Ikota: The Ural Spirit that Possesses the Living | Dark Roots 022
Demonic possession stories tend to follow a familiar pattern -- the demon, after a period of increasingly scary disturbances, invades an individual and changes nearly everything about them. But in the Ural Mountains, there is a belief in something far stranger and scarier -- an entity that can enter a person unseen, unannounced, and unexpectedly. And once it's inside, it grows -- interfering with daily life until it eventually speaks... Ikota: The Ural Spirit that Possesses the Living | Dark Roots 022 Real Horror. True Stories. Under 10 minutes. Dark Roots is a Red Treehouse mini-series featuring real horror, paranormal encounters, unexplained mysteries, disappearances, true crime, urban legends, and disturbing cases from around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices