EXORCISTA: Horror & True Crime with Victoria Unikel

Winchester Mystery House: The True Story Behind California's Most Haunted Mansion

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. 🎥 Watch & Subscribe the cinematic version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista [https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista] 🌐 More at: ⁠theexorcista.com⁠ [https://theexorcista.com/]  📩 Submit your story: ⁠contact@theexorcista.com⁠  📱 Follow https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista [https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista]  https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_ [https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_] ©️ 2025 Victoria Unikel. All Rights Reserved.

The Excedrin Poisoner: Stella Nickell’s Cyanide Murder Plot

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 🎥 Watch & Subscribe the cinematic version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista [https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista] 🌐 More at: ⁠theexorcista.com⁠ [https://theexorcista.com/]  📩 Submit your story: ⁠contact@theexorcista.com⁠  📱 Follow https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista [https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista]  https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_ [https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_] ©️ 2025 Victoria Unikel. All Rights Reserved.

The 1969 Grimoire Disappearances - A Cursed Object That Makes People Vanish

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. 🎥 Watch & Subscribe the cinematic version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista [https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista] 🌐 More at: ⁠theexorcista.com⁠ [https://theexorcista.com/]  📩 Submit your story: ⁠contact@theexorcista.com⁠  📱 Follow https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista [https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista]  https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_ [https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_] ©️ 2025 Victoria Unikel. All Rights Reserved.

The Smurl Haunting - 7 Years of Hell in Pennsylvania

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. 🎥 Watch & Subscribe the cinematic version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista [https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista] 🌐 More at: ⁠theexorcista.com⁠ [https://theexorcista.com/]  📩 Submit your story: ⁠contact@theexorcista.com⁠  📱 Follow https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista [https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista]  https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_ [https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_] ©️ 2025 Victoria Unikel. All Rights Reserved.

Real Witch Trials: My Listener's Ancestor Was Executed in 1662

"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. 🎥 Watch & Subscribe the cinematic version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista [https://www.youtube.com/@TheExorcista] 🌐 More at: ⁠theexorcista.com⁠ [https://theexorcista.com/]  📩 Submit your story: ⁠contact@theexorcista.com⁠  📱 Follow https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista [https://www.tiktok.com/@theexorcista]  https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_ [https://www.instagram.com/theexorcista_] ©️ 2025 Victoria Unikel. All Rights Reserved.