My
First Exorcism
Not
long after I finished my formal training as a 'platform medium', and
had taken my début service at a Spiritualist Church, I received a
phone call to perform an exorcism.
A
deeply distressed lady called me for help because of the late night
ghostly visitations she was being tormented by.
These
visitations took the form of loud bangs and knocks mainly on her
bedroom door and usually in the middle of the night. She was a widow
and had, unfortunately, been dabbling in the occult with a friend.
They had been trying to make contact with their dead husbands.
These
seances took place in the lady's house and had been successful in
attracting a noisy ghost, and a lot more than she'd bargained for.
Objects were being moved from where they had been placed, and several
instances of things flying off of shelves and lights being turned off
and on, were scaring the life out of the poor thing.
The
lady was so terrified by the loud nightly noises that she had vacated
her bedroom and was sleeping, or trying to, in her front-room.
As
most of the manifestations were happening at night, I went to the
house late one evening and as soon as I came into the house, I
realized that whatever it was she had attracted to her from the
spirit world, it had brought with it a deep emotional sadness and an
incredible loneliness that filled the whole place. And that it had no
intention of going away until it's presence had been acknowledged.
It
wasn't a big house. There were two bedrooms upstairs and a living
room and a large kitchen cum dining/living room downstairs.
Fortunately, although it was a terraced house, the neighbours were
unaware of what was going on beyond the separating walls, I didn't
need an audience, with what was my second début of the month.
Armed
with lots of theoretical knowledge and not much practical experience,
I decided the best thing to do first was to bless each room in turn.
I
started with the spare bedroom. I blessed it and said a prayer and as
I felt no energies in the room, I went into the master bedroom.
That's
when it hit me – full force.
The
room seemed to be enveloped by the same sensation of sad loneliness I
sensed on entering the house. I blessed the room, said my prayer and
felt the entity follow me downstairs.
Sticking
to my initial plan, I blessed the front-room, then I went to little
back room where the lady was. Although I hadn't closed the door
behind me, someone began rapping on the door, asking to come in.
Although,
I had not long finished my formal training as a medium, I had been
seeing spirit from a very early age.
(Please
see my past post – The Hanging Ghost.) And as a
medium, I'm not given to hysterics, but even I jumped at the loudness
of the knock.
The
sound thundered through the little house.
Shakily,
the lady explained to me exactly what she and her friend had been up
to, in trying to connect with her dead husband.
They
had been holding daily seances, and had been using a Ouija board.
(Again, please check out another post,
Danger Danger – Ouija Boards.)
Even
in the hands of a trained and very experienced medium, Ouija Boards
bring with them a very real and pressing danger. They are not to be
taken lightly, as this lady and her friend had been doing.
I
asked her for the Ouija board, which she gave me, and I, with her
permission threw it on the open fire burning in the room.
To
this day, what happened next, still fills me with a deep thrilling
wonder at what is often beyond our comprehension when it comes to the
spirit world.
I
heard a scream come from that Ouija board as it went up in flames, as
whatever it was that had come through the board, departed.
The
lady didn't hear the scream but with the Ouija board reduced to
ashes, she visibly calmed down.
The
demise of the Ouija board, did not however, stop the knocking. In
fact, the knocking suddenly took on an urgency as the raps not only
increased in noise level but became more rapid.
With
the Ouija board gone, it was easier for me to deal with the knocking
problem, as I had already identified who was making the noise.
The
spirit who was making himself known, was none other than her husband
answering her need to make contact with him. From here on, it was
plain sailing, I gave the lady, evidence of survival regarding her
dead husband.
He
was simply trying to let her know that he was all right and that she
should stop the seances and get on and enjoy her life until they were
reunited again.
Once
I had finished giving her clairvoyance, a wonderful feeling of peace
descended on the house. She was happy that her husband had made his
transition and had received a message from him.
She
stopped having seances in her house and went instead each week to her
local Spiritualist Church, were I don't doubt she received many more
message from her husband.
The
knocking, of course stopped, as it was her husband who was trying to
tell her he was there.
As
to the objects being moved and falling off shelves, that stopped too.
That part of the haunting had nothing to do with the lady's husband
but was, I believe, due to whatever she had encouraged, through the
miss-use of the Ouiya board into her home. Destroying the board had
worked in getting rid of what would probably developed into a
poltergeist problem.
Over
the years, I have done several exorcisms, but like most things that
happen, this first experience has stayed vividly in my memory.
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Seances aren't for entertainment and Ouija boards are not toys. I'm glad you've warned people to be careful before dabbling in the supernatural. That's wonderful that you were able to help those woman resolve their problem and find peace.
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