Béla Kiss: The Metal Drum Killer – Love Letters, Preservation, and a Vanishing Monster

In this eerie and mysterious episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the chilling true story of Béla Kiss — the charming Hungarian bachelor who lured women through lonely hearts ads in the early 1900s… and preserved their corpses in metal drums. When World War I called him to the front, Kiss left behind a house of horrors: 24 bodies, pickled in alcohol, carefully stored like a collection. Investigators uncovered his sinister seduction schemes, occult interests, and anatomical obsessions, but by then… he had vanished. Was he killed in war? Did he escape under an alias? Or did he live out his life undetected? This 28-minute descent into one of Europe’s most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases will leave you haunted by a man who murdered for control, preserved for power, and disappeared into legend. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/among-monsters-podcast-chilling-true-crime--5739090/support.