Spooktober 2026: Road Trip — The Possessions at Loudun

Podcast: Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History · Dark Poutine / Curiouscast

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

Episode 439: In September 1632, plague was tearing through Loudun, France, when the Ursuline nuns began reporting apparitions, unexplained blows and violent physical attacks. During a series of exorcisms, the voices speaking through the women named a local priest: Urbain Grandier. Grandier was intelligent, outspoken and surrounded by scandal. He had also made powerful enemies. As clergy, physicians and royal officials entered the case, reports from inside the convent became part of a much larger struggle involving religion, medicine, politics and the law. In this episode, we examine the Possessions at Loudun and the people who tried to...