Earliest written mentions are German-language Boszfleyth (1480) and Bösem fleisch (1495).

The names stabilized by the 17th century in German and Polish as respectively Bösenfleisch and Złe Mięso.

Złe Mięso was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tuchola County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

This innkeeper not only murdered and robbed his guests, but also used the corpses to make food which was later given to customers.

[4] According to a 1994 dig, the village existed in the neolithic 6000 years ago, and has been since inhabited continuously or near-continuously.