Diaries of Persephone
Crime • Myth • Shadow
Some stories don’t end. They just echo. Welcome to the Underworld.
It was a snowy and cold winter night of December 30th, 1931. I find myself following a shadowy figure sneaking behind a small villa, leaving footprints in the snow. I can barely hear their rushed breath and the creaky sound of snow under the person’s feet…
PersephoneThe Episodes
Each descent into the underworld reveals a story that history almost forgot.
Rita Gorgonowa: The Woman Poland Loved to Hate
A 1930s murder. A nation in hysteria. A verdict that still divides people more than 90 years later. Was Rita Gorgonowa truly guilty of murdering Elżbieta Zaremba, or was she simply the perfect suspect in a society already ready to condemn her?
Fairy Tale Episode 02The Little Mermaid As It Was Really Written
Not the Disney version. Hans Christian Andersen's original tale is darker, stranger, and far more honest about what it costs to become someone else. A mermaid who gives up her voice, her identity, and finally her life -- not for love alone, but for something harder to name. What does it mean to lose your voice in order to belong? And was she a monster who chose to be human, or a human who was always trapped in the wrong form?
True Crime Episode 03Another Descent
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The Underworld Contains
“She descends so you don’t have to. But you will anyway.”
About Persephone
Persephone lives where all stories eventually arrive. She has walked with killers and sat with victims, heard the condemned and the forgotten speak their truth. She keeps her diaries so that none of it disappears.
This channel is her archive, and mine. I’m Alicja, and I read from her diaries. True crime from the margins of history, fairy tales as they were actually written, and the darker corners of the human mind that most people prefer not to enter.
Most of these stories have never been told in English. That’s why Persephone keeps writing.
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