Decoding Mysteries

In July 1916, wartime fuel shortages led Austro-Hungarian officers to a tinsmith’s cottage in Cinkota where they discovered twenty-four methanol-preserved bodies sealed inside metal drums—marking the revelation of one of Hungary’s most prolific serial killers.

In this chilling episode, we recount the final hours and explosive legacy of Catherine Monvoisin—better known as La Voisin—whose 1680 execution exposed a vast network of poison, black magic, and aristocratic murder plots at the glittering court of Louis XIV. Her refusal to confess, even as flames engulfed her, protected the most dangerous secret of all: the King’s own mistress had been her most powerful client. The Affair of the Poisons would shake the French monarchy to its core and reveal the hidden occult underbelly beneath Versailles’ rational façade.