Shadow work is a powerful tool for witchcraft that involves incorporating elements of inner work into spells and using symbolism, emotions, and personal experiences to fuel magical intentions. This form of ancient magic allows individuals to change themselves on a deep level, gaining access to their full potential. Three ways to begin using shadow work in your craft include making room for unpleasant emotions, using chants, spells, and intentionally invoking darker deities like Hecate, and protecting yourself with incantations designed for protection.
One way to initiate shadow work is by making room for unpleasant emotions through a relatively easy spell used by shadow witches. The ritual requires an empty room, crystals, and black candles. Chants, spells, and invoking darker deities like Hecate provide cathartic release, aiming to unveil, express, embrace, and alchemize stagnant or distorted energies locked in the shadow realms. By learning how to navigate one’s own darkness, honing in on its energetic patterns, and understanding its relationship with personal transformation, this form of ancient magic can become an invaluable tool for any witch.
Another way to summon shadow people is through the use of a Night Stone, which can be removed from its leather pouch, sending hateful darkness to torment foes or those who otherwise offend against them. At 20th level, when a pact wizard invokes their patron’s power to roll twice on a check, they automatically roll a natural 20, resulting in a natural 20.
To balance chakra energy, focus on balancing your chakra energy and use the spell Summon Woodland beings to summon a Detached Shadow, which is the same monster but fey rather than undead. Place the black candle in the center of your space, draw a circle of salt around the candle, and place quartz crystals around it.
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This is why I always carry a flashbang and a banana with me. She says “I’m actually a witch” I respond with “oh yeah well I’m actually a banana” close my eyes and drop the flashbang then before her sight comes back I put the banana where I was standing and run away. The moral of the story is witches can’t beat potassium.
I have an uncle who’s ex wife did some stuff to him after they separated. Specifically her sitting on his chest while dressed all raggedy choking him. One time my grandma was visiting & slept on the room he would typically sleep in & she definitely had almost the same experience except my grandma, old school catholic, cast her away with the power of prayer so that woman scurried out the window as she looked back at my grandma, who saw her face, totally distorted but she knew it was her. I’m not sure if my grandma was fully awake or was also experiencing sleep paralysis but the fact that they both described her the same way… totally weird. I never liked that lady. In Mexico people truly believe in witch craft & witches. I grew up on stories about them. Especially in those little pueblos. Creepy stuff!!
The worst part about all of this is that after Chris tells all his friends about what was happening to him they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Like he calls them, tells them whats going on and they .. go to bed to check on him tomorrow. If a friend of mine says that he or she was attacked in his or her bed at night by a shadow figure Im going over their house to camp in their bedroom and make sure they are ok. Also this supposed witch was a friend of a friend so why did neither Chris or anybody else try to contact this woman after the stuff started happening to Chris? I feel sorry for him. Not one single friend or family did anything to help him.
I would like to say, I absolutely love this man! His story telling, no matter what subject, is amazing, I am deaf and most of the stories have subtitles but the ones that don’t are not really a problem as Mr Ballen is easy to lip read. I watch a few articles every night and have never come across one I have not enjoyed, they can be scary, jaw dropping but ultimately, bloody brilliant! Found Mr Ballen by accident, best accident ever! Thank you so much!!
I would look into the person who brought the witch to dinner that night. Is that person now in Chris’s old job? Did that person have an axe to grind and had the witch come to dinner armed with all the info about Chris? The demon that was attacking Chris caused him to have a heart attack out of sheer fear and exhaustion.
That audio bit of the witch made me almost drop a log in my pants. I work outside in a smaller town gas station and it’s pitch black out so not expecting that to blast out of my headphones scared the hell out of me haha. Doesn’t help that I just drank coffee so that first part could have become very real XD
As a child I had terrifying traumatic night terrors and episodes of sleep paralysis from the ages 6-11. To the point I had to see a child psychologist and regularly talked about it with our pastor. The heavy intense fear that would come over my entire body when an episode would happen is indescribable. It is definitely not a normal fear, my heart breaks for Chris and to think of how he must of felt or what he was seeing during those last moments before he died.
I FULLY 100% believe in curses. My step-grandma was a Voodoo witch. My step-dad wasn’t supposed to drink but everytime he left for the liquor store she would call IMMEDIATELY after he left and say she sees him going to the liquor (she didn’t live in same town as us and this was in the 80’s so only landlines) she would tell my mom she sees him walking in the store to buy rum and she would tell my mom exactly what he was wearing. She did and said so many things growing up that I am a FIRM believer in all that shit!
I’m a total skeptic but during one extremely stressful week I happened to meet an extremely sketchy character and I, the no BS unemotional skeptic, was calling my best friend because I was scared of that person in the dark of night, alone in my hotel room. I’m so glad I snapped out of it. Your heart can give up in intense shock of fear. Even if it’s for an imagined threat.
During my Psych program at Uni they would teach us about events like this and how a person can essentially “predict” their death by believing they will die on a certain day and then panicking themselves to death on that day. -super simplified explanation but it has a lot more involving the sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous systems.
I had close to the same experience. I lived by myself in my apartment and for 1 month straight every night I go to sleep I would wake up between 2-3 o’clock in the morning. By body is paralyzed and I’ll start feeling a vibration on my side and once that happens a decaying body would appear and grab me tight and get it’s face so close to mine and laugh. One time I woke up cause I felt a rip on my upper left back it was so painful that I went to the hospital and my back muscle was torn. I’ve told my coworkers about what’s been happening to me and I got a roommate. And every stopped once someone else was sleeping in my apartment.
I’ve been in the paranormal field for over 50 years. Shadow beings are definitely capable of harming the living. It was many years until I believed in curses, but these are real as well. There are protections, and cures for curses. This woman putting a curse upon him for such a frivolous reason is bewildering. I can’t help but speculate as to how many others have been harmed by her actions.
I wrote a paper on Schizophrenia in college and its is an incredibly common mental disorder and many people go deep into adulthood (although symptoms most commonly appear late teens and early twenties) without any of the “typical” symptoms until….a trigger. Often excessive paranoia of some kind, stress, or even head trauma, tumor, etc. It kind of like how someone who gets PTSD from a traumatic event, that trigger causes a hyper activation of the amygdala and a shrinkage of the hippocampus. Too be clear, an individual can have this disorder without knowing it after the time frame that symptoms typically appear, however it should be stated if someone doesnt see symptoms in that time frame its exceedingly rare like 2% chance of them showing up later. It can happen, and also the person may not know they have experienced symptoms earlier. Later some kind of trigger can cause them to spiral into a state of psychosis which to them feels just like if there was a real danger or threat, THERE the problem lies; they cant for whatever reason, in their state of psychotic state make the distinction between their personal experience and what is real, to them its real, but its not. That is why nothing has ever been recorded of “shadowy figure” attacking someone and has been verified as a real article by experts…ever. It seems they cant step back and see it for what it is, like a normal person who over-reacts to the threat of something, which is in a way unwarranted paranoia which is a form of delusion.
I’ve been thru something extremely similar to this story. It’s way too easy to just dismiss someone as “crazy” or “paranoid.” & I sincerely would never wish this on anyone. However, if something like this has never happened to you, then count your blessings. Bc it really is a horrible thing to go thru. And nobody ever asks for it
My advice to him would’ve been something like “tell the shadows you see that you love them as often as possible and try your best not to fear because that gives them an “in” to do what they will.” My ex claims to be a witch from Scotland in one of her “personas” or what have you and indeed told me she hexed me. So out of curiosity I was feeling a presence one night and I started recording and sure enough there was a voice of some sorta demon in the recording after I asked “who are you, what do you want?” So in the same recording I told it that I “loved it” then continued to say these things to it for a week. Now it feels like my house is free of repressive dark energy or in other words I’m able to feel joy and comfort at home. I like to believe it’s gone because I genuinely showed it love and didn’t fear so much, so it decided to leave. Nice story @mr.Ballen, great job as always!
Man I’m pretty sure we’ve been blessed with a new story every day this week so far !! I’m not sure what it Is because Ive actually heard a few of these stories before/elsewhere but I’ve never been quite as interested in them as when told by Mr. B! Absolutely amazing story teller thank you for sharing!!
Even before the haunted stuff started, I immediately got suspicious of the fact that that lady coincidentally liked the pinpoint exact type of music and exact stuff he did so perfectly. My guess is she didn’t like any of that stuff at all, but was just trying to lure him in. And her mentioning how she liked that stuff even before he told her about it? She probably used a demon to stalk him and learn about him beforehand. Gosh thats so creepy 😣
I remember this case (no pun intended) in the early 1990’s. Christopher was a valued member of the staff of the programming department at Muzak (the elevator music folks), which was headquartered in Seattle. His death was quite unexpected and mysterious, and at that time folks were conluding Christopher in essence died of fright, which is quite understandable considering the events you described. Your description follows closely what I remember concerning Christopher’s situation and death. At that time a lot of the emphasis was on the massive amounts of salt found in his residence, which was attributed to Christopher’s efforts to protect himself and ward off evil. I do not recall anyone dismissing this situation as not being as you described, and there was no other narrative concerning his death of which I was aware. I was a senior manager with Muzak and later an owner through a limited partnership so I was very much aware of Christopher’s situation.
we used to have shadow people and some whispers back in our old apartment where i lived with my parents, when they got really cocky and started jumpscaring me around corners at night and actually whispering my name i told one to stop doing that and go away and they bloody went, can’t believe i put up with that shit for years when it was that easy
I wanted to Thank You again for posting this article. I believe I left a comment before but came back to find this as I wanted to share with my daughter & her guy. So, It was somewhere around 1990 & 1991. Chris worked at Muzak in Seattle (in the Freemont area). I worked at Corporate Travel Services the travel agency where Muzak purchased their travel packages for corporate meetings & (come to think of it) I probably dropped off his airline ticket for this function. Anyway, they had another out of town meeting where I brought Chris & other employees their plane tickets & was told of Chris passing in a “mysterious way”. At that point they didn’t know much & we’re still digesting the news of his death. This was before my daughter was born in 1992 (at that point I was a stay at home mom). Anyway! Great job covering this story. Yes, we did in fact have cell phones but they were “BRICKS”! CHEERS & Thanks again!
Something happened to me in 2011. My 15-year-old daughter and I were alone in my house. Then all hell broke loose. Kitchen cabinets doors started opening and slamming shut and dishes started flying out, onto the floor. We heard what sounded like a 400 pound being running up our stairs, then the upstairs bathroom door slamming fully open, and crashes and loud bangs upstairs, I went upstairs and looked into the bathroom, and stuff was everywhere, all over the floor, shampoo bottles emptied, shower curtain ripped. I immediately ran downstairs, and grabbed my daughter’s hand, and said “we have to get out of here!” and we fled the house. Before that, I didn’t believe in haunted houses or the supernatural, but I do now. Soon after that, we moved. People who know, know. My daughter and I were scared beyond belief. So yes I believe in the paranormal. Thank you for sharing these paranormal stories, they make me feel grateful, that it didn’t turn out worse. May that man RIP.
I believe the story. I have also had some parts of it happen to me. I even used salt in the same way. But…….. why on Earth did none of his friends or family offer to stay with him or to put him up? And did anyone ever track down the woman to maybe get further information? It is all very sad and the poor man must have been terrified. It is horrible.
I knew he was gonna say he died of a heart attack. People can actually be scared to death. I’M sure all of this happened to him and that final night he’d become so sacred that he actually had a heart attack and died. Tbh I think it’s both. Like yes he died by natural causes but it was brought of by this…haunting?
First, I love your story telling!!! I grew up listening to radio stories in my country and missed them so bad. Also, my Dad was a great story teller, a lot like you if I may say so. The following is what I have learned thru years of pain and hurt. I am not here to change nobodies mind nor to convince anyone. This is what I believe. All those crucifixes he bought to protect himself and hung up on the walls if they were not blessed they would do MORE HARM than good to him. All sacramentelles have to be blessed to signify what they are (examples: blessed water, rosaries, crucifix, religious stamps, candles to pray) and “protect” us if you will (I am a firm believer, life made sure to teach me). If they had not been blessed then they attract demons who will hide in them to confuse us and hurt us. And, if they were plain crosses with no Christ figure on them, then they meant nothing. They were only decor. The absence of Christ on the cross is like negating that he became man and sacrificed himself for us to be saved. I truly feel very sorry for what he had to endure.
Several years ago I conducted background investigations for government applicants who needed security clearances. I conducted various interviews in support of the investigations. One such interview occurred in west Toledo, OH, known as the “Old West End” which is an area consisting of Victorian style houses. I went to one such house, rang the Gothic doorbell, and an older woman, who looked like Nora Desmond, answered the door. During her interview, she admitted being a witch and during her younger years she was a consultant of the occult to various Hollywood actors. In her drawing room, she had framed autographed photos of actors from the 1920s and 1930s on the walls. Before I left, Nora took me to her backyard where she had an occult altar and totem. In my career as a LEO, I investigated a lot of weird crimes, saw a lot of weird things, and was involved in a lot of tricky spots as a UC but I was never as unnerved as I was when I walked into that backyard. 😯🤨😐
I had sleep paralysis twice in one week a few years ago. The first time was terrifying, but I didn’t see anything. The next night it happened again, and I saw the shadow figure standing next to me. I closed my eyes and called out to Jesus with my consciousness and I fully woke up and it was gone. This is 100% a real phenomenon
When I’m exhausted then I sometimes have similar experiences to Christopher’s during first nights, i.e. seeing weird figures or hearing sounds (e.g. once I couldn’t fall asleep bc of a loud party at the neighbor’s place only to find out that all of this party music was in my head). I was freaked out when it happened for the first time and I’m not saying that it was the same in Christopher’s case, but maybe he was exhausted or in a weird state as well without even realizing it, and then it just spiraled even more bc of his fear.
Oh, no….I was so worried when he said, “He pours salt all around the baseboards of the entire apartment….” Yes, when done correctly this can keep certain bad or evil entities out, but you must clear them out FIRST. If you just start salting the place without cleansing it properly you’ve now trapped it inside WITH you. It does depend on “what” it is, as some can leave anyway. This is why I worry about all of these ghost hunters on television. People start doing what they see without really knowing how or why they are doing it, often with catastrophic consequences. Edit: Yes @LurkingX One must open a window, sometimes ALL of the windows and doors to give the earthbound spirits And some other entities who wish to leave an exit.
I definitely believe in things like this! I believe he did have a heart attack from the beings. He was probably so terrified about what was going on he tried getting in his knees and praying to God and then it took him out. So sad and SCARY! I use to love paranormal movies but now that I’m older and I know that stuff can actually happen I can’t and refuse to watch them.
“Music executive” never thinks to try record the voices? Never thinks to look for planted audio speakers in the vents… or go to the hospital to get checked for drugs or fumes in his blood. Reminds me a bit of the Psych episode “Heeeeere’s Lassie” from 2012 (spoof of a bunch of horror movies) … check it out.
If I was Chris, I would IMMEDIATELY call Sammie and ask for that witch lady’s number. Tell her you’ve had a change of heart and ask her out to dinner. I’m confident she’d remove the “curse” after some charming or have some useful witch advice. At the very LEAST its a kind lady to keep you semi-grounded while you deal with your apparent mental break
I know this, because I’ve been through this. Never give in to fear. I was told to read Psalm 91 and 40. Never sleep on your back when you feel a presence lurking. Sleep sideways or leave immediately and go where there’s a lot people. Never give in to fear and they will eventually leave you alone. I’ve been seeing spirits, shadowy figures, since I was 7. There’s good and bad ones. Never mock them.
I’ve heard of stuff like that happening before. I’m a pagan witch and several people in my family have heard of more violent and easily jealous witches using their knowledge to set out harm. If they’re connected to shadow, demon or some other sort of work, it’s really easy. I don’t think the guy could do much. I hope he’s resting well, wherever he is.
Hi Mr Ballen, just want to let you know that I had my first mobile phone in 1996, it was a “Motorola” made, you could only make calls and maybe text messaging, but nobody was texting those days, it was the very beginning of mobile phones. Thank you so much for your great articles, you are the best storyteller that I know of. Much love, light and joy ❤☀️💙☺️🤍🌈👽🤍🌈👽🤍🌈👽🤍🌈👽🤍🌈👽🤍🌈👽
I had a similar thing happen in 2015.. i was having a hard time.. the girl i was in love with broke up with me.. and i can’t blame her.. i was not ready to get married and grow up. I wanted to drink and party with friends and that is how we met.. through mutual friends.. but after a couple years she had been ready for me to finally get the message and do something with my life and by the time i DID commit .. she had already moved on and was ready to be done with me.. this left me heartbroken and i had a couple friends stay with me because i just couldn’t be alone at that apartment anymore. I did start to get over her but the drinking and stuff got even worse and my best friend had a “baby. mama” who he kind of hated but she was pregnant and she helped him financially and so he kept her around.. and she had nowhere to go so i let her stay with me too. Eventually i got tired of her not helping with rent like she promised and we kind of got into it.. which my friend didn’t care he hated her anyway and they were constantly into it but she was like obcessed with him because he was a very talented singer and if he had gotten it together he probably could have gotten a record deal. But he was just like me at the time.. we were basically the exact same person and we would drink and get in trouble and also have fun too but it was chaotic. Even though i moved cities in 2017, not by choice, he is still my best friend and it sucks cause people in this city for whatever reason i just don’t really get along with.
The edited witch voice reminded me of an old Mexican radio show called La Mano Peluda (The Hairy Hand) where callers would call to share their scary stories and once in awhile you would hear people possessed in a similar tone of voice so my heart skipped a beat 😅 having me turn around quickly to locate the source
First time listener here: I just so happened to be driving while listening to this and when the witch voice came on it was so loud and deep in my cars speakers that I’m surprised I didn’t swerve everywhere when I jumped. 🤦🏼♀️😰 You got a subscriber out of me, but I’ll now know you also have “jump scares” also. 😉
The ‘witch’ was one of Chris’ friends, friend… I hope she was questioned by Chris’ peers! If some lady put a curse on me and I was sat in my apartment not even thinking about spiritual/supernatural things and you start hearing disembodied whispering and can’t pinpoint where it’s coming from, then all that freaky, weird stuff starts happening.. It’d be hella scary, but I’d go right back to the source – the witch. Putting a curse on a person just because they didn’t want to go home with you knocks me sick and makes me wonder.. what if he did go with you? Would he have been used as a sacrifice in some sort of messed up ritual? She wanted him dead either way and that’s sickening. I know the placebo effect can cause hallucinations etc but he wasn’t even thinking anything of it.. until the whispering, so to me, the placebo effect doesn’t quite fit.
True story. I had a re occurring nightmare as a child for about 7 months when I was in kindergarten. The place, circumstances and situations in my dreams were always different, but one thing stayed the same that would let me know I was in this particular nightmare. I would always be alone, and out of nowhere I would get a heightened sense of doom. This thing that looked eerily similar to the crypt keeper from tales from the crypt, would start chasing me! And every single time In my dream I would either fall, or hide somewhere coveeed or closed, and my dream would always end with this figure peaking over me with a look like “I’ve found you 😠” and I would wake up. Eventually Id train myself to know I was dreaming when this dream would take place, I would just close my eyes really hard in my dream, and when I open them I’d open my eyes in real life and wake up. Soon after my dreams went away and I forgot about it…… that until I seen I top ten article on the chillz website and the number one scary picture had THE EXACT SAME ENTITY in a picture next to little boy that was similar to my age when I was dreaming! My guess is that it’s a real entity that feeds on kids or fear or both
i used to be a builder in the domestic market. once in london i was installing a lintel on a refurb, i had to take a little of the ceiling away as i did two pieces of timber one shorter fell to the floor but stopped short suspended by elecrtric cable and opened out as an inverted cross. i replaced them in the ceiling and twice more the same thing happened. at the top floor of the building we found a temple of sorts painted black with strange markings and paintings and books on occult matters i told my work mate not to touch anything i didnt,he did. dont know if any ill fortune visited him. another time i went to a private house to do a small job a lady answered the door, her eyes appeared to be the wrong way up or upside down she led me to an area where she said was damp and asked what could be done. the house felt like it was electrically charged and i wouldnt meet the strange womans gaze again. i made my excuses and left quite sharpish. there is strangeness in this world for sure.
I’ve been dealing with sleep paralysis since I was a child. I’m at the point now where I know exactly why I get it, when it’s about to happen, how to escape it, and how to control my emotions so that I don’t panic and cause it to happen again.. It happens when I’m stressed, anxious, sleep deprived, or if I sleep in too long. It’s especially common when I have deadlines in life. College was a literal nightmare for me. It happens when I’m falling into or emerging from deep sleep. The room slowly starts to buzz with energy that builds intensity, like the world around me is a static TV. This is when I know it’s going down, but I can’t stop it. The moment I “fall” into paralysis is literally like I’m falling.. the bed disappears and I plunge into darkness, and the buzzing static energy takes over my body. Sometimes I fall partially, as if my upper body drops into a well, but my waist and legs are still on the edge, and so I dangle upside down, in darkness. I can’t move. All I feel is terror. Even if I tell myself to relax, be calm, and accept it, the terror looms over me and tries to get in, like a fierce dog snarling at me on the other side of a fence. I can open my eyes and look around my room, but my vision is intensely distorted and rattling, like a dream. I can’t seem to look directly at anything and have to rely on my peripherals. This is when the shadow figures appear. I’ve seen the man with the brim hat (Freddy Krueger inspiration), the old hag, and generic hooded figures. Fortunately I’ve never had gremlins sitting in my chest.
Our family consist of my single mother, my younger brother and myself. We live in Canton,Ohio. We were moving and she was looking for something affordable, she found a landlord who was willing to rent below the bracket she was looking for. It was a large 3 bedroom house with a strange porch that looked like a business. We didn’t pay it any attention. Over time strange things started happening, every meat we got spoiled very very quickly. The house always had a stench of spoiled meat no matter how much we cleaned. There was a heaviness to the house. I was always terrified of the basement, out of the year we lived there I only went down once. My mother started seeing shadow figures and spirits in the house, we dismissed it as her joking.. she wasn’t. We became scared not of the house but for our mother, we believed she was on drugs. That was until we started seeing stuff. The last night in the house it was hell on earth, shadows were blocking doorways, brooms and mops were thrown by themselves across the room with the handle leaving a hole in the wall, the vents to the basement bent open as if something came up through them. We found out the house used to be a funeral home, the landlord never told us this.
He had an obsession with Egyptian stuff so he had already bought into believing in curses, the ‘witch’ exploited that belief, he was under stress, couldn’t sleep, experienced sleep paralysis, and attributed it all to ‘the curse’ then had a psychological break, and his own fear killed him. Had he TRULY not believed in ‘the curse’ then he would be alive and well today. Even from an occult standpoint belief feeds it power.
I wonder if he ever got in touch with his friend in SF, and asked them to speak to the woman, about removing the curse? Evil is real. And, it sounds like the one thing missing from Chris’ apartment, was the one thing that can definitely thwart off evil and demons – The Bible & the word of God. Remember that! RIP Christopher Case! 🙏❤🙏
Years back my step brother at the time and I were playing halo in my moms trailer. I eventually was hungry and went into the kitchen which was only a few feet away as only a bar separated the living room into the kitchen, I grabbed some ravioli from a can and put it into the microwave. At about this time my step brother got up and started to head over towards me as I waited on the microwave timer. I noticed out of the corner of my eye he stopped, dead in his tracks and he was facing the door which was right behind the microwave (microwave sitting on the bar). I noticed his face was pale white, so I leaned my body to the left slightly over the bar and looked in the direction he was looking which was outside the front door. The door had a huge window panel which took up almost half of the door. The front porch light was on which is right on the other side of the door and standing there just an inch away from the door/window was a black static figure. It looked like tv static but instead of white fuzz it was black. It noticed me and it “phased” it’s head to look at me, not just a simple turn and it’s eyes were pitch black like onyx. The porch light had no effect on this thing whatsoever. It’s as if it absorbed the light. It stared at me for about 3 seconds before it phased off our tiny porch ( pretty much just steps leading up to our front door) Once it did I looked towards the actual window that’s to the left of the door and saw it phase right past the window too. Only person I have ever told was my grandma.
This happened to one of my roommates like 7 years ago but he literally had no job, no car, no phone, and at the time we had no internet so he was literally stuck in our apartment with no stimulation except for like the same DVDs he would watch over and over so he started seeing shadow people even when I was home with him. He just lost it one night and had a knife and was hunting down shadow people that obviously didn’t exist and sobbing and it was fucking terrifying to watch
In 11 of May 2019 before noon break I had a disagreement with a co-worker that had a job that was inferior to mine at our place of work. The titles of job don’t matter. There was a lot of talking around that her mother was a witch, even from somebody that was from the same village her mother lived. I NEVER payed attention to this detail… In that day we had the disagreement it was her birthday ( I didn’t know that at the time…) and her mother came to visit her at work in the noon break and was going to stay at her place that night. After the disagreement she starting shouting at me that she guarantees to me that I shall never forget her date of birthday all my life because I made her look bad in front of her mother… I was laughing… Before going home in that day she asked me the full name of my father whom I adored because he raised me as a single parent and she knew that… Hearing about my dad brought a smile on my face, I thought she was over the disagreement and looking for small talk. But after I said his hole name and his date of birth she turn her back on me. A year later on 11 of May 2020, before noon, my dad died on his couch from a heart attack while he was perusal TV 😢… I don’t know what to make of it…but…there are almost 3 yeas now and when I hear about this subject I remember… she is not working at our place of work, she did some big mistakes and she got fired in that year. So at list she wasn’t here to watch me mourning for the death of my dad.
Sleep deprivation causes you to see shadows out the corner of your eyes and hear whispering, I’ve experienced it before when I’ve been in the bush at night, all I could hear was whispering in the dark but I knew it was hallucinations so it didn’t bother me. Sleep paralysis also often results in seeing things in your room, I’ve had sleep paralysis, but my entire body including my eyes are paralysed so lucky that means they are closed.
True story. I live in Nairobi, Kenya. I once saw this shadow outside my window that terrified me so horribly. I was laying on my bed facing my huge bedroom window. It was around 7:30 p.m. I hadn’t drawn my curtains yet. It started off as a weird looking shadow on this adjacent wall next to my apartment. I thought at first it was just a bird’s shadow. Then all of a sudden, it started growing bigger and bigger, like this huge shadowy giant figure with a hoody on and I couldn’t see its face. It started roaming back and forth outside my balcony. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was still early and I knew I was awake, not dreaming. It then came and stood directly outside my window like it wanted to come inside my bedroom. It terrified me so much, I just remember covering myself, my head, hiding myself under my blanket and I started praying to GOD, to JESUS, to the HOLY SPIRIT to chase that shadow away. When I finished praying, that shadow had gone. That was like 3 months ago and it has never come back, thank GOD. Being a born again Christian helps immensely guys. These demons and evil spirits are real. Accept Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior today and He will help you when you’re under spiritual attacks. GOD bless you all.
That’s not true . THERE were cell phones. I had one in 1997. It was an enormous, clunky, affair, that one could NEVER lose in the couch pillows, or at the bottom of your oversize purse. I would have to roll my car window down, just to extend the 3 foot long aerial, for reception. It was $1 a minute to call out & $2 a minute to receive a call. I had to sell one of my cars to pay the $800 phone bill. I said this is not a ‘cell phone’ it’s a ‘sell phone’. I have to sell everything just to pay the bill. TRUE STORY.
My grandmother claims she was cursed. She and my grandfather went to NewOrleans for vacation and they were eating at a small intimate restaurant in the French quarter. Their server was being very brisk and curt with my grandmother for absolutely no reason. Finally, towards the end of the meal, my grandmother asked for a refill of water and their waitress purposely dumped the pitcher of water in my grandmother’s lap. My grandfather angerly jumped to his feet and asked her what was going on with her. She ignored him and glared at my grandmother, shook her finger in her face and said, “God is going to get you!” Then she turned and ran out of the restaurant. The manager was incredibly sorry and embarrassed by the whole thing and paid for their meal and was profusely apologizing. They said the waitress was new and that they probably would let her go after that. My grandparents were angry but didn’t allow this to ruin their vacation. Unfortunately that entire year afterwards, my grandmother had a lot of weird medical ailments. Her appendix burst, she twisted her ankle TWICE doing menial tasks around the house, she fell on the ice and dislocated her shoulder, and then worst of all, she had a stroke….something nobody saw coming and she came out of it pretty quickly and was fine. It was all very strange. Take from that what you will.
Ok, so whenever something like this happens, the victim needs to immediately do 2 things: 1. Go somewhere where you will be viewed by multiple other people at all times. 2. Do not go to sleep unless someone is actively monitoring you both with cameras, and personally checking on you repeatedly. Preferably with even more equipment monitoring your status. I would go to the ER. Or the psych ward. When they ask you whats wrong, tell them you might be a danger to yourself. Say that you might be having a psychotic break. Tell them that you don’t THINK you don’t want to hurt or kill yourself, but all week you’ve been finding injuries that occurred when you were at home alone and asleep; finishing by mentioning the “sleep-paralysis-dreams” and saying that you are convinced you are going to die tonight. Tell them you think that you will wake up in the middle of the night, in a psychotic break, and kill yourself. And that they need to watch you. In my religion, as a fundamental rule, God/supernatural-entities aren’t allowed to definitely prove their own existence. So you wait it out in a place where, to kill you, it would create fairly clear and definitive evidence of the supernatural. Sleep beside the psych ward nurse’s station. So they can see you, and call security to “save you from yourself,” or resuscitate you if something “undetectable” occurs and you just keel over suddenly. I know you’ll get stigmatized… but stigmatized is better than dead, right?
Another great story, thank you If anyone ever encounters something like this, “In the Name Of Jesus”. that’s their kryptonite. I wish he would have approached a true believer in this time frame. He would have been just fine. I’m not making light of this at all. My heart is broken for him. I believe this story. And I also believe that he could have been saved. God bless
I know exactly what happened to Chris. Because it happens to me often. And sounded so familiar to me. Chris started experiencing sleep paralysis. And the combination of that weird woman saying she was a witch and the sleep paralysis episodes, made it more real to him. The lines of reality and fantasy started to blur, and his fear level was so high he ended up having a heart attack because he actually believed it was real. God knows i probably would have died from a heart attack induced from the fear, if i actually believed some of the things that happened to me were real. So many nights and the following days I was so petrified. But thankfully i had family who experienced sleep paralysis before. They were able to ground my reality and help me to dismiss that all the whispering and shadow figures were actually apart of my sleep wake state. The final straw that proved to me it was sleep paralysis that Chris was experiencing was the fact that he couldnt move at one point. If Chris had known of sleep paralysis and had someone to ground his reality, he would still be with us today.
Stress kills. He was under such a massive amount of stress from these things that were haunting him that he had a heart attack. Whatever these things are they are real. I have seems ghosts, shadow things, little lights flying around my room, etc. They only have happened in a few places that I have lived. Iraq I saw shadow figures all the time, like every single night.
This is why psychology and psychological scholars are so important. He should have checked himself in to a mental facility (or a family member or friend call and/or check him in) and gotten himself the help he needed. I am a psychological scholar, I have seen and/or heard people in mental facilities go from completely insane, acting possessed, spewing incoherent sentences, thinking they are cursed, thinking their skin is on fire burning from hell fire because “they’re doomed,” to pretty much completely normal happy functioning humans again with proper treatment and medication. We need to stop acting like mental illness is different from physical illness.
True story: My friend in college who is from Palau island, told me that when you reach a certain age, your clan gives you a choice to learn a trade; weaving, spear fishing, witchcraft, etc. One of her friends angered a woman known to practice witchcraft. This man got “taken.” If you are taken, you are in essence trapped where you can see friends and family pass by you, but no matter how much you scream or shout, no one can hear or see you. No books, crucifix, or salt is going to save you. Eventually his family approached the woman who placed the curse and they asked her for forgiveness. That same day, he returned home from being taken and he is completely traumatized to this day by what happened. The moral? Even if you are a sceptic of the arts, just don’t risk upsetting anyone who practices the craft. Your life is important and your friends and family will miss you dearly if anything happens to you.
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This reminds me of my time in foster care as a kid. I arrive at this house, the lady smiles and offers me cookies. When night came I would see shadow figures projected on to the walls. One particular night I opened my bedroom door to a tall figure wearing a cloak. I shut the door and hid in my blankets. I genuinely believe that woman was into witchcraft or the the occult.
I, too, have been worried about the black shadow for many years, and in a dream I saw the witches who sent it. Two witches called their secret names and it became a trouble for them, the third witch and the essence that she sends to me are stubbornly silent, as if their mouths are sealed – they do not name the sender / her own. Since I began to put scissors under the mattress, I began to sleep peacefully.
I seen a shadow being once when I woke up in the middle of sleep paralysis. The one I seen wasn’t in the shape of a person. I had the feeling it could shift to any shape but I’m not entirely sure. It was so black it stood out in a dark room. My eyes didn’t even need to adjust. I couldn’t make out any facial features but I knew where it’s face was suppose to be. It had no exact shape. It reminded me of cloak or something. I can’t really describe this thing. It floated across my ceiling and stopped right above my head. I already knew what was about to happen. That thing flew straight down at my face. I closed my eyes and then all of a sudden I could move. I cried for hours before my husband calmed me down. He told me I was just dreaming. This happened years ago and kind of leads into my astral projection stories years after that incident. My husband and I talked about it recently and he admitted to being worried. He never knew me to have night terrors or to ever talk about demons being possibly real. He was saying it scared him how sure I was. I’m sure now that everything I ran into while trying to astral project was demonic. I have pretty good reason to believe that. Especially since a prayer stopped it all cold. I was paranoid with sleep deprivation after about five months of practicing astral. I could no longer control when it happened. It was beyond terrifying and I would’ve had a heart attack eventually. I was thinking those things were trying to break me or something. I seen some pretty scary things.
Very sad. I had a gypsy witch threaten me with a curse once, that my year would be “bad” if I didn’t give her a discount on her purchase. I Looked her in the eye and said, “You’re too late lady, I’ve already had more sorrow this year than you can give me.” What I didn’t tell her was that my brother had passed away unexpectedly, he did have a heart attack at the age of 20. I don’t even remember what she said after I told her, “NO.” As if I’m going to go to my manager and say, “This old gypsy lady wants a discount or she’s going to hex me.” Anyway, I’m a Christian, so her curse wouldn’t have stuck, she would have just cursed herself, eh, for all I know, she did. Did Chris’s wounds heal before his demise? Didn’t the police notice the cuts on his fingers? Didn’t the coroner notice them and the bruising on his neck? People can die of extreme fear, and if a hex is put on you and you don’t have Jesus as your savior, then this is what could happen, it’s absolutely real. I highly recommend the book “Demons In The World Today” by Merrill F. Unger. It helped me see that the so-called “Christian” faith I was raised in was really “White” witchcraft. False light is the greatest darkness there is! And I HIGHLY recommend making the real biblical Jesus your Lord and Savior.
sounds exactly like sleep paralysis. for like 4 nights i heard old timey radio playing and saw a demon run around my room but i couldn’t move. sucked but hasn’t happened again. very scary and i can imagine someone getting a heart attack from fear alone because of it if they didnt have an explanation of what was happening like i did.
Several years ago my daughter moved into a flat and was spending her first night in this flat. She went to bed and put the light off and shortly after that she had a strange sensation of something like a blanket settling over her and immediately a strong hand grabbed her around the neck and tried to choke her. She was just able to utter the name of Jesus and at that the hand was take off her neck. We had brought her up to know of Jesus as Saviour and of His name’s power over evil spirits.
After doing some research I found this actually happened in 1991, not 99 which can help explain why he didn’t have a cell phone yet. Also, everything that allegedly happened after April 11 was relayed to people by a friend of Chris’s who was also a self proclaimed psychic 😬 so why couldn’t the ‘’psychic’’ identify the witch or tell us what really happened to him??
I’m glad I a Christian….. weather or not a person believes this kind of thing is possible… assume it is……. you don’t really know what kinda thing another person is into… human sacrifice to gain power? People will do it, believing that they have the power… just know this…Isaiah 54:17 no weapon formed against me shall prosper… Ephesians 6:10-18 wear the Armor of God Luke 10:17…. demons must submit to your authority….. you are more powerful than they are…
Bro I love Chris now I can’t believe you’ve had this article posted for 3 years and I’ve never watched it. I’m gonna have to listen to ancient Egyptian music now, although I’m still quite curious how tf we would know what ancient Egyptians music sounds like, but all the same I’m an ole jukebox junkie too, I used to bounce in a bouncy seat all day as a baby, then as a kid I had these giant subwoofer stereo sound system speakers, I actually might STILL, have the speakers just not the box for them, but instead I’d blast Rick Springfield cds and backstreet boys or nsync, sometimes pink cuz my mom had a pink CD I loved, then I got a lil jon CD that was the first CD I asked for, but so I’d bounce away all day just bouncing on my trampoline, and now I don’t have a trampoline, so I just bounce on the floor doing calf exercises I learned from marines in high school, and nowadays I’m tryna put some of that energy into my upper body so I can get swole 💪
I’ve watched and read everything about this case I could find over the years and it is terrifyingly fascinating. If you’re a person that still believes all of the stuff our parents told us didn’t exist, especially since there isn’t as much is a stigmatism in talking about the weird, fantastic and otherworldly things they’ve encountered and witnessed along with cell phone cameras, wake up. The governments, the scientific community and portions of the public know what you don’t: there are a lot of things in this reality/universe and parallel realms that we can’t explain or doesn’t fall in line with the mainstream narrative, open your mind search for yourself, myths are steeped in reality(as in ancient gods other than THE God existed, but they weren’t what they claimed to be, giant’s existed but the Smithsonian and the like have buried, no pun intended, that truth, cryptid encounters, sightings of long extinct animals terrestrial and marine based are seen because time isn’t linear nor is it something that can’t transport things from the past or the future to the opposite only for it to be corrected by times mechanism. Whoa, not sure why I went on that tirade except that the world we live in is as if not more mysterious and full of wonder and terrifying as we thought when we were children. The end.
When I was like 10 years old my best friend at the time teased me about something and so I said “that’s it! Something bad is going to happen to you. Which part of your body do you want it to happen too?” And he replied his head. That afternoon my friend got into a fight with his older brother and his brother pushed his head into the corner of a brick wall. It split my friends head wide open and he was immediately taken to hospital and had a bunch of stitches. I’m 32 now and have never said that sort of thing again to anyone but it’s always always fascinated me.
The power of what your mind can do. I bet he suffered from undiagnosed mental illness (such as anxiety) and this was just the thing that set him over the edge. I can understand that because I’ve had such bad anxiety attacks that I’ve gone to the hospital thinking I was having a heart attack (it was before I was dx with anxiety and got help). We did not talk about those things in the early 90s.
I heard that supposedly his death was caused by some of the vitamins he was taking since he went into heart failure. He was very into fitness and took vitamins a lot. Instead of the company being put under hot water, they decided to twist the story into something paranormal. A similar situation happened with a woman who was brought to the hospital having a strange garlic odor, her blood being odd, and then the nurses working on her started fainting. It was actually a gas leak in the hospital and not this woman causing the fainting. They also twisted her story into something paranormal to avoid the fact they did a poor inspection job.
One of the first things I would have done in his position was contacted my coworker who had introduced me to the witch in the first place. Maybe that coworker could have shed some light on the situation or maybe even helped resolve it. I’m surprised he didn’t try to somehow you know dilute the situation by communicating with this woman that he insulted in the first place. If she really was the cause of the curse that ended up ending his life Maybe he could have convinced her to change her mind. I’m just surprised that he didn’t try anything along those lines especially since he was so desperate.
This is weird for sure. It is possible to be scared to death. If your brain thinks you’re about to die, it can cause you to have a heart attack before the actual thing about to kill you, kills you. The only question I have is, why didn’t the police talk to the woman in SF? It sounds like he had multiple diagnoses going on at once. Sleep paralysis, paranoia and can lead people to be delusional.
My dad died of a heart attack well several small ones over a weeks time then one massive one that was instant heart failure. The last week he was alive every night he said something more wild than the night before even telling me he felt like all His Life goals were complete and he could die happy. He died the next day. We did not know he was having heart attacks. They were going on in his sleep. Point being his brain was lacking bloodflow too through that whole week which caused him to say and do many things that week that weren’t normal for him. The Human Mind is Strange especially when its lacking oxygen over an extended period of time.
I wonder why the older woman was invited to dinner in the first place and by which of the two friends? Did the police (or anyone) follow-up with her, or anyone acquainted with her? Perhaps this was a very unfortunate coincidence, but she threatened him, so she should have been interviewed at the very least.
Too bad Chris did not reach out to YHWH(GOD of Israel) and His son Jesus Christ… he tried to deal with the demonic from a practitioners perspective instead of humbling himself under God’s mighty hand and huddling under the wing of God as chicks do their mother. Jesus is the way the truth and the Life, no man comes to the father but through him. John 14:6… This guy did NOT have to die, Jesus defeated satan when he arose from the grace on the 3rd day !!! Crushed the serpents head.
Personally, I have lost interest in cell phones these days. The 80s cell phones, and yes they had true mobile phones in the 80s not just car phones, were big enough to snugly fit in my butthole. The new phones are just too small and always fall out and break. Now I just keep Alexa near the entrance and the phone held inside behind it. That way I don’t have to pull it out. I just say Alexa, answer my butt phone. Then I talk into my cheeks. Good thing Alexa keeps thing hands free, otherwise I would have to wash them constantly.
I remember when I was in middle school my dad had some herniated disc’s and had to lay in bed for a while. It hurt for him to try and move. He was laying in bed one day and was yelling in pain, my mom comes in and my dad says why were you shaking the bed, what are you doing? My mom said it wasn’t her. She then said I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ, be gone demons. And that didn’t happen again. What crazy is my mom said she had been in that same bed in the past and it started shaking, she then said the same thing, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ and it had stopped.
We experienced same thing in our hostel, it was build on graveyard. My room mates were terrified Bcz that spirit was trying to choke them. But he couldn’t do it with me. So my 3 roommates were sleeping around me while hugging me while night and I was just laying straight while night so they won’t fear anything. Always believe and listen you friends. Help them. These things are bad very bad.
The Whole Time that I was perusal this article (or, at least, after the Point where the Spooky Stuff started happening to him), I kept wondering why he didn’t call up his Friend who brought the Witch Lady with her to attend their Dinner together, and simply ASK her to actually CONTACT the Witch Lady and beg her to call off the Curse (if such a thing is even possible, that is)?? Like, his Friend brought HER Friend to eat Dinner with them, when they first hit it off. So, presumably, his Friend was also sitting at the Table when she revealed that she was a Witch and put the Curse on him. But, he also spoke to his Friend on the Phone after the Spooky Stuff started popping off, so I don’t understand why he didn’t say to his Friend, “PLEASE get in touch with the Lady that you brought with you to Our Dinner the Other Night, or give me her Number, so that you don’t have to get involved in this Mess anymore than you already are!”? That would be the FIRST Thing that I would try to do, if I was unfortunate enough to find myself in his Shoes. But, instead of doing that, he resorted to buying Crucifixes in Bulk and pouring Salt All over his House, BEFORE the Idea dawned on him to, at least TRY to go right to the Source and plead with her to ask the Laughing Shadow People to leave him alone. I seriously couldn’t stop thinking about it from the Instant that the Spooky Stuff started to happen, until the End of the article.
The most credible, convincing part of this to me is the fact that she conveniently has all the same hyper specific interests as him. I don’t think she shared those interests. I think she simply knew they were his. Makes me sad that anyone could potentially have that kind of power and chooses to do bad with it. Like all the billionaires that choose to NOT BE BATMAN.