How Deadly Were the Thugs?

by Zeuvembie

Often cited as a cult of serial killers, notorious for their misrepresentation in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Victorian literature, some sources seem to claim they murdered as many as a million people, with Thug Behram having strangled hundreds. How accurate are these sources? Were they tall tales or inflated figures repeated as facts? What do we actually know about the group and its victims?

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