Mother Rasputin and the Monastery of Horrors
People came looking for salvation. Some never made it out.
This week on Para(normal), Nicolina tells Marie the disturbing story of Mariam Soulakiotis, the Greek abbess known as “Mother Rasputin.” Behind the walls of a monastery in Keratea, promises of spiritual refuge and free tuberculosis treatment gave way to accounts of stolen fortunes, confinement, starvation, and murder.
We follow Mariam’s rise to power, the police raid that exposed the monastery’s secrets, and the trials that followed. Along the way, we unpack the disputed death toll, the difference between sensational headlines and criminal convictions, and how devotion can protect an abusive leader, even after death.
Plus, competitive pumpkin carving, painfully relevant horoscopes, and a television rabbit hole that led Nicolina to this case.
Content warning: Religious abuse, coercive control, torture, medical neglect, child removal, and murder.
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