Is this Bulgarian TV show really cursed? | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/04/bulgarian-tv-curse-otechestven-front
Yet by any standards, the Bulgarian TV show Otechestven Front – which translates loosely as The Home Front – does seem to be experiencing a cluster of bad luck. Its format is simple: through a series of on-location interviews, presenter Martin Karbovski introduces a selection of ordinary people, each of whom has an extraordinary (but not always cheerful) story. Think of a macabre That’s Life, or a clothed Eurotrash, and you’ll be getting warm.
Yet over the past two years, no fewer than six of the show’s subjects have died shortly after taking part. The first was a particularly unpleasant former criminal known as The Rose, who collapsed a matter of days after his interview was filmed, amid rumours of black magic. An 85-year-old woman called Gena, who told Karbovski her legs had been eaten by dogs, was next, dying in her sleep.