EXORCISTA: Horror & True Crime with Victoria Unikel
Victoria Unikel
26 episodes
2 months ago
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 wi...
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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 wi...
The Mercy Brown Vampire Panic – When New England Burned Hearts for Medicine (EXORCISTA)
EXORCISTA: Horror & True Crime with Victoria Unikel
8 minutes
4 months ago
The Mercy Brown Vampire Panic – When New England Burned Hearts for Medicine (EXORCISTA)
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 Eng...
EXORCISTA: Horror & True Crime with Victoria Unikel
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 wi...
