Magda and her husband, Sandor Rakosi lived at the Old House by special permission of Edith Collins (701). Magda was obsessed with finding the Collins family jewels and one night, while reading in her crystal ball, she discovered there was a hidden room inside the old Collins Mausoleum. What she did not know was that this vision was sent to her by Barnabas Collins, who - seeking to learn the cause and find a solution to the werewolf curse on his friend Chris Jennings - had just used the power of the I Ching wands to travel back in time to 1897 and needed to be freed from his coffin.