Is there a demon behind the sofa ?

Real-life possession documented

An american woman who levitated, demonstrated paranormal psychic powers and spoke foreign languages unknown to her was clearly demon possessed, according to a board-certified psychiatrist and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College. The unnamed woman, with a long history of involvement with Satanic groups, was observed by a team of priests, deacons, several lay assistants, psychiatrists, nuns, some of whom also had medical and psychiatrictraining, levitating six in...

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Spirit Walk-ins

To understand what a "walk-in" is one first needs to understand that our physical body is not *us*. It is the container for *us*. Similar to someone driving a car. When we see the driver we understand that they exist irrespective of whether they have a car, or not. So too with our bodies. We exist irrespective of whether we have a physical body or not. In other words we existed as a spirit (soul) before the body we now occupy was born. When our physical body dies we will continue t...

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Woman claims demon drove her from home

A woman in Texas was driven to leave the home she was renting due to a series of paranormal sightings of a little girl that in one session with a local investigator was claimed to be demonic in nature. "One woman says her familylived in fear. She claims they heard voices and saw shadows intheir home. . The family was so scared they called a ghost hunter to find out what was going on. "My little girl would see a little girl wi...

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Ancient mystery returns as 'Satan's hoofprints' are spotted

A 150-year-old mystery has reared its head after a woman woke to find 'Satan's hoofprints' dotted across freshly fallen snow in her back garden. The single track of cloven-like prints - which appear to have been made by a two-legged creature - precisely resemble footprints recorded in the area in 1855.The phenomenon, which has never been explained, became known as the 'Devil's foot prints' in a local legend. Grandmother Jill, 76, of Woolsery, Devon, said: 'I...

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A demon calls

Anthony North: Occasionally, paranormal literature throws up a case so incredible that we either dismiss it as fantasy, or edge towards the idea that demons and possessions are a reality. The facts are just so fantastic, rational inquiry is often forgotten.But are we right to either dismiss or accept? Or is it possible that rational explanations can be placed upon the subject within an overall cultural explanation of phenomena? I opt for this middle ground. Anna Ecklund: Consider the case of Ann...

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Witch doctors called in to school haunt

A school in Madhya Pradesh has called witch doctors to overcome ghosts that allegedly haunt girl students but mysteriously spare the boys. Officials at the Government Higher Secondary School in Duma village in Seoni district are also performing weird rituals throughout the day in a desperate bid to restore sanity.Naturally, studies have taken a backseat at the school.Villagers believe ghosts come to possess the girls once they reach the school, which has been built on an old cremation ground.Sur...

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What is a pact with the Devil ?

Anthony North: We are all aware of the term, "pact with the Devil". It means selling your soul to the Devil for favour, but it always requires something in return, resulting in you being lost to good, and coming under the influence of evil. During the Witchhunts, witches were thought to have come under the Devil"s influence. This is usually rejected nowadays -the Devil is a product of monotheism, whereas witches come under the pagan -a totally different spiritual system. Yet philosophically it i...

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Who the Devil ?

Anthony North: The Devil may seem an archaic symbol of evil, but he is supposed to be alive in the world to this day with his Satanic conspiracies. From the 1960s onwards, one expression of him was the Church of Satan, set up in San Francisco by occultist, Anton La Vey.Said to have perverted many a star, his ceremonies involved a naked woman as an altar and his philosophy was based on unbridled hedonism. The death of Jane Mansfield was even put down, by some, to their rituals. Who is he ? The na...

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Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican

The Vatican"s chief exorcist has given the recent attack on the Pope as evidence that the Devil is in the Vatican.He stated that anyone possessed by Satan will vomit shards of glass, that the Anti-Christ was waging war against them and that some of the Vatican"s heirarchy either didn"t believe in God or were linked to demons. He addedthat the assault on Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Eve by a mentally unstable woman and the sex abuse scandalswhich have engulfed the Church in the US, Ir...

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The Salem Witch Trials, 1692

© EyeWitness to History The seeds of the hysteria that afflicted Salem Village, Massachusetts were sown in January 1692 when a group of young girls began to display bizarre behavior. The tight-knit community was at a loss to explain the convulsive seizures, blasphemous screaming, and trance-like states that afflicted the youngsters. The physicians called in to examine the girls could find no natural cause of the disturbing behavior. If the source of the affliction was not att...

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