Oct 18, 2026 · 1h 4m
A cursed coin turns a child’s haunting into a research case
Episode 395 - The Possession of Eleonore Zugun | The Devil’s Coin
Eleonore Zugun’s documented phenomena sit at the uneasy intersection of alleged possession, trauma, psychokinesis, and adolescent development.
- 1Eleonore Zugun’s encounter with a supposedly cursed coin preceded flying objects, injuries, and other phenomena attributed to Dracu.
- 2Zoe Wasilko von Sarecki and Harry Price documented the case, including attacks and objects apparently appearing in Eleonore’s body.
- 3The activity declined after puberty, sharpening questions about hormones, repression, family dysfunction, and the nature of poltergeist experiences.
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In Vienna, witnesses reportedly watched scratches, bites, welts, and needles appear on Eleonore’s body during the escalating activity.
The brief
At eleven, Eleonore Zugun picked up a coin said to belong to the devil; after she bought sweets, stones flew and objects began moving around her.
The case outgrew her Romanian village, passing through a priest, an asylum, and Gorovae Monastery before investigators took sustained interest.
Countess Zoe Wasilko von Sarecki brought Eleonore to Vienna, where witnesses recorded scratches, welts, bites, flying objects, and needles apparently embedded in her skin.
The central dispute is whether repressed emotion, trauma, hormones, or psychokinesis could explain the activity—or whether the physical evidence points elsewhere.
The phenomena faded after Eleonore’s first menstrual period and stopped months later; a listener’s haunted-house story extends the episode’s questions into a family’s life.
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