悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件

2025年11月2日 · 約155分

要旨

悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件

この音声ソースは、プレストン・デネットがホストを務めるポッドキャスト「UFOs and the Paranormal」のエピソードからの抜粋で、‌‌悪魔憑きとされる三つの実話‌‌の概要を提供しています。

ホストは、‌‌幽霊の存在を確信している‌‌と述べ、地縛霊や残留思念、ポルターガイストなど様々なタイプの幽霊について説明しています。特に、‌‌悪魔的な憑依‌‌は「浸潤」「抑圧」「憑依」の三段階を経ると論じ、記事ではカリフォルニア州の三つの実例を紹介しています。

これらの事例は、‌‌超常現象の発生パターン‌‌や‌‌目撃者への心理的影響‌‌、さらには‌‌未確認飛行物体（UFO）の目撃‌‌との関連性といった興味深い要素を含んでおり、最終的に悪魔的なものか、あるいは目撃者自身の‌‌制御不能な霊媒能力‌‌によるものかという見解を提示しています。

要旨
悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件：ブリーフィング・ドキュメント
3つの悪魔憑き事件の比較分析：超常現象の顕現、目撃者の反応、および敵対行為の激化に関する考察
幽霊・憑依の分類と原因
ポルターガイストがノックする時
幽霊の出るアパート
ワイルドウッドの悪魔
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悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件：ブリーフィング・ドキュメント

エグゼクティブ・サマリー

このブリーフィング・ドキュメントは、ポッドキャスト「UFOs and the Paranormal」のエピソード「悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件」で提示された情報を統合・分析したものである。話者であるプレストン・デネット氏は、自身が直接調査した3つの特に恐ろしく、複数の目撃者が存在する心霊現象の事例を詳述している。これらの事例は、悪魔的ともいえる憑依現象が一貫したパターンを辿って進行することを示唆している。

主要な分析結果は以下の通りである：

憑依に至る3段階のパターン: 全ての事例で、心霊現象は「侵入（Infestation）」、「抑圧（Oppression）」、「憑依（Possession）」という3つの段階を経て激化している。初期には足音や物の移動といった些細な現象が、次第に特定の個人を標的とした精神的・物理的な攻撃へとエスカレートし、最終的には直接的な憑依の試みや身体的攻撃に至る。
恐怖と関心の影響: 霊的存在は、目撃者の恐怖、好奇心、口論といった負のエネルギーを糧に活動を強化する傾向がある。ある事例では、現象を無視することで活動が一時的に沈静化したが、別の事例では、好奇心から霊と接触を試みた結果、事態が破滅的に悪化した。
引き金となるストレス要因: 各事例の背景には、家庭内不和、アルコール依存症、薬物問題、怪我による長期療養、失恋といった、強い感情的ストレスが存在している。これらの状況が、心霊現象の発生または激化の触媒となっている可能性が示唆される。
現象の共通性と多様性: ノック音、黒い人影の目撃、悪臭、コールドスポット、物理的攻撃、殺人事件の予知夢など、現象は多岐にわたるが、事例間には顕著な共通点が見られる。特に「黒い影」の目撃は、悪魔的憑依事件の典型的な特徴として挙げられている。

これらの事例は、悪魔的な霊の存在、あるいは極度のストレス下に置かれた人間の霊的能力が制御不能な形で現れた可能性という、2つの主要な仮説を提示している。いずれにせよ、これらの現象は、目撃者の人生に深刻な影響を与える、検証可能で一貫したパターンを持つ出来事として記録されている。

1. 序論：悪魔的憑依事件の分類とパターン

話者プレストン・デネット氏は、自身が調査した数十件の心霊現象の中でも、最も恐ろしいとされる3つの事例を紹介している。これらの事例は、複数の目撃者が存在し、十分に検証されている点が特徴である。デネット氏によれば、ゴーストや心霊現象はいくつかのタイプに分類できる。

活動的な憑依 (Active Hauntings): 地縛霊など、何らかの理由でこの世に留まっている人間の霊が関与する。
残存思念 (Residual Hauntings): 霊的な活動というよりは、過去の出来事の「エコー」や「サイキックな印象」に近い。
霊の来訪 (Spirit Visitations): 亡くなった愛する人などが、挨拶などの目的で一時的に訪れる現象。
ポルターガイスト／悪魔的憑依 (Poltergeists/Demonic Hauntings): 最も論争の多いタイプ。非人間的な霊、悪の道に進んだ人間の霊、あるいは当事者自身が無意識に引き起こす霊媒現象（無意識の物理的霊媒）など、原因については諸説ある。

特に悪魔的憑依は、特定の進行パターンを辿ることが多い。

侵入 (Infestation): 足音、ドアの開閉、物が動くなど、比較的小さな現象から始まる。
抑圧 (Oppression): 現象が激化し、特定の目撃者を標的にして精神的・身体的に攻撃し始める。
憑依 (Possession): 最終段階。目撃者に対して全面的な攻撃を仕掛け、身体を乗っ取ろうとする。

本稿で分析する3つの事例は、いずれもこの最終段階「憑依」に至った、極めて活動的かつ広範な事件である。

2. ケーススタディ1：「ポルターガイストがノックする時」

概要

場所: カリフォルニア州レイク・バルボア
主要な目撃者: ソーレンセン家（仮名）のミッチェル（13歳、仮名）と姉のナンシー（仮名）
背景: 父親の虐待とアルコール依存症、兄の薬物問題といった家庭内の深刻なストレス。事件は1977年、ミッチェルが骨の病気で脚を骨折し、夏の間ずっとベッドでの療養を余儀なくされたことから始まる。

現象の推移

侵入: ミッチェルが寝たきりの間、彼の寝室の天井や屋根裏で奇妙なノック音が聞こえ始める。当初、彼は好奇心を抱くだけだったが、音は毎夏、特に夜9時以降に繰り返された。
抑圧: 数年後、ノック音はより大きく、より頻繁になる。ミッチェルは恐怖を感じ始めるが、正気でないと思われることを恐れ、誰にも話さなかった。しかし、姉のナンシーも自室で同様の現象を体験し始める。屋根裏のない彼女の部屋では、屋根や壁からのノック音として現れた。
- ナンシーの対応: 彼女は、自身の恐怖が現象を強化していることに気づき、意図的に無視する戦略をとった。「それは私の恐怖を糧にしているのだと気づきました。だから私はそれを無視し始めました」と彼女は語る。
- ミッチェルの対応: 一方、ミッチェルは姉も同じ音を聞いていることを知り、現象への好奇心を強める。彼の関心は、現象をさらに活性化させたようで、シャワー中に壁をノックされるなど、攻撃はより直接的になった。
憑依: ある夜、ミッチェルは自室で現象のクライマックスに遭遇する。天井からのノック音の後、廊下で足音が聞こえ、ドアの前の床が叩かれる。彼はベッドの中に留まったが、部屋に誰かがいる気配を感じ、ベッドに誰かが乗り、足の上に横たわる重さを物理的に感じた。ミッチェルは、ベッドが実際に凹むのを目撃している。彼は必死に祈り、その結果、圧力はゆっくりと消えていった。この事件は、彼の人生で最も恐ろしい出来事だったと語っている。

結論と考察

この憑依未遂事件の後、一家の家での心霊現象はほぼ完全に終息した。デネット氏は、この事例について2つの可能性を指摘している。

悪魔的な霊による攻撃: 暗く、邪悪な霊が家族の弱みにつけ込み、攻撃を仕掛けた可能性。
無意識の物理的霊媒: ミッチェルの骨折や家庭環境による極度の感情的ストレスが、彼自身に内在する霊媒能力を暴走させ、ポルターガイスト現象として現れた可能性。この説は、思春期の少年少女が関わるポルターガイスト事件でしばしば指摘される。現象が憑依未遂の直後に停止したという事実は、この出来事が何らかのクライマックスであったことを示唆している。

3. ケーススタディ2：「呪われたアパート」

概要

場所: カリフォルニア州バンナイズ、ケスターアベニュー4760番地のアパート15号室
主要な目撃者: トゥルーディ・シェイとカレン・タイラー（いずれも仮名）、20代前半のルームメイト
背景: 家賃が600ドルと格安の物件。トゥルーディの入居後、階下の住人が「彼女がうるさい」と苦情を言って退去。しかし、騒音は空き部屋になった後も続いた。建物内では過去に乳児や高齢者の死亡が相次ぎ、地下からは悪霊除けのユダヤ教のお守り「メズーザー」が発見されていた。

現象の推移

侵入: カレンが入居した直後から、不可解な現象が始まる。友人が廊下に「レムール（霊がいる時にだけ見える生き物）」を見たと怯え、カレンとトゥルーディは廊下を横切る黒い影（棒人間のような姿）を頻繁に目撃するようになる。
抑圧: 現象は急速にエスカレートし、多様化する。
- 物理現象: 毎晩ベッドが地震のように激しく揺れる、蛇口から水が横向きに噴射される、悪臭やコールドスポットが発生する。
- 精神的影響: 二人は常に緊張状態にあり、激しい口論を繰り返すようになる。口論をすると、黒い影が現れ、まるでそれを楽しんでいるかのように振る舞った。二人は現実感が希薄になり、「より高い意識状態にいるようだった」と語る。
- 予知夢: カレンは、アパートから数ブロック先で男が家族を射殺して自殺するという事件を、発生前に極めて現実的な夢として見る。
憑依: 契約終了の2週間前、現象は頂点に達する。トゥルーディが恐怖から必死に主の祈りを唱えていると、ベッドが激しく揺れ始め、見えない力に胸を強く圧迫されて呼吸困難に陥った。カレンは、トゥルーディがベッドに押さえつけられているのを目撃した。トゥルーディは「掃除機が口に突っ込まれ、一気に空気を吸い出されたようだった」と表現し、霊が体を通り抜ける感覚と激しい痛みを覚えた。その際、彼女は初めて霊の姿（60年代風のベストを着た、痩せた老婆）を幻視した。

結論と考察

この憑依事件が決定打となり、二人はその日のうちにアパートを脱出し、ホテルに避難した。その後、レストランで食事中にテーブルとガムボールマシンが激しく揺れる現象に遭遇し、霊が後を追ってきたことを確信する。しかし、二度目の引っ越しを経て、心霊現象は完全に停止した。

典型的な悪魔的憑依: この事例は、黒い影、負の感情を糧とする性質、段階的なエスカレーションなど、悪魔的憑依の典型的な特徴を全て示している。
アパート管理人の証言: 管理人も建物の怪現象を認めており、15号室の怪現象は、かつて住んでいた老人が亡くなった後も、彼の妻と親しくなった階下の若い男性への嫉妬心から留まっているためだと語っている。
UFOとの関連: 引っ越し後、二人は巨大なU字型のUFOを目撃するという奇妙な体験をしている。デネット氏は、これを「悪霊とのスピリチュアルな戦いに勝利した二人を、ETが祝福しに来たのではないか」と推測している。

4. ケーススタディ3：「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」

概要

場所: カリフォルニア州サンカルロス、ワイルドウッド通り
主要な目撃者: ウィットニー・ライトと、彼の家に同居していた友人ポール・デルガド
背景: ウィットニーは幼少期から、不可解な現象と関連する「空想の友人」がいた。家は築70年と古く、彼が一人で留守番をしている時に現象が多発した。

現象の推移

侵入: 幼少期から、ドアの開閉、照明の点滅、物が動くといった現象が日常的に発生。ウィットニーは、自分が心の中で願ったこと（母親が転ぶなど）が現実になることも経験し、家に何かがいると確信していた。
抑圧: 友人ポールが同居を始めると、現象は激化する。
- 嫌がらせ: ギターチューナーなど、二人の所有物が頻繁に消え、あり得ない場所（何年も封印されていた箱の中など）から発見される。これにより二人は互いを疑い、激しい口論に発展した。
- 物理現象: 二人がギターを演奏すると、霊は「かんしゃくを起こすように」活動を活発化させた。家全体が布を絞るように「きしむ」音、悪臭、コールドスポット、階段を上る足音などが頻発。
- 危険な好奇心: 二人はウィジャ盤を使って霊との交信を試み、さらにコールドスポットに意図的に足を踏み入れ、霊が体に入る感覚を「遊ぶ」ようになる。この行為が、事態を最悪の方向へと導いた。
憑依: ある夜、ポールが「もっと来てほしい」と霊を挑発し続けた結果、彼は憑依される。彼の声は甲高く変化し、喉を絞められたかのように奇妙な言葉をしゃべり始めた。
- ウィットニーへの攻撃: 助けようとベッドから起き上がろうとしたウィットニーは、500〜600ポンドの重さで押さえつけられるような感覚と共に、ベッドに叩きつけられた。全身が麻痺し、指一本動かせない金縛り状態に陥る。
- 憑依からの解放: ウィットニーはベッドから這い出てポールに近づき、身につけていた十字架を彼の胸に押し当てて祈った。すると、ポールの奇妙な声は泣き声に変わり、憑依状態は解けた。ポールは、自分が霊に圧倒され、床に押さえつけられた記憶しか残っていなかった。

結論と考察

ポールの憑依事件後も、ウィットニーは失恋で落ち込んでいる時に、腐肉のような強烈な悪臭と共に、椅子に座る小さな子供の人影を目撃している。

関心と恐怖の役割: この事例は、霊への関心や恐怖を伴う「遊び」がいかに危険であるかを明確に示している。霊に注意を向ける行為は、その力を増大させ、直接的な攻撃を誘発する。
霊媒能力の可能性: ウィットニーが幼少期から体験していた現象や、彼の思考が現実化するエピソードは、彼自身に何らかの霊媒能力が備わっていた可能性を示唆している。
インタビュー後の再発: デネット氏によるインタビューの直後、家の心霊現象が再発したとウィットニーは報告している。これは、現象について語ること自体が、霊に再び注意を向ける行為となり、活動を再燃させた可能性を示している。

5. 総括と主要テーマ

提示された3つの事例は、それぞれ異なる状況下で発生しているが、悪魔的憑依現象における重要な共通テーマを浮き彫りにしている。

段階的エスカレーション: 全ての事例は、些細な現象から始まり、徐々に敵対的かつ物理的な攻撃へと発展し、最終的に憑依というクライマックスに至るという、明確なパターンを共有している。
負のエネルギーとの共鳴: 霊的存在は、家庭内の不和、精神的苦痛、恐怖、口論といった負のエネルギーに引き寄せられ、それを糧に力を増す。目撃者の精神状態が、現象の激しさに直接影響を与えている。
注意を払うことの危険性: 霊的存在に対して好奇心を示したり、恐怖を感じたり、あるいはウィジャ盤などで直接接触を試みたりする行為は、極めて危険である。それは霊に「扉を開く」行為であり、より深刻な憑依段階へと事態を進行させる引き金となる。
現象の信憑性: これらの事例は全て複数の目撃者が存在し、証言には一貫性がある。特に「呪われたアパート」や「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」の事例では、同居人や友人が同じ現象を同時に体験しており、単なる個人の幻覚ではないことを強く示唆している。

デネット氏は、これらの現象が「悪魔」と呼ばれる非人間的な存在によるものか、あるいは人間自身の精神エネルギーが暴走した結果なのかは断定できないとしつつも、そこに明確なパターンと法則性が存在することを強調している。これらの事例は、目に見えない世界に存在する暗黒面と、それがいかにして我々の世界に影響を及ぼすかについての、恐ろしくも示唆に富む記録である。

3つの悪魔憑き事件の比較分析：超常現象の顕現、目撃者の反応、および敵対行為の激化に関する考察

序論：分析の枠組み

本稿は、ポッドキャスト「悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件」で提示された3つの悪魔憑き事件について、詳細な比較分析を行うことを目的とする。分析は、超常現象の種類、被害者の反応、そしてその反応と超常的な敵対行為の激化との間に見られる相関関係という3つの核心領域に焦点を当てる。各事例の進行を構造化して考察するため、情報源で言及されている憑依の3段階モデル、すなわち「侵入（infestation）」、「抑圧（oppression）」、そして「憑依（possession）」を分析の枠組みとして用いる。比較の基礎を築くため、まず各事件の概要を簡潔にまとめることから始める。

1. 事例概要

各事件を効果的に比較するためには、まずそれぞれの独自の背景、関係者、そして出来事の連鎖を理解することが不可欠である。本セクションでは、3つの異なる物語の要点を簡潔に提示する。

1.1. ソーレンセン家事件（「ポルターガイストがノックする時」）

この事件は、母親、息子のミッチェル、娘のナンシーからなるソーレンセン家で数年間にわたって発生した。発端は1977年、当時13歳だったミッチェルが足を骨折し、夏の間ベッドでの生活を余儀なくされたことだった。この時期から、奇妙なノック音が彼の部屋で聞こえ始める。当初は好奇心の対象であったこの現象は、年々頻度と音量を増し、やがて姉のナンシーも体験するようになる。最終的に、この超常現象はミッチェルへの直接的な物理的攻撃へとエスカレートした。

1.2. 憑依されたアパート事件（トゥルーディとカレン）

この事件は、カリフォルニア州ヴァンナイズにあるアパートの15号室を舞台に、トゥルーディ・シェイとカレン・タイラーという2人の若い女性が体験したものである。この建物は、過去に複数の死亡者が出ており、地下の封印されたクローゼットからは悪霊除けの祈りが書かれたユダヤ教のメズーザーが発見されるなど、不吉な歴史を持っていた。カレンが入居した直後から超常現象が始まり、影のような人影の目撃、物体の移動、そして最終的にはトゥルーディに対する憑依未遂へと急速に発展した。

1.3. ワイルドウッドの悪魔事件（ホイットニーとポール）

この事件は、ホイットニー・ライトが幼少期に体験した「空想の友人」に端を発し、長期間にわたって続いた。現象は、彼の友人で後に同居人となるポール・デルガドが家に移り住んでから劇的に激化した。当初は物がなくなるといった悪戯のような出来事が主だったが、ウィジャ盤の使用や、二人がギターを演奏する際の敵対的な反応を経て、悪臭や冷たいスポットなど、より敵対的な性質を強めていく。最終的には、ポールが超常的存在を積極的に招き入れたことで、彼への憑依未遂というクライマックスを迎えた。

これらの基本的な物語を確立したことで、次に報告された具体的な超常現象の直接比較へと分析を進めることができる。

2. 超常現象の顕現：比較分析

3つの事件で顕現した超常現象の種類を分析することは、これらの存在が物理世界とどのように相互作用し、恐怖を植え付けようとするかの潜在的なパターンを明らかにする上で戦略的に重要である。

2.1. 聴覚的現象：ノック音から叫び声まで

聴覚的現象は、すべての事件に共通する初期の兆候であった。しかし、その性質と進行には顕著な違いが見られる。

事例	現象の種類	特徴と目的の考察
ソーレンセン家	・屋根裏や天井からの足音・壁や天井を叩くノック音	当初は好奇心を引く程度の控えめな音だったが、無視されると注意を引くためにより大きく、より大胆になった。
憑依されたアパート	・下の階からのボールを叩くような音・キッチンからの爆発音	住人同士の不和を引き起こすような誤解を招く音から始まり、恐怖心を煽るための直接的な威嚇音へと移行した。
ワイルドウッドの悪魔	・囁き声・家全体がきしむ音・屋根を叩く大きな音・金切り声のような研削音	不安感を煽る微かな音から始まり、目撃者を驚かせるための物理的な衝撃音、そして憑依のクライマックスを告げる非人間的な絶叫へと激化した。

聴覚現象の進化は、各存在の異なる戦略を明らかにしている。ソーレンセン家の事件では、音は注意を要求する道具として機能し、無視されると微かなノック音からより執拗な叩き音へとエスカレートした。対照的に、ワイルドウッドの事件では、音はコミュニケーションのためではなく、恐怖を与える武器として用いられ、最終的な物理的攻撃の直前に非人間的な「研削音」で最高潮に達した。

2.2. 物理的現象：物体の移動から暴力的な揺れまで

物理的な干渉は、存在が現実世界に影響を及ぼす能力を示す重要な指標である。

ソーレンセン家の事件では、物理現象はクライマックスまで限定的で、ミッチェルのベッドが目に見えて凹むという形で現れた。これは、標的への直接的な物理攻撃にエネルギーが集中していたことを示唆している。
憑依されたアパートでは、物理現象が多岐にわたった。水道の水が横向きに噴出する、重いベッドが毎晩激しく揺れる、そしてレストランのガムボールマシンが揺れるなど、その顕現はより攻撃的で衒示的だった。これは、存在が自身の力を誇示し、目撃者を精神的に追い詰めることを目的としていたと考えられる。
ワイルドウッドの悪魔の事件では、物がなくなる、ありえない場所から発見されるといった「悪戯」のような現象が多発した。これは、住人同士（ホイットニーとポール）の間に不和と混乱を生み出すための巧妙な戦略であったと解釈できる。さらに、二人がギターを演奏している際には「かんしゃくを起こす」かのように超常現象が激化するという特異なパターンが見られた。これは、存在が特定の創造的エネルギーに対して嫉妬や苛立ちを示した可能性を示唆している。

これらの比較から、物理現象は、存在の意図に応じてその性質を変えることがわかる。「ワイルドウッド」の巧妙な心理戦から、「憑依されたアパート」のあからさまな物理的暴力まで、その手法は多岐にわたる。

2.3. 存在の示唆：影、姿、そして感覚

存在が自らの姿をどのように見せるかも、事件ごとに特徴的である。

憑依されたアパートでは、トゥルーディとカレンは廊下を横切る黒い「棒人間」のような姿を頻繁に目撃した。これらは常に素早く動き回り、「覗き込む」ような行動を見せた。この視覚的顕現は、常に監視されているという持続的な心理的圧迫感を生み出した。
ワイルドウッドの悪魔では、ホイットニーが一度だけ、はっきりとした「小さな若い人物」の幻影を目撃した。これは、憑依未遂事件から数ヶ月後、彼が恋人との破局により精神的に極度に弱っているという、脆弱な状況を突くかのように現れた。一度きりの顕現であったが、その衝撃は絶大だった。
ソーレンセン家では、ミッチェルが一度「黒い幻影」を見たと語ったが、後のインタビューではその記憶がなかった。この事件では、視覚的な顕現よりも聴覚的・感覚的な現象が支配的だった。

さらに、冷たいスポットや「腐った肉のような」悪臭といった感覚的な現象は、「憑依されたアパート」と「ワイルドウッド」の両事件で報告されており、これらが恐怖の雰囲気を醸成し、邪悪な存在の接近を知らせる役割を果たしていたことが窺える。

現象そのものも恐ろしいが、それに対する被害者の反応こそが、出来事の激化を理解する上で同様に重要である。次のセクションでは、この点に焦点を当てる。

3. 被害者の反応と敵対行為の激化

情報源の記述は、被害者の行動と超常的存在の振る舞いの間に動的な関係があることを強く示唆している。このセクションでは、被害者が取った異なる反応戦略と、それがもたらした結果を分析する。

3.1. 無視と対決：ナンシー、トゥルーディ、カレンの戦略

ソーレンセン家のナンシーは、意識的に超常現象を無視する戦略を取った。彼女は、その存在が「自分の恐怖を糧にしている」と感じており、反応しないことで力を与えないように努めた。しかし、この戦略は意図した結果をもたらさなかった。彼女が無視すればするほど、ノック音は「より大きく、より大胆に、より頻繁に」なり、ついには彼女の注意を引くために壁の中へと移動した。これは、受動的な無視が有効な抑止力とはならず、むしろ存在を挑発してより攻撃的な行動を引き出す可能性があることを示している。

一方、「憑依されたアパート」のトゥルーディとカレンは、当初は無視を試みたものの、やがて積極的な対決へと移行した。彼女たちは存在に向かって叫び、懇願し、罵倒した。しかし、このアプローチは完全に裏目に出た。テキストには、それが「事態を悪化させるだけのように思われた」と記されており、特に二人が口論を始めると幻影が現れることから、存在が彼女たちの負の感情エネルギーを糧にしていたことが示唆される。

3.2. 好奇心と関与：ミッチェルとポールの危険な選択

ナンシーの無視戦略とは対照的に、弟のミッチェルは好奇心を示した。姉も同じ音を聞いていると知った彼の関心は、「このポルターガイストの力を新たなレベルに点火した」ように見えた。彼の注意が、現象を彼の部屋だけでなく、シャワー室など家中に拡大させる引き金となった。

最も直接的な関与を示したのは、「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」事件のポールである。彼はウィジャ盤の使用を提案し、存在の気配を「弄び」、最終的には「もっと欲しい（I want more）」と口に出して積極的に招き入れた。この行動は、最も明確な招待状であり、情報源で語られる憑依未遂というクライマックスの出来事を直接引き起こした。

これらの多様な反応は、結果的にすべての事例で物理的または精神的な攻撃というクライマックスへと繋がった。最終的な分析として、これらの憑依未遂事件を直接比較することが不可欠である。

4. クライマックスの比較：憑依未遂の分析

各事件は、語り手が「憑依」の段階と位置づける恐ろしいクライマックスで最高潮に達した。このセクションでは、これらの最終的な攻撃を分析・比較し、存在の最終目的と、対決を終結させた要因を理解する。

事例	直接的な引き金	攻撃の性質	解決方法
ミッチェル（ソーレンセン家）	存在への注意と好奇心。足音の正体を確かめようとせず、ベッドに留まったこと。	脚にかかる物理的な圧力。ベッドが目に見えて凹む。存在が彼の体の上に横たわる感覚。	敬虔ではないにもかかわらず、熱心な祈りを捧げたことで、圧力が徐々に解放された。
トゥルーディ（憑依されたアパート）	最高潮に達した極度の恐怖感と攻撃の予感。それに対し、防御的に主の祈りを繰り返し唱えたこと。	呼吸困難に陥るほどの凄まじい胸への圧迫。存在が体を通り抜ける感覚。その後の幻視。	幻視の後に存在は立ち去ったが、根本的な解決は翌日アパートから物理的に脱出したことによる。
ポール／ホイットニー（ワイルドウッドの悪魔）	ポールによる明確な言葉での招待（「もっと欲しい」）。	ポールの声帯が締め付けられ、異言を話す。ホイットニーは数百ポンドにも感じられる重みで麻痺させられる。	ホイットニーが祈りを捧げ、首にかけていた十字架をポールの胸に当てたことで、存在は退散した。

この比較から、いくつかの重要なパターンが浮かび上がる。3つの事例すべてにおいて、攻撃の直前には、好奇心、恐怖、あるいは招待といった、高まった感情エネルギーや直接的な関与が存在した。これは、憑依という最終段階の攻撃には、受け手側の何らかの「扉」が開かれる必要があることを示唆している。さらに注目すべきは、最終的な攻撃を解決した方法の違いである。ソーレンセン家とワイルドウッドの事件では、攻撃の最中に祈りや十字架といった精神的な対抗策によって存在が撃退された。一方で、憑依されたアパートの事件では、攻撃は一通り行われ、その後の根本的な解決は、被害者たちがその場所を物理的に放棄するという決断によってのみ達成された。この違いは、存在の性質や場所の歴史が、解決戦略に影響を及ぼす可能性を示唆しており、非常に興味深い。

これらの現象、反応、そしてクライマックスの分析を通じて、一見すると異なる事件の間に、明確で反復的なパターンが存在することが明らかになった。

5. 結論：3つの事例から浮かび上がる共通パターン

本分析を通して、状況や期間が異なる3つの憑依事件が、被害者の超常的存在への関与に直接関連してエスカレートするという、一貫したパターンを示していることが明らかになった。

以下に、本分析から得られた主要な洞察をまとめる。

関与がエスカレーションを招く: 恐怖、怒り、好奇心、あるいは招待といった形であれ、超常的存在に注意を向けることは、一貫して憑依現象の強度と深刻度を増大させる結果を招いた。ミッチェルの好奇心とポールの招待は、この原則を明確に示している。
無視は抑止力にならない: ナンシーの事例は、受動的な無視が効果的な抑止戦略ではないことを示している。むしろ、反応を引き出すために存在を挑発し、より攻撃的な行動を誘発する可能性がある。
憑依の最終段階における共通点: 3つの事例すべてにおいて、最終的な「憑依」段階は、被害者を圧倒することを目的とした直接的で物理的な攻撃を伴った。これらの攻撃は、感情エネルギーのピークや直接的な相互作用によって引き起こされた。また、その解決策として、精神的な対抗策（祈り、十字架）による撃退と、物理的な場所からの脱出という2つの異なるが有効な戦略が報告された。

最終的に、これらの事例研究は、語り手が提示した「侵入（infestation）」、「抑圧（oppression）」、そして「憑依（possession）」という悪魔的憑依の進行モデルを強力に裏付けている。現象は無害な物音から始まり、標的への心理的・物理的攻撃へと発展し、最終的には被害者の肉体または精神を支配しようとする直接的な試みで最高潮に達するのである。

幽霊・憑依の分類と原因

このポッドキャストの抜粋が示す「幽霊・憑依の分類と原因」についての説明は、主に‌‌ポルターガイストや悪魔憑き‌‌といった、より活動的で恐ろしい現象に焦点を当てながら、幽霊現象の多様性を概説しています。

幽霊・憑依の基本的な分類

情報源によれば、幽霊現象にはいくつかの異なるタイプがあります。

‌‌アクティブな憑依（Active Hauntings）‌‌
- これは通常、‌‌アースバウンドの霊‌‌（earthbound spirits）が関与しています。
- 彼らがこの三次元に留まっている理由としては、‌‌自分が死んだことを知らない‌‌か、あるいは‌‌何らかの理由で留められている‌‌ことなどが考えられます。
- これには‌‌人間の幽霊‌‌だけでなく、‌‌動物の幽霊‌‌も含まれます。
‌‌残留思念による憑依（Residual Haunting）‌‌
- これは「アクティブな幽霊」ではなく、‌‌反響（echoes）‌‌や‌‌心霊的な痕跡（psychic impressions）‌‌のようなものです。
‌‌霊的な訪問（Spirit Visitations）‌‌
- これらは技術的には幽霊ですが、‌‌アースバウンドではない‌‌故人が、ただ挨拶に来るために訪れる場合などです（親愛なる故人の訪問など）。
‌‌ポルターガイストまたは悪魔憑き（Poltergeists or Demonic Hauntings）‌‌
- これは別のカテゴリーとして分類されており、その原因については特に論争があります。

憑依現象（ポルターガイスト・悪魔憑き）の原因に関する理論

「ポルターガイストまたは悪魔憑き」のカテゴリーについて、情報源はいくつかの異なる原因の理論を提示しています。話者はこれらの事件を調査した経験に基づき、これらの理論を検証しています。

‌‌1. 外部の非人間的な霊、または悪魔的な霊の関与‌‌

一部の人々は、これらの現象の原因は‌‌非人間的な霊（inhuman spirits）‌‌であると主張しています。
また、非常に‌‌暗い悪魔的な道‌‌を辿った‌‌人間の霊‌‌が原因であるという見解もあります。
話者は、調査した事件の一部（特に「幽霊アパート」の事件）が、‌‌本格的な悪魔憑き事件‌‌の古典的な兆候をすべて示していると結論付けています。また、「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」の事件についても、‌‌悪魔的な憑依の古典的なケース‌‌であると考えています。

‌‌2. 目撃者自身が原因となる説（制御されていない心霊能力）‌‌

ポルターガイスト現象の真の原因は、‌‌実はその人自身‌‌であり、それは‌‌制御されていない心霊能力（uncontrolled mediumship）‌‌の一形態であるという説もあります。
特にストレスを抱えたティーンエイジャーが関与するケース（ミッチェルの事件など）では、この理論が提唱されています。話者は、ミッチェルが骨の病気で寝たきりになり、大きな精神的ストレスに苦しんでいたことから、彼自身が現象を引き起こしている可能性を指摘しています。
「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」のケースの主要な目撃者であるホイットニーについても、‌‌何らかの心霊的な才能‌‌を持っている可能性が示唆されています。

悪魔憑きのより大きな文脈：進行パターン

これらの最も深刻な幽霊・憑依の事例は、特定のパターンに従って進行すると説明されています。話者が調査した恐ろしい事件は、すべてこのパターンを経て最終段階に至っています。

‌‌侵入（Infestation）‌‌：最初は‌‌足音‌‌や‌‌ドアの開閉‌‌、‌‌物が動く‌‌といった些細な出来事から始まります。
‌‌抑圧（Oppression）‌‌：次に、通常、‌‌一人の目撃者‌‌を標的に選び、‌‌攻撃‌‌を仕掛ける段階へとエスカレートします。
‌‌憑依（Possession）‌‌：これは最終段階であり、霊が目撃者に対し‌‌全面的な攻撃‌‌を開始します。

情報源に記載されている3つの事件（ミッチェル、トゥルーディとカレン、ホイットニー）はすべて、この「憑依」の最終段階に関わる、‌‌非常に活動的で大規模な憑依事件‌‌です。

現象の動力源

これらの暗い霊（悪魔的な霊）の振る舞いに関して、重要な洞察が提供されています。ポルターガイストや悪魔的な霊は、目撃者の‌‌恐れ（fear）‌‌からエネルギーを得て、それによって‌‌強く、うるさく、乱暴‌‌になるというパターンがあります。

ナンシー（ミッチェルの姉）は、自分が怖がるほど霊が強く大きくなることに気づき、‌‌恐れを与えるのをやめる‌‌ことにしました。
パラノーマル研究者の間では、幽霊に‌‌注意を払ったり、怖がったりしない‌‌ことが、活動を鎮静化させるための教訓としてよく知られています。実際に、ミッチェルがこの霊に注意を払うようになると、活動が新たなレベルにまで激化し、最終的に憑依の試みにつながりました。

これらの分類と原因の理論は、幽霊現象を理解するためのツールを提供しています。もしこの一連の現象を建物に例えるなら、‌‌残留思念‌‌は壁に染み付いた古いペンキの匂いのようなものであり、‌‌善良な霊の訪問‌‌は短い滞在で去っていく優雅な客のようなものです。それに対して‌‌ポルターガイストや悪魔的な憑依‌‌は、建物の構造を積極的に揺さぶり、住人を追い出そうとする、エネルギーを食べる嵐のようなものであり、その嵐は住人の‌‌恐れと注意‌‌という燃料によって勢いを増すのです。

ポルターガイストがノックする時

このポッドキャストの抜粋が示すケース1：「ポルターガイストがノックするとき (When Poltergeists Knock)」は、話者が個人的に調査した中でも‌‌最も恐ろしく、悲惨で、恐ろしい3つの事件‌‌の1つとして位置づけられています。この事件は、‌‌憑依の最終段階‌‌に至った‌‌非常に活動的で広範な憑依（hauntings）‌‌のケースであり、現象が‌‌侵入、抑圧、そして憑依‌‌という特定のパターンに従って進行することを示しています。

以下に、ソースがこの事件の分類と原因について何を伝えようとしているかを説明します。

ケース1の背景と初期の現象（侵入段階）

この事件は、カリフォルニア州レイク・バルボアに住むソーレンセン一家（仮名）に数年間わたって発生しました。一家は外見上は伝統的なアメリカの家族に見えましたが、内情は、夫のアルコール依存症と虐待、長男の薬物問題による追放など、‌‌完璧ではありませんでした‌‌。

‌‌引き金となった出来事とストレス:‌‌ 憑依現象は、1977年に末っ子の‌‌ミッチェル‌‌（当時13歳）が脚を骨折した時に始まりました。彼は骨が弱くデリケートな病状と診断され、夏の間ずっと寝たきりを命じられました。話者は、この状況がミッチェルにとって‌‌大きな精神的ストレス‌‌であったことを強調しています。
‌‌初期のノッキング音:‌‌ 憑依は、まず奇妙なノッキング音から始まりました。ミッチェルは、最初は屋根裏の足音のように聞こえ、次に廊下の足音、そして最後に‌‌天井へのノッキング‌‌を聞きました。この音は誰かがドアを叩くようなものではなく、指の関節でテーブルを叩くような普通のノックに似ており、通常は夜9時以降に発生しました。当初、ミッチェルは恐れておらず、好奇心を感じていました。

現象のエスカレーションと恐れの役割（抑圧段階）

時間が経つにつれて、現象はより激しくなりました。

‌‌ノッキングの増加:‌‌ ノッキングはより大きく、より頻繁になり、誰かまたは何かがミッチェルを‌‌怖がらせようとしている‌‌かのように、より大胆になりました。
‌‌ナンシーへの影響:‌‌ 数年後、ミッチェルの姉である‌‌ナンシー‌‌も奇妙な経験をし始めました。彼女の部屋の天井（屋根裏のない構造）で軋む音が始まり、それは次第に重くなり、意図的な‌‌「ガン、ガン、ガン」‌‌という音になりました。
‌‌場所の移動:‌‌ ノッキングは、ナンシーがそれを無視し続けると、‌‌壁の中にまで移動し‌‌、彼女に現象の存在を否定させないようにしました。
‌‌恐怖との関係:‌‌ ナンシーは、この霊が自分を怖がらせようとしていると確信し、その策略に乗らないと決意しました。彼女は、自分が怖がるほど霊が‌‌強く、うるさく、騒々しくなる‌‌ことに気づき、‌‌恐怖がその餌になっている‌‌（feeding off her fear）と判断し、無視し始めました。ナンシーが霊に注意を払わず、恐れを抱くのをやめたことで、活動はわずかに減速しました。
‌‌ミッチェルの関心による激化:‌‌ ナンシーとは対照的に、ミッチェルは現象に‌‌ますます注意を払い始め‌‌、何が望みなのかを知りたがりました。ミッチェルがこの活動源に関心を示したことで、ポルターガイストの力は‌‌新しいレベルへと点火されました‌‌。ミッチェルがシャワーを浴びている最中にシャワーの壁がノックされるなど、活動は激化し始めました。

憑依の試みと終息（憑依段階）

ミッチェルが幽霊に注意を払った数週間後、現象はクライマックスに達し、ミッチェルは物理的に攻撃され、‌‌憑依を試みられました‌‌。

‌‌物理的な攻撃:‌‌ 深夜、ミッチェルはノッキング音で目覚め、その後、廊下を歩く足音を聞きました。彼は部屋に誰かいるように感じ、ベッドに横たわっていると、‌‌文字通り誰かが彼のベッドに乗ったような感覚‌‌を覚えました。
‌‌憑依の試み:‌‌ 彼はベッドが曲がるのをはっきりと見ることができ、誰かが彼の足の上に横たわったように感じました。彼は動くことはできましたが、霊が自分の中に入ろうとしていることは明らかでした。
‌‌活動の終息:‌‌ 特に信心深くなかったにもかかわらず、ミッチェルは熱心に祈り始め、ゆっくりと圧力が持ち上がりました。この事件は彼にとって‌‌生涯で最も恐ろしい出来事‌‌であり、この憑依の試みがあった直後、活動は‌‌ほぼ完全に停止しました‌‌。

事件の原因に関する考察

話者は、この事件の原因について2つの主要な理論を提示しています。

‌‌制御されていない心霊能力（Uncontrolled Mediumship）説:‌‌ ポルターガイストの原因は、‌‌目撃者自身が引き起こしている‌‌場合があり、これは‌‌制御されていない心霊能力‌‌の一形態であるという説です。このケースの主要な目撃者であるミッチェルは、骨の病気で寝たきりとなり、‌‌大きな精神的ストレス‌‌を抱えていたため、彼自身が現象の原因である可能性が「十分に考えられる」とされています。
‌‌悪魔的な霊の関与（Demonic Spirit）説:‌‌ 一方で、この現象は‌‌全面的で暗い悪魔的な霊‌‌によるものである可能性も指摘されています。一家が経験した虐待や薬物中毒といった問題は、一部の憑依事件に見られるパターンであるとされています。

この事件が、憑依の試みの‌‌直後に終結した‌‌という事実は、「多くのことを物語っている」と話者は述べています。

このケースは、幽霊現象が単なる受動的な残留思念ではなく、人間の感情、特に‌‌恐怖からエネルギーを得て‌‌、目撃者を標的にし、徐々に暴力的になり（侵入から抑圧へ）、最終的には‌‌憑依を試みる‌‌（憑依へ）‌‌ダークな存在‌‌である可能性を示している点で、他の幽霊のカテゴリー（アクティブな憑依、残留思念、霊的な訪問）と一線を画しています。これは、‌‌注意を払ったり、怖がったりしないこと‌‌が、この種の活動を鎮静化させるための教訓となることを明確に示しています。

幽霊の出るアパート

この「幽霊の出るアパート」の事件は、話者が調査した中で最も恐ろしく悲惨な事件の1つとして挙げられており、‌‌「本格的な悪魔憑き事件の古典的な兆候」‌‌をすべて示していると結論付けられています。

このケースは、憑依現象が‌‌侵入 (Infestation)、抑圧 (Oppression)、そして憑依 (Possession)‌‌という特定の段階を経てエスカレートしていくパターンを示す、非常に活動的で広範な憑依事件として分析されています。

以下に、ソースがケース2について何を伝えようとしているかを、その進行パターンと原因に関する考察に基づいて説明します。

1. 侵入段階：不吉な環境と初期現象

トゥルーディとカレンという20代前半の友人が、カリフォルニア州ヴァン・ナイズの格安アパート（15号室）に引っ越してきた直後から、現象が始まりました。

‌‌環境の異変:‌‌ アパートの管理人はとても親切でしたが、建物には多くの異変がありました。住人たちは内向的で恐れているようで、常にドアを閉め切っていました。また、建物では常に誰かが口論したり、怒鳴ったりしており、病人が多く、救急車が絶えませんでした。
‌‌死亡の歴史:‌‌ トゥルーディは、隣の部屋の隣のユニットで老婦人が亡くなり、さらに‌‌自分のユニット（15号室）で乳児が亡くなっていた‌‌ことを知りました。
‌‌初期のノイズ:‌‌ トゥルーディが引っ越して数か月後、下の階の住人が天井にテニスボールを投げつけているような音が絶えず聞こえましたが、その住人が騒音のせいで引っ越した後も、音が止まりませんでした。

2. 抑圧段階：黒い人影と物理的攻撃

カレンが引っ越してくると、現象は急速にエスカレートし、「抑圧」の段階に入ります。霊は目撃者を混乱させ、精神的に追い込もうとしました。

‌‌人影の出現:‌‌ 友人のアイバンは、幽霊がいるときにだけ見るという‌‌「レムール（小さな生き物）」‌‌を廊下に見ました。カレンとトゥルーディも、廊下を駆け抜ける‌‌黒い人影‌‌や、角から覗き込む‌‌黒い棒人間‌‌（主に頭と肩の形）を目撃し始めました。これらの人影は非常に速く動き、覗き込むときだけゆっくりでした。
‌‌恐怖と怒りへの依存:‌‌ 人影は、トゥルーディとカレンが‌‌口論を始めると出現し、その近くで勇敢に飛び交い、それ（口論）を楽しんでいる‌‌かのように見えました。これは、霊が‌‌目撃者の恐れや否定的な感情を栄養源にしている‌‌というパターンを示しています。
‌‌物理的な現象:‌‌ アパートはますます不快になり、‌‌かび臭い臭い‌‌や‌‌冷たい場所‌‌が現れました。水道の蛇口をひねると、水が真下に落ちる代わりに‌‌横向きに噴射‌‌する‌‌稀有な現象‌‌が起こりました。
‌‌ベッドの揺れ:‌‌ 100ポンド（約45kg）を超えるキングサイズのベッドが‌‌毎晩激しく揺れる‌‌ようになり、二人はほとんど眠れなくなりました。友人のアドバイスに従って悪態をついたり、呪ったりしても、現象はさらに悪化しました。
‌‌メズザーと夢の侵入:‌‌ 建物内には、‌‌悪霊からの保護を目的としたユダヤのメズザー（お守りの巻物）‌‌が永久に封印されたクローゼットの中に発見されていました。また、カレンは、‌‌住居のわずか数ブロック先で起きた殺人事件と自殺の詳細を正確に予言する悪夢‌‌を見ました。話者はこれを、‌‌悪霊が夢に侵入している可能性‌‌がある興味深いパターンだと指摘しています。

3. クライマックス：憑依の試み

リース期間終了直前、活動はピークに達し、トゥルーディは憑依の標的となりました。

‌‌窒息と強制排出:‌‌ トゥルーディが恐怖から繰り返し主の祈りを唱えていると、ベッドは激しく揺れ、彼女は胸に強い圧力を感じて‌‌息ができなくなりました‌‌。彼女は「掃除機が口に詰まって空気を吸い出す」ような感覚を覚え、物理的に押し戻されたように見えました。霊が彼女の‌‌太陽神経叢（みぞおち）‌‌を通り抜けた瞬間、‌‌ひどい痛み‌‌を感じました。
‌‌攻撃後の視覚:‌‌ 憑依の試みの後、トゥルーディは目を閉じると、‌‌1960年代のベストを着た、小さく、優しく微笑む色のついた老女の姿‌‌を見ました。この老女は、それまで見ていた黒い影とは異なり、「自己紹介」のように感じられたとトゥルーディは述べています。

4. 終結と原因に関する考察

トゥルーディへの憑依の試みが終わると、二人はすぐにアパートを去ることを決めました。

‌‌幽霊の追跡:‌‌ 幽霊は二人を追いかけ、彼らが食事をしていた近所のカフェのテーブルとガムボールマシンを激しく揺らしました。これは‌‌ウェイターが目撃‌‌しています。
‌‌原因の理論:‌‌
1. ‌‌管理人の説:‌‌ 管理人は、幽霊の正体は、妻が下の階の若い男性と親しくなったために‌‌怒りが収まらない老年の亡くなった夫‌‌だと考えていました。
2. ‌‌話者の説（悪魔憑き）:‌‌ 話者は、この事件が黒い人影、夢への侵入、そして激しい物理的攻撃を含んでいることから、‌‌本格的な悪魔憑き事件‌‌の古典的な兆候をすべて示していると結論付けています。
‌‌活動の再発:‌‌ 一度引っ越しをした後も小さな現象が続きましたが、二度目の引っ越し後、活動は完全に停止しました。しかし、後日、カレンは再び‌‌大きな黒い人影に襲われ、一時間近く地面に押さえつけられる‌‌という事件を経験しています。

このケースは、まるで霊的な戦場であるかのように、アパートが住人の‌‌精神的・感情的な弱点‌‌（口論、ストレス）を利用して力を増幅し、最終的に‌‌身体的な乗っ取り‌‌を試みるという、最も危険な幽霊現象の性質を浮き彫りにしています。このアパートは、ネガティブな感情が満ちた環境であり、それが霊的な活動を加速させた‌‌「霊的圧力鍋」‌‌のようなものだったと言えるでしょう。。

ワイルドウッドの悪魔

ご提供いただいた情報源に基づき、ケース3：「ワイルドウッドの悪魔 (The Wildwood Demon)」が、「悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件」という大きな文脈の中で、幽霊・憑依の分類と原因について何を伝えようとしているのかを説明します。

話者はこの事件を、調査した中でも‌‌最も恐ろしい事件‌‌の1つであり、‌‌悪魔的な憑依の古典的なケース‌‌であると考えています。このケースは、他の2つのケースと同様に、‌‌侵入、抑圧、そして憑依‌‌という特定の進行パターンに従ってエスカレートしていきました。

ケース3の背景と分類

この事件は、カリフォルニア州サン・カルロスのワイルドウッド・アベニューにある築約70年の家で、1975年にライト一家が引っ越してきてから数年間にわたって発生しました。

‌‌主要な目撃者:‌‌ 主要な目撃者は息子の‌‌ホイットニー・ライト‌‌（仮名）です。話者は、ホイットニーが事件の説明から判断して、‌‌何らかの心霊的な才能（mediumistic talent）‌‌を持っている可能性が高いと示唆しています。
‌‌分類:‌‌ 話者は、この事件が、冷たい場所、悪臭、生霊（apparition）など、‌‌さまざまな種類の現象‌‌が発生していることから、‌‌悪魔的な憑依の古典的なケース‌‌であると強調しています。

1. 侵入段階：幼少期の微細な活動

憑依は、ホイットニーが幼い頃に始まりました。

‌‌想像上の友人:‌‌ ホイットニーは「空想上の遊び相手」と多くの時間を過ごしていましたが、ドアが勝手に開閉したり、電気がついたり消えたり、物が動いたりといった現象が、彼に「もしかして本物かもしれない」と思わせました。
‌‌微かな現象:‌‌ 子供の頃は、劇的な直接的な遭遇はありませんでしたが、物が勝手に動いたり、ささやき声が聞こえたりといった小さな出来事が絶えず彼を悩ませました。
‌‌願望の実現:‌‌ 幼いホイットニーが「こうなればいいのに」と心の中で願ったこと（母親が転ぶ、クレヨンを折られた仕返しに母親が怪我をするなど）が実際に起こるという、‌‌奇妙な現象‌‌を経験していました。これにより、彼は何かがおかしいと気づき始めました。

2. 抑圧段階：悪意の増幅と「恐怖の餌」

ホイットニーがティーンエイジャーになり、友人のポール・デルガド（Paul Delgado）がガレージの部屋に引っ越してきてから、活動は本格化しました。

‌‌物の移動と喧嘩:‌‌ 霊は、ホイットニーやポールの私物を絶えず‌‌盗んだり、見当違いの場所に置いたり‌‌するようになりました。これにより、二人はお互いを責め、激しい口論になり、霊はこれによって彼らの‌‌注意を引く方法‌‌を見つけました。
‌‌音楽への嫌悪:‌‌ 霊は、ホイットニーたちがギター演奏をしていると、‌‌「かんしゃくを起こす」‌‌かのように強い超常現象を様々な形で起こしました。
‌‌冷たい場所と悪臭:‌‌ 家の中には、悪臭と冷たい場所が発生し、二人は‌‌冷たさ‌‌から霊の位置を把握できるようになりました。
‌‌ウイジャ盤の危険性:‌‌ ポールがウイジャ盤を使って霊と接触しようとした際、霊は嘘をついているように見え、ホイットニーがウイジャ盤を撤去しようと怒鳴った途端、おもりを吊るす針金が真ん中から‌‌物理的に破断する‌‌という事件が起こりました。これにより、ホイットニーはこの霊が「邪悪である」と確信するようになりました。

3. 憑依段階：肉体的な攻撃と制御

ホイットニーとポールが冷たい場所を試すという「遊び」を始めたとき、憑依の最終段階に入りました。彼らは冷たい場所に足を踏み入れると、‌‌エネルギーが体内に移動する‌‌ように感じ、‌‌目眩や頭のふらつき‌‌といった感覚を経験しました。

‌‌クライマックス:‌‌ ある夜、二人が寝ようとしていると、‌‌車がタイヤなしで道路を走っているような甲高い研磨音‌‌が家中に響き渡りました。
‌‌ポールの憑依:‌‌ ポールが霊に「もっと欲しい」「気持ちいい」と言って、‌‌霊を自分の中に入れ続けた‌‌とき、霊は彼を完全に攻撃しました。ポールの声は突然、‌‌甲高い金切り声‌‌に変わり、判別できない言語（あるいは「別の狂った言語」）をぶつぶつとつぶやき始めました。
‌‌ホイットニーへの攻撃:‌‌ ホイットニーがポールを助けようとベッドから起き上がろうとした際、‌‌「重力に引っ張られるような感覚」‌‌でベッドに叩きつけられました。まるで‌‌500〜600ポンド（約230〜270kg）‌‌の重さが胸に乗っているようで、彼は‌‌指一本動かせず‌‌、完全に身動きが取れませんでした。
‌‌解放と十字架:‌‌ ホイットニーは這ってポールに近づき、近所の人にもらった‌‌十字架‌‌をポールの胸に当てました。その瞬間、ポールはホイットニーの背中を掴み、‌‌傷跡が残るほどの鋭い痛み‌‌を与えましたが、ホイットニーが心の中で神に助けを求めると、ポールの甲高い声は泣き声に戻り、憑依は解けました。

事件からの教訓と再発のパターン

このケースは、‌‌霊に注意を払ったり、恐れたりすることが、その霊にエネルギーを与え、より強くする‌‌という、パラノーマル研究者の間で知られている教訓を強く示しています。

‌‌霊の動機:‌‌ 霊は、ホイットニーが‌‌混乱し、動揺し、暗い考え‌‌を抱いているとき（ガールフレンドとの別れ後など）に、その機会を逃さず活動を再開しました。
‌‌邪悪な兆候:‌‌ 憑依の試みの後、ホイットニーは‌‌腐った肉のような悪臭‌‌を嗅ぎ、‌‌小さく若い人物のシルエット‌‌を目撃しました。
‌‌インタビュー後の再発:‌‌ ホイットニーは、霊に注意を払うことを避けたがっていましたが、話者による‌‌インタビューを受けた直後‌‌に霊が戻ってきたため、彼の懸念が正しかったことが裏付けられました。

この「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」の事件は、ポルターガイスト現象が単なる現象ではなく、人間の感情的な弱さや注意を利用して力を増し、最終的に目撃者を肉体的・精神的に乗っ取ろうとする‌‌邪悪な知性‌‌によって引き起こされるという話者の主張を裏付けるものとなっています。この霊は、あたかも‌‌人間のネガティブな感情を食糧とする捕食者‌‌のように振る舞ったのです。

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Three True Cases of Demonic Possession

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（以下は "Three True Cases of Demonic Possession" と題された podcast の文字起こしです。）

Hello everyone, my name is Preston Dennett and welcome to a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. As you can probably tell, tonight's episode is going to be a little bit different. I'm not going to be talking about UFOs or ETs, but instead I'm going to be talking about ghosts. The evidence for ghosts is outstanding. These cases of ghosts come from all over the world. They've been occurring for centuries. There is no doubt that ghosts exist. (00:00:32)

There are many different types of ghosts. There are such things as active hauntings involving usually earthbound spirits who for some reason or another are still here visiting the third dimension. It could be because they don't know they're dead or they've got some reason holding them back. But that's an active haunting of human ghosts. There are animal ghosts as well. There's another type of haunting that is probably best known as a residual haunting. And this is not involving so much active ghosts, but more like echoes or psychic impressions. (00:01:11)

There are also spirit visitations which are technically ghosts, but these are people who are not earthbound so you might be visited by a dear loved one who just comes to say hi. And then there's another category of ghosts which is poltergeists or demonic hauntings. There's a lot of controversy about what exactly causes these types of hauntings. Some say that they are inhuman spirits. Others say that they are human spirits that have just followed a very dark demonic path. And some believe that in fact what they really are is the person itself causing the haunting. (00:01:53)

And it's sort of a form of uncontrolled mediumship. So today's episode is called Three True Cases of Demonic Possession. I've investigated dozens of ghost cases and hauntings of all kinds. And I have to tell you, these three cases are the most terrifying, harrowing, scary cases I've ever personally investigated. All of these are multiple witness cases. They're very well verified. In fact, I know the witnesses for two of these cases quite well and have visited the actual locations. So these cases, I think, will really provide a window into understanding what is going on with these type of hauntings. (00:02:41)

One more thing I'd like to say is that these hauntings seem to follow a certain pattern of manifestation. What will start out is infestation, little events such as footsteps or doors opening and closing or objects moving. And then it ramps up to another stage, which we call oppression. And this is when it usually picks on one witness and really sort of attacks them. And it moves us to the final stage of possession, in which it really launches out a full-out attack on the witness. So these three cases involve the end stage. These are all very active, extensive cases of hauntings. (00:03:27)

So let's just get started. And the first case I'd like to talk about I call When Poltergeists Knock. So this case involves a whole family, actually, but mainly a brother and sister who were the targets of this poltergeist or this demonic spirit. In particular, it was the son, Mitchell, I call him. That is his pseudonym. This took place over a period of years in Lake Balboa, California. I know this family quite well. They really did not want to be interviewed, but I finally convinced them. And they have quite a story to tell, as you'll see. (00:04:07)

The witnesses in this case, I call them the Sorensen family of Lake Balboa, California. That is a pseudonym. They do not want their identities removed. On the outside, they appeared to be the traditional American family with a husband, wife, and three children. The husband worked full-time. The wife stayed home and cared for the children, two boys and one girl. They lived in their house in the suburbs, and everything seemed perfect. However, on the inside, it was not perfect. It turns out the husband was abusive and suffered from alcoholism. (00:04:39)

Ms. Sorensen finally made the decision to divorce him for the sake of her children. And at the same time, her oldest son got into drugs, and following numerous attempts to rehabilitate him, she was forced to kick him out of the house. So this left just Mrs. Sorensen and her two children, Mitchell and Nancy. So this is how the haunting began. One day in 1977, her youngest child, Mitchell, then 13 years old, broke his leg. It was to mark the very beginning of a long and involved haunting that ended in the near possession of Mitchell, and it all began with strange knocking sounds. (00:05:19)

Mitchell was ordered by his doctors to spend the entire summer in bed because he was diagnosed with a condition that left his bones weak and delicate. And needless to say, this was very frustrating for Mitchell, and it was during this time that the strange knocking noises began. As Mitchell says, The first incident that I remember was back when I was 13, when I was recovering from having a broken leg. I was lying in my bed in the middle of the night, and I kept hearing, at first it wasn't really a knocking, it sounded like footsteps in the attic above the ceiling. (00:05:54)

And then, all of a sudden, there was no noise. Then it sounded like there were footsteps in the hallway. Then that noise went away. And then, that was when I heard the knocking for the first time. It didn't really sound like someone knocking on the door. It sounded like someone was knocking on the ceiling. I don't know how to describe the noise. It wasn't like pounding. It wasn't like someone was pounding on the door. (00:06:19)

It was more like someone was doing a normal knock, like someone knocking their knuckles on the table. And there were only three or four knocks, and it went away. So Mitchell was not scared by the knocking sounds at this point, just curious. He wondered what was causing it, and why it was happening. But after several minutes, it went away, and he fell back asleep. In the days that followed, he continued to hear these knocking noises. It was almost as if some kind of door had been opened. (00:06:47)

As Mitchell says, What was strange about it was that most of the time, the knocking occurred during that summer. And definitely at night, usually from nine o'clock onwards. It was never in the early evening. So Mitchell thankfully recovered from his injuries and returned to normal life. However, every summer after that, the strange knocking noises returned to his bedroom. As he says, It happened almost every summer, and as far as I know, no one else heard it. When I was asleep, it never woke me up. (00:07:20)

But when I was awake, just lying there at night, I would hear a knocking. And sometimes I would hear the knocking above my bedroom. Sometimes I heard it out in the living room or in the hallway. And one summer in particular, I don't know if it was loud, but it just seemed like it went on. It seemed like the knocking just kept going all night long. So as the knocking became louder and more frequent, Mitchell did start to get frightened. The knocking suddenly became more brazen, as if whoever or whatever was doing it was trying to cause Mitchell to become afraid. (00:07:54)

So he kept searching for an explanation. As he says, It's funny, because there were times that I thought maybe my sister or Randy, his mother's boyfriend, or somebody was in the hallway. I'd open the doorway, and no one else would be up. There would be no one in the doorway, and the sound would be gone. And I was sitting there, and I would feel like, What? Am I going crazy? It must be the wind, right? (00:08:20)

And I'd go back to bed and sit there, and it would start up again. And I'd be thinking, Well, how can the wind make knocking noises in the attic? Now Mitchell didn't want anyone to think he was insane, so he told nobody about what he was experiencing. Unknown to him, however, his older sister Nancy had also begun having strange experiences. One evening, Nancy was in her bedroom, working on her college homework. Suddenly, the strange knocking noise, which had plagued Mitchell for years, started with her. (00:08:53)

As she says, One of the first times I noticed, it was really subtle. There would be this creaking on the roof. Now, in my room, there was no attic. It was just tongue-in-groove paneling, and the roof was right on top of it. So when there was something creaking on the roof, of course you always thought, Okay, there's a cat on the roof. The squirrels are playing. The wind's blowing. It didn't really mean much, because in that room there was no insulation. There was no attic. (00:09:21)

So at first, I didn't pay any attention. I'd hear creaking on the roof, and then after a while, it would get heavier. A period of time goes by, and the creaking becomes more and more obvious, and more pronounced. As time went by, this creaking became very obvious. And it was less and less like creaking, and more intentional. Like creak, creak, creak. Bang, bang, bang. Bang! So Nancy became increasingly puzzled by this noise, but did her best to ignore it. She had begun to realize that it was probably something strange and unexplained, and she didn't want to give it any attention. (00:09:57)

So to keep herself from getting afraid, she simply ignored it. And yet, the knocking continued to get worse. As she says, It was almost always late at night, when there was nobody awake in the house. And I'd be sitting in my room studying, and here would come this knocking on the roof. And for a long time, I just kept saying, OK. I just kept putting it off. I didn't want to accept the fact that there was something hanging around bugging me. (00:10:23)

And then it must have realized that I wasn't accepting it, so it started moving down into the walls, so that there could be no question that there was something there. I couldn't pass it off as, Oh, there's a squirrel running in my wall between my kitchen and the bedroom. So Nancy became convinced that their house was haunted, and yet like her brother Mitchell, she told nobody. She was sure that this ghost was trying to scare her, and she was determined not to give in to its games. (00:10:52)

She would stay up late at night doing her homework, and studying, when this knocking would return. And the more she ignored it, the louder, bolder, and more frequent it became. It became a strange game of cat and mouse, with her trying to ignore the ghost, and it doing its best to get her attention and frighten her. As Nancy says, Sometimes it would knock right up the wall next to me. I decided that whatever it was, was fine. (00:11:20)

It could be there and do whatever, as long as it didn't come in my room and actually bother me. I was being the typical human. I was afraid of what I didn't know and couldn't actually see. So I wasn't really that interested in finding out what it was. I used to hear it every night for a while. But it occurred to me that it was feeding off my fear. So I started ignoring it. (00:11:43)

Because as I became more scared, it became stronger and louder and more disturbing. So at some point, it wasn't wise for me to be afraid. Because the more afraid I became, the louder and more rambunctious it became. So at one point, I actually told it that it should go and find what it was looking for somewhere else. I didn't want to feed its negativity. I didn't want to feed it with fear. But it never went away. (00:12:08)

It just kept hanging out. And I'd ignore it, and it would hang out, and I'd ignore it. So Nancy didn't know what else to do. She was hoping that, like a bully on the school playing round, by ignoring the ghost, it would eventually go away. And after she confronted it, the activity did seem to slow down slightly. The knocking would still occur periodically, but it was less and less. And finally, she decided to approach Mitchell and ask him, Do you ever hear noises on the roof? (00:12:38)

And he said, What, like squirrels? She said, No, not squirrels. Well, it might be the spirit of a dead Indian or something. Mitchell replied, Well, I don't know. Mitchell didn't know what to say. As he later said, She was scaring the hell out of me, to tell you the truth. So then, one evening Nancy was up late at night studying in her bedroom when the now familiar sound of knocking began again, in earnest. She was ignoring it, but Mitchell walked in and heard it too. (00:13:10)

And he looked at her and said, Do you hear that? She said, Yes. Well, what is it? Mitchell asked. And Nancy said, I don't know. It's been hanging out in here for almost a year now, and I don't know what it is. So Mitchell told her, Well, why don't you find out? Nancy just laughed and said, Because I've never had enough gall. I don't have the courage to find out what it is, to tell you the truth. But Mitchell, however, was becoming intrigued. (00:13:39)

He was surprised and kind of glad that his sister had also heard the knockings. At least he wasn't crazy. He didn't tell her that he had been hearing this sound for years, because he thought it was only him. But now it was bothering his sister too, and he really wondered, what did it want? So Mitchell's reaction was kind of the opposite of his sister's. He began to give the ghost more and more attention. (00:14:01)

And it was around this time that he noticed the knocking sounds coming more and more from locations around the house. And at times he felt like this ghost was purposefully trying to scare him or drive him crazy. As Mitchell says, Sometimes I heard it in the bathroom. That is when it was weird. It was never someone knocking on the doors or walls. It was always the floor or the ceiling. And I never caught anyone when all this was happening. I never caught anyone awake or anything. (00:14:31)

I was the only one. That's why I thought I was maybe going a little bananas or imagining it. But it happened so much that I thought, well, there's got to be something to it. I never really pursued it as far as going into the attic or anything. Now Mitchell's recent interest in the source of the activity did seem to ignite the power of this poltergeist or whatever it was to a new level. As Nancy says, it used to happen only in my room until he became curious about it and started saying, well, what is it? What could it be? (00:15:04)

So a couple of days later, he was taking a shower and it started knocking on the shower wall. It scared him. So by now the activity was beginning to build up to a frenzy. However, it still stayed discreet, appearing only to Mitchell and Nancy and never to their mother or her boyfriend, both of whom knew nothing about the ghost. Around this time, Nancy had a vivid and powerful dream about the rape and murder of a fellow classmate. And two days later, she found out that this dream actually came true. Meanwhile, the knocking was coming more and more often and Mitchell became torn between terror and fascination. (00:15:45)

And he also began to sense a presence outside his bedroom door late at night. As he says, there have been times when I felt someone was in the hallway, but when I opened the doorway, there never was. And that was always in the middle of the night too. So the haunting was now reaching its peak. Apparently, because Mitchell had given the ghost attention, it was now manifesting more strongly. And it was a few weeks following the shower incident when Mitchell was physically attacked by the ghost, which then actually tried to possess him. (00:16:17)

Mitchell reports that this incident remains the single most terrifying event of his entire life. It was late at night and everyone else was asleep in the house. Mitchell closed the door and crawled into bed. In the middle of the night, he was woken up by the familiar knocking noises. This time, however, there was something else. He heard footsteps. As Mitchell says, This is the part that I really don't tell people about because it's kind of weird. People say, you might have a vivid imagination. (00:17:09)

It like progressed. Usually after that point, it would die off for the night, but it didn't this time. That's when it was really weird because all of the sudden, I heard the tapping go from my bedroom ceiling to the ceiling over the hallway. And then it stopped. And then I swear, I heard someone walking in my hallway. And I got up as fast as I could and I opened the door. There was no one there. I was trying to rationalize it, right? So I shut the door and that's when I swear I heard someone knocking on the floor right in front of the door, like tapping on the carpet. (00:17:46)

And that's when I just said, I'm not going to answer the door this time. I'm going to stay in my bed. And that's when I felt like someone was in the room. And at that point, I turned on the flashlight that I had, a little mag light, and there was no one there. And I turned it off and laid back down, and I still felt like there was someone in the room. Then, at that point, it felt like someone literally stepped on my bed. (00:18:14)

I just closed my eyes and didn't move, and the pressure being felt on my bed was pretty real. Not at first, but after that, I did feel like someone had not really stepped on my legs. They had laid themselves down across my legs and never reached up to my face or anything, just on my legs. Now, by now, Mitchell was absolutely terrified. He waited to see what would happen next, but it was clear to him this ghost was trying to move inside of him. As he says, I could move. It was easy to breathe and everything. It wasn't like they were pushing on my chest or arms. (00:18:51)

It just felt like someone was standing on my bed. And then it felt like someone laid down on my legs. I mean, I don't know if it was a person. When I had the feeling of someone stepping on my bed, I raised up my head only, and I could literally see the bed bending. Now, when they laid down on my legs, I didn't lift my head up. I didn't move. I just closed my eyes and listened. But before I did, I could plainly see that there was no one in front of me, and the door was closed the whole time. (00:19:22)

No one opened and closed the door. I would have been able to hear it. So Mitchell lay there, and although he wasn't particularly religious, he began to pray fervently, and slowly the pressure lifted. As Mitchell says, At that point, I heard one or two knocks again, above my bedroom in the attic, and I still had this feeling of weight on my legs. And then slowly the weight lifted off my legs again, and I could just feel it on the bed. And then that feeling went away completely. And that was it for the night. (00:19:56)

And that was really the strongest incident that I ever remember. Everything else was like walking or knocking. So after the ghost finally left, Mitchell lay in his bed, literally shaking with fear, because he had no idea what had just happened to him. As he says, To tell you the truth, I was sweating. I was slightly sweating, and I didn't know what to think. I figured, well, I could say automatically it's a ghost, it's a poltergeist, or whatever, but I don't know. But I could swear that there was something in that room that night, and I would swear that it was real. (00:20:30)

And I never told anybody about it, because nowadays you could get easily branded as a crackpot, a crazy, or whatever. So I basically kept it to myself. I only told a few people. One of the few people Mitchell told was his sister. Nancy clearly remembers the day he came and told her that she was right to ignore the ghost, and that he should have left it alone. Following this apparent near-possession incident, the activity came to a near-complete halt. There were still a few scattered knockings here and there, but nothing near the intensity of the weeks before. (00:21:06)

I can't say there was one other witness. My brother visited the house, and he was there when there were these weird knocking noises on the roof. I asked him about this. It's funny, because he's very skeptical of ghosts, but he said, yeah, there was something to it. And at one point, Mitchell did tell me that he thought he saw a black apparition, but when I did a formal interview with him, he had no memory of this. So that's kind of odd as well. But that is when the haunting stopped, and it never came back again. (00:21:38)

I think you'll agree, that's pretty darn scary. It's interesting that this haunting started out so slowly, and then ramped up over a period of years, and finally culminated in this absolute attack on the witness. What is going on here? It's very hard to say, because there is quite a bit of evidence that poltergeist attacks might be the witness themselves. A disturbed teenager is present in a number of these cases, and that's absolutely true in this case. The main witness, Mitchell, suffering from a bone disease, broke his leg, was bedridden. Clearly, that is a lot of emotional stress for a person to go through. (00:22:24)

So it's entirely possible that he is responsible for this, and he has, perhaps, some mediumistic talent, and this is uncontrolled physical mediumship. This is one of the theories. Or this could just be an all-out, dark, demonic spirit of some kind. This family did go through some abuse, initially. The older son did suffer from some drug addiction. This does turn up in some of these cases. Another interesting aspect is that the sister had that really dark, awful dream of a murder. That is very interesting to me, because this does turn up in a number of cases. So there's some real interesting patterns going on here. What's also very interesting is that the haunting ended immediately after this possession attempt. (00:23:16)

So that, I think, speaks volumes. Now let's move to the next case, which I call the Haunted Apartments. Again, these are witnesses I interviewed personally. It involves two young ladies, co-workers, and friends who decided to move into a pretty cheap, they thought, apartment building. It seemed perfect. It turned out this apartment was haunted, and the haunting began almost immediately. And it was just small events at first, as we'll see, but soon ramped up from the first stage, infestation, to oppression. Really kind of driving the witnesses crazy, making them think they were crazy, and finally launched out an all-out attack on one of the witnesses. (00:24:02)

These are not the only witnesses, too. This was witnessed by many people that they invited over. And as we'll see, there's quite a bit of evidence for this. I think you'll find an absolutely interesting and harrowing series of events. In this case, two girlfriends in their early twenties decided to rent an apartment together. Little did they know that they were about to experience the most frightening four months of their lives. The ordeal began when Trudy Shea, not her real name, decided to move out of her parents' house and live on her own. (00:24:38)

She searched for an apartment and found one in a good neighborhood of Van Nuys, California, for only $600. This was a very low price, and just within her price range. To her delight, it was perfect. The building was newly painted in bright cheery colors, was located at 4760 Kester Avenue in Van Nuys. The grounds were well-maintained, with flowers and nice green lawns. It was a cozy two-story building, contained only 25 units. The apartments were spacious, and Trudy was delighted to find that there was also a pool. (00:25:14)

It was exactly what she was looking for. The manager was very nice and showed her the vacant unit, which was apartment 15, and Trudy fell in love with it right away. She had her own protected parking space, there was a locked gate, it was very close to the theater where she was rehearsing a play, and the residents of the building were mostly older people, so she figured that there wouldn't be too much noise. The apartment fulfilled every qualification she was looking for. It seemed almost destined, too good to be true, so she didn't hesitate. (00:25:46)

She paid the manager the first and last rent and a security deposit and moved in. She felt great to be living on her own, working towards her career as an actor. About six months after she moved in, Trudy had her first problems with the apartment. One of the tenants in the unit directly below her was making too much noise, and it sounded to her like he was throwing a tennis ball against the ceiling in the middle of the night, sometimes for hours. And Trudy was about to complain to the manager, but then, to her delight, the man below her moved out, and finally she thought she'd have a peaceful night's sleep. (00:26:24)

But she was wrong. Even though the apartment below her was empty, the strange sounds continued. And when Trudy complained to the manager, she found out that the man below her had moved out because he thought that she was the one who was making all the noise. As Trudy says, Things were happening, but I didn't connect it. Now I look back, I think, oh my God, that's what it was. The guy had moved out below because he thought I was making a lot of noise. There was a constant noise, now that I connect it back to then, and I thought he was throwing a tennis ball against the wall. (00:27:00)

It was going d-d-d, d-d-d, constantly hitting the wall, the floor, and something else. And it kept doing it, a constant beat with the ball. But I never noticed it then. It didn't connect because I didn't believe in ghosts. Around that time, Trudy started to notice other strange things going on in the building. There was an unusual amount of arguing going on. Somebody was always screaming and fighting. In fact, people were actually evicted from their apartment because of these continuing tirades. She also noticed there was a lot of sick people, and there was a constant parade of ambulances going to and from the building. (00:27:43)

She learned that an old lady had died in the apartment next to the one that was directly below hers, and also that a young infant had actually died in her apartment. And she was shocked to hear that so many deaths had occurred in this building. And there were other strange things. Everybody in the building seemed shy and reserved, almost scared. Everybody's door was always closed and locked, and nobody seemed to want to make friends with their neighbors. Soon, Trudy found her bills adding up, and this is when she decided to invite her friend Karen Tyler, that's a pseudonym, to share the apartment with her. (00:28:19)

This was just before Christmas, and almost immediately after Karen moved in, strange events began to occur. For example, they invited their friend Ivan to help set up Karen's stereo. He was fiddling with the wires when he suddenly stood up, looked over towards the hallway, obviously frightened. Karen and Trudy asked him what was wrong, and he explained that he was seeing a lemur in the hallway. These were little creatures that he said he saw only when there were ghosts around. So now Karen and Trudy looked at each other, afraid, but Ivan said simply, oh, don't worry about it. (00:28:56)

And he bent down and began fixing the stereo, but both Trudy and Karen could tell that he was trying to set it up as fast as he could without looking like he was rushing. And the minute he was done, Ivan excused himself and left the apartment. Karen was freaked out by this. She hadn't told anybody, but she had started to see strange things out of the corner of her eye. Dark shadows that would flit across the hallway, exactly where Ivan said he saw these lemur-like creatures. (00:29:24)

And Karen suspected that the apartment was haunted. And she says, the first time I really noticed it, we were talking in the bedroom, and I thought I saw, it looked like a woman was looking around the corner. But neither of us said anything to each other. I was kind of freaked out, and I looked at her, and she said, what? And we both saw it. And then we acknowledged it. It was just a little old lady. Both were frightened, but decided to do their best to ignore it. (00:29:54)

Shortly following this incident, Karen began to see more dark apparitions flitting down the hallway. And now she wasn't seeing them out of the corner of her eye, she could look directly at them. And she says, I'd always see figures running by the bathroom. The bathroom was here, here's the corner, and the bedroom was here. And I'd always see the black figures running past the bathroom. A black thing. I'd be watching TV and see them back over in the hallway. (00:30:22)

It looked like stick figures running by. Black stick figures. And Trudy, of course, also began to see them. And she says, they were dark figures. You could actually see the shape of the head. And the main part we saw of them was from the shoulders to the head, because they'd always be peeking. And if you saw them run, you'd see like a dark zoom. The bottom, you couldn't really see it much when it would run. But every single night, the heads, the heads and the shoulders mainly, every night darting across. (00:30:54)

I mean, every time. I never saw the whole body so much. All you saw was the darkest area, the head. It was dark, but it was fast. Really fast. It was never slow. The only time it was slow was when it was peeking. So by now, Trudy and Karen had admitted to each other that their apartment was haunted. And they had developed a kind of routine following each incident. Each time there was an apparition, they would look at each other and cry out, did you see that? (00:31:23)

The apparitions appeared so often that Trudy and Karen began to notice patterns. If ever they started arguing, the figures would appear and dash bravely right up next to them. Or float up in the corner and stare down at them. Now one day they spoke with the building manager and asked about the history of the building. They learned from the manager that several strange things had been discovered. For example, construction workers were working on the building and had found several closets on the basement floor that had been permanently sealed. They actually had to be torn out for remodeling. (00:32:01)

And when they were opened, the workers found several old scrolls of parchment with writing on them and recognized them as Jewish mezuzahs. On them were prayers that were supposed to offer protection from evil spirits. Despite this, the haunting continued to escalate and the events became so absurd and unbelievable that the two young women felt like they were walking around in shock half the time. Reality was no longer following its natural laws. It seemed like anything could happen. They began to feel like the haunting was actually moving inside them, trying to possess them. (00:32:37)

As Trudy says, We felt really different. We felt really, really different. Like everything was unreal. Like we were in a higher state of consciousness. Everything you looked at was just really, really weird. For example, Trudy once went to pet a neighbor's dog who loved her. But when she did, the dog barked at her as if she was a complete stranger. Another time, Karen went to visit a good friend, and her friend wouldn't open the door for her at first because she didn't recognize Karen. They spoke to the lady in the neighboring apartment who told them that she thought her unit was haunted because something or someone was constantly tugging on her hair. (00:33:17)

And she said she also saw an apparition of an old man in the mirror, but when she turned around, nobody was there. Karen and Trudy's unit itself was becoming increasingly uncomfortable. They started to notice a strange musty odor filling the area. There were also cold spots. One day, they turned on the water faucet, and instead of the water streaming down, it sprayed out sideways, as if someone was holding their hand against it. Another time, they invited Trudy's sister to stay with them, and in the middle of the night, her sister woke up screaming, saying she saw an apparition. (00:33:54)

Another time, Trudy was taking an afternoon nap alone in the bedroom. Her bed was a giant king-sized, old-fashioned wooden bed. In fact, both she and Karen shared the bed. It weighed well over 100 pounds, and it took three of them to move it in. Suddenly, Trudy woke up to the bed shaking. This had happened several times already, but she assumed that it was the building shaking or a small earthquake. But this time, it was obviously only the bed, because everything else in the room was still. One day, she was washing her hair when someone tapped her on her shoulder. She rolled around, and no one was there. Then soon, this bed shaking started happening every night. (00:34:36)

As Trudy says, the bed was shaking. It wasn't even back and forth. It was like a really hard shake the minute we tried to go to sleep. This is why we barely got any sleep, because of that. Anytime we tried to go to sleep, the bed would go thud, thud, thud, thud. We were told to tell it to stop. Our friend said, tell it to stop. So we'd say, get the F out of here. We'd look, because they would always be peeking. And then it would start. They'd peek and start, peek and start. And we'd say, get the F out of here. They'd stop, and then they would go again. Sometimes they would be in the room, but they would always be there when it happened. (00:35:18)

So not surprisingly, they both became exhausted. Tempers often flared, and they started to get in violent arguing matches. And every time they argued, these apparitions would appear, as if they were enjoying it, feeding off of it. But this bed continued to shake. As Karen says, it shook like an earthquake. The bed started shaking more often, and then the bed started shaking every night, every night, big time. Sometimes they, the ghosts, would be in the room. Sometimes they wouldn't. I'd say, this is my space. This is my space. You can't be here. This is my space right now. Leave us alone. But the ghosts continued to bother them, so the two girls finally decided that they had to seek outside help. Their friends' advice of shouting at the ghosts only seemed to make it worse. (00:36:10)

They tried reasoning with them, pleading, ordering, cursing, praying. Nothing seemed to get rid of the ghosts. The bed continued to shake, and the apparitions kept flitting around the apartment. Objects would move by themselves. There were strange explosive sounds coming from the kitchen area. So they tried everything. One time they tried sprinkling salt, and lighting white candles, and using sacred objects, and these kinds of things. But nothing worked. Around this time, Karen woke up one night from a horrifying, but very realistic dream. She was in a room with three other people, when a man pulled out a gun and threatened to kill all of them. (00:36:51)

He waved the gun around as if he was possessed, and then began shooting. And in fact, he shot and killed everyone in the room, and then killed himself. In the dream, Karen ran out of the room screaming. She woke up in a cold sweat, thankful that it was only a nightmare. However, that day on the news, Karen saw her dream come to life. It turned out that just a few blocks away from their apartment, a man shot and killed his family, and then himself, exactly like she saw in her dream. So Karen and Trudy were now at the end of their rope. Thankfully, their lease was about to run out, and they began scanning the newspapers for a different apartment. (00:37:30)

It was only two weeks before the lease ran out, and things were worse than ever. It looked like the haunting was reaching its peak. It was late at night. Both Karen and Trudy were getting ready for bed. They crept into bed and turned out the lights, and then Trudy suddenly started praying with an intensity she had never felt before. She prayed to God and started saying the Lord's Prayer over and over, because she had felt this haunting coming to a peak, and she was more afraid than she had ever been. Little did she know, the ghost was about to attempt to possess her. (00:38:05)

As Trudy says, I'm saying the Lord's Prayer over and over again. Our Father who art in heaven. Over and over and over. And I was just clenching and just lying there. I was so afraid that night. I kept saying to Karen, I don't want it to happen tonight. I don't want it to. I can't anymore. I can't deal with it anymore. I was so afraid. All of a sudden, the bed started going really hard. But what happened? Oh, I'm getting scared now. The bed started shaking. And Karen felt this also. The bed was shaking. And I felt a pressure. (00:38:39)

I could not breathe. Right here in my chest. It's like I broke away. Karen said it looked like I had been pushed back. But I couldn't breathe. I could not breathe. I opened my mouth and I can't even repeat the noise. And it was hard and fast that it came out of me. The only way I can explain it is that a vacuum was stuck in my mouth and sucked the air out of me so fast. Everything went. I mean, I couldn't even get up. I was just crying. I said, Oh my God, crying and crying. Karen was looking at me like she didn't even want to touch me. And I was trying to breathe. (00:39:16)

So Karen was lying right next to Trudy on the night of this incident. She was becoming annoyed by Trudy's constant praying. Then the bed started shaking violently. The apparitions appeared. And Karen saw Trudy get pinned down by this invisible force. As Karen says, That night was really, really weird. We were looking for a place and we were ready. There was a musty smell. It was yucky. You'd walk in there and you felt like dark, cold. This is what happened. We go into the room. We turn off the light. The candle is lit. Anyway, Trudy's really getting into it. And I'm thinking, Oh, come on, Trudy. I'm kind of irritated. I'm starting to go to sleep and she's praying big time. I could feel it. (00:40:03)

And I'm next to her at this point. I remember she was lying like this, pressed down on the bed. She was kind of stiff, kind of like it was holding her down. It was like she couldn't get up. She looked like she was trying to get up, but she couldn't. Then she sat up really fast. She couldn't go back to sleep. Now, Trudy says that not only was something holding her down and choking her, it had actually moved inside her. As Trudy says, It went through me, the pressure here on my solar plexus. I could not breathe. And the minute my mouth went open, she, the ghost, was out. I was hoping she was out. When it went through me, that hurt so bad. Not just breathing hurt, pain, like crushing. I couldn't go back to sleep. Anytime I closed my eyes, I could see a lady. She was very little, very fragile. The outfit was like a vest from the 60s and colorful. This was the colored thing I saw, not black and white. She was old, though. Her hair was greasy, stringy, with gray and black in it. All I remember was the mouth. The mouth wasn't like a big grin, but it was nice and sweet, and her head was tilted. Very sweet, not threatening at all. (00:41:17)

It was almost, to me, like an introduction, because I was afraid and so curious of who these people are, and why are they bothering us? I don't want them to do it anymore. It was hurting us. That's the night I closed my eyes, and it went through me, and I saw her. And I told Karen, I can't sleep. I'm seeing this lady. And I explained what she looked like, and I said, she's not hurting me, but she's there. She was there, and she wouldn't go away. Finally, I did go to sleep, and I never saw her again. That was the last time. But now I know exactly what she looks like. (00:41:55)

Exactly. So that night was the last straw. When morning came, they discussed moving out to a hotel for the remainder of their lease. The decision wasn't difficult. They decided to move out that day, and not spend one more night in this cursed apartment. They packed up in a frenzy of activity, throwing everything they owned haphazardly into boxes and bags. By the end of the afternoon, they were finished. All the hard work had left them famished, so they chose to treat themselves to a dinner at the nearby Cafe 50's. This is a quaint little fast food joint on Van Nuys Boulevard, just a few miles from their apartment. And as they sat down in the cafe, they felt the thrill of finally being free of this ghost. (00:42:36)

They sat together in a little booth, and it was during the dinner rush. The restaurant was crowded. They were waiting for their food, when they both felt the table give a sudden lurch. At first, neither of them thought anything of it, but seconds later, it started to really shake. They argued about it, and then it started shaking violently. So together, they jumped up and went to the cashier to pay their bill, because they knew the ghost had followed them. And this is when the ghost struck again, and this time, the waiter became a witness. As Trudy says, So I'm paying the bill, and Karen's standing back by the gumball machine. (00:43:17)

The gumball machine's just sitting there next to a jukebox, and I'm paying the bill, and Karen screams, Trudy! I turn around and look, and this gumball machine is going ch-ch-ch-ch, really fast, right next to her, shaking. And we grabbed the waiter, who did not believe us, really, and he looked, and he turned whiter than white. The gumball machine was just going. It was shaking like the table was. And he freaked out. He freaked out. The three of us saw that shaking. It was right next to her. I was crying. So the two young ladies paid their bill and exited the restaurant in a hurry. They drove away and went straight to a hotel. And to their intense relief, they spent their first peaceful night in a long time. (00:43:55)

They returned to the apartment early the next morning, got all their boxes and stuff, and moved out. They found another apartment nearby. It was a little more expensive, but hopefully it wouldn't be haunted. As they set up their new place, it was understood that there would be no talk of ghosts. This subject was taboo. They had decided that everything would be normal, no matter what. And in the first few weeks, both Trudy and Karen did notice small unexplained events, an object moving, a strange noise, once a light turned on by itself. But these were few and far between, and they just completely ignored them. And to their delight, the haunting seemed to be over. Just in case they decided to move again, they found a better apartment and completed the move. And after the second move, the paranormal events came to a complete stop. The ghosts had finally left them alone. (00:44:48)

I spoke with the apartment manager, and she confirmed the haunting, particularly in Unit 15. As the apartment manager says, I was watching her from the bedroom door. But she hasn't really said that much, because everyone's probably going to think she's crazy if she keeps talking about it. And I personally had one where I walked into my living room. I walked in there, and I felt somebody watching me. And I ran back into my bedroom because it frightened me so much. But I've never had that feeling since. That's the only time I've ever had that. What happened with Apartment 15 was an older man and an older woman were living there, and the man died. And the woman became friendly with the man downstairs, who was a young man. They were friends, I guess, just friends. But they became very friendly. But the old man never rested. And that's who they say the ghost is, because sometimes he feels angry. The girl who's in there now says it's like he's angry. (00:46:06)

Now, one weird event happened later. This was about one evening around 9 p.m. in mid-October 1989 that Trudy and Karen were in their new apartment. And they both heard this very loud buzzing noise, which got so loud that they both became convinced a plane was about to crash into their building. As Trudy says, it was like a buzz, a really loud energy level. It kept getting louder, louder, and louder, hurting the ears loud. As Karen says, we heard this noise. It felt like it was right over our apartment, like it was coming down. I remember looking at her and thinking, this is it. So they both thought perhaps this poltergeist was back, and when this sound persisted, they ran outside to see what it was and were absolutely shocked at what they saw. As Trudy says, we saw weird lights. The lights were low, and they kind of curved up like a U. It was big, really big. It was long. It was huge. It stayed in one spot. (00:47:07)

Trudy cried out, look how big it is. It's a UFO. Very quickly, this craft started to dart away. But as Karen says, it seemed like it was staying there forever. There were a lot of lights, but then it moved really quickly. It went up. Says Trudy, we saw it hover. It acknowledged that we saw it. Then it darted, like a dart. It went zoom, zoom, and it was gone. Now several months later, after all of this went down, I checked in on Trudy and Karen. They were no longer living together. It seemed that the ghost had come back, but it was now centering around Karen. She said she heard footsteps and felt strange cold spots. (00:47:50)

Then one day she was alone in her new apartment, when she says a large black apparition appeared, attacked her, and pinned her to the ground for a period of about an hour. She refused to give a formal interview, didn't want to talk about it at all, and wouldn't give any other details. Trudy, thankfully, has experienced no further activity. So those are the haunted apartments. How interesting is that? This is a classic case, I think, of demonic haunting. The fact that these witnesses describe a very dark apparition, that's the sort of pattern we see with these demonic hauntings. One really interesting manifestation I found fascinating was the witness describing how the water came out of the faucet sideways. I've interviewed people who describe that same exact ghostly manifestation, which is so rare, I don't even know that I've even read about it. (00:48:51)

So there's these weird patterns. There was another remarkable pattern with one of the witnesses describing a dream of murder taking place just two blocks away from where they lived. It's almost as if these demonic spirits are implanting or invading their dreams. And they certainly felt like they were being invaded. So this shows all the classic signs of a full-blown demonic haunting case. I've been there again many times. You can go there now. It looks like a shiny new building. In fact, it's quite expensive to live there. I'm guessing the haunting is over by now. One final really interesting aspect was how the witnesses described having a UFO sighting following them moving out and basically overcoming this spiritual battle. I've always wondered about this connection here. I suspect that the ETs were coming down and sort of celebrating or remarking upon their successful spiritual battle in overcoming evil. (00:49:57)

I don't know. I'm speculating. But it's an interesting pattern that I have seen in a few cases. So now let's move to the last and final one. And this one I think is the scariest of all. This involves at least three witnesses that I interviewed, but really dozens of witnesses. I call this one the Wildwood Demon. This is another case that took place over a period of years. And this took place in San Carlos, California. I do think the main witness, Whitney Wright, probably does have some mediumistic talent. It certainly sounds like it, given his description of the events. But this is a classic case of a demonic haunting, as we'll see, because it starts with that same pattern of manifestations. Many different types of phenomena occurring with cold spots and foul odors and apparitions and so forth. And it just really, I think, has a lot to say about what exactly is going on with these types of hauntings. (00:51:06)

One of the most extreme haunting cases I have ever investigated occurred in a small house in the suburb of San Carlos, California. The haunting began in 1975 when the Wright family moved into their home on Wildwood Avenue. Although the house was about 70 years old, it was in remarkably good condition. At the time, the Wright family consisted only of two members, Mrs. Wright and her infant son, Whitney. When they first moved into the house, everything appeared to be normal. However, as Whitney grew up, things began to change, and he reports from a very early age that he experienced many strange events, so he doesn't remember exactly when they started. The earliest events that he can remember seemed always to be connected to his imaginary friend. (00:51:55)

Like many young children, Whitney says he had a pretend playmate, and he reports that he spent many hours with his pretend friend, and he always knew that he was just pretending, and yet things happened that sometimes made him wonder about this, because doors would open and close by themselves, lights would turn on and off, objects would move, and as he grew up, he had long stopped pretending to have an imaginary friend, and yet these strange things continued to happen. Around age 11, Whitney finally decided that yes, his house was haunted. As his mom was a single parent, and Whitney was an only child, he was often left alone in the house, particularly after school, and it was then that these things mostly occurred. (00:52:39)

As Whitney says, ever since I was a little kid, things would happen. Like I'd go around the house and shut all the doors, and my mom would come home from work, and the doors would be open. Little things like that. When I was a little kid, I would get weird vibes. I'd feel like somebody was watching me, so I'd grab a knife out of the cabinet, run through the whole house, looking in all the closets and stuff, because I'd think someone like the boogeyman was there. And every time, there would be nothing there. I would always hear sounds and stuff. I don't really remember, it was a long time ago, but I'd hear whispers, like wisps, not really saying anything in particular, but I'd hear things, so I always had the thought in my head that there must be a ghost or something in here. (00:53:25)

So Whitney had no dramatic face-to-face encounters when he was a child, but these little events constantly pestered him, and he searched for an explanation. And thinking back, the first events did seem to involve his imaginary friend, and there were a few occasions he recalled that he would ask his imaginary friend to do something, and it would happen. As Whitney says, it was weird. My mom would come and yell at me, and I would wish, damn, I just wish she would slip and fall. And she would slip and fall. One time I was pissed because she had grounded me, done all this stuff to me. I had some crayons I was drawing, and she broke my crayons. Well, she was putting up this thing on our back porch, we have this overhang, it had like fiberglass material on it, and I'm thinking, damn, I just wish it would slice her head off or something. And sure enough, she sliced her hand really bad. It was weird. Stuff that I would think, that I would want to happen in my mind, would happen. And that's how I started to realize something was up. (00:54:27)

So as Whitney grew up, these little paranormal events occurred on a regular basis, and left him convinced that he had a ghost in the house. Now when Whitney grew up to be a teenager, his friend, Paul Delgado, moved into a room in the garage, and it was shortly after Paul moved in, that the ghost really began to haunt the house in earnest. Where before the ghost appeared infrequently, now things began to happen much more often, and different types of phenomenon began to manifest. The first manifestation was objects moving by themselves or disappearing, and in fact, this became the new preferred manifestation. The ghost would constantly take Whitney's or Paul's possessions, and as usual, the two boys would blame each other, and a vicious argument would ensue. It was only later that they realized the ghost was the one who was causing the problem. (00:55:24)

As Whitney says, Now later, he found this guitar tuner in the weirdest place, inside the loft, inside boxes that were filled with china dishes that had actually been taped up for years. So this is almost impossible. So this ghost had finally hit upon a method to really get their attention, to really get under their skin. And after this incident, numerous valuable personal objects began to disappear or be mysteriously misplaced. As Whitney says, One of Whitney's and Paul's favorite pastimes was to get together and play guitar. They actually formed a small band and played every chance they could get. And interestingly, the ghost seemed to hate this. (00:56:49)

During these jamming sessions, strong bursts of paranormal activity would manifest in various ways. As Whitney says, But one time I can remember that, it would throw a temper tantrum when we played. Now Paul confirms this, as Paul says, Things that you know you've set somewhere, you come back, and they're not there. And you just know they were there. That kind of thing. It definitely seemed to mess with our heads. It seemed like sometimes the thing, in certain rooms, would get us very angry, and we'd end up being very agitated. And other times we would just be scared. Other times it definitely messed with your head. But you are just mainly in a state of denial, saying, This isn't happening. I'm just tripping out. (00:58:17)

Another way the ghost manifested was through unexplained sounds. Most old houses produce odd creaking sounds as they settle, but the Wright households seemed unusually creaky. As Whitney says, You know old houses. When they settle, they crack. We had just had an earthquake up here, and my house was creaking pretty bad from it. But you would hear it tweak the house. It sounded like, you know how you wring out a cloth? It would wring out the house. The whole house would just go FREAK! You would hear it, and it would go through the whole house. It sort of shuddered. It sounded like it was tweaked. Like it was creaking through the whole house. So now that Paul knew about the ghost, he understood all the previous unexplained events, but now he had another problem. The ghost was still here, and Paul didn't like the idea of living with a ghost. The whole idea really scared him, and he experienced many frightening incidents. (00:59:15)

As he says, I thought Whitney was messing with me, and that he was walking up the stairs, because I could distinctly hear the creaking boards. It was someone walking up the stairs. By the time it got up to where I thought it was, I jumped up and looked around, and there was nobody there. That was quite bizarre. They were all pretty weird, but probably the scariest one was when the thing sounded like it was coming up into my room. So that incident left Paul shaking with fear, because there was no more denying that this house was haunted. He told Whitney what happened. Paul suggested that they get a Ouija board and try to contact the ghost. At this point, he didn't quite realize that giving the ghost attention only made it more powerful, and he just wanted to get more information that would help them understand why this ghost was bothering them so much. He was also very curious as to who the ghost was. (01:00:19)

Whitney said that a child by the name of Joey drowned in the pool next door, and he speculated that perhaps that's who the ghost was, so they nicknamed the ghost Joey. But Whitney, of course, later became convinced that this ghost was not Joey at all, but something much darker. So they began to use this Ouija board, and as Whitney says, I said, wow, maybe we can communicate with it. We got this Ouija board with a pendulum. It had a wire going down to a weight. You swing it, and it swings over whatever it wants to say, the pendulum on the Ouija board. We would swing it back and forth, and it would stop in an area. It was fighting gravity to stop there. It stopped, paused a couple of seconds, and then it started swinging again. We asked another question, it would pause and stop swinging for a couple of seconds, and then it would start swinging again. My girlfriend and Paul's girlfriend were all playing around with it, asking all these stupid questions. Actually, I think it was telling them what they wanted to hear. They were having a good time doing it, and I said, F that shit. Take it away. Don't even mess with that anymore. (01:01:30)

She had her elbow on the table, holding the pendulum, and I got pissed. I yelled at her. I said, don't even F with that stuff anymore, or I'm going to throw you out. And sure enough, right in the middle of the wire, it broke. It didn't jerk her hand around, it just went tink, and the weight hit the table. We were all, whoa. We looked at it, and it just broke right in the middle. So this Ouija board incident convinced Whitney that this ghost was definitely not the little boy Joey who had died next door, that this ghost was probably lying and probably evil. He said it was active enough that many of his friends also witnessed the activity. (01:02:12)

He says, Whitney, all my friends come over and they don't believe it, and then it totally makes itself apparent to them. That happened a hundred times to all different friends of mine. They'd get doubt in their mind, and then it would happen. One of Whitney's friends, Dan Diaz, confirms this. As Dan says, I've known Whitney since we were in the fourth grade, and he told me there was a ghost in his house. I didn't really believe him at first. He told me that it was a friend of his, and as he got older, the ghost always kind of stayed its age. And I guess when they were friends, they were the same age. It materialized one time, and it was a kid. But I guess the thing would mess with him, play tricks on him, do things to him, and he always knew. And his mother knew too. He never told me anyone died there, but I think they knew who he was, and he could follow it from the coldness. They usually knew where it was. I guess it materialized one time at the foot of the bed when he was younger. He said it was a little boy, and he said it was in ragged clothes. He would always talk about it, and I never knew if I should believe him or not, but as we got older, he was always talking about it. (01:03:22)

And one time, we were in the attic part of his house. It's this garage loft area, and we were hanging out up there, and we heard it. It came and it hit the roof right where we were. It knew right where we were. Just BAM! Really loud. It wasn't a rock. And there were footsteps too, but there was no one there. It was damn loud. It scared us all. Whitney also noticed again that the ghost always seemed to manifest in ways that would cause a fight. (01:03:52)

As Whitney says, He'd get in one corner, and then all of a sudden he would freak out and run to another side or part of the house. Another thing they both noticed was foul odors and cold spots. Says Paul, And you would know it was there. There was no denying it. We both experienced the same thing. We were standing near the bottom of the stairs there once, Whitney and I. We were just standing there, and we felt this coldness, this being, or whatever, just nudge us and walk right past us. It was really strange. So the two of them became kind of fascinated by their ability to perceive the location of the ghost by its cold spots. They decided to try an experiment. Once they found out where the cold spot was, they would step into the cold spot and try to feel the energy. And to their surprise, it almost felt like the presence would move inside them. It was then that the haunting began to reach its final stage of possession. (01:05:30)

As Whitney says, There were moments in the mix where you would get these rushes, like a head rush, vertigo, would start in your back and tingle, and it would go up to your head and you would just feel all your hair stand up. It's like when you're in a warm room and you get a breeze of cool air. You just feel tingly for a second. You're like, whoa. Like when you're in a hot house and you run outside and it's cold and you get that feeling. Kind of like that. We had been playing with these rushes from time to time. And this one night, we had gone in one room and then we would wait there and you would feel it. You could honestly feel a presence fill up the room. It was really weird. You would get the rush and instantly the room would feel cold. And we were going from room to room in the whole house doing this because we were playing with it. (01:06:19)

But one time we ran into the kitchen and Paul said, wait, check this out. Because it was following us from room to room. We could totally feel it. I mean, two of us were there. It was real. We just played with it like that, time to time. And it seemed like my room the most. I guess you could say possessed or whatever, because that's where the extreme things happened. Now, Whitney already knew that they shouldn't be playing around with the ghost, but it was a lesson apparently he had to learn the hard way. As Whitney says, I've always believed in God and been towards trying to be a good person. So I really didn't want to pay too much attention to it because it kind of scared me. It was definitely evil to say the least. I didn't want to play with it. It's like something taboo. You don't really want to mess around with it, which you shouldn't actually. (01:07:09)

So on this one evening where they had allowed the ghost to actually move inside them, the activity came to a complete climax. Both of them had just gotten into bed when a piercingly loud screeching grinding sound reverberated through the house. Both of them heard it. As Whitney says, we were just getting ready to go to sleep when all of a sudden we heard this weird sound. You know how an old-fashioned skateboard or skates have those steel wheels? It sounded like that going down the street. But it was actually so loud and heavy it sounded like a car. This was really weird. It sounded like a car driving down the street with no tires. So weird. We were just getting ready to go to sleep and this sound came into our house. Now Paul confirms this, as Paul says, So after that, Paul insisted on sleeping in Whitney's room, so they set up a bedroll on the floor and prepared to go to sleep. However, as Whitney lay down in his bed and Paul lay down on the floor, they both felt the presence of the ghost very strongly. And little did they know, the ghost was about to launch a full-out attack on the unsuspecting witnesses. (01:08:50)

It all began when Paul again started playing with this ghost. Whitney tried to stop him, but it was too late. This occurred in 1983, but both of them remember it vividly. As Whitney says, Then it would be quiet for a couple of minutes, then they would start getting really big, I mean heavy-duty, and Paul was all, wow, that's intense, wow. And it started getting really bad. And he started saying, wow, this isn't bad, maybe it doesn't want to hurt me. And I said, shut up, Paul, just go to sleep, forget about all that stuff. And he started to say, no, no, I like it, it feels good. (01:09:58)

He kept on saying that, and I said, no, come on. I was laying on my bed, he was laying on the floor, this incident is probably the heaviest thing that ever happened, I'll never forget it. He was all, no, no, I like it, I like it, this feels good, come on, come on, I want more, I want more. He kept saying that, it was weird, he kept on saying, wow, did you feel that? And I was saying, Paul, come on. And he was right in the middle of this big rush, and to say the least, my hair stuck straight out. I heard him, he was all, wow, this is great. (01:10:36)

And then all of a sudden, it sounded like something grabbed his throat. Like it made him start talking really squeaky. It was really weird. It was like someone was squeezing his throat, and he kept on talking. He didn't go, ah! He didn't start screaming like someone was grabbing him. If something grabbed his neck, he'd be freaking out, especially if he couldn't see it. He didn't. It sounded like something grabbed his vocal cords and stretched them, so he talked really squeaky. You really couldn't make out what he was saying. It was really weird. He wasn't stressed or anything, but he just kept on mumbling. (01:11:11)

My personal opinion? It sounded like some other crazy language or something. He kept on mumbling, and I'm laying there, stupid, thinking, what? I don't understand this. I didn't really believe it at first. I was all, what the F is up? What is happening? At this point, Whitney realized what was happening. Paul had become possessed by this ghost, so he tried to jump up and get to him, and this is when the ghost attacked him, too. As Whitney says, it was weird. I tried to sit up in my bed, and it felt like gravity was pulling me down. It slammed me back in my bed. I sat up for one second, and it slammed me back in my bed. It was like I had five, six hundred pounds sitting on my chest. But it wasn't really holding me at one point. When something holds you down, you can feel it on your shoulders or your arms or whatever. It was like through my whole body. I couldn't even lift a toe. I was pinned there. I could not effing move. (01:12:16)

I was struggling, screaming, because I heard Paul. He was starting to get squeakier and squeakier. It was really weird. It took what seemed like hours, but it was only a matter of minutes. I rolled off the bed. I hit the ground, and I crawled. It was still playing with me, but it was like it lost its grip or something. I went right over to Paul, and I touched him. I still have scars, but I touched him. I had a crucifix on my neck. My neighbors used to be Jehovah Witnesses, and they gave it to me a long time ago, so I put it to his chest. At the same time, he grabbed my back. I still have scars from it. I mean, it was a sharp pain. He grabbed me. I mean, it grabbed me. It just kept on mumbling, mumbling in that squeaky voice. And as I held it there, I was thinking in my head, God, please help me. And his squeakiness went back to crying, and he was just sitting there crying. (01:13:08)

From him grabbing me, he started hugging me, crying, just totally shaking. He was really tripped out. To say the least, I was quite freaked out. I told him straight out, I was going to kick him out of the house if he ever plays like that again. And he honestly didn't realize what he was doing. My personal experiences, from what I've talked to people with ghosts, was trying to possess him in a way, get inside his body. To say the least, it almost did. It was quite scary. I still remember it vividly. That was probably the heaviest thing that happened. I mean, you would have had to have been there to experience it. It scared the crap out of me. Now, Paul himself has only sketchy memories of this incident. Although he does remember sensing the ghost and feeling it enter his body, his memory ends there. (01:13:58)

As Paul says, I remember we felt the presence in the room, and we felt this energy, and I let it come into me, and as I was doing so, I seemed to be overwhelmed by it. I remember being pinned to the floor, but I wasn't thinking or anything. I just remember I couldn't get up, and it was very strange. Paul's next memory was of Whitney pulling him back into consciousness and being very upset and afraid. Needless to say, both of them vowed to never play with the ghost again, and it was a few months following this possession incident, Whitney experienced another event that was equally terrifying, because for the first time, the ghost manifested in full color. It happened at the worst possible time. Whitney had just broken up with his girlfriend, he was confused and upset, he was lying in bed thinking dark thoughts, and evidently, the ghost could not resist this opportunity. (01:14:51)

As Whitney says, This is really weird. I had just broken up. I had this girlfriend I was really in love with, and she totally screwed me over. This was when Paul was living at my house. It got to a point he was scared to even come home for a while. He says to this day he won't live in the house. But to say the least, I was really upset. We hadn't had any disturbances in the last couple of months, and then all of a sudden I felt really weak. I was hurt, I felt bad, and I came home. We have this light in the front room that's always lit up. It lights up the front room and you can see through the drapes. But it was like the drapes were pulled back with a face looking at me. It was like you could see it, but when you really start focusing on it and really looking at it, you can't see it anymore. It was weird. (01:15:38)

So I got in my bed, I laid down, and I started trying to go to sleep. It was like I dozed off for a while, and then I got cold chills. I was kind of dozing off and I got a cold chill. I woke up and it stunk. My room reeked. I almost puked. I mean, I gagged when I woke up. You get a bunch of meat and you throw it in the garbage can for about a half of a year. It smelled gross. It smelled like rotten flesh. That's what I think. It was crude. My room stunk. It was cold. It was weird. I sat up in my bed. I had this chair my grandma gave me a long time ago. It was in the corner of my room and I saw the silhouette of a person, a small young person sitting there. You could tell the head moved. It looked at me and it was weird. I woke up because it was stinking. It stunk. I looked and I saw that. (01:16:29)

Shortly following the appearance of this apparition, the activity began to slow down and taper off. Every now and then, a few odd events still occurred, but nowhere near the intensity of before. There were just a few odd creaks, a few missing objects, but that's about it. Now, Whitney was at first very reluctant to even give an interview about his experiences because he felt that this would be giving the ghost attention. And it turns out he was right because immediately after I interviewed him, the ghost came back. In a follow-up interview, he told me what happened. As Whitney says, So that was pretty scary. I mean, I can't imagine what it must be like to see your friend just be pressed to the ground, speaking a foreign language, jump up and try to help them. (01:17:44)

And you get slammed back onto the mattress. That has got to be terrifying. There's that pattern again. If you pay attention to this ghost, if you give it energy, it will feed off your fear and just become stronger. So for those folks who are having this kind of activity, there's a lesson there. Don't give attention to the ghost. Don't be afraid. It feeds off your fear. This is well known among paranormal researchers. So a truly fascinating case. In fact, if you want to learn more about these cases, I did write about them in my book, California Ghosts, True Cases of Haunting in the Golden State. It's one of many, many cases of hauntings that I've investigated. (01:18:30)

But yeah, these three are the most extreme. And I think they reveal that there are some dark things out there. Demonic spirits, hard to say for sure. Again, there's different theories as to what causes these kinds of events. But there you go. I'm just relaying the facts as we know them. I hope you found this interesting and perhaps learned a few things about ghosts and spirits. Again, Happy Halloween. I hope you've enjoyed this episode. Until next time, keep asking those hard questions. Keep searching for the truth. Most important of all, keep having fun. And don't worry, I'll be talking about UFOs and humanoids on the next episode. I had to talk about ghosts every once in a while. After all, this show is called UFOs and the Paranormal. Happy Halloween. Be well. (01:19:25)

(2025-11-02)

要旨​

目次​

悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件：ブリーフィング・ドキュメント​

エグゼクティブ・サマリー​

1. 序論：悪魔的憑依事件の分類とパターン​

2. ケーススタディ1：「ポルターガイストがノックする時」​

概要​

現象の推移​

結論と考察​

3. ケーススタディ2：「呪われたアパート」​

概要​

現象の推移​

結論と考察​

4. ケーススタディ3：「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」​

概要​

現象の推移​

結論と考察​

5. 総括と主要テーマ​

3つの悪魔憑き事件の比較分析：超常現象の顕現、目撃者の反応、および敵対行為の激化に関する考察​

序論：分析の枠組み​

1. 事例概要​

1.1. ソーレンセン家事件（「ポルターガイストがノックする時」）​

1.2. 憑依されたアパート事件（トゥルーディとカレン）​

1.3. ワイルドウッドの悪魔事件（ホイットニーとポール）​

2. 超常現象の顕現：比較分析​

2.1. 聴覚的現象：ノック音から叫び声まで​

2.3. 存在の示唆：影、姿、そして感覚​

3. 被害者の反応と敵対行為の激化​

3.1. 無視と対決：ナンシー、トゥルーディ、カレンの戦略​

3.2. 好奇心と関与：ミッチェルとポールの危険な選択​

4. クライマックスの比較：憑依未遂の分析​

5. 結論：3つの事例から浮かび上がる共通パターン​

幽霊・憑依の分類と原因​

幽霊・憑依の基本的な分類​

憑依現象（ポルターガイスト・悪魔憑き）の原因に関する理論​

悪魔憑きのより大きな文脈：進行パターン​

現象の動力源​

ポルターガイストがノックする時​

ケース1の背景と初期の現象（侵入段階）​

現象のエスカレーションと恐れの役割（抑圧段階）​

憑依の試みと終息（憑依段階）​

事件の原因に関する考察​

幽霊の出るアパート​

1. 侵入段階：不吉な環境と初期現象​

2. 抑圧段階：黒い人影と物理的攻撃​

3. クライマックス：憑依の試み​

4. 終結と原因に関する考察​

ワイルドウッドの悪魔​

ケース3の背景と分類​

1. 侵入段階：幼少期の微細な活動​

2. 抑圧段階：悪意の増幅と「恐怖の餌」​

3. 憑依段階：肉体的な攻撃と制御​

事件からの教訓と再発のパターン​

情報源​

文字起こし​

要旨

目次

悪魔憑きの三つの真実の事件：ブリーフィング・ドキュメント

エグゼクティブ・サマリー

1. 序論：悪魔的憑依事件の分類とパターン

2. ケーススタディ1：「ポルターガイストがノックする時」

概要

現象の推移

結論と考察

3. ケーススタディ2：「呪われたアパート」

概要

現象の推移

結論と考察

4. ケーススタディ3：「ワイルドウッドの悪魔」

概要

現象の推移

結論と考察

5. 総括と主要テーマ

3つの悪魔憑き事件の比較分析：超常現象の顕現、目撃者の反応、および敵対行為の激化に関する考察

序論：分析の枠組み

1. 事例概要

1.1. ソーレンセン家事件（「ポルターガイストがノックする時」）

1.2. 憑依されたアパート事件（トゥルーディとカレン）

1.3. ワイルドウッドの悪魔事件（ホイットニーとポール）

2. 超常現象の顕現：比較分析

2.1. 聴覚的現象：ノック音から叫び声まで

2.3. 存在の示唆：影、姿、そして感覚

3. 被害者の反応と敵対行為の激化

3.1. 無視と対決：ナンシー、トゥルーディ、カレンの戦略

3.2. 好奇心と関与：ミッチェルとポールの危険な選択

4. クライマックスの比較：憑依未遂の分析

5. 結論：3つの事例から浮かび上がる共通パターン

幽霊・憑依の分類と原因

幽霊・憑依の基本的な分類

憑依現象（ポルターガイスト・悪魔憑き）の原因に関する理論

悪魔憑きのより大きな文脈：進行パターン

現象の動力源

ポルターガイストがノックする時

ケース1の背景と初期の現象（侵入段階）

現象のエスカレーションと恐れの役割（抑圧段階）

憑依の試みと終息（憑依段階）

事件の原因に関する考察

幽霊の出るアパート

1. 侵入段階：不吉な環境と初期現象

2. 抑圧段階：黒い人影と物理的攻撃

3. クライマックス：憑依の試み

4. 終結と原因に関する考察

ワイルドウッドの悪魔

ケース3の背景と分類

1. 侵入段階：幼少期の微細な活動

2. 抑圧段階：悪意の増幅と「恐怖の餌」

3. 憑依段階：肉体的な攻撃と制御

事件からの教訓と再発のパターン

情報源

文字起こし