Amanda Wixon's House of Horrors
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In March 2021, Gloucestershire Police received a strange phone call - the person on the line was calling to get help for a woman who was being kept against her will.
When the police arrived, they discovered Amanda Wixon, a mother of ten, had been keeping a woman as a slave.... for 25 years.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Naomi Channel and this is a trailer for my new podcast, Real Lives. I've spent years |
| 0:09.5 | investigating the darkest corners of true crime with my podcast Real. But the most extraordinary |
| 0:16.1 | stories aren't always crimes, their lives. There was holes appearing in the glass. |
| 0:22.5 | We were told to get down on our hands and knees. |
| 0:24.6 | We went back to a classroom and hid behind a desk. |
| 0:27.7 | I was interrogated by social services whilst in labour and they said, |
| 0:33.7 | what is happening to the baby? |
| 0:36.9 | Where is she going? I couldn't answer that question. |
| 0:40.4 | I said, well, I'm not his sister. You said he was married to your sister. She said, who are you? |
| 0:47.3 | And I said, I'm his wife. These are not just stories. These are real lives. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you |
| 0:58.6 | get your podcasts. Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 1:05.7 | Please use discretion. Between April 2016 and March 2021, England and Wales saw 1,6007 prosecutions for modern slavery and trafficking, yet only 367 resulted in convictions. |
| 1:26.3 | Modern slavery doesn't always involve organised gangs or obvious exploitation. |
| 1:33.0 | In many cases, the victims are people we pass every day. Our neighbours, the person ahead of us in the |
| 1:40.4 | supermarket queue, a mum waiting at the school gates. |
| 1:45.8 | Today's case is a chilling example of how modern-day slavery can go unnoticed and unchallenged |
| 1:53.6 | for many years. I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. |
| 2:45.1 | Music me channel and this is real. Today's case us to to Tuchesbury in the south-west of England. It's a small market town with a population of just over 20,000 people. |
| 2:51.6 | The type of community where people know each other and where secrets can be hard to keep. |
| 2:59.6 | But one woman was keeping a secret, one that she hid for over 25 years. |
| 3:09.6 | In 2021, the police received a strange phone call. Someone was reporting that a woman was being kept against her will in a house in Chukesbury and that this woman was feeling seriously unwell and needed help. |
| 3:18.1 | She had texted her friend saying, quote, I'm scared I'll get beat up and I don't want that. This woman had managed to get |
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