The flowers died first. Fresh-cut blooms withered overnight while a man lay paralysed, watching someone who shouldn't exist stand motionless at the foot of his bed until dawn. In 1950s Transylvania, three women thought they knew how to deal with a witch. They thought prayer would be enough. They were wrong about all of it.

This account, witnessed firsthand by a child who later recounted it, examines how a community's fear transformed an ordinary neighbor into something far more sinister and raises uncomfortable questions about community, belief, and scapegoating.

Can communities trapped by hardship and ideology find their way back to compassion?And who are the true monsters? Were they supernatural or all too human?

Listen to discover how fear and folklore collide in this haunting Romanian story.

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