Is 'The Conjuring' based on a true story ?

The summer movie hit tells the story of the haunting of an 18th century farm house in
Rhode Island and is alleged to be based on a true story. In a recent interview, Andrea
Perron who grew up in the house depicted in the film has spoken out about her own
experiences there and considers the film's story to be "essentially true". Having lived
there between 1971 and 1980, Perron has had her fair share of paranormal experiences
including an encounter with a potentially otherworldy visitor.

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Poltergeist Activity caught on Camera in a Whitstable Shop.

VIDEO: Is this a ghost caught on CCTV footage in a Kent shop?

 A remarkable video which appears to show a poltergeist in a Whitstable shop is proving
an internet sensation.

The clip on YouTube films security footage apparently taken at the Whitstable
Nutrition Centre.

As a shopper browses, a box emerges from the shelf behind him and hovers in
the air.

Another box then falls to the floor, startling him.



It appears to be mobile phone footage of security cameras at the shop.

A man giving a running commentary to the girl tells her: “This guy here, watch
behind his head. Keep watching – just look at the shelf. It’s the weirdest thing.”

As the package emerges, she says repeatedly “Oh, my God” and adds: “What is
that?”

He tells her: “I don’t know” and she helpfully suggests: “It might be a poltergeist
or something like that. I don’t like it.”

One comment left said: “I would run a mile if this happened to me. Freaky.”


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Is this a Ghost? Picture taken at the Skirrid Inn.

Does reader pic capture ghostly apparition in Abergavenny's Skirrid Inn?

READER Kayleigh O'Leary, 25, sent in this image she captured at Abergavenny's Skirrid
Inn - but is it a ghostly apparition, or merely a trick of the light?


Ms O’Leary, from Caerphilly, took the photo with her Canon 1100 D SLR camera after
2am on June 28 at the pub which claims it is haunted by the ghost of a former worker,
Fanny Price.

An archaeology graduate, she said: "It’s really weird. I went along because I like history so I wanted to be in the building. I didn’t really sense anything; I was really calm." Ms O’Leary said: "It’s all a bit strange. I can’t really explain the photo. What looks like the arm sticks out so it can’t be a reflection off the door. I don’t think it’s a fault with the camera."


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Vampire Grave Discovered in Poland.

Archaeologists unearth 'vampire graves' containing decapitated skeletons with skulls placed between their legs on Polish building site.

• Decapitating a suspected vampire was common practice in medieval times

• It was believed removing head ensured vampire would stay dead

• They are believed to date from around the 16th or 17th centuries

• There were no earthly possessions, such as jewellery, belts or buckles

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be a vampire burial ground on a
building site in Poland.

The team of historians discovered graves containing four skeletons with their heads
removed and placed between their legs near the southern town of Gliwice.

Decapitating a suspected vampire was common practice in medieval times because
it was thought to be the only way to ensure the dead stay dead.

The exact fate of the skeletons is yet unclear, butthe archaeologists noted that, apart
from being headless, there was no trace of any earthly possessions, such as jewellery,
belts or buckles.


'It's very difficult to tell when these burials were carried out,' archaeologist Dr Jacek Pierzak told the Dziennik Zachodni newspaper.The remains have been sent for further testing but initial estimations suggest they died sometime around the 16th century.

It comes a year after archaeologists in Bulgaria
claimed to have discovered two ‘vampire’
corpses in excavations near a monastery in the Black Sea town of Sozopol, both more than 800
years old and pierced through the chest with
heavy iron rods.

Bulgaria’s national museum chief Bozidhar Dimitrov said as many as 100 such ‘vampire corpses’ have been found in the country in recent years.

‘They illustrate a practice which was common in some Bulgarian villages up until the first decade of the 20th century,’ he explained.

Even today, the vampire remains a very real threat in the minds of villagers in some
of the most remote communities of Eastern Europe, where garlic and crucifixes are
readily wielded, and where bodies are exhumed so that a stake can be driven through
their heart.

The notion of blood-sucking vampires preying on the flesh of the living goes back
thousands of years and was common in many ancient cultures, where tales of these
reviled creatures of the dead abounded.

Archaeologists recently found 3,000 Czech graves, for example, where bodies had been
weighed down with rocks to prevent the dead emerging from their tombs.

The advent of Christianity only fuelled the vampire legends, for they were considered the antithesis of Christ — spirits that rose from the dead bodies of evil people.

Put a brick in it: In some cases, the dead were buried with a brick wedged in their mouths to stop them rising up to eat those who had perished from the plague

Such vampires would stalk the streets in search of others to join their unholy pastime of sucking the lifeblood from humans and animals to survive.

In medieval times, when the Church was all-powerful and the threat of eternal
damnation encouraged superstition among a peasantry already blighted by the
Black Death, the fear of vampires was omnipresent. In some cases, the dead were
buried with a brick wedged in their mouths to stop them rising up to eat those who
had perished from the plague.

Records show that in the 12th Century on the Scottish Borders, a woman claimed she
was being terrorised by a dead priest who had been buried at Melrose Abbey only
days earlier.

When the monks uncovered the tomb, they claimed to have found the corpse bleeding
fresh blood. The corpse of the priest, well known for having neglected his religious
duties, was burned.

But vampiric folklore largely flourished in Eastern European countries and Greece,
where they did not have a tradition of believing in witches. And just as with witches
in England, Germany and America, the vampire became a scapegoat for a community’s
ills.

The ‘civilised’ world came to learn of vampires in the 18th century as Western empires
expanded and their peoples travelled to remote parts of Central and Eastern Europe.

With the spread of Austria’s empire, for example, the West became aware of the story
of the remote village of Kisilova (believed to be modern-day Kisiljevo in Hungary)
after it had been annexed by the Austrians.

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Ghosts do exist!

As Vice-President of the Ghost Club Society for the past 25 years I have looked into many cases of ghost sightings so when I read in the Mail yesterday that an eminent psychologist, Dr Richard Wiseman, has claimed that ghosts definitely do not exist, I knew he was talking nonsense - not least because I have actually talked to a ghost, as I shall describe later.

I never cease to be amazed by the gall of scientists who declare they have now proved the non-existence of spirits or the soul or second sight or telepathy when thousands of ordinary people can contradict them from their own experience.

In the British Journal Of Psychology, Dr Wiseman and his colleagues describe how they investigated two famous haunted sites - Hampton Court Palace and the South Bridge Vaults in Edinburgh - and noted that in the most 'spooky' areas there are strong magnetic fields.

Magnetism, they say, can influence the mind into thinking it is sensing the presence of a ghost. So can such conditions as cold and damp.

Their conclusion is that ghosts are all in the mind, that what you might think is a ghost is nothing more than the brain's reaction to tiny changes in light, temperature, smell or magnetic field.

What I find incredible is that these scientists - from Edinburgh and Hertfordshire Universities - have apparently failed to take a close look at the wealth of scientific research into ghosts that has been going on since 1882.

This was the year that a group of scientists and intellectuals decided to create a society for studying ghosts and hauntings under the strictest conditions. Within a few months, they had so much proof that not one of them had the slightest doubt that ghosts were real.

One of their best documented cases is that of an old chimney sweep, Samuel Bull, who died of 'sooty cancer', leaving a bedridden widow in a tiny cottage with eight other family members.

Nine months after his death, the six children became nervous, declaring that there was someone outside the door. Then one day, Samuel Bull, looking quite solid, walked into his widow's bedroom.

Everyone was terrified, but as these appearances continued over months, even the children got used to it. Samuel would stand by his widow's bed, his hand on her forehead - she said it felt firm but cold. One visit lasted more than an hour.

The Society For Psychical Research, who investigated the case, had no doubt it was genuine.

Samuel Bull was the most common type of ghost. He looked like a real person. But another type is so common that thousands of cases have been recorded - the poltergeist, or noisy ghost.

Poltergeists throw things, cause objects to fly around, and often make such a racket that they drive people to nervous breakdowns.

I have studied many cases, and have concluded that they are basically mischievous, empty-headed spirits with nothing better to do - the football hooligans of the spirit world.

In fact, there are so many poltergeists about that there is probably one within ten miles of where you live. I once tested this by asking around my local area of Cornwall. In no time at all I had located more than a dozen.

My most striking supernatural experience came in 1978 when I was invited to our local television station in Plymouth to meet a pretty nurse named Pauline McKay.

When placed in a hypnotic trance, Pauline would talk in a strong Devon accent and declare that her name was Kitty Jay, a milkmaid who had committed suicide in the late 18th century, and whose grave on Dartmoor is a tourist attraction.

But Pauline had never heard of her, nor did she know of the existence of Jay's Grave.

As Pauline lay in the studio with closed eyes, she told me how she had gone to Canna Farm, near Chagford, the most haunted village in England, looking for the labourer who had made her pregnant, and then hanged herself in the barn. Because she was a suicide, her body was buried at a crossroads on the edge of the moor, an attempt to confuse her spirit should it walk.

Pauline pronounced Chagford in the old way - Chagiford (it was spelt Chageford) - and the detailed manner in which she described Kitty's death left us all horrified and convinced.

Later, we took Pauline along to Canna Farm. She became obviously upset but, without prompting, led us into the farmyard, and turned left into the barn. There she showed us the beam on which Kitty hanged herself, and the farmer verified that she was correct.

Yet Pauline had never visited the West Country in her life.

So what is there about the little town of Chagford that makes it one of the most haunted places in England?

After extensive research, I have come to the conclusion that Chagford does indeed have more ghosts than any small town I have visited.

And I believe Dr Wiseman is at least partly right, in that the answer lies in magnetism - the magnetism of the Earth itself.

It is often connected with granite, like that on Dartmoor. Lines of this force can be traced by good dowsers, who call them 'ley lines'. The whole area around Chagford is surrounded by them.

For some reason, these lines seem to provide the ideal environment for ghosts. Again and again, I have found that haunted houses lie on the crossing point of ley lines.

And I am certain that in some odd way, these lines can record powerful, tragic emotions, like magnetic tapes.

Chagford is plainly a place that is full of such 'recordings', echoes of the past and there are many more scattered the length of Britain. Whatever, the psychologists say, I know what I've seen and heard. Ghosts do exist.

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Ghost sightings highest in 25 years

Ghost sightings highest in 25 years.


Spooky sightings of ghouls, ghosts and evil spirits are higher than they have been in the
past 25 years, according to a new report on haunted Britain.

There have been nearly 1,000 reports of demonic activity in the past quarter of a century,
with Yorkshire the nation's most ghostly county.

Encounters with devils, demons and evil spirits are as widespread today as they were in
medieval times, researchers claim.

The research was led by the UKs leading authority on the unexplained Lionel Fanthorpe
who studied various archives and websites as well as his own reports to identify all
sightings and recordings of supernatural beings with satanic qualities.

The study found that despite being in time of accelerating technology, 21st century
Britons have not turned their back on ghouls, boggarts, hell-hounds, witches, wizards,
banshees and black magic curses, with a whopping 968 reports of demonic activity in
the past 25 years.

The report indentifies Yorkshire as the centre of ghostly goings-on demonic activity
with 74 reports of demons, including Uncabus and Succubus (male and female demons
that make sexual attacks on sleeping victims), instances of demonic possession and
sightings of hell hounds, water demons and demons with repulsive forms such as ghouls
and werewolves.

Sightings of demons in Yorkshire have included a hideous shadow-like hell-hound with no discernible facial features which collided with a car between Northallerton and Leeming Bar on the A684. A sea-going water demon has also been reported off Filey Bay in Yorkshire. Witnesses claimed to have seen a ghostly creature with a long neck, a vast serpentine body and glowing eyes.

Devonshire rated second in the study with 57 reports of sinister activity, mainly from encounters with or sightings of demons with devil like qualities.

On Dartmoor there have been reports that the demonic shape of a man named Stephens
who committed suicide still appears and bodes ill for those who encounter it his grave.
The apparition is described as hideously skeletal and dressed in the ragged remnants of
a grey robe.

Third in the ghoulish league table is Somerset, which hosts the highest number of monsters
and has 51 sightings or reports of demonic entities, with Wiltshire coming in fourth with
46 sightings of demons.

Wiltshire is one of the most popular areas for sightings of phantom dogs, shucks or
hell-hounds. At Black Dog Hill near Black Dog Woods in Chapmanslade, there are
reports of a huge black hound with eyes like red hot coals.

People in Inverness report sightings of 13 water ghosts in the last 25 years, evil spirits
whose main purpose is to lure their victims into dangerous water and then drown them.
The water ghosts contribute to the area's overall total of 39 demonic beings and one of
the most notorious water ghosts resides in the area of Boat of Garten, which lies on each
side of the River Spey, near Chapeltown and Tulloch Moor. The paranormal reports from
Boat of Garten involve an ancient, inscribed stone visible when the river is at its lowest.
According to legend, the stone is cursed and guarded by a malevolent water-demon, or
kelpie-type entity, who protects it savagely. Anyone touching it or attempting to move
it is said to become prey to this aquatic, demonic being.

The Demonic Britain report was carried out for the latest DVD release of US TV series Supernatural, normally broadcast on the cable channel Living.

Lionel Fanthorpe said: This report clearly shows we
are a nation still rich in sightings and reports of devils, demons and evil spirits of various forms.

"The present human population is many times greater than it was in the past. Therefore the more people that there are, statistically, the more potential encounters they might have with these unpleasant, non-human entities.

Top 10 ghostly sightings by area:

1 Yorkshire 74

2 Devonshire 57

3 Somerset 51

4 Wiltshire 46

5 Inverness 39

6 Dorset 37

7 = Norfolk 32

7 = Lancashire 32

8 = Sussex 30

8 = Derbyshire 30

9 = Essex 29

9 = Suffolk 29

10 Lincolnshire 24

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Ghost of little girl heard giggling at Romany Museum.

Ghost of little girl heard giggling at museum.



A little girl’s laughter sent shivers down the spine of the most cynical members of a paranormal team visiting a museum in Spalding.

Xstream Paranormal visited in Gordon Boswell Romany Museum in Clay Lake on Saturday night because “it seemed like an interesting location”.

Vivien Powell, one of the members, said she knew it was going to be a good night because even before the equipment was set up things started happening.

She said: “It’s just a hobby for us, but some members of our technical team are really cynical about what we do.

“But even before we got set up some members of the group who are unbelievers said they could hear a little girl giggling. It was an amazing place – we were gobsmacked.”

Museum owner Gordon Boswell said he couldn’t believe some of the things that happened that night.

He said: “When I bought a Romany caravan from down south I was asked if I would take on the ‘little girl’ too.


“I’ve seen her a couple of times, but on Saturday I heard her giggling.

“The team said there was a lot of paranormal activity. At one time a small table started rocking and then it did a somersault. I couldn’t believe it.”

Vivien said: “We’ve already asked if we can go back.”

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The Real Sixth Sence Children..

Real Sixth Sense: Meet the 'psychic' children who see and talk to ghosts at their family home.

Jadon Billington, 10, and his sister Lucy, eight, regularly talk to dead people at their home in Cheshire, and have made friends with more than 10 spirits - including their own grandmother.

The thought of seeing a ghost may terrify most children, but for Jadon Billington and his little sister Lucy, it is part of every day life.

The siblings regularly talk to dead people at their home in Cheshire, and have made friends with more than 10 spirits - including their own grandmother - over the last year.



Jadon, aged 10, chats to a ghostly American couple called Sam and Simon Crease
and an angel called Michael, while eight-year-old Lucy has befriended a young spirit
girl called Rose.

Mum Pam Billington says her kids talk about their spooky pals so much it feels as
if they’re part of the family.

“It all started a couple of years ago when Jadon told me he had been visited by an

angel in the night," she said.

“At first I dismissed it as being the product of an overactive imagination. But when Lucy started talking about it too I started to listen.

“It’s a gift and you either have it or you don’t. It isn’t a hoax, I really believe my kids can talk to spirits.”

The paranormal activity began in 2011 at the Billington's former home in Manchester, where the children said ghosts lived among the family and even in their attic.

In March this year, the family moved to a new home in Sandbach, Cheshire - but it seems
the spooks have relocated too.

And full-time mum Pam, who has another daughter Emily, 14, says she’s now a believer
after having a spooky close encounter of her own.

She said: “It sounds crazy but since then I’ve been able to experience some of what
they tell me too.

“One night I was watching TV and I said to Jadon if they are really here now ask one
of them to tug at my trouser leg.

“Jadon asked, then a few seconds later I felt something prod my leg and I saw with

my own eyes my trousers move.

“It’s incredible. Now, they touch me all the time. They’ll poke me in the arm and touch me on the leg. I’ve even been poked in the eye by a ghost.

“They also made the television go fuzzy when Jadon asked one to prove that he was there.

“You have to experience it to understand. I’ve always read things but I didn’t have a true appreciation of it until I went through it with my children.”

She added: “I love having spirits in the house, I think it’s great.

“I think it shows that anything’s possible and it gives me hope for when I pass
away. I know that this is not the end and we carry on.”

Pam, an atheist, says she didn’t raise her children to believe in ghosts and has
not nurtured their psychic ability in any way.

But the children, who are home-schooled, are convinced.

Among the spooky guests are an American couple called Sam and Simon Crease,
who Jadon talks to, along with an angel called Michael.

Lucy has formed a bond with a young girl called Rose.

And, at her new home in Cheshire, she says she has seen a ghostly woman in a
neighbouring garden, believed to be the spirit of an old woman who recently passed
away there.

Jadon said: “I used to have trouble sleeping because I always felt like someone
was watching me.

“I would wake up in the night and run into mum and dad’s room.

“Now when I see spirits I talk to them – and they talk back. I see them during the
day and night.”

He added: "Mum and dad asked me if I was making this up and I’m not – there really
are ghosts in the house.”

Although Lucy is used to her ghostly friends she admitted she still got ‘freaked’out by their late-night antics.

She said: “I used to get scared. When I first saw them I didn’t know whether it was a spirit or my imagination.

“Now I see lots of them not and I’m used to it.”



While Pam is convinced her children have a special gift, Daron, who was raised
as a Jehovah's Witness, is still skeptical.

The 40-year-old health and safety advisor said he had never experienced a ghostly
encounter of his own.

He added: “I was raised in a religion that is definitely against things like spirits.

“I am still a little bit cautious with my children when we talk about ghosts but they
seem okay and it keeps them happy so I leave them to it.

“I reacted with disbelief at first and a few times I thought they were based on imaginary
friends.

“But the children went in to so much detail when they were talking about them
that as time went by I started accepting it.”


He added: “I’m still not really 100 per cent convinced but I think there’s a little
bit of truth in it.

“My kids aren’t liars and if you listen to how they speak they tend to be quite
believable.”

Pam and Daron’s eldest, Emily, is the only child in the house not to have picked up
a talent for talking with ghosts and has not seen any spooky goings on.

She added: "I don't mind them but I haven't seen them. If I did I think I would freak
out."

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Retired Detective Sergeant calls in Paranormal Investigator to Robertsbridge Pub.

Bid to uncover truth behind haunted pub.

A LANDLORD called in a paranormal investigator after discovering his new pub
contained more spirits than just the ones behind the bar.

Ray Braiden took over the Seven Stars in Robertsbridge on June 3 and moved in to
the High Street property with wife Michelle, daughters Hannah and Emily and Emily’s
partner Ben.

Days after the family moved in, strange incidents were reported in the top room,
occupied by Emily and Ben.

Items were moved around and a small dish sitting on a speaker was seen to be ‘skimmed’ through the air across the room.

And one night the couple woke to find the mattress they had been sleeping on had been moved. Emily and Ben have since moved out of the pub.

The Seven Stars has a reputation for spooky goings-on and was previously named one of the top ten most haunted pubs in the country.

Ray, a retired detective sergeant with Sussex Police, said: “You hear all these stories
from people who have lived here.

“Some of my regulars have had sightings of shadowy figures, people have heard
footsteps and doors rattling in the night and televisions coming on after the switch
has been thrown off.

“And of course there is the presence of the Red Monk who is alleged to have haunted
this building.”

Ray contacted old friend and paranormal investigator Rob Foster.

Ray said: “This spirit was here long before I moved in and I’m happy to coexist with it,
but I do not want my family scared.”

Rob and daughter Tanya run Hidden Worlds Paranormal Support Group, a confidential
group for people who have been affected by paranormal activity.

They visited the Seven Stars and saw first hand the work of the pesky poltergeist.

The pair had their equipment pushed over and Tanya was ‘poked’ a number of times.

Audio equipment recorded strange footsteps and doors rattling.

Hastings-based Rob said: “We are trying to find out what it is in a bid to coexist with it
and find out whether it’s harmful. At the moment the jury is out on that.

“We are going to come back and do a full investigation shortly and establish exactly
what is here.”

Rob believes that several spirits inhabit the 14th Century pub, with previous incumbents
reporting sightings of mysterious figures in the bar and items flying off the shelves in
the kitchen.

Rob said he was able to communicate with one of the spirits using electronic equipment.

By asking closed questions and measuring the response, which sounds like radio static,
he says the ghost gave its name and claims he was buried in Salehurst churchyard in
the 1600s.

Rob is carrying out additional research to discover who the spirits are.



Rob and Ray are also keen to locate the opening to a shaft, apparently hidden in the
building, which is rumoured to lead to a hidden cellar, which dates back several
centuries.

Rob is asking members of the public who have had their own encounters with the
paranormal at the Seven Stars to come forward with their stories to help identify
the spirits.

Rob said: “It’s about trying to find answers as much as we can.”

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Evil Spirit Joins the Class.

School officials suspend classes over ‘evil spirits’

Classes were suspended Thursday at Isaac Lopez Integrated School in Mandaluyong City after around 20 students aged between 12 and 16 started acting strangely—screaming, crying, fainting and convulsing—prompting claims that they were possessed by evil spirits.

Julie Esparagoza, a Grade 8 teacher at the public school, said the incident started shortly after 9 a.m. and initially involved two girls from her section.

She said that she and her students were in a classroom when one of the girls suddenly stood up and began acting strangely while the other lost consciousness.

 One of the students allegedly possessed by evil spirits

Esparagoza added that the girl who stood up had to be restrained at one point since it looked like she was going to attack her unconscious classmate.

She said she immediately brought the two girls to separate classrooms where their behavior gradually returned to normal.

Esparagoza, however, said she later observed the same behavior among her other students who had stepped out of the classroom for their break.

According to her, she saw five girls and a boy “lying on the floor and shaking while others were crying frantically.”

A male student who refused to be named said he saw one girl “convulsing” on the ground near the stage in the middle of the playground while another was “in tears.” “I helped bring them to the principal’s office,” he said.

They were not the only students who were affected. Esparagoza said the same behavior was observed in other Grade 8 students from five different sections.

She added that she tried looking for a priest to help the affected students but the staff of two churches she called up told her that the priest was not available.

A pastor from the nearby Born-Again Jesus First Christian Ministries said he rushed to the school when he learned of the incident from a church member.

“The students were shouting: ‘I don’t want to! I don’t want to!’ Others were shouting ‘Princess!’” Pastor Boyet Sion told the Inquirer, saying that no one knew who Princess was.

He said he prayed for the students and they calmed down a few minutes later.

According to Editha Septimo, the officer in charge of the high school section, some of the affected students were taken to the principal’s office while the others were brought to a classroom where a doctor attended to them.

Septimo said she had no choice but to suspend classes in the Grade 8 level at 10 a.m. after parents started rushing to the school to get their children out of fear that they would also be “possessed.”

“The parents were very frantic, some were hurling insults at us,” she added.

However, as soon as the unaffected Grade 8 students were allowed to go home, at least four Grade 7 students began exhibiting the same behavior, Esparagoza said.

This prompted Nerissa Lozaria, assistant schools division superintendent, to suspend classes in the entire school.

Several of the “possessed” students were allowed to go home after they calmed down while the others were taken to a nearby church where they were blessed, Esparagoza said.

A worker at the church who refused to be named said around 10 students were brought there for exorcism but they later left, some of them to attend Mass at Quiapo Church.

Those who witnessed the incident, meanwhile, were divided about what happened.

Septimo was skeptical and called the incident a case of “mass hysteria” caused by students who just wanted attention.

She cited one “possessed” student whose behavior immediately returned to normal after she was told she would be injected with something to calm her down.

Septimo said that this was the first such incident at the school.

Sion, for his part, said the incident was clearly a case of “evil spirits possessing the students.”

According to him, he heard reports that some of the affected pupils had earlier conducted a seance (spirit of the glass) at a cemetery near the school.

“They might have invited the spirits [to possess them],” he said.

His theory was supported by a church worker who said that two children were taken to the church hours before the incident at the school.

The complaint of those who brought the two children in: They seemed to be possessed by evil spirits.

The church worker said that several balete trees were cut down at the school only recently to give way to the construction of a covered court. This may have angered some spirits, the worker added.