Mariam Soulakiotis, or Mother Mariam as she called herself, was the abbess of a radical monastery headed by a disgraced monk named Matthew Karpathakis.
At first glance, the monastery looked quaint… it was positioned at the top of a hill, white with a dome-shaped roof and a picturesque backdrop of forests and rolling hills. But eventually, the villagers would report the sounds of screams and moans coming from inside the monastery.
And there were strange sightings of people in chains roaming around the courtyard. And then, people started going missing…and their trails would lead back to the monastery...
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