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Ghost Hunter Readies Students For Halloween
Tom Crosby
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: Focus
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This was a night fitting for the time of year, as an attentive crowd listened eagerly to a series of stories from the various Warren cases on the night before Halloween. Most of the lecture was focused around ghosts, which Spera defined as "a spirit without a living body," due to the amount of visual evidence available. However, Spera was quick to note that many of their cases "deal with things that have never walked this earth in physical form" - demonic manifestations, the devil, demons - whatever you may call it. Spera, a UConn graduate and psychologist who works with Warren, pointed out that these spirits manifest themselves in different ways.
One clip showed a video of a particularly eerie event in which Ed Warren, Lorraine's late husband, coaxed a demonic force into violently moving tables and chairs in a possessed home, as he called out, "In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to identify yourself!"
Another showed shockingly real footage of the exorcism of Maurice Theriault, a tomato farmer from Massachusetts with whom the Warrens worked. At one point in the clip, Theriault, whose skin had become a deep, Satanic red, kept his eyes, which looked reptilian, fixated on the wall in front of him. Everything from exorcism movies came to mind during this hastily shot event, which seems almost expected from someone who is possessed by a demonic force.
Most of the lecture, however, focused on pictures and stories containing the manifestation of spirits.
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Rebecca
posted 12/29/07 @ 4:42 AM EST
I remember many years ago, perhaps in the 80s there was a screening on a certain TV programme that I never forgot. I only remembered the first name of the man it was about - "Maurice" and have just now found what I was looking for in this article. (Continued…)
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