“Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.” a quote by Ed Warren. Ed Warren, a demonologist, along with his wife Lorraine Warren, a trance medium, are two of the most distinguished supernatural experts in the field. They have worked in over 4,000 cases including some of the most horrific cases recorded, such as the Amityville Horror, the Smurl Poltergiest, and the West Point Military Academy. Everyone starts from somewhere, and what got Ed interested in such a field as demonology is where he came from. From the age five to twelve he lived in a haunted house, if he was home by himself he would sit outside even if it was freezing. His father, being a cop, told him there was a rational explanation for all these disturbances, but could never think of any. Ed Warren himself described some of these events: …show more content…
I'd look into that closet and see darkness, then I'd start to see a light starting to form and it went into like a ball shape sort of like a basketball and then I'd see a face in that ball—they call that a ghost globule—I didn't know what it was then. It was the face of an old lady, and she was not looking pleasant—the ball came out into my bedroom and I could hear footsteps and heavy breathing, the room became icy cold, that's a psychic cold—and I'm saying to myself, “There's a logical reason for all of this,” but by that time I was out of the bed and right between my mother and father in their bed.”
El Con Society of the Paranormal (ESP) was founded by John K. Head, aka “Doc,” and Terri Rohde. Although they have led their team into a number of haunted locations across America, St. Albans provided so much evidential experiences that they found themselves visiting her dark halls over and over again.
Ed...well, he was born and raised in Plainfield. His daddy ran a farm just a few miles outside town. It wasn't long before his daddy up and died–left Ed and his brother alone with that crazy ass momma of their's. That woman was nuts. She went around tellin' them boys that all women was evil. She'd beat'em if they even thought ‘bout courting. When his momma died Ed was near on to thirty years old and still living in his momma's house. He finally took a liking to some gals in town. I guess it was finally safe to talk to ‘em.
The night was tempestuous and my emotions were subtle, like the flame upon a torch. They blew out at the same time that my sense of tranquility dispersed, as if the winds had simply come and gone. The shrill scream of a young girl ricocheted off the walls and for a few brief seconds, it was the only sound that I could hear. It was then that the waves of turmoil commenced to crash upon me. It seemed as though every last one of my senses were succumbed to disperse from my reach completely. As everything blurred, I could just barely make out the slam of a door from somewhere alongside me and soon, the only thing that was left in its place was an ominous silence.
Peck, Scott, M. "Healing Human Evil." Meeting the Shadow. Ed Connie Zwieg and Jeremiah Abrams. Los Angeles: Jeremy Teacher, Inc. 1991.
I woke up at John Morris’ house, on his coach. As I knocked a flyaway hair out of my face I noticed my face was wet, with tears, and then it all hit me at once that my Dad and Mrs. Borden were dead. Suddenly I couldn’t breathe. I heard John Morris ask if I was alright, but that seemed like a completely different world, I responded with a meek okay, so Mr. Morris wouldn’t see me like this. That didn’t work though, I saw his tall shadowy figure ducking under the door frame with tea. As Mr. Morris sat down and put the tea on the coffee table in front of us, I turned my head and quickly wiped the tears from my eyes in hopes he wouldn’t see.
...ng up the pebble road so they went outside to see who or what was coming to the plantation. When they went outside no one or thing was there one of the office workers there at the plantation said that they heard something so they went to see what it was and they saw a group of rocking chairs rocking all at the same time. Another one of the workers there said that she saw multiple things move across the desk tops. One of the couple tour guides there was giving a tour when suddenly a candle stick flew across the room. Another one of the staff workers there reported hearing someone crying inside of the mansion. A staff worker Mitchell borne was working alone one night inside of the mansion when he felt someone touching his arm. One of the tour guides was walking around when they did not have a tour and saw a figure sitting upright in one of the beds. ("Ghosts tales”).
...ence, taking a closer look what why these things could happen, and underingstanding why they happen in our brain. Although it would be a fun idea to think the undead walk among us, it is simply a silly fantasy. But who is to say the spooky tales that generation after generation of people have enjoyed have to stop just because they are untrue? Let there be ghost stories! Even if that is all they are, stories.
The Wickedest Man on Earth, or as addressed to by his own mother, the Great Beast, is known for many things. He was a controversial author and a founder of mystic and magic occult philosophies, as well as his pleasure-seeking and sexual adventurism (Champion). Alister Crowley created quite a following upon the birth of his beliefs and philosophies included in “The Book of the Law”, which was his cult’s, the Thelema, own ‘bible’.
In the chapter titled The Demon-Haunted World, Sagan explores this belief that has been around for thousands of years. The belief in demons was very widespread in the ancient world and were usually thought of as natural beings rather than supernatural beings. Plato’s Symposium states “everything demonic is intermediate between God and mortal, that God has no contact with man” (Sagan, p. 115). “Only through the demonic is there intercourse and conversation between man and gods, whether in the waking state or during sleep” (Sagan, p. 115). Platonists and Neoplatonists grasped this and used it to powerfully influence Christian philosophy that held the belief that some demons were good while others were evil. Later on Aristotle considered the contention that dreams were scripted by demons and Plutarch and Porphyry proposed that demons who filled the upper air came from the moon. As time passed, early Church Fathers were anxious to separate themselves from the pagan belief system and taught that the pagan religion consisted of worshipping demons and men resulting in a misconstruction of gods. Other supernatural beings such as witches, fairies, devils and ghosts materialized from these past beliefs. There are accounts in which people discuss their experiences with supernatural beings within their own home. Many people claim to being tormented and terrified by these supernatural beings. These
A person’s demon could be their fear of the dark, or their constant dislike of even the idea of a tall place. For others, it could be their inability to function in large crowds or the chest tightening anxiety they get when meeting new people, or having to go to an important event. It could be the depression they were told they had after an unexpected death in the family which happened when they were only four years old.
Some people tell the truth and some people show the truth. Elizabeth Bowen shows the truth in her story, “The Demon Lover”. Her story is about a forty four year old woman who revisits her childhood home to collect some possessions for her family. However, the woman finds a letter from an unknown source that she believes is from her dead fiancé. Many readers believe this piece of fiction to be a ghost story, but it is one that is about a woman with acute psychological delusion portrayed through the use of characterization and occasion.
The child’s game had ended. After I nearly ran Kurtz over, we stood facing each other. He was unsteady on his feet, swaying like the trees that surrounded us. What stood before me was a ghost. Each layer of him had been carved away by the jungle, until nothing remained. Despite this, his strength still exceeded that of my own. With the tribal fires burning so close, one shout from him would unleash his natives on me. But in that same realization, I felt my own strength kindle inside me. I could just as easily muffle his command and overtake him. The scene flashed past my eyes as though I was remembering not imagining. The stick that lay two feet from me was beating down on the ghost, as my bloodied hand strangled his cries. My mind abruptly reeled backwards as I realized what unspeakable dark thoughts I had let in. Kurtz seemed to understand where my mind had wandered; it was as though the jungle’s wind has whispered my internal struggles to him. His face twisted into a smile. He seemed to gloat and enjoy standing by to watch my soul begin to destroy itself.
...e victims' connection with the devil. I plead with you to band together and stop this injustice!
It was dark that night, I was nervous that this dreadful day was going to get worse. Sunday, October 23, 1998 I wanted to start writing this to tell about the weird things i’m starting to see in this new neighborhood. Gradually I keep seeing pots and pans on the sink suddenly move to the floor. I would ask my sister but she is out with my mom and dad getting the Halloween costumes. When they got home I didn’t tell them what I saw because i've seen Halloween movies and I have to have dissimulation otherwise the ghost will come out and get me first. October 24, 1998 I think I got a little nervous yesterday with the whole ghost thing. 12:32pm, Went to eat lunch with the family today and I go to get my coat. I heard the words furious and madness,
Demonological or also known as spiritual explanations of a crime use other worldly powers, religious beliefs, and supernatural powers to explain why someone committed a crime. Such explanations can be used to explain the behavior of Tiequon Cox who with his gang members murdered four people in the morning on a Friday August 31, 1984. Cox is described very often as an evil, and a monster at the same time. His behavior to innocent people seems like something that a person from hell would only commit. They have to ask a question “How would someone commit such a violent crime?”. People who can not find a normal, psychological explanation for a crime, tend to use demonological explanation to give them the feeling of understanding or even a closure.