A tiny umbrella jab turned deadly 😱 #truecrime #history #mystery In 1978, writer Georgi Markov w...

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]In September 1978, [music] Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov was crossing Waterloo Bridge in London when a stranger touched his leg with an umbrella tip.

[00:00:09]Markov felt a sharp sting, but he walked on because it seemed like nothing.

[00:00:13][music] That night, he developed a fever, and within 4 days [music] he was dead in a hospital.

[00:00:20]Doctors found a tiny metal pellet in his leg, and investigators [music] believed it carried ricin, a deadly poison.

[00:00:28]Markov had criticized Bulgaria's [music] communist government for years on radio broadcasts. British investigators suspected a state [music] assassination, likely backed by Bulgaria's secret police with help from the Soviet bloc.

[00:00:41]The case was never fully solved, and that is what makes it so chilling.

[00:00:46]One small jab [music] on a busy street turned an ordinary umbrella into a murder weapon.

[00:00:51]You should follow for another true case [music] tomorrow because history still hides more.