The terrible and mysterious attracts and frightens us. We love watching horror movies and listening to ghost stories.
But this is only until the inexplicable touches us. Then life turns into a nightmare.
The heroes of these stories, probably, also loved fairy tales about ghosts and poltergeists. But only until the nightmare came into their lives in reality.
Ennilise Michael
This story took place in the late 1960s. Ennilise Michael, 17, developed seizures with seizures, hallucinations and voices in her ears. The girl herself called herself cursed and insisted that the symptoms intensify with prayer. At first, she was suspected of a mental illness, but the drugs prescribed by the doctors did not work on the girl. After several attempts to solve, they threw up their hands: the most modern drugs did not help. Then the girl's parents turned to the church, where the priests said that she was possessed by the devil. In 10 months, Annmarie underwent 67 exorcisms - but this did not help either. In the end, the girl died of exhaustion. What happened to her, doctors still do not know.
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Janet Hodgson
On August 30, 1977, a nightmare began in the Hodgson home. Objects, parts from a children's designer flew around the house, which then could not be picked up, since they were very hot. But 11-year-old Janet suffered most of all - a strange force constantly lifted her into the air and threw her around the house, and once the curtain wrapped itself around her neck, and she barely got out. As a result, the Hodgson family left this house and the nightmare ended. But, as far as they know, the next hosts were also pursued by a poltergeist.
Dave Murphy
Dave Murphy worked as a security guard at the Capitol Theater in Utah. For some time now, strange things began to happen in the theater. The doors opened and closed by themselves, and one day, sitting in the security room, Dave saw a woman in antique clothes walking past him. At the same time, it was night outside, and there was no one in the theater. After questioning the other guards, Dave found out that not only he had seen the mysterious ghost. The theater building soon took on the ill-fated notoriety of a haunted house.
Don Decker
One day Don Decker was washing himself in the shower, when suddenly some terrible force threw him to the floor. Lying on the floor, he saw an ominous figure of an old man in front of him. At the same moment, it started raining throughout the house. Water poured from the ceiling, although there were no pipes at the top. Seeing that Don was in a trance, one of the family members called the police. The policemen who arrived saw the rain pouring in the room with their own eyes - and part of the water soared upwards in fountains - but, of course, they could not do anything. Fortunately, the strange poltergeist soon fell behind the Don family.
James penniston
James Penniston served at the air base. One day they were alerted by an unusually bright light in a nearby forest. When the soldiers approached it carefully, they saw a strange triangular aircraft of an unusual shape, from which a yellow-blue glow emanated. According to James, it was not like any earthly flying machine. The soldiers were convinced that they saw an alien ship in front of them. However, while they went to report the find, the ship disappeared.
Zach Bagans
Zach Bagans is the host of a TV show about the paranormal and a brave man who was not afraid to voluntarily go to live in a house in the city of Gary, Indiana, which has long been called "a go to hell." The family who lived here experienced many fears, and Zak, settling next to them, personally witnessed a number of mysterious cases: levitation of people, ups and downs of objects … And he did it of his own free will, so he deserves respect for bravery.
Maurice Theriolt
Maurice Theriolt grew up with a cruel father. As a child, he asked various forces for help, and, as he himself stated, apparently accidentally called Satan for help. When he grew up, Satan came for his soul, - strange and cruel attacks began to seize him, most often during prayer, after which he did not remember anything. So, once an attempt to turn to the Mother of God with a prayer ended with the fact that Maurice almost strangled his wife. After that, Maurice underwent an exorcism session, and the evil spirits stopped bothering him.
Jennifer Grosbeck
On May 7, 2015, Jennifer Grosbeck had a terrible accident: her car lost control and fell off a bridge into the water. Her little daughter Lily was in the car with her. The arriving police officers, seeing the crushed car submerged in the water, were sure that no one had survived the accident, and they had nowhere to rush. However, then they heard a woman's voice from under the water is calling for help with all her might. The police rushed to get the victim, but when they nevertheless opened the car, they saw that the woman sitting in it had long been dead. Apparently, during the accident, Jennifer died instantly. But her daughter was alive and barely hurt. The story of a mother's spirit calling her child to help has become a legend in the local police.
Curse of the Ouija Board
The chilling incident happened a few years ago in Weslako, Texas. Two teenagers, 14 and 15 years old, found an old Ouija board and began to play with it. After one of the games, however, the older boy followed his friend, attacked him on the way in the forest and almost stabbed him to death. After the arrest, the boy was as if in a trance, explaining to the police that the Ouija board made him attack his friend. At first, the boy was checked by psychiatrists, but an examination showed that he was completely healthy. However, he had no reason to kill a friend with whom he had an excellent relationship. What prompted the guy to commit a crime is still not clear.
Arn Cheyenne Johnson
Arn Cheyenne Johnson was arrested for the murder of his landlord. During the trial, his lawyer resorted to strange tactics, claiming that his client was possessed by an evil spirit that made him commit a crime. The jury, however, did not believe it. And their position would seem quite reasonable, if not for several inconsistencies. So, Johnson and his landlord did not have serious conflicts and disagreements. And his acquaintances, relatives and friends unanimously declared that Johnson was the quietest and most polite person who would not offend a fly. Maybe it really was an evil spirit?..
David Berkovich
David Berkovich is another criminal, confident that the devilish forces pushed him to kill. Berkovich was a serial killer who killed six and injured seven more. While still at large, he wrote to one of the local newspapers, stating that an evil spirit makes him commit crimes, which first took possession of his neighbor's dog, and then decided to move into the body of Berkovich. When the criminal was caught, he, to everyone's amazement, turned out to be quite sane. Whether there was an evil spirit, or Berkovich invented it for the sake of a cruel joke, no one knows and will no longer know: David Berkovich was sentenced to life imprisonment without the right to pardon.
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor lived with his wife and children in the small town of Osset. But his happy life ended when he met a new neighbor, Mary Robertson. She was a Baptist, but she secretly practiced dark magic rituals. Taylor was carried away first by Mary herself, and then by her satanic services, in which he participated with the stubbornness of a neophyte. The matter ended tragically: after coming with one of the black masses with Mary, Taylor brutally killed his wife and watchdog. The examination found him insane and sent him to psychiatric treatment. A few years later, he left the clinic completely healthy, but until the end of his life he periodically fought in hysterics, shouting that demons were following him. Psychiatrists just shrugged their shoulders and advised to undergo an exorcism rite.
Anna Eklund
The story of Anna Eklund was disseminated by American newspapers in 1928. She was the first American woman officially recognized as possessed by demons. They say the obsession was the result of a curse imposed by the girl's aunt. According to eyewitnesses, Anna was like two drops of water similar to the heroine of the movie "The Exorcist". She regularly vomited with a strange and disgusting substance, she made faces and growled, her arms and legs swelled and shriveled again … What is most surprising of all, after one session of exorcism, everything passed, and then Anna led an ordinary, quite happy life without devilry.