The French Catacombs
Elizabeth Bathory
Miscellaneous Disturbing Facts
Mercy Brown
Hinterkaifeck
100
What French Cities are the Catacombs located in?
Paris, France
100
What was Elizabeth Bathory also known as?
Hint: Blood ______
The Blood Countess
100
What famous Russian leader drowned in the Volga river after surviving multiple murder attempts?
Hint: TIIIWWWWAAAA
Rasputin
100
What did Mercy Brown die from?
Hint: It is a disease largely associated with coughing
Consumption (Tuberculosis)
100
Where was the Hinterkafeck?
Germany
200
How many people's remains are in the catacombs?
Almost 2 million people are buried in the catacombs.
200
What country was Bathory a countess in?
Hungary
200
"The Swimming Test" was a bizarre test performed on people thought to be _______
Witches
200
What New England state was Mercy from?
Hint: It's quite small
Rhode Island
200
What was the murder weapon in the Hinterkafeck Murders?
A Mattok (Pickaxe like tool)
300
What disturbing thing lines the walls of the catacombs?
Human Bones
300
True or False
Elizabeth Bathory inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
False
The Story was inspired by Vlad the Impaler
300
What commonly used phrase was inspired by people being buried alive"
Hint: Bell
"Saved by the Bell"
There used to be bells in coffins that someone could ring if they were accidentally buried alive.
300
What monster is Mercy Brown called?
Hint: The first female ________
Vampire
300
How many people were killed in the Hinterkafeck murders?
6:Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia Gruber, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's seven year old daughter Cäzilia, her two year old son Josef, and the family's maid Maria Baumgartner.
400
Why were the Catacombs built?
A. The creator of them was a serial killer who needed somewhere to put the bodies
B. The city needed a new place to keep dead corpses
C. It was an art piece made of donated skeletons
B. According to the Google story:
That year, a prolonged period of spring rain caused a wall around Les Innocents to collapse, spilling rotting corpses into a neighboring property. The city needed a better place to put its dead. So it went to the tunnels, moving bones from the cemeteries five stories underground into Paris' former quarries.
400
How old was Elizabeth Bathory when she got engaged to the count?
10 years old!
400
Where were teeth for denatures originally acquired.
The bodies of dead soldiers.
400
Which of Mercy Brown's internal organs were burnt then fed to her brother?
Her heart and lungs
400
Who was the murderer?
A. The family's neighbor
B. Viktoria's supposedly dead husband
C. An escaped convict named Gunther Laddok
D. Fritz Harrmann (A German Serial Killer)
E. None of the above, the case went cold
E. The Hinterkafeck is one of the most notorious unsolved murders. They never found out who killed the family.
500
Which King was in charge of the building of the catacombs? Hint: It was one of the Louiss
Louis XVI (The 16th) The husband of Marie freaking Antoinette
500
How many murders did Elizabeth Bathory commit?
More than 600!!!!!
500
What is the name of the mythological monster that originated from the New Jersey Pine Barrons
The Jersey Devil
500
Why was Mercy Brown famous?
A. She brutally murdered and burned over 30 people
B. She was dug up and to stop her from "spreading disease"
C. She was a ghost who was killed in a fire set by her brother
B. A group of Exeter residents believed that Edwin’s mother or one of his sisters may be undead—caught between heaven and hell—and sucking the life out of him from beyond the grave, which meant the cure could rest with their bodies.
500
The original maid of the family left only six months before the murders. Why?
Hint: It was not because she thought there was a murderer
She heard voices and footsteps in the attic and left the job, claiming the house was haunted.