In this episode of Secrets, Spells & Shadows, I explore the real story behind California's Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester, widow of rifle magnate William Winchester, spent 38 years and $5 million building one of the strangest houses in America.

After a Boston medium told her that spirits of Winchester rifle victims sought revenge, Sarah moved to San Jose and began endless construction. From 1884 to 1922, workers built around the clock creating 161 rooms, 2,000 doors, 10,000 windows, and architectural impossibilities like stairs leading to ceilings and doors opening into walls.

Was Sarah Winchester communicating with ghosts or was this the result of grief-induced madness? The Winchester Mystery House remains a popular tourist destination where visitors report paranormal activity and unexplained construction sounds.

This episode examines one of California's most enduring mysteries and explores how guilt and loss can reshape reality itself.

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What if painkillers were laced with poison to hide a murder? In 1986, Stella Nickell spiked Excedrin with cyanide to kill her husband for a $176k insurance payout, but her plan claimed innocent lives. Join EXORCISTA by Victoria Unikel to unravel this chilling true crime tale of greed, betrayal, and a link to the infamous Tylenol Murders. Perfect for fans of serial killers, cold cases, and poison murders! Hit play to discover how pills became weapons. #TrueCrimePodcast #HorrorStory

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What happens when you touch a cursed object? In 1969 Birmingham, three people found out - and disappeared forever.

This vintage mystery begins when a leather grimoire with eternally wet ink appears in a library basement. Everyone who handled this cursed object vanished from locked rooms: art student Alan Price disappeared from his flat, chemistry student Keith Dryer vanished from his dorm, psychology student Marion Holt disappeared from a locked police cell.

Victoria Unikel investigates the cursed book that made people disappear throughout 1969, examining how victims vanished without explanation and why Detective Charlie Hewson claimed the grimoire's sigil grew with each disappearance before his own mysterious death.

This cursed object case remains unsolved - the book was never found, and neither were the people who vanished after touching it.

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February 1985. West Pittston, Pennsylvania. The Smurl family's duplex at 330 Chase Street becomes ground zero for one of America's most violent hauntings. What starts with flickering lights escalates to physical attacks, levitating children, and screams that neighbors hear through 8 inches of concrete.

When the Catholic Church fails three times to exorcise the house, the Smurls call Ed and Lorraine Warren. What the famous demonologists find: four entities including a succubus and something Lorraine only calls "the beast."

Victoria Unikel investigates the haunting that became a media circus, divided a town, and proved that sometimes moving doesn't help - because some things follow you.

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"Rebecca was my tenth great-grandmother. They hanged her as a witch."

That midnight message from viewer Aubrey Feinberg reopened a 1662 case I had to investigate. What if you discovered your family tree included a woman executed for witchcraft? That's exactly what happened to my listener Aubrey Feinberg.

In this true crime episode, we investigate the Connecticut witch trials - deadlier than Salem but forgotten by history. Rebecca Greensmith was tortured, forced to confess to meeting the Devil, then hanged in Hartford in 1662. Her property was stolen, her daughters left homeless.

The twist? Aubrey has the actual execution records, court documents, and a handwritten confession. After 360 years, she's fighting to clear her ancestor's name.

Plus: Why my recording equipment kept failing every time I tried to read Rebecca's confession.

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October 1943. The US Navy makes a destroyer vanish. Not just from radar - from reality. Four minutes later, USS Eldridge returns with sailors screaming, embedded in solid steel.

The Navy called it "Project Rainbow." The survivors called it hell. Some were fused to the deck. Others burned without fire. Three vanished forever - their names erased from records.

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November 1922. A dusty door opens. Air hisses out. The candle flame bends toward gold that hasn't seen light in 3,000 years.

Then people start dying.

Lord Carnarvon drops dead. Cairo goes dark. A cobra—symbol of pharaoh's power—swallows Howard Carter's pet canary. By 1929, 22 people connected to King Tutankhamun's tomb are dead. Fever. Falls. Suicide. Blood poisoning. Each death stranger than the last.

In this episode of EXORCISTA's Secrets, Spells & Shadows, Victoria Unikel opens the case file on history's most famous curse. Was it ancient Egyptian magic protecting the boy king? Deadly spores sealed in the tomb? Or something darker that even modern science can't explain?

You'll discover:

• The hieroglyphs that warned "Death shall come on swift wings"
• Why Carter survived while others died within weeks
• The pattern linking Tut's curse to modern archaeological deaths
• What REALLY killed Lord Carnarvon (hint: not just a mosquito)

This is the true story of Tutankhamun's curse—where archaeology meets the paranormal, and touching the past can be deadly.

Based on historical records, death certificates, and 1920s newspaper archives.

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In 1892, Rhode Island townspeople opened Mercy Brown's grave, found fresh blood in her corpse, and performed a ritual straight from medieval folklore. They burned her heart and made her tuberculosis-stricken brother drink the ashes. This wasn't superstition—it was their only hope against a disease killing entire families.

Victoria Unikel examines the desperation that drove educated Americans to vampire remedies, the science that explains preserved winter corpses, and why Mercy became "New England's Last Vampire." No fiction needed—the truth is darker.

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In 1959, nine hikers entered the Ural Mountains. Days later, they were found dead—barefoot in the snow, with missing body parts and internal trauma labeled “beyond human force.” Their tent was ripped open from within. Their clothes glowed with radiation. The cause of death? Unknown.

This episode of EXORCISTA explores the terrifying facts and supernatural theories behind The Dyatlov Pass Incident, one of the most famous unsolved cases of all time.

Victoria Unikel walks you through official reports, conspiracy theories, and the shadow of Cold War secrecy. No ritual, no resolution—just a creeping truth buried under snow.

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A midwife’s herbal cures once saved lives—until King James blamed her for summoning storms. The resulting North Berwick trials ignited Scotland’s deadliest witch-hunt.

Victoria Unikel guides listeners through trial records, torture confessions, and the lingering cultural scars still visible in Scottish memorials today.

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