Ghostbusters II
Prior to this week, my last report, which was sometime in April, dealt with Ris's house being haunted. As I think I said at the time, we held a seance and the thing went away. And it did stay nice and quiet for a long time, several months in fact, up until about three weeks ago. Then, as sometimes happens in conjunction with drunken antics, there was an accident. Someone spilled (spilt?)blood in the guest room, formerly Ken's room, where the thing resides. The results were not good.
The thing immediately woke up and became very hostile. It went from being a disturbance to being a demonic entity. (Demonic entity = that which is not a true demon, yet possesses certain demonic abilities, generally involving the ability to negatively influence humans) We first knew the thing was no longer dormant when Angie staggered out of the guest room at 4am with an unhinged smile and tears running down her face saying "I don't know what's in there, but it has really big teeth." There were bruises and abrasions on both her wrists, and she said the thing had been whispering to her and licking her. Before, the thing had appeared as a shadowy apparition, but it had at least looked relatively humanoid. Now it was showing itself to people as a thick, absolute blackness with a set of massive teeth. Not good. Brian woke people up at one point yelling "Get the fuck away from me!", and Ris felt really off and jittery all night. The next night our friend Matt went to take a shower,(in the downstairs bathroom, adjacent to the thing's room) and when he looked down at his hands they were covered in dried blood. When he showered, he found that there was no source for the blood, but he had the feeling of being watched so strongly that he had to shower with the curtain open. I refused to go in that room alone at all...the entire downstairs was thick with ambient hositlity.
The worst was yet to come. When Ris and I went to bed that night, neither of us could sleep, even with the light 3/4's on. Every time we closed our eyes, we would "see" things, flashes of very very bad images. Gory, bloody, graphic images; bodies being pulled apart, exposed organs and viscera, living things writhing in piles of the dead, and the thing itself...just huge teeth in blackness. I got very sick that night, and not in the normal stomach flu sense. I actually felt something like fingers inside my skin and muscle layer squeezing and twisting my stomach from inside me, which Angie had reported too. I spent the night being sick and throwing up. Ris was soaked in sweat and covered with goosebumps at the same time. At one point he woke up screaming, I had to jump on top of him to hold him down and it took a full minute of yelling shaking him to wake him up. And we both heard the whispers. I couldn't make words out of the voice I heard, just an ominous tone and intent, and when I tried to pray it got into my head and shattered my concentration. i couldn't find the words to prayers I've known since I was three. Ris told me later that the thing told him to hurt me. The next morning, we were grey, exhausted, and we'd had about enough. That night, we pulled out all the stops.
-Methods for Protection from and Banishment of Ghosts, Bad Spirits, and Other Noxious/Hostile Entities-
-Shallow bowl of vinegar in the occupied room - as the vinegar dissolves, it produces acidic vapors, which disrupt etheric energy and keeps the thing from manifesting, or at least weakens it.
-Circle of salt around the bed - any crystal with absorb etheric energy, and salt is just crystals. Scatter or disperse the salt the next morning
-Magnetized iron at the head of the bed/under the pillows - magnetic charges make it difficult for anything etheric to manifest, and cold iron is very disruptive to most supernatural beings. When you do the circle of salt, you can mix the salt with iron filings to good effect.
-Brewed conconction of herbs - take any or all of the following herbs and boil them in water, aloowing the smell to spread throughtout the contaminated area. (It's a good idea to bless the water first)
-St. John's Wort - very important, the main herb for keeping hostile entities away
-Ginger, nutmeg - herbs for banishment
-Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme - herbs for protection
-Cinnamon, cloves - Cleansing/purifying yourself and the area
Personally, after boiling this mix for a while and letting the vapors spread, I set it out in small bowls throughtout the infected room and our room
-Various incenses are useful here, the main ones being frankincense, myrhh, cedarwood, and mugwort. Asafoetida, while the most powerful incense for banishing, smells like sulfur and rotten onions, so it is best save only for the most extreme cases
-Grind some St. john's Wort in a small bowl of oil. With the subsequent mixture, make the sign of the cros at the base of your skull (entry point for demonic possession/obsession) and another on your forehead
-Prayer and/or any religious icons are also helpful, depending of course on your personal faith/belief system
After puting all these into effect and having a rather long chat with the thing, Ris and I slept soundly and it has been mostly quiet since then. Hopefully if any of you ever find yourselves in a similar situation, you may find this to be a useful guide. Or, if nothing else, an interesting story. feel free to leave comments, questions, ect. Later!
The thing immediately woke up and became very hostile. It went from being a disturbance to being a demonic entity. (Demonic entity = that which is not a true demon, yet possesses certain demonic abilities, generally involving the ability to negatively influence humans) We first knew the thing was no longer dormant when Angie staggered out of the guest room at 4am with an unhinged smile and tears running down her face saying "I don't know what's in there, but it has really big teeth." There were bruises and abrasions on both her wrists, and she said the thing had been whispering to her and licking her. Before, the thing had appeared as a shadowy apparition, but it had at least looked relatively humanoid. Now it was showing itself to people as a thick, absolute blackness with a set of massive teeth. Not good. Brian woke people up at one point yelling "Get the fuck away from me!", and Ris felt really off and jittery all night. The next night our friend Matt went to take a shower,(in the downstairs bathroom, adjacent to the thing's room) and when he looked down at his hands they were covered in dried blood. When he showered, he found that there was no source for the blood, but he had the feeling of being watched so strongly that he had to shower with the curtain open. I refused to go in that room alone at all...the entire downstairs was thick with ambient hositlity.
The worst was yet to come. When Ris and I went to bed that night, neither of us could sleep, even with the light 3/4's on. Every time we closed our eyes, we would "see" things, flashes of very very bad images. Gory, bloody, graphic images; bodies being pulled apart, exposed organs and viscera, living things writhing in piles of the dead, and the thing itself...just huge teeth in blackness. I got very sick that night, and not in the normal stomach flu sense. I actually felt something like fingers inside my skin and muscle layer squeezing and twisting my stomach from inside me, which Angie had reported too. I spent the night being sick and throwing up. Ris was soaked in sweat and covered with goosebumps at the same time. At one point he woke up screaming, I had to jump on top of him to hold him down and it took a full minute of yelling shaking him to wake him up. And we both heard the whispers. I couldn't make words out of the voice I heard, just an ominous tone and intent, and when I tried to pray it got into my head and shattered my concentration. i couldn't find the words to prayers I've known since I was three. Ris told me later that the thing told him to hurt me. The next morning, we were grey, exhausted, and we'd had about enough. That night, we pulled out all the stops.
-Methods for Protection from and Banishment of Ghosts, Bad Spirits, and Other Noxious/Hostile Entities-
-Shallow bowl of vinegar in the occupied room - as the vinegar dissolves, it produces acidic vapors, which disrupt etheric energy and keeps the thing from manifesting, or at least weakens it.
-Circle of salt around the bed - any crystal with absorb etheric energy, and salt is just crystals. Scatter or disperse the salt the next morning
-Magnetized iron at the head of the bed/under the pillows - magnetic charges make it difficult for anything etheric to manifest, and cold iron is very disruptive to most supernatural beings. When you do the circle of salt, you can mix the salt with iron filings to good effect.
-Brewed conconction of herbs - take any or all of the following herbs and boil them in water, aloowing the smell to spread throughtout the contaminated area. (It's a good idea to bless the water first)
-St. John's Wort - very important, the main herb for keeping hostile entities away
-Ginger, nutmeg - herbs for banishment
-Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme - herbs for protection
-Cinnamon, cloves - Cleansing/purifying yourself and the area
Personally, after boiling this mix for a while and letting the vapors spread, I set it out in small bowls throughtout the infected room and our room
-Various incenses are useful here, the main ones being frankincense, myrhh, cedarwood, and mugwort. Asafoetida, while the most powerful incense for banishing, smells like sulfur and rotten onions, so it is best save only for the most extreme cases
-Grind some St. john's Wort in a small bowl of oil. With the subsequent mixture, make the sign of the cros at the base of your skull (entry point for demonic possession/obsession) and another on your forehead
-Prayer and/or any religious icons are also helpful, depending of course on your personal faith/belief system
After puting all these into effect and having a rather long chat with the thing, Ris and I slept soundly and it has been mostly quiet since then. Hopefully if any of you ever find yourselves in a similar situation, you may find this to be a useful guide. Or, if nothing else, an interesting story. feel free to leave comments, questions, ect. Later!