To access this episode early and ad-free, subscribe to BBC Podcast Premium on Apple Podcasts. The episode will be available for free with adverts on 16th December. Miranda joins thousands of the guru Gregorian Bivolaru’s followers from around the world at a yoga festival in a Romanian seaside resort. It’s a two weeklong holiday and her food and accommodation is free. But is she being drawn into something darker? This episode contains explicit sexual content. Host: Cat McShane Producers: Emma Weatherill and Cat McShane Sound design: Melvin Rickarby Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
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They said, you know we're going to keep everyone's passport and when you leave you get it back.
Miranda's an English teacher from Oxfordshire.
She's standing at a reception desk at a holiday complex in a Romanian seaside town.
She hands her passport over and then the receptionist tells her, you're also not.
Allowed to use your phone inside.
You could only take your phone when.
You left, miranda says.
The woman behind the reception desk pulls out a Bible and it's as if they're in a courtroom rather than a holiday resort.
Placing my hand on the Bible and reading out the words that were given to me on a piece of paper at the time, vowing that I wouldn't tell anyone about what happened inside this villa and that if I did, then I would face the spiritual and health consequences of my demonic action.
What is going to happen at this villa to warrant such a vow?
This is World of Secrets the bad guru season six a BBC Radio 4 investigation I'm Kat McShane.
Episode two the technique it's summer 2018 when Miranda arrives at the Black Sea holiday Resort of Koz Dinesh in southeast Romania.