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  • The Witches of Paisley – A True Story of Fear and Fire

    The Witches of Paisley – A True Story of Fear and Fire
    Apr 9 2025
    Step into the mist-shrouded hills of 17th-century Scotland and discover the harrowing true story of a village haunted by fear, suspicion, and the echo of ancient curses.
    In this new episode of VIVI – Stories of Here and Beyond, we travel to Paisley, a town frozen in time, where the last mass witch execution in Western Europe took place.
    Told with cinematic depth and haunting intimacy, this story unravels the tale of Christian Shaw and the tragic events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Scottish history.

    🕯️ True crime meets folklore. History becomes voice. And the wind still whispers their names.


    🎙️ Written and narrated by Lucian Laura Ferrari

    🎼 Music by Kingsley Elliot Kaye, except for the opening and closing theme with bagpipes (from a royalty-free library)
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    12 min
  • The Lady in Black. The Ghost of Simplon Park

    The Lady in Black. The Ghost of Simplon Park
    Jul 14 2020
    Parco Sempione, known in English as Simplon Park, is one of Milan’s most iconic locations.But few know that, long before it became a public park, this place was a graveyard.
    For centuries, stories have emerged of a mysterious woman in black wandering the grounds at night. She is said to appear only to the chosen few—leading them to a secret place where passion and death are forever entangled.
    Is she a ghost, a legend, or something in between?
    In this episode, we explore the haunting tale of The Lady in Black and the spirits that may still roam in the very heart of Milan.

    🎙️ Voice and script by Lucia Laura Ferrari
    🎼 Original music by Kingsley Elliot Kaye
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    13 min
  • Solitude and Fantasy

    Solitude and Fantasy
    Apr 12 2020
    From our homes to yours, we wish you a Happy Easter. We chose two words to guide you in these weird festive days...
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    7 min
  • Ghost Number 0 – Athenodorus and the First Haunted House

    Ghost Number 0 – Athenodorus and the First Haunted House
    Apr 11 2020
    His name was Athenodorus. His profession: philosopher.And with reason and courage, he faced what most would have fled from.
    In this episode, we travel back to 1st century A.D., into a letter written by Pliny the Younger, where the story of the first haunted house in history was recorded.
    A chilling tale of a chained ghost, an abandoned villa in Athens, and a man who dared to seek the truth.
    This is not a legend. It’s one of the earliest written accounts of a haunting in Western literature.

    🎧 VIVI – Stories of Here and Beyond Where the past still whispers.
    🎙️ Voice and script by Lucia Laura Ferrari
    🎼 Original music by Kingsley Elliot Kaye
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    10 min
  • The first UFO

    The first UFO
    Mar 7 2020
    1933. An unidentified flying object crashes in the woods above a little village in the North of Italy. Aircraft they say. But maybe not from Earth. The event involved the fascist government that at the time ruled over Italy and the scientist and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi. A gloomy story that makes the little village the theater of unclear events and well-kept secrets and that can be considered the first UFO sighting in Europe.
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    11 min
  • Love and death on the lakeshore

    Love and death on the lakeshore
    Feb 13 2020
    A beautiful villa on the lake. Two lovers that still look for each other, after more than a century...even though death put them asunder. Condemned to never meet again. An intense and heartbreaking love story, with no happy ending.
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    14 min
  • The Witches of Venegono

    The Witches of Venegono
    Jan 21 2020
    It’s the beginning of 1500 when in Venegono Superiore, a small village in the North of Italy, seven women are accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death by burning: In the castle that still overlooks the town they were jailed, tortured and subjected to trial. The Holy Inquisition established by Pope Paul III to combat the Reformation didn’t exist yet, but in this part of Seprio, historical Region of Lombardy, witch hunt had already begun. A disturbing and sad story in which too often shadows take over lights
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    14 min
  • You are not alone

    You are not alone
    Dec 31 2019
    To you, who open the doors to the incoming year... You should know you're not alone. Mystery and the Invisible of a world that cannot be seen but exists, dance around you. A world with no established bounds. For 2020 we wish you to discover, with the force of your imagination, this magic universe that is suspended midway between earth and sky. We will join you, overcoming the linguistic border that separates us but unite us all at the same time. Let's enjoy a fantastic New Year.
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    6 min