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Spooky Special | Tulsa's Hex House

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Carol Ann forbade Willetta from attending her own mother's funeral, claiming she no longer had a mother, while her brother begged in vain.

This episode explores the chilling 1944 Hex House case in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Carol Ann Mary Smith psychologically manipulated and controlled two women, Virginia Evans and Willetta Horner, using religious scripture and promises of spiritual reward to keep them living in subhuman conditions in her basement. The narrative traces Smith's background, her methods of control, and the investigation that eventually uncovered the psychological captivity.

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