Encounters x353 - Real Stories of Witchcraft | Curses, Cleansings and Black Magic
October 15, 2026
AI Summary
5 min read"Tell your grandpa that he cannot and will not die until I say so. He will be in pain until his last hour." That deathbed curse, delivered by a Hungarian great-grandmother to her 16-year-old granddaughter, is one of the more unsettling moments in this listener-story episode of Two Girls One Ghost, which collects real accounts of witchcraft, hexes, and black magic. The episode is less about Halloween whimsy and more about the mechanics of curses — how they are placed, how they are discovered, and how they are broken — as told by people who believe they or their families were targeted.
The first story, from a listener named Sophie, describes her father falling mysteriously ill with cold sweats, stomach pains, and vomiting that doctors could not explain. Her mother, a "Southern European woman that believes everything in the occult," consulted a healer who told them to search the apartment for anything strange. Hidden between the curtain and the couch, they found "a small bundle of herbs, rope, and human hair." The healer told them to burn it and gave them a powder to mix into the father's food. After eating the meal, he rushed to the bathroom and threw up — not food, but "a bright purple blob." He recovered immediately and was never sick again. The hosts, Sabrina and Corinne, note the unsettling ambiguity: the father never knew he was being fed a mysterious mixture, and the sto
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: The Ghostesses & Witchcraft Theme**
- 2 (03:16) **Listener Story: "My Dad Was Poisoned by a Jealous Witch"**
- 3 (10:19) **Listener Story: Generational Witches & A Deathbed Curse**
- 4 (21:19) **Listener Story: "A Haunted House and a Witch from Puerto Rico"**
- 5 (30:01) **Listener Story: "The Witches of Pendle Hill"**
- 6 (36:10) **Listener Story: "Black Magic and a Curse" (The Hexed Tenants)**
- 7 (46:54) **Listener Story: "Tokeloshi Experience / My Father Used Witchcraft on Us"**
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Show Notes
Witches aren’t always hiding in the woods with a bubbling cauldron. Sometimes they’re family, neighbors, strangers, or someone you trust. This week, we’re exploring the darker side of witchcraft, from love spells and inherited supernatural abilities and mysterious curses to hexed homes and encounters with entities from folklore.
Stories include:
A mysterious illness leads to the discovery of a strange bundle of herbs, rope, and human hair hidden inside an apartment.
A family’s history of witchcraft includes a deathbed curse, prophetic dreams, and a great aunt who watches over her relatives after death.
A little girl in white, unexplained bruises, a giant handprint, pinned dolls, and shadowy figures turn one family’s homes into a paranormal nightmare.
A family suspects their new tenants have hexed them, leading to strange behavior, disturbing intuitions, and a cleansing ritual to break the spell.
A terrifying nighttime encounter with a tokoloshe leaves a family wondering whether something supernatural was sent to spy on them.
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New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us!
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Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan. Original music by Arms Akimbo!
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