, and she continues to 186 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: do so for the next five years. And then she 187 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: gets married. Typically for a woman of the era, this 188 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: would be the end game, This would be the whole plan. 189 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: You would work, you would get married, and then you 190 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: would become a housewife. Your husband would support you, because 191 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: remember this is the time where one person's job is 192 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: supposed to support an entire family. That being said, she 193 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: did marry a painter who are notoriously known for not 194 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: earning money during their lifetime. But for whatever reason, we 195 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: don't know her decision. Maybe she thought it was love, 196 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: maybe she thought she was going to live a better life. 197 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Whatever happened, she married a painter, Juan Porello. Their marriage, 198 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: shockingly enough, does not last. He said that her character 199 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: was strange, false and unpredictable. He also wasn't keen on 200 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: the fact that she kept working in brothels like this 201 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: was a main source of contention for them, and so 202 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: over the next two years, the couple would get together 203 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: and separate, like get together and separate like five six times. 204 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: Like it was just tumultuous. They kept going away and 205 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: coming back, which is not healthy by anyone's standards. But 206 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: by eighteen ninety seven they had separated and they just 207 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: don't get back together after that point, and over the years, 208 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: life in Barcelona gets just more difficult as time goes on. 209 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: Barcelona is a port, it's a port city, and it 210 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: struggled immensely after the Spanish American War, which Spain did 211 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: not win eighteen ninety eight, so a year after she 212 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: like officially separates from Juan and the city is just 213 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: getting poorer and people are struggling more. But you know, 214 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: it always sells sex like Barcelona is effectively the porn 215 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: capital of Europe. And the Reval the red light district, Oh, 216 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: it always had the light on those living in poverty. 217 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: Those below the bread line are always hit the worst 218 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: when any economic crisis happens. With the WIT's war, famine, drought, 219 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: it's always those who suffer first, because of course they do, 220 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: because other people have the money and means to protect themselves, 221 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: to have those buffets. The impoverished, those living meal to meal, 222 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: they don't have those options. And it was no different 223 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: back then. But in Rikata she knew enough to know 224 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: that sex sells and that she could sell it. And 225 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: it was in El Reval that Inrikata decided that she 226 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: was going to open her very own brothel. But this 227 00:16:54,080 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: was not your typical body house. No, this catered to 228 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: a particular clientele, for those who had an appetite for 229 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: something specific. And no, it's not real, it's so much worse. 230 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: This seems like just the right moment to hear a 231 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: word from our sponsors or if you're listening to this 232 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: in a subscription app or a country that these sponsors 233 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: don't want to go to, enjoy a moment of silence 234 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: and maybe settle your stomach. Okay, The thing you have 235 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: to remember about La ra Val is this is not 236 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: an affluent neighborhood. This is impov worsht. It's where the 237 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: red light district is. It's where the soup kitchens are. 238 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: It's where they're giving it alms to the pearl. That's 239 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: where she is. That's where she chose to set up 240 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: her brothel. Now was that by design or was that 241 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: all she could afford? Whom's to say? All we know 242 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: is that that's where she established her first brothel. And 243 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: in order to not sort of stand out during the day, 244 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: she would wear poor people clothes. She would coseplay in 245 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: rags and shawls and dulty dresses, making sure to never 246 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: quite stand out against the other impoverished of the neighborhood. 247 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 1: She would wait in line, standing in queues for crust 248 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: of bread or a dab of gruel. Outside monasteries and 249 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: churches and people who just wanted to help, she would 250 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: found a corner and beg and she would do what 251 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: she does best watch and listen, keeping an eye out 252 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: for children who were alone, those were appeared really in neat, 253 00:18:55,040 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: those that were homeless or abandoned, or simply unattended. Of course, 254 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: she would keep an eyeut for the most desperate, those 255 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: even who had the strongest of street smarts, whose tired 256 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: eyes and grumbling bellies would convince them just enough to 257 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: go with her. And she would coax and convince these 258 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: children to come back with her to her house, promising 259 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: them food and shelter. And what she would do is 260 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 1: bring them back to her brothel, a whole host of 261 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: children from the age of fourteen all the way down 262 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: to five years old. She would clean them up, give 263 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 1: them something to eat, and then keep them prisoner, renting 264 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: them out to her clients to satisfy their perversions for 265 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: a rather hefty fee, of course, money she would use 266 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 1: to go shoulder to shoulder with the upper crust because 267 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: remembered by she's caused playing as poverty personified. But by 268 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: night off comes the shawls and the dirty dresses, instead 269 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: adorning herself and silks and far and velvet, dripping in 270 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: jewelry as if she herself was one of the high society. 271 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: She's out gallivanting at night, going to the opera house, 272 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 1: going to parties and lavish dinners and just having a 273 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: good old time of it, getting an ex little lion 274 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: in the morning, and then going out and playing Pearl 275 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: Pelson so that she can continue her child's sex trafficking. 276 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: And for her life is good. Business is booming, and 277 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: it is working out well for her until nineteen oh nine, 278 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: when Spain's Prime Minister is not happy and comes up 279 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: with the absolutely terrible idea that Spain should colonize Morocco, 280 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: Morocco of all places. You think that's going to work? 281 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: Mmm mm hmmm. Spoiler alert, it does not now, as 282 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,959 Speaker 1: we know. In order to fight a war and hopefully 283 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: win a war, which again they don't. In order to 284 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: fight a war, the main thing you need in order 285 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: to even attempt to do that his soldiers, Like you 286 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: need trips, you need people ready to do battle. But 287 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: it's just it's just a bad, bad campaign from start 288 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: to finish, and they are just chucking boys out in 289 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: the front lines like nobody's business. Like i mean, this 290 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: is pre World War One, Like nobody knows what they're doing, 291 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, and they're just pulling them all out and 292 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: decide that because they don't have enough soldiers, they're going 293 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: to bring in conscription, which is like, once you're a 294 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: certain age, you have to go fight. Now. It becomes 295 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: quite apparent quite quickly that the of age men who 296 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: are being sent out to fight, the majority of them, 297 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: the disproportionate amount they are poor men, like because members 298 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: in high society, the upper crust, the upper echelons, if 299 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 1: you will. What they're doing is they're buying their way out. 300 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: They're getting someone to go in their place, like someone 301 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: typically poor, someone who probably needs the money. And they're like, 302 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: I'll pay him and he'll go my place and it'll 303 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: be fine. And the government's like that's cool, which I 304 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: don't need to tell you is not cool. Not that 305 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: I believe in conscription as a general rule, because I 306 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: think it's stupid. I think, why would you put someone 307 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: out to fight for the country if they do not 308 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: want to do that? Why why would you do that? 309 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: If that person does not believe in what they're doing, 310 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,880 Speaker 1: if they do not have that belief system, that patriotism 311 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: in place, they're not going to be all dultchy es 312 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 1: de corme. Is it adultchy edecormest dogies de corme propatria 313 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: more Listen, I don't speak Latin, all right, I don't 314 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: know what, but it basically means it is sweet and 315 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: honorable to die for one's country. I don't know. Was 316 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: it secret to sin or Wilfred Owen that did a poem? 317 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: Is that their poem? Am I thinking of somebody else? 318 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's all about how they say its sweet 319 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: and honorable to die for one's country until you see 320 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: what that actually means. Because war is often described as 321 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: this romantic situation. It's very artistic, it's very revered when 322 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: the realities of war are horrible and harsh. And here 323 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: is Spain sending their prayest out as fodder is fodder, 324 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: and the general folk they're like, hey, we don't like this, 325 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: particularly Catalonian people. They're not really keen on being ruled 326 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: anyway by the Spanish government. They're not really feeling it, 327 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: and so they've already got a bugbear. But now you're 328 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: sending their sons and brothers and fathers to die, and 329 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: so you know, not to not to feeling that, to 330 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: be honest, and so they do what they do best, 331 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 1: well not them. France does it best, but they do 332 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: what they do second best. They riot, They cause a 333 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: damn scene like me because I am a petty bitch 334 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: who holds a grudge. So there is absolute pandemonium, like 335 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: there's chaos on the street. They are rioting, they are 336 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: clashing with the Spanish like forces. Like the ordinary people. 337 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: It's just pure chaos because they're not only just mad 338 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: at the government. You know, they're mad at the government 339 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: for forcing them to go to war. They're mad at conscription, 340 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 1: they're mad that, you know, the rich folk can just 341 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: pay their way out of it. And they're also mad 342 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: at the church because Spain, you know, traditionally very Catholic country, 343 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: and the Catholic Church would typically support the monarchy, and 344 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: it's supporting this, and so the general people who would 345 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: be looking to the church for advice now feel that 346 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: they're being shafted because the church and their eyes and 347 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: you know, probably true is colluding with the government in 348 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: the monarchy, like it's colluding with all of this, and 349 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: it is part of the problem. And that is a 350 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: massive issue. And in a move that surprises absolutely no one, 351 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:13,239 Speaker 1: this escalates. So you've got these ryals and they just 352 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: start tearing the place up. And I'm not being metaphorical 353 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: with that. No, No, they are ripping shit out. They 354 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: are destroying graveyards in churches, They are desecrating tombs, They 355 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: are vandalizing graves. They said, churches and convents on fire. No, 356 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan of nuns. We all know that. 357 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: Apart from the movie Sister Act Maggie Smith rest in peace, 358 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: but you know, don't set a convent on fire. A 359 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: lot of the girls who were in there were forced 360 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: to be in there, Like they didn't want to go there. 361 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: They're sent there to an unarray for like having pretty 362 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: hair and shit, like they send them to these places. 363 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: We don't know what to do with. You be a maid, No, 364 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,719 Speaker 1: then you're being a nun, like go so like not 365 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: everyone who's there wants to be there, like you know, 366 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: not not fair, but like, yeah, they set convince and 367 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 1: judges on fire, and this results in one hundred and 368 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: fifty people dying. Like so much happens. You've got like 369 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty I say one hundred ft over 370 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty people die for like a bunch 371 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: of reasons. Some are murdered, some are called by fires, 372 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: like somewhere some dying classes, like people die. There's like 373 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: sixteen hundred, seventeen hundred people who are arrested, and then 374 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: five people are officially executed. And this is you know, 375 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: the tragic week. That's the term they come up with. 376 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: It's les semana tragica the tragic week, which is just again, 377 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: it is a week of tragedy, you know, so much 378 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: death and desolation and desecration, just all this bad shit happening, 379 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: and it's like a really bad time for Barcelona, but 380 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: with all that happening, a less bad time for you know, 381 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: the children who are being sex trafficked. Because the Spanish 382 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: government decides to enact martial law, which is basically where 383 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: the Spanish military and government have like complete power, you know, 384 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: carte blanche can do whatever the fuck they want effectively, 385 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: and martial law comes into play typically when there is 386 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: a situation that is so extreme that this is the 387 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: only way to handle it, Like it's a situation of crisis, 388 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: like a huge crisis, and that's what this is. Now. 389 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: Of course, there's a target on who the poor? Why 390 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: is their targets on the poor because the government believes 391 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: they're the root of the problem because the government lacks accountability. 392 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: I know you're shocked, and so they're like, we're gonna 393 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: like crack down on crime. We're going to hit all 394 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: these poor neighborhoods. We're going to go to this impoverished place. 395 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: We're going to stop this violence. We're going to stop 396 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: these pirated books. Oh and these lemons that fell off 397 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: the bark of a car like pulfering donkeys. Listen, listen, 398 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: I'm doing my best, like old timy crime, old timy crime. 399 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: And it does not take authorities long to find in 400 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: Rikita's brothel. And they raid the joint, battering down the door, 401 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: storming into every room, expecting to find ladies of ill 402 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: repute and their horrific client tell but what they find 403 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: is so much worse, because behind every door is not 404 00:29:53,160 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: a lady's settling her goods, but as instead, child after child, 405 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: each more traumatized than the last, from teenagers all the 406 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: way down to children who can barely formulate sentences. Now, 407 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: I know I said five years old earlier, but I'm 408 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: fairly certain that the youngest child they've found imprisoned in 409 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: that building was three years old. Don't worry it gets 410 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: worse because well, they're reading the property. Who happens to 411 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: be there but a very high ranking member of society, 412 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: one of Enriquita's best clients, a member of one of 413 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: the wealthiest and most powerful families in all of Catalonia, 414 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: and he is well known, like they know who he is, 415 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: to the point that when they get there, they know 416 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: there's crude. They know there's not much they can do. 417 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: Like they think they're doing really well. They're cracking down 418 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: on this crime. They're saving these children, and they think 419 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: they're going to get the women responsible, which they're shocked 420 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: at because they're shocked that a woman of all people 421 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: could be the person to commit these crimes, that she 422 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: would be the one to harm children, not sell them 423 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: and abuse them and treat them like they're not human. 424 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: But there she is with her big wealthy client and whip. 425 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: What do you know, the entire paperwork for Enrikita's case 426 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: for her crime disappears, without a fucking trace, With no paperwork, 427 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: she cannot be charged, They cannot do anything to her, 428 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: and so she's released. And it doesn't take long for 429 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: her to get up to old tricks except now, oh 430 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: now she has a fuck you attitude because she feels 431 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: like she can get away with it. She can get 432 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: away with anything because you just tried to catch her. 433 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: You caught her in the act, red handed, even and 434 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: you couldn't do anything. She feels like she is untouchable. 435 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: She wastes absolutely no time recharging her revenue streams. She 436 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:48,479 Speaker 1: restarts her business, getting back into old ways, but she 437 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: also decides to diversify. You know, doesn't want to keep 438 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: all her eggs in one basket. Because she again watches, listens, 439 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: she pays attention, and she is well aware the Barcelona 440 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: is being destroyed by disease. Consumption has a chokehold in 441 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: the city. People are dying the wretch of the power. 442 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: There isn't a cure, at least not yet, and the 443 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: story spreads through not just Barcelona, not just Catalonia, but 444 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: the entire country, like whispers over your shoulder. The cure, 445 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: the cure for consumption, is consuming the blood of children, 446 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: human children, specifically, no animal children. They just won't do. 447 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: Blood is life for a lot of people. That exists 448 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: in mythology and lower we talk about blood letting and 449 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: medicinal blood recipes, beauty recipes, so on, so forth. But yes, 450 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: the citizens men, citizens believed that drinking the blood of 451 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 1: a child would cure you of TV when tuberculosis was 452 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: typically a death sentence, like you got it, then you 453 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: weren't making it out alive. And in Rakita, she already 454 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: has access to the necessary product. There's supply and demand, 455 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: and she has the supply. She already has kids. As 456 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: long as they're healthy enough, she's good to go. And 457 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: she does just that. She rebuilds her business and she 458 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 1: buys properties all over the shop. She really was doing 459 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: well in her business because she bought several apartments in 460 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: flats all over the city. She had one specifically for 461 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: her child's sex trafficking brothel. She had one for child murder. 462 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 1: There's no easy way to say that child murder, and 463 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: another which is hers. She's just where she lived and 464 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 1: that's it. Now we already know about the trafficking and 465 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: what that entails. And if you don't, thank Christ, you 466 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: don't need to know that information. Now in the house 467 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: where she's doing all of the murdering, she is really 468 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 1: she's really utilizing all of its very much a waste not, 469 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: want not situation because she is getting rid of the children. 470 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: Whether this was children from her brothel or elsewhere it depends. 471 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: We're not entirely sure on that. But what she does 472 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 1: is she kills those children, she drains them of their blood, 473 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: she ensanguinates them, and she sells that blood two people 474 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: as a cure for their TV. She then uses the 475 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: marrow in fact of the children to make ointments and 476 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: lotions and potions and creams, and sells them to the 477 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: ladies of high society, seeing that they're going to bring 478 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: back their youth. And for the record, I want to 479 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: make this perfectly clear. Everybody who was buying from her 480 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: knew exactly what they were buying. Like there was no ooh, 481 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,839 Speaker 1: I wonder what it could be. It's like, no, this 482 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 1: is what this is, because this is child fat this 483 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,399 Speaker 1: is going to make you more youthful. People have said 484 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: crazier things on DAYTIMTV, like this isn't the weirdest thing 485 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: you've heard, but that's that, And so people buy it, 486 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: people who clearly do not care about the lives of 487 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: impoverished children. It's one of those things where it's like 488 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: a victim the less than the victim being less than. 489 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: That's what this feels like. And so for three years 490 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: three years, she gets away with this. For three years, 491 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,840 Speaker 1: she nabs children from the street, she sells some to 492 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:18,799 Speaker 1: fucking sickos. Others she just ends their lives, dismantles them 493 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 1: and sells them for parts. And for three years, children 494 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:28,840 Speaker 1: are disappearing from the streets of Barcelona. They're going away, 495 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:34,359 Speaker 1: They're just vanishing. And it gets to the point that 496 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: the governor, the governor of Barcelona, Manuel Poterra Valdares, he 497 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 1: makes an official statement saying that children aren't disappearing. The 498 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: missing reports are just made up. They're false, they're just 499 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: fabrications by all these families. The idea of this is 500 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: that families were like selling their kids because they were 501 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: death to shooting and they were desperate, and so they were 502 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,360 Speaker 1: selling their children and then being like, oh, somebody stole them, 503 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: Like they think enough families were doing this, that this 504 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,680 Speaker 1: was an epidemic of people selling their kids and then 505 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: lying about it, because of course it's definitely hundreds of 506 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,879 Speaker 1: families making the same claim. All these poor people keep 507 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: selling and losing their kids because they're poor, and that's 508 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: all they're doing, Like really, really, that's that's the most 509 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 1: logical conclusion to this, not kidnapping or murder, which you know, 510 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: in a time of turmoil, seems like that might be it. No, 511 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 1: okay then, but back to in Rikita, in our houses 512 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: of horrors, like it's so horrible when you think about it, 513 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: because if you think about it too hard, you have 514 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 1: to consider which fate is being killed, is some kind 515 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,879 Speaker 1: of false cure, having your body parts turned into face 516 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:16,720 Speaker 1: cream like or trafficking death or trafficking which is worse? 517 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 1: Which is the worst fate? It is a double edged blade. 518 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: And for three years, Enra Kita builds her fortune on 519 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: the bodies of Barcelona's poorest children, and no one is listening. 520 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: No one is caring that these kids are going missing, 521 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: No one official anyway. That is until the tenth of 522 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 1: February nineteen twelve, when Terasita Guetart is walking home with 523 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: her mum. Terasita is five years old, and they stop 524 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:58,800 Speaker 1: outside the flats, the apartments, and her mother is chatting 525 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: to her neighbor. Because Tercida usually just runs up the 526 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 1: steps into the house bim bim bim, So when the 527 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,919 Speaker 1: mum finishes her chat, goes up the stairs and goes 528 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 1: up all three floors. She walks in and Terasita isn't there, 529 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: and her husband tells her that she didn't come up 530 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:25,480 Speaker 1: the stairs. She isn't in the house, and in a panic, 531 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: she runs down the stairs. She screams, and she is 532 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:33,239 Speaker 1: out in the streets looking for her child. And this 533 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: is where the shit hits the fan. All across the 534 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,239 Speaker 1: city people are searching for Teresita. Her pictures in the papers, 535 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,480 Speaker 1: there's flyers up like this is big news. Everybody, and 536 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:51,000 Speaker 1: I mean everybody is looking for this wee girl. And 537 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,399 Speaker 1: so you've got the authorities, you've got the police, you've 538 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,279 Speaker 1: got the newspapers, you've got other poor people, like the 539 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 1: other general folk. Everybody's looking for her. Everybody is desperate 540 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:09,399 Speaker 1: to find this kid. And for ten days nothing, ten 541 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 1: days nobody sees her until a neighbor of en Rakita's 542 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,839 Speaker 1: sees a child's face in the window. Enrakita hasn't had 543 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,200 Speaker 1: any children. The neighbors know she doesn't have any children, 544 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,479 Speaker 1: so who the hell is that? And she thinks, hah, 545 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,360 Speaker 1: that looks so weep. But like that wee girl who's 546 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: in all the people's everywhere all the time, that everyone's 547 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,440 Speaker 1: making such a big ruckus about. And Claudia Elias, that's 548 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 1: the neighbor. She's she's suspicious, right, she thinks that might 549 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: be her, and she ends up telling like a mattress maker, 550 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,759 Speaker 1: she's like, hey, this is suspicious. She's just kind of 551 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 1: like airing it out. And then he ends up reporting 552 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 1: it to the police, who eventually raid the apartment mezzanie 553 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,239 Speaker 1: number twenty nine on Ponente Street, eventually five days later, 554 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,719 Speaker 1: like five days. Five days is a long time. You know, 555 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,279 Speaker 1: people can do in five minutes. Imagine what they can 556 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,719 Speaker 1: do in five days. Like you were lucky this kid 557 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,960 Speaker 1: was still there. They raid the flat, They go upstairs 558 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 1: and they find not one little girl, but two. A 559 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:24,360 Speaker 1: little girl called Angelita. He looks by all accounts normal, 560 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,600 Speaker 1: like a normal kid, and the other has a completely 561 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:35,880 Speaker 1: shaved head and says her name is Felicidad, which translates 562 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:41,000 Speaker 1: to happiness. Oh yeah. The reason that they used for 563 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,719 Speaker 1: like reading the flat was keeping illegal chickens. They were like, 564 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,040 Speaker 1: this flat has illegal chickens, and so they're reading out 565 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,799 Speaker 1: to see if there was in fact illegal chickens. No, 566 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,040 Speaker 1: there were children, and so they are talking to these 567 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,759 Speaker 1: kids and they start questioning Felicidad happiness. You know, they 568 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: actually go out and catch in Rikita. They catch her 569 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,799 Speaker 1: and they're like, your flat has chickens, we need to 570 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 1: investigate it. And she's like, yeah, okay, you can check 571 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 1: my flat for chickens. Now why what what level of 572 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 1: confidence does this woman have that she's like, ne go 573 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,360 Speaker 1: check for chickens. You're not going to find any chickens. 574 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,960 Speaker 1: Like no, they're just going to find children, abducted children. 575 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,719 Speaker 1: But yeah, they find the two girls and Terasita she 576 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,959 Speaker 1: ends up being brought back to her parents. They're like, great, 577 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: this is you, off you go, and she says that 578 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,600 Speaker 1: when she was taken to the flat, the first thing 579 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,120 Speaker 1: she did was cut off on her hair and told 580 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,440 Speaker 1: her her name was Felicidad, that her parents were gone, 581 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 1: and that she was to call her stepmother from now on. 582 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:59,360 Speaker 1: Like okay, And Terasita manages to tell the officers about 583 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,640 Speaker 1: her abduction, which is if you can get a five 584 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,160 Speaker 1: year old to tell you any kind of story, like 585 00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 1: you're doing well because they do not tell those stories 586 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:13,799 Speaker 1: in linear fashion. Says me, who sidebars, I know, I know, 587 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,880 Speaker 1: pot kettle black. But she says on the day like 588 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,839 Speaker 1: instead of like going up to her house like she 589 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 1: normally does. She like went around the corner, just kind 590 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,239 Speaker 1: of dawdling as children do. And there she sees in Rakita, 591 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,239 Speaker 1: who promises her sweets like she's like really gentle about it. 592 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:37,759 Speaker 1: She's like, come, pretty, come, I have sweeties for you, 593 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,479 Speaker 1: like candy. And at first she's like, yay, sweets because 594 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,040 Speaker 1: she's five, obviously, and she follows her, and then she 595 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,759 Speaker 1: realizes that she's taken far away from home, like she's 596 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,400 Speaker 1: she's not going the direction she wants to go in, 597 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:56,160 Speaker 1: like the fear is setting in, and then she starts 598 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 1: to panic and in Rikita like covers her with like 599 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,520 Speaker 1: a black like cloak or cape and just drags her 600 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 1: back to the mezzanine. In Terrasita also tells them that, 601 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,200 Speaker 1: like Inrickata would just go away for ages like days 602 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: and would leave her in Angelita like alone, these two 603 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,359 Speaker 1: week girls. She would just leave them alone, and that 604 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,920 Speaker 1: she was warned like not to go out into the balcony, 605 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,960 Speaker 1: not to go over here, not to look out the windows, 606 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,239 Speaker 1: and to not go into these rooms rooms that I 607 00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:30,400 Speaker 1: should add Inrikita did not lock. She didn't lock them, 608 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,120 Speaker 1: and so off they go into one of the rooms 609 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,360 Speaker 1: and there was a sack, like a full on sack 610 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,920 Speaker 1: of bloody girl's clothes and a boning knife just covered 611 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:48,120 Speaker 1: in blood, like, lock the fucking door. Lock the door, 612 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,480 Speaker 1: you know, because they went exploring, because they're kids. They 613 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,720 Speaker 1: went exploring when Nome was there. And Angelita she has 614 00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 1: a worse story, like do you think this is bad? 615 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:05,480 Speaker 1: Angela's is so much worse, Like she tells the police 616 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:10,520 Speaker 1: that before Terracida showed up, there was a wee boy 617 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,680 Speaker 1: he was five. His name was Pepito, and they would 618 00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,000 Speaker 1: play together and they had great fun. And then one 619 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:23,160 Speaker 1: day she was peering through a door. She was just 620 00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: kind of watching, and Pepito, who was also calling Enrikita 621 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,279 Speaker 1: like mummy, mama. Enrikita had lifted the little five year 622 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,520 Speaker 1: old up, sat him on the kitchen table, and stabbed 623 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,279 Speaker 1: him through the chest with a butcher knife. Angelera was 624 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,080 Speaker 1: so scared and so terrified that she legged it, like 625 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,640 Speaker 1: she ran back and pretended to be asleep, acting like 626 00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: she never saw anything. And then Rikitta didn't cot an on. 627 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,520 Speaker 1: She had no idea that the wee girl saw her 628 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,560 Speaker 1: do that. And Angelita like it was hard to figure 629 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:02,920 Speaker 1: who she was because she had been conditioned by Enrikita 630 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 1: to believe that was her mum, and she believed her 631 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,600 Speaker 1: dad was Juan, right, So like they go and ask him, 632 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 1: he's like, we didn't have any kids. And also and 633 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,839 Speaker 1: so like when Inricheda is arrested, like he shows up, 634 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,040 Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I know we're married, we've been separated, 635 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,440 Speaker 1: didn't have any kids. Don't know who this kid is, 636 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:27,040 Speaker 1: no idea who that is. And Enrikita ends up changing 637 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,120 Speaker 1: like the story. She's like, oh, yeah, no, it's not 638 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:35,359 Speaker 1: actually my husband's kid. It's actually my sister's child who 639 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,480 Speaker 1: I took as a baby and raised. And in Rakida, 640 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 1: she is detained in the Arena Amalia prison, so like 641 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,640 Speaker 1: it's a prison for women and she's put there, and 642 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,360 Speaker 1: she starts claiming that, you know, she found Teresita like 643 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,600 Speaker 1: wandering the streets, hungry and alone, like she found her 644 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,680 Speaker 1: that day, and the neighbor's like, no, no, she's been 645 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 1: there for a while because I reported this like so 646 00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,359 Speaker 1: many days before, Like that's not a new kid. I've 647 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,800 Speaker 1: seen that wee bald girl, like met seen it before. 648 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,719 Speaker 1: And then Enriquita has to explain what they found in 649 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:19,240 Speaker 1: her flats. So the officers searched and they found jars 650 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:29,880 Speaker 1: and vases, balls, pictures, jugs just full of gloopy, coagulated blood, bones, 651 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 1: fat marrow, children's hair, you know, that soft toddler hair 652 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:40,840 Speaker 1: that they found that in balls, and several of the 653 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,840 Speaker 1: flats they had like hidden walls and stuff in the ceiling. 654 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,759 Speaker 1: There was just stuff hidden there. There was like remains 655 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:53,640 Speaker 1: of children. There were sacks of clothes, just like all 656 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:59,200 Speaker 1: this stuff, all this evidence, skulls, fibulous tibulas, just all 657 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,360 Speaker 1: these things that kind of, I mean, all the evidence 658 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:09,480 Speaker 1: pointed to murder. And allegedly there was a book filled 659 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,520 Speaker 1: with all the names of her clientele, like a little 660 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:20,440 Speaker 1: black book sort of her security. But that never actually 661 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,719 Speaker 1: makes it to the light of day. Some say disappeared, 662 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:29,080 Speaker 1: some say it never existed. And because of you know, 663 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,759 Speaker 1: all of the issues before, like the tragic week and 664 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,000 Speaker 1: everything that had happened with that, they didn't want to 665 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:40,000 Speaker 1: let that out if it did exist, and so that 666 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:45,640 Speaker 1: was kept stumb what protecting the elite. You say, that 667 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:53,719 Speaker 1: wouldn't happen, would it. Hmm? And so Enriquita, she is 668 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 1: trying to explain away all of these you know, jars 669 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,839 Speaker 1: of children's remains, and she makes the excuse that she 670 00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,040 Speaker 1: is a student of anatomy and that she is just 671 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:11,440 Speaker 1: dissecting corpses that she found, just all of these random 672 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,640 Speaker 1: corpses of children that you found, just these random corpses 673 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:21,239 Speaker 1: of children that you just, by happenstance, came across. Now, 674 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,360 Speaker 1: as her trial is looming, because there's going to be 675 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,399 Speaker 1: a trick, right, she tries to end her life with 676 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,440 Speaker 1: like a piece of wedge, tries to slash her wrists. Surprisingly, 677 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:36,440 Speaker 1: this doesn't work, and it is and this story is 678 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,320 Speaker 1: absolutely everywhere. Those two we girls, their photos are on 679 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,759 Speaker 1: the front page of the paper. There are stories going everywhere. 680 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:47,160 Speaker 1: There is just reports of this client list, you know everything. 681 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:55,120 Speaker 1: It's just consistent. And then everything changes one day in 682 00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:03,720 Speaker 1: April nineteen twelve because the biggest disaster happens, the Titanic sinks, 683 00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,640 Speaker 1: and suddenly that's what everyone wants to talk about, and 684 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:16,359 Speaker 1: so the news then Rakita the vampirets of Barcelona, her 685 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,960 Speaker 1: story just sort of fades away, you know, the bottom 686 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,120 Speaker 1: of the news cycle no longer rotating, and with all 687 00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,359 Speaker 1: of the foror and hoop lab about that her trial 688 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,879 Speaker 1: doesn't actually come about. She doesn't get charged for those 689 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,839 Speaker 1: crimes because they find the remains of at least ten 690 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:43,560 Speaker 1: children in her houses, at least ten, which is a lot. 691 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:49,040 Speaker 1: Like that is a lot by anybody's standards, don't you think? Yeah, yeah, 692 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,680 Speaker 1: but yeah, never charged for her crimes. But in Rikita 693 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,200 Speaker 1: does not get to live a long and fruitful life 694 00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:02,200 Speaker 1: because one year and three months after being arrested, she dies. 695 00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:09,120 Speaker 1: She is lynched by her fellow prisoners in a women's prison. Now, 696 00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:11,839 Speaker 1: there was this whole rule about her not being left 697 00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,759 Speaker 1: alone in case she tried to end her own life 698 00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,680 Speaker 1: because she was already on suicide watch after what had 699 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:22,480 Speaker 1: happened previously. And there is a theory that it's, you know, 700 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,239 Speaker 1: somebody from her client lists to had her off so 701 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:31,840 Speaker 1: that she would not release said names. But this is 702 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:37,600 Speaker 1: a woman who trafficked and killed children and she's in prison. 703 00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,440 Speaker 1: And now, if you know anything about prison rules, there 704 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,480 Speaker 1: are certain things that you can't do. There are certain 705 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:48,359 Speaker 1: things that make you like a target. One of them 706 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 1: is murdering children, trafficking children. All of that is that 707 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,719 Speaker 1: is you're going to die in there. Someone is going 708 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:03,000 Speaker 1: to come for you, and they do, and they end 709 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:09,400 Speaker 1: her life. And on May twelfth, nineteen thirteen, Enriquita Marty 710 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:15,120 Speaker 1: dies of her injuries. Now, initially they lie about this. 711 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,640 Speaker 1: The president is like, she wasn't beaten to death by inmates, No, 712 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:25,520 Speaker 1: she suffered a long illness. Yeah, no she was. She 713 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:29,800 Speaker 1: was lynched, and she was buried secretly in a common 714 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:35,200 Speaker 1: grave in the Cemeterio del Sodeste, basically so that no 715 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:40,120 Speaker 1: one would know where it was good which like, did 716 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,640 Speaker 1: Epstein have like a secret grave? Like do we know 717 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:44,480 Speaker 1: where he's buried? Did they bury him? Did they burn 718 00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,799 Speaker 1: him and just like dust him somewhere? Like what is that? 719 00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,359 Speaker 1: I she don't care enough about him to to do that, 720 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,239 Speaker 1: because he's dead now, and he deserves to be dead 721 00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:02,920 Speaker 1: because you know of what he did. AnyWho, Now, this 722 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,920 Speaker 1: is a horrible story about a horrible situation during a 723 00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:11,240 Speaker 1: difficult time. Now, of course, there are always two sides 724 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:16,719 Speaker 1: to every story, and there is a theory that this 725 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:22,200 Speaker 1: case was blown all out of proportion, that she wasn't 726 00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:26,200 Speaker 1: actually going around stealing children, selling children. She was just 727 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:33,480 Speaker 1: a mentally ill woman who stole two kids, and that's 728 00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,319 Speaker 1: that's the story. Apparently that's it. But you know, we 729 00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,799 Speaker 1: know she was arrested, so many times. We know she 730 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:44,000 Speaker 1: was trafficking kids, and you know, the buckets and buckets 731 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:49,160 Speaker 1: of blood I feel like are a thing. Now My 732 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,840 Speaker 1: issue with this is, I mean, I'm always wanting to 733 00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,040 Speaker 1: try and stand up for women, but women can do 734 00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,640 Speaker 1: some bad stuff too. Equal rights, guys, we can be 735 00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:04,040 Speaker 1: horrible and like we already had a mayor come out 736 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:08,719 Speaker 1: and say that people are blaming this, you know, people 737 00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,480 Speaker 1: stealing kids, that children are disappearing when in fact they're 738 00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:17,799 Speaker 1: just losing their children. They're just selling them. Like, I 739 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,200 Speaker 1: don't like that. I don't like them. I don't feel 740 00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:27,640 Speaker 1: like that is a reasonable logical stance to take. People 741 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:31,040 Speaker 1: do crazy things. We know people do crazy things like 742 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,319 Speaker 1: and there might be some things that are exaggerated, like 743 00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,719 Speaker 1: the face creams. The face creams does feel a bit 744 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:42,239 Speaker 1: much to me. The drinking blood for youth or not youth, 745 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:47,080 Speaker 1: but curing people have done that. People have done worse. Again, 746 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:51,520 Speaker 1: we're guzzling and gizzards guys, Like it's a thing. But 747 00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,800 Speaker 1: the fact that this broth aloner her client list, with 748 00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:00,400 Speaker 1: her being so famous, so infamous, that doesn't come to 749 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:05,160 Speaker 1: light at all. Ever, that's the kind of news that 750 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,480 Speaker 1: gets out that's the kind of thing that people share, 751 00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,440 Speaker 1: So for that not to come out to me, that's 752 00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:15,279 Speaker 1: highly suspicious. But here is a horrific story. No matter 753 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,440 Speaker 1: which angle you look at, it just terrible, just terrible, 754 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:25,680 Speaker 1: terrible humanity. And I hope you've been sufficiently disgusted. And 755 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:32,200 Speaker 1: that is the story of the Vampires of Barcelona. So 756 00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,520 Speaker 1: if you liked this incredibly terrible story about this terrible 757 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,880 Speaker 1: event that happened in the past, feel free to rate 758 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,880 Speaker 1: and review five stars. If you don't want to review 759 00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,839 Speaker 1: the review and rate five stars, don't say anything at all, 760 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,840 Speaker 1: because be kind. If you can't be kind, don't be anything. 761 00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,799 Speaker 1: You can catch me on the socials if you like 762 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:57,759 Speaker 1: message me on like Instagram or threats. It's easier for 763 00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,120 Speaker 1: me to respond. I find it more accessible. I am 764 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,080 Speaker 1: on TikTok, but I found it harder to communicate on 765 00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:10,120 Speaker 1: that one. And I guess it is recommendation time for reading. 766 00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:14,520 Speaker 1: I am going to recommend Ghost in the Throat and 767 00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,360 Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you any context for watching 768 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,840 Speaker 1: Agatha all along. Love me some Mitchy Witchness, Love me 769 00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,960 Speaker 1: some witchy Witchness. Have I recommended it two weeks in 770 00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,600 Speaker 1: the row? Yes, I have don't care doing it again. 771 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:35,200 Speaker 1: And for listening. On a completely non spooky note, you 772 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:39,400 Speaker 1: should listen to Calm History, like if you have trouble 773 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:43,520 Speaker 1: sleeping or you're having like like stressful times, like I 774 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,960 Speaker 1: found it really really actual Cam Calm History. It was 775 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,680 Speaker 1: actually Cam. I found it really chill, and I would 776 00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,360 Speaker 1: absolutely suggest you go listen to it anyway. With that, 777 00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:56,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to say good night because it is two am, 778 00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,240 Speaker 1: So adios is my friends thebe