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plus: it's spooky week in one cracked fact ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in Browser]( [logo]( [New York Executed A German Vampire Priest]( By: [RM Avatar] [Ryan Menezes]( • October 25, 2021 [10252021](www.cracked.com/article_31169_new-york-executed-a-german-vampire-priest.html?newsletter-cat=weird-world?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=25102021) It's Halloween week at Cracked! This week, things are even weirder than usual. When Hans Schmidt was a child in Bavaria, other kids played sports, but he liked going to the slaughterhouse to watch animals being killed. "Ich seh gern blut!" he'd say ("I like to watch the blood"). The blood excited him—sexually excited him, noted his doctor. He also took to killing animals himself and carrying their heads in his pocket. Then he decided to become a priest. This didn't quite turn his life around, and he ended up committing all kinds of offenses, both heretical and sexual, till no parish would accept him. So in 1909, he moved from Germany to America. There, he started counterfeiting ten dollar bills, which was absolutely the mildest of his crimes. He also pursued his housekeeper Anna. She wasn't into it at first, but they started an affair and then got married. Sort of got married. As a Catholic priest, Hans wasn't able to get married legitimately, but he showed her a marriage certificate that he forged and he performed a wedding ceremony for the two of them himself. Then one day, while the two had sex on the steps of the church's altar (he'd later tell prosecutors), Hans received a message from a God telling him to sacrifice Anna. He told her about this, which is the sort of thing in a relationship that counts as a red flag. But she stuck with him, became pregnant, and then Hans followed through on his vision and murdered her. He cut her throat open and drank her blood. He pleaded insanity at his eventual trial, but the court concluded that he was faking it. When they sentenced him to death, he said, "I'm satisfied with the verdict. I would rather die today than tomorrow." For more chilling tales, check out: - [How A Petty Scam Ended In Bloody Human Sacrifice]( - [The 5 Most Ridiculous Attempts to Be a Vampire in Real Life]( - [8 Humans Whose Eating Habits Would Make a Goat Puke]( Top image: [Bain News Service]( [Daily Digest]( [15 Iconic Movies That Their Creators Expected To Bomb Horribly]( [By Andrea Meno / October 25th, 2021]( [13 Little-Known Facts To Nourish Our Knowledge-Hungry Noggins]( [By Andrea Meno / October 25th, 2021]( [Stop Telling People To Believe The Science]( [By Mark Hill / October 25th, 2021]( [Re-Visiting The Weird, Feared Time Of Tamagotchis]( [By Oona O'Brien / October 24th, 2021]( [Deranged Trekkies And Anti-Commie Propaganda: The Birth of Furry Culture]( [By Nathan Williams / October 24th, 2021]( [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [flipboard]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. [Unsubscribe](