India’s Terrifying Exorcism Temples | Mehandipur Balaji & Ancient Possession Rituals (Ep 293)

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very spooky I must apologize for my appearance it seems you've become a bit sick have you fallen potentially into some water my dress has stayed very wrinkly because of the well oh that's okay you're fine there's only one solution though what is it would you like to play a game feel like a little

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kid I absolutely love this and hope you keep your mask on the entire episode well we'll see how long I get cuz I feel like you can hear me semi okay right I can hear you great your lips look so freaking weird I need to zoom wait as you talk let me tell you little kids about something about playing a game only one person comes out alive and it's going to be me oh John I really hope that if you're listening to this you were so intrigued that you had to go over to YouTube because you probably should to get understand what's happening this is two girls one ghost two girls one ghost and we are your ghostesses that is jigsaw and that is Samara coming out of the well and saying seven days this is actually a call back to your very first time spending Halloween out in Massachusetts when you dressed at Samara and we got pulled over our Uber driver got pulled over on the way to

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Salem and the cop shined his light into the back seat he sees me Kylie Jenner he sees our friend Marissa Pretty Woman and then he sees Samara and he goes oh [ __ ] I literally found that picture did you I have a printed out picture from the Snapchat I think we took the moment that happened it's so it's me in the back of the car in with Marissa and I I will take a picture of it and we can add it into the video because I found it it was a great time when I was moving and I was like I need to show this to Karen we can put it in our office when we we can I would like to blow it up we should do like I have a great idea what okay you know like when people have movie rooms and they have posters oh my God yes should we recreate some of our favorite haunted movies like it's us in the poster that we put around the not to be Vain and like make the whole thing about us but like I feel funny that is brilliant okay let's do it we don't we don't have to assign any like time to it but like eventually we'll just keep creating of our holiday cards okay let's

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choose what movies we want okay the Ring The Ring you already have the costume that's perfect that's easy scream scream for sure a good one and we have to be all the characters yes maybe the stranger oh or ooh any Jordan Peele movie that's true us us we could definitely do us be us in us us in us give us ideas give us suggestion know your favorite ones and then maybe we'll recreate it you're going to be finding long pieces of hair all over my God K I know let's just hope that Noah doesn't need to eat because otherwise scary mommy is coming upstairs does baby want milky baby want milk I was going to dress up as actually I watched so if you're not familiar uh that is from Barbarian it's the creature woman uh who is bred by incest in the basement and she has a lovely Soul not give any spoilers big old boobs B big old milky filled yams

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long I I relate to that now long someone the other day was telling me that they were um experiencing some clogged Ducks when they were away from their baby and that they had to have someone help like express it and I was like can you not just lift your boob up and suck your own boob you're like maybe and I was like I think I'm on my way to getting there that needs to be a clip pulled of just jigsaw talking about putting his own boob into his mouth to express it okay we'll do that um maybe we'll get some new listeners are you into like dirty jigsaw putting his boob in his mouth yeah creepy creepy spooky scary skeletons senders on your SP actually I want to grab my coffee we got that Meg from a listener it says I hope we're best friends until we die and then I hope we stay ghost friends

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and walk through halls and scare the [ __ ] out of people cheers I also feel like through this mask I have to in order to see cuz my face is like shorter than where the holes are in order to see I kind of have to like lean my head down and look like up like this makes it scarier yeah God God Samara how did you do it also this reminds me of that story I told you in the Thousand Ways To Die episode where the guy tripped over his own beard and died I forgot about that it's a very sad tragic but yeah story anyone can go at any time yeah that's true slip on a banana peel it happens to people or you might find yourself in an abandoned warehouse and asked if you want to play a game and then you might die do you think you would survive no and I wouldn't want to would you I think not to be morbid but I think I would just send myself to the afterlife before that's what I mean participating in the game

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also I don't think they're set up to actually win like there's that there's that one movie cuz we rewatched these movies very recently all of them there's one where by the end of it you realize like the only way that act like anyone would have survived is if you did every action together like spilled the same amount of blood together oh my God jigsa that's so [ __ ] up I know why do I have to be like this like a or like I'm on the ground like pounding gyrating why do I have to be like this the gyrating added to it is H something else oh man what comes over me when I have this I don't know hair I don't know but I love this version of you I'm going to keep this forever actually so I already have my Halloween costume for this year and it's going to be a polite Halloween costume whatever I'm going to be a lobsterman know is a lobster and oh you changed it Brian is what were we you're going to do Hocus Pocus oh that's when Marissa comes we do that okay okay

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because I do I do want Noah to kind of dress as wi yeah he's an ally of course he is there that might be sprung upon Brian but our neighborhood has a Halloween walk so Brian is a is a cook no it's going to be a lobster and I'm going to be a lobsterman love it but I was like next year 100% I'm buying a tricycle I'm riding up through town everyone knows I'm the only one with intense Halloween decorations outside already and they're not even that intense they're cute but but yeah they're very cute I'm just going to get worse every year until the neighborhood kicks me out they're never going to kick you out I won't let them there's only one answer I must have a Halloween bash I think a Halloween hoot Nanny no one likes it unless they're invited and then they love you where are you from I don't know you're like a little leader hosen give me a pretzel we did our introduction no I realized was German he could be whoever he is because to be honest so if you watch the movies joh the like creator of

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Saw who is like the puzzle maker he dies like in the second movie and then he has like a million people helping him so you could be from anywhere that's true there is like a whole movie that takes place in Mexico I think God I need to I don't think I've watched all the saws we making me realiz there's new one coming out in 2025 man you know what was more [ __ ] up than saw though what of course I forget the name of it but what was that one that came out the squid games oh yeah the squid games like it was so addicting but like it took it took the idea of like saw is very like gruesome and it's just like disturbing to watch some of those scenes and those scenes were still in Squid games but like I feel like it added a whole psychological element to it that like saw kind of like sprinkled in but it wasn't really the main event yeah and also squid games has a lot of gun violence which I have a hard time with oh yeah when it's like MTH like that what was the worst game for you squid games I think the first

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one the the red light green light yeah yeah cuz the way that people were just dying cuz it was shocking yeah I felt like for me it was the marbles oh because you're face to face with the person like it's you versus them and you have to look into their eyes and their soul and know the only one of you yeah that one was hard for me to watch it was all pretty hard to watch we uh love scary stuff we do love scary stuff and for the whole month of October we're going to be dressing up or wearing Halloween related outfits and we highly recommend checking us out on YouTube for that but also the most exciting thing ever is that now that I live 30 minutes away from you K and I will be recording together and we are creating a studio yes hence the movie poster idea we will debut it in November yes and we cannot wait but until then we have a whole lot of really scary spooky topics to cover in October because obviously

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that's something we do every year but this year we took a different approach and it is that we're doing costumes every year in an attempt to confuse the entities and spirits around us every episode what did I say every year oh yeah every episode and perhaps that will make the demons that we discuss think wow what interesting new people that we see every week we don't need to haunt them right cuz they're so diverse and just rich in character we can't figure out who they are because they keep changing it up need we don't know what triggers them we don't know they seem to scared of nothing but yes yes we do trigger ourselves why scare these people who scare themselves yeah so we'll see how it goes um but good luck to you all and good luck to us because this typically is a a month of scary regrets so far so good knock on brick wood also we have a Halloween costume contest

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as we do every year so check that out on Instagram and send us your costumes because we have Awards and trophies to send to you but this week Samara is here to talk to you about possessions and exorcisms oh great I think you need one you might check yourself so to begin I have a video and I have a couple videos and photos throughout this episode so if you want to see them the one that I'm going to start with does have audio so you'll be able to hear what's going on but some of them are just visual if you want to check them out on YouTube but if you remember kin about a year and a half ago

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we spoke to two very fascinating people Chad and Carrie Hayes yes the writers of The Conjuring movie the first and of

Chad & Carey Hayes

House of wa and others and they have so much experience they have been all over the world and they told us about a town in India that they themselves visited

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and this town is known for exorcisms and what they said was so scary from what they themselves experienced that I remember you were like I'm cataloging this because we got to look into this town and everyone I'm going to play that video now it's a about 2-minute clip for all of you to refresh your memory of what they talked about before we go into this town and towns in India one guy we were in India and we're going to a place where they do two things blessings or exorcisms and it's a small village dirt road cows everywhere and there's a priest there and we're going to go watch an exorcism and he said how is your belief he goes what is the strength of your belief because what you're going to see is going to test your belief do not look at this individual in the eye we go up there we go up these stairs like 110 degrees out this guy's chained to a wall

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facing the Sun and he's not even sweating and we walk by this guy and I can't not look Chad looks and I've never looked in the more Unholy eyes in my life I did not know what the word Unholy eyes ever meant and then we watched this exorcism take place and it was gone it worked like what K said we we were both terrified of that one guy I'll never for I'll never forget that but even going upstairs where we were able to watch an exorcism there is a young girl maybe 9 years old completely just not Linda Blair possessed but like she was giggling and she was laughing and she would do a backflip and land with her head smacking the floor and she did it over and over and over and her parents were like sitting around like like this is nothing they believe that when you're possessed by a spirit the spirit doesn't allow the body to be injured so you have to believe that the the baa or what what

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are they called car the um boa I think boa they do the healings they have the authority to take these things away so we're witnessing another one and he goes do one of you want to be um possessed by a low-level demon and just experience what this is like and I'll make sure I can I'll take him out as soon as you want yeah and I go well you could do it to my brother I'm not going to do that poor Carrie and did you no I said you could do it to my brother so it didn't go anywhere that guy Saidi have the the blood of a Jin in this vial I will put it on your third eye and you can look into the supernatural world of the Jin and see what they see and see them again no thank you I my imagination does a pretty good job of that I don't want to invite anything exactly totally yeah you want to be possessed by a low-level demon real quick what is considered a low-l

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demon is also an important question too it's like well what level of possession is this I mean they have plenty of experience I think it is something that they could only quantify because they see them on a daily basis well it's weird cuz I was thinking low-level demon they must be able to easily be exercised because then you can pop them in you can pop them out but then the more people you pop them in aren't you training them to get more I love that the pop it in pop it out pop it in pop it out out that's how demonic possessions work seems like maybe in this town it is but then I'm thinking that's just training the demon to be more strong and probably try to grip and hold on even longer I don't know maybe we only will have the answers if we travel to this town in India maybe I was intrigued naturally after that conversation with Chad and Carrie Hayes and I would like to say upfront that I am approaching this topic with the utmost respect and I really do not want to bastardize the spiritual practices or religious beliefs in India that is not my intention at all I know some people are like you don't practice

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this don't speak about it but I think it's very informative and cool to learn about different cultures and different practices and I'm saying it and sharing with all of you with lots of respect and wanting to understand it and and in a way you're also kind of learning about myself yourself because I was about to say so if you look at me I white girl white girl or you think I speak Spanish a lot of people start to speak Spanish to me and I to me too I'm so sorry I wish I was a more educated and cultured person but I'm not so growing up I grew up very much rooted in my Italian Heritage and background my mom is like you are fully Italian and I'm like no I'm not but like forget about Papa yeah so my dad was born in Pakistan and when I did my 23 me I found out that I am 23.3 Northern Indian and Pakistani and that part of your life has kind of been yes so I didn't know I was Indian at all

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until my grandfather passed away in 2006 and when you look at my grandfather you look at my family like you know that they are Middle Eastern or like from India and it wasn't until my grandfather's funeral that it said where he was born he was born in Northern India and it said it like at his funeral it said born in and I was like he's Indian I'm Indian so it was cool I think doing this research to learn about kind of my background and where they grew up my grandmother and grandfather grew up in India moved to Pakistan where my dad and his siblings were born and then they moved to Oman anyway I've never been to India I thought this was really interesting and also as a spooky boot I was like okay towns that do exorcisms yes please sign me up yeah so practices in India vary from region to region they are very ritualistic and they are Traditions that have been upheld for generations and are deeply rooted in spiritual beliefs a lot of the stuff

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that I found in this episode is from sources that either people who live in India or sources that have visited these towns and gotten information because it is hard to find yeah like you can't just Google it the way that you would Google The Conjuring house because a lot of these Traditions are passed down through generations or through word of mouth and they're not you know monetized and put out in the world like the Western World does with hauntings like the coning or possessions that we've talked about on the podcast and especially if it's such a big thing that's like ingrained in that culture and spiritual beliefs it's probably something that is not really thought of as like so wild that they need to write a travel blog about it exactly exactly and they're not trying to attract tourists per se I mean a lot of these towns do have a lot of Tourism and there are a lot of people who will travel here just to see it but majority of the people who travel here are going and seeking Aid and help there are many towns and places in India

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that are known for practicing and Performing exorcisms and cleansings and ritualistic spiritual practices like that but I wanted to look into the town that Chad and Cary had mentioned which is called trogen and as I was researching it I was so blown away by how many temples there are how many towns there are how many places there are in India throughout the entire country that that have their own version of this so as some background India is a country in South Asia and is the seventh largest country by area and religion is a very important part of the country's history Hinduism is the dominant religion and beliefs in the Paranormal and Supernatural do vary in India as it does worldwide but in a 2018 survey it was found that 79% of Indians believe in spiritual entities including ghosts and spirits in indicating a strong inclination toward paranormal beliefs I

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feel like that's a statistic that should be across the board everywhere because ghosts are real and y'all need to believe it butter believe it I don't know why I said butter you butter you but believe it butter my butt and call me biscuit that's a real saying I didn't make it up yeah butter my butt and call me biscuit I think so I don't know what it means but okay I swear I saw it on a doorm somewhere I believe it and so a lot of people in India grow up hearing ghost stories there's a lot of superstitions and beliefs and my dad even told me and I think I've told this on this on the podcast before but the belief in JY CU that's one of the types of spirits that they believe in but he had a lot of experience with jyn in Pakistan as he was growing up and there were what are those trees called the one that's in Hawaii a b Bion trees are said

Taunted by Jin Spirits

to house Jin spirits and my my dad was taunted by some on the street he grew up

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in there is belief that these various entities Jin ghosts and booths all have the ability to possess a human soul which brings us to our main event and the topic of this episode exorcisms and possessions in India from a quick Google search there are hundreds of temples that are believed to be sacred and sites for Spiritual cleansings ranging from healing to exorcisms to ritualistic practices so there are some people who go to these places for health because these temples or these sacred places are said to have power and ability to cleanse not just demons but humans so there are a couple other places where I wanted to just like briefly mention them to give them little shout outs and then I'm going to talk specifically about two towns MH I also made a pronunciation key for myself as we go through this episode if you've listened to any of the past seven years we try but it doesn't mean

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it's going to be right okay so Shri kosan banan is in Gat it's a place where people play homage to Lord Hanuman and seek relief from bad spirits It is believed to have the power to dispel haunting spirits and banish evil specters and then there's Khali mandir which is dedicated to a goddess Khali and this Temple is famous for rituals aimed at exercising evil spirits and protecting devotees from harm h there is a temple in Maharashtra dedicated to Lord Shai which is Saturn Lord Saturn and many believe this Temple has the power to ward off evil and cleanse negative energies there's also a temple in Assam known for its powerful shop key which is a female energy oo and it's associated with tantric practices and rituals including exorcisms again aimed at dispelling negative energies point being there are so many places temples it's so weird not being able to look in your eyes I'm looking I'm like I

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know you're looking at me but those aren't your actual eyes and spiritual sites known to practice exorcism rituals and ward off negative energies so let's begin with chogan this is the town that Chad and Carrie Hayes shared with us chogan is a small village in Maia

A Town for Exorcisms, Chogan, India

Pradesh it's in India kind of like Central close more Northern there's a photo of the map on YouTube it is known for its role as a center for exorcisms the entire town is dedicated to the goddess Khali and is a place where people seek relief from possessions through rituals this town is really small it has a population of 2,000 people spread over 300 houses and the locals are often seen wearing white and it's not necessarily because it's a cleansing but they see white as the color of peace and progress oh that's lovely a lot of these buildings are also blue I don't think the color blue specifically has anything actually actually it might because

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there's a whole thing about Ascension to heaven and like spirit and sky and there are these ladders erected in the town that are supposed to symbolize like Stairway to Heaven oh interesting and so I wonder if the blue is like the sky the sky it is interesting I feel like blue is one of those it's like blue and white oh I've got hair in my mouth somehow it went through the M blue and white I feel like are those colors that keep coming up time and time again when it comes to cleansing or even like warding off evil like if we think about the Gula culture and blue being something to like trick the spirits into thinking that it's the sky and to to just like disappear and not come into the home it makes sense to me and I will say these exorcisms and rituals are not what we see in like us films it's not necessarily like bending all over flipping and breaking bones and screaming and vomiting everywhere like in the you know Exorcism of Emily Rose yeah

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these exorcisms are deeply rooted in faith and practices that have been passed down through generations so there are kind of like what Chad and Cary said like they witnessed this girl this little girl doing like backflips and they saw the Man's eyes that seemed so Unholy and there are definitely elements of that and there are people especially the the second place I'm going to talk about there's some very intense things that people have seen and reported this town seems a lot more one less touristy are you unmasking yourself I think I'm breathing in too much carbon think I was getting a little now it's your hat You' suck the hair was starting to get a little dizzy and have a little bit of a headache so I thought now you look like I don't want to collapse during a possession episode no that would be scary yeah we're going to be we're here you're showing your real face I almost dressed as Tiny Tim I should have done that that would have been really cute next year like I said some of them

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are a bit more scary as we would say but for the most part people coming to chogan it's not as we would see exorcisms or possessions in us movies in many tribal cultures of mad Pradesh the distinction between the physical and spiritual Realms is often blurred illnesses may be attributed to spiritual disturbances or deities being displeased leading to the belief that EX is m is necessary for recovery so like they think everything is very rooted in spiritual practice so if you're sick yes medicine could be employed but also perhaps there is a spiritual cleansing that needs to coincide with that yeah so spiritual healers who are often referred to as Shaman ohas Doughboys perform exorcisms in this town and they have gone through rigorous training and are believed to be able to communicate with Spirits there is one man who I will talk about in trogan who was was born into

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this his grandfather and his great-grandfather and great great great great grandfather were all Shaman and practicers of exorcism so he truly was born into this wow that's also a little scary to be born into it because not only can it be a very scary thing to open yourself up to but it does already feel like with each generation I'm assuming that job gets harder because you have a stack of energy that already has a vandetta against like your parent and like you're already maybe a little bit targeted by everyone who came or do they fear you that's true because you have the power of all your ancestors oh that's so witchy it is I hope they hold hands in the circle and dance well they do use Simple tools so you know in US exorcisms and possession cases or movies we see priests with Bibles and holy crosses and holy water and repeating Latin phrases here in

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chogan they use Simple tools like a feather broom and Temple Ash along with chanting mantras performing sacrifices and invoking the protection of local deities to drive away the dark and malevolent forces only occasionally are chains used and they're only ever used if a possessed person is exerting dominance or aggression otherwise they do not use any type of restraint and Community is a huge part of these practices so when someone comes for an exorcism it's very important that they call upon friends and family and if this person does not have them the community and Town's people come together and really take part that's of these rituals that must feel so good too because when you go through a possession like the whole thing is just months and months of isolating you so that must feel so powerful to have all these people just so willing to give you everything so this is a video of what it looks like

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wow I'm so curious too the people that wander around like Chad and Cary were talking about like seeing the person whose eyes they felt were Unholy yes and just the amount of people that are just walking around wandering around possessed I am curious if it's one of those things where people are just wandering around like that or as soon as someone starts to experience that if they're kind of like flooded by people coming to help them I think it depends yeah in this town I want to say no but I don't know for a fact but what I read and what I saw it does seem like often people who are needing in need of an exorcism will come with other people like they are accompanied by people but there are some who just are there by themselves and imagine being I know well no I was just thinking about like the people that are flight attendants and pilots on all of the planes that go into those Towns how scary I mean they are probably pretty rural so I don't know if

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they okay would but yeah so there's one article that I found and I I am including a sources at the bottom of the description if you would like to visit any of these to learn more but it details the rituals conducted specifically by the gond tribe of this area and throughout the temple and town you'll see many Lads which symbolize spiritual ascent and this article also highlights Ramesh parthy a fourth generation Exorcist who has been practicing these rituals for more than a decade he claims that his abilities were inherited and it's something he just got from his father it came to him naturally and he assists individuals who are believed to be possessed and acts as a medium for the goddess who is the true source of power so he's a channel he's a medium he is basically a vessel for the goddess to do her good work that's incredible you know what I hope to I hope that with these families that or with these individuals that are like born and know that it just comes with them I have this idea in my mind that this is

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the job that their soul has always been assigned so with every single life they come back and they're just more powerful and they just continue to reincarnate as this individual that fights evil well that's sick should we write a movie about it yeah let's do it he was the one who said like the tools that he uses and it's almost like flogging a little bit like the feather broom and in the video you saw he was using and that's not remesh specifically but there's like the bells and like metal that they're kindly placing brushing on the back yeah and they chant mantras and at trogan it is believed that over seven Dees reside here so it is called a district of goddesses which I think is beautiful that sounds so nice and they believe the town is filled with Divine Aura and energy which is why they believe the temple in trogan is where hellish forces possessing humans can be defeated by the Heavenly Powers through the exorcism process and rituals

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sometimes during the exorcism exorcists and shamans will climb the ladders and expel the evil spirits so like there's a lot of interaction through with the ladders and with the possessed person and many people will go here and leave feeling unburdened and free from the negative entities that's really nice but like I stated in the beginning of this episode trogan is not necessarily known mainstream worldwide for its exorcisms if you're local in the area or if you're looking specifically for that type of spiritual practice you will know about it and people from all over do seek guidance here but there is one way more well-known temple in India known for its exorcisms this is the Mayha deor Balaji

Exorcism Temple, The Mehandipur Balaji Temple

Temple and this is located in the daa

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district of rajastan India so this Temple is one of the most famous and mysterious temples in the country especially known for its association with exorcisms and spiritual healing this Temple is dedicated to Lord Hanuman he's also called BAGI in this context and Lord Hanuman is believed to have the power to rid individuals of demonic possessions black magic and other malevolent horses and this is what the temple looks like oh my gosh wow but the entire town can be seen filled with people who are said to be possessed in need of cleansings oh my God and it is more of a I wouldn't say Taurus is not the correct word but it is like almost a place that people pilgrimage to yes and travel to for Spiritual cleanses practices or just like a Aid yes it's interesting too cuz that Temple I mean obviously I haven't been there so I don't know what it looks like but it looks just so beautiful and Grand and

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cheery but it's also multiple levels so I'm almost picturing it as this place where like if you stand on the top level you can see out into all the streets of the town and just like witness all the people who need help I'm going to show you a video in a little bit that is a bit unsettling I do want to shout out a YouTube channel and SL podcast that I got so much of this information from the YouTube video is from Desi Studios and they're called boot Busters because the one of the spirits known in India is a boot b h o o t and boot Busters like boot Busters almost it's a Duo a man or woman and they live in India and actually went and visited the bellagi Temple and so the whole video they even do like a paranormal investigation at night it's terrifying oh my God but I highly recommend watching their video there's so much information but we can link it I have perfect it will also be l in the YouTube video click here if you want to watch that there's even and I

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won't share this because it's not my story but the guy in the video has a personal connection to the temple where his cousin was possessed and went to this Temple for an exorcism yeah damn I wonder the details I wonder if it worked it did work okay good yes that is all I'll tell you but it's not my story to share similar to the trogan temple the origins and histories of the BAGI Temple are not well documented and have been passed down orally but it is very mysterious and believed to be rooted in paranormal spiritual Origins the temple was built in the 19th century but the deities within the temple and the lore of the temple date far further back wow so I'm going to use the one version of the origin story that was spoken about in the YouTube video I just mentioned because they seem to be the resource and they got that story from locals so I'm going to share that one got it okay The Story begins before the temple was ever constructed it begins with two deities

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pret Raj the king of evil spirits he was said to have wre havoc in the town cursing passerbys with mental afflictions and sending evil spirits after them the deity Hanuman or bellagi that this Temple is now named after fought the king of evil spirits defeating him and in defeating him the two made a partnership and they agreed to team up to protect humans from Evil beings from black magic and from demonic spirits with that as background now comes the legend of the temple itself so these two deities have teamed up and as The Story Goes a thousand years ago on the site of this Temple was a small foresty village home to a saintly priest it is said that one night this priest was given a message in a dreamlike state he was semiconscious semi asleep a man slept walked deep into the Forest led by some unseen Force when he arrived into

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the middle of the forest he found animals bowing and praying over and around a stone whoa but then with a closer look he realized it was not one rock it was three rocks and from these three rocks three deities emerged one from each Rock a fierce form of Lord Shiva pret Raj the king of evil spirits and Lord Hanuman BAGI when the priest awoke from his dream state it said that the child form of BAGI himself which is a common thing I think the Lord Hanuman appears as an adult form or a child form in this experience it was a child form he stood before the priest and commanded him to build a temple around the three rocks the idols and so the priest did and it is said that those very same idols and rocks are seen in the temple today regardless of the lore behind the origin of the temp Temple the temple is ethereal and a very powerfully spiritual

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place it is said that similar to the West utilizing the cross as a symbol of you know anti-evil and summoning strength of God they do that here at Temple BAGI when you summon the strength of Lord Hanuman himself wow so Lord Hanuman is like the symbol of the Cross equivalent whether you're religious or not you can turn to this deity for protection against evil or to keep ghosts at Bay so it's similar like how you and I would not say we are Catholic although we grew up in the Catholicism religion and we were confirmed and all that stuff but like I find myself like pray to God sometimes because that's the term that I've known but that's the same thing like you don't have to be religious for you to turn to Lord Hanuman for help yeah and we don't know who's listening right like when I when I say my wishes to the universe like maybe this is who's listening that's true we have no idea we have no clue we have no idea so after the construction of the temple the dees had a place to keep the

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evil spirits at Bay trapping them within the sacred walls of BAGI Temple so basically when the king of evil spirits and BAGI teamed up they were like okay well now we need a place where we can actually trap the spirits that is why yeah ghost vacuum exactly but now it's a temple so that is why the temple was built that's why they had the priest build it today the temple has a reputation as a center for exorcisms and the ability to defeat evil for es there are many spiritual healings and virtuals performed here exorcisms offerings tantric healing and more there was a study in 1981 that 80% of visitors who come to Temple BAGI are from an urban background 80% are educated and 82% have attempted to seek relief through medication or traditional medicine prior to pilgrimages rituals often involve the possessed person reciting prayers and making offerings to the daes it is very common here to see Afflicted persons

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exhibiting intense physical signs of possession which in that video you showed there was like that guy against the wall kind of but I'm going to show you another video in a moment that is a little bit more intense okay screaming violent movements self harm inhuman actions the use of flogging and sometimes beating are used to rid the evil spirit it ranges and can be a very overwhelming sight to to see the two boot Busters were there themselves and there are some clips I'm going to show from that video of theirs and they were very overwhelmed by it part of the ritual involves putting the possessed person into a trance and in this trance they sometimes speak in tongues or switch between the voice of their own and the voice of spirits so here is a short video if you're listening you won't really know much of what's going on

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oh my gosh I feel like so conflicted because do you see how many people are there too they're it's so incredibly packed it looks like it hurts the amount of like convulsions these people are having yes but at the same time I'm like they're really working on their flexibility maybe this movement is good for their joints I don't know but yeah gez that's really scary it is and to also like it's so packed it's like a Disney World it's a Salem in October and yet these people are like violent like I fear for the people around them cuz they're like violently swinging their bodies around yes in one of the videos there's someone basically somersaulting around floor yeah and I should rephrase that I said they're doing it but it seems like obviously possession yeah they're in it doesn't seem like they're consciously evil entities are doing it so the temple is known for its successes so while the video might be a little alarming and scary it is known to rid people people of evil attachments and that is why people go here that is why so many

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people are there because it has this success rate this actual spiritual practice that has worked for people and then you might ask what then happens to these evil attachments after they are ridden from the human body guess where they stay in a jar in a glass jar on a Apothecary shelf trapped in the temple oh so because of this there are very very strict rules in this Temple but also in this town that people have to follow the first one is that it is prohibited to talk or to touch any stranger inside the temple if you're

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approached by any Strang looking men or women or if you're just approached by anyone you are warned from making eye contact with them and to not speak to them because it is possible that these are possessed beings who are trying to pass on their Spirits so they can be relieved oh my God okay but this is so hard cuz it's like there's so many people that need help and then in this

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area you're supposed to just like everyone together collectively help people but then you say if someone comes up to you you're not supposed to look at them but you're not there to help people if you're visiting I'm not the professional yeah no so the only people who should be helping these possessed or Afflicted persons are those who have spent many years practicing and are so this is a message for visitors not just like a collective like here's the copy paste for everybody for visitors okay so do not talk to or touch strangers got it which I feel like is a good rule to yourself yes the second one absolutely do not accept any food from anyone BAGI has its fair share of black magic and tantric practitioners rumming the streets they tend to approach newcomers with items guised as an offering only to cast spells on you so forget taking food from strangers you can't even take food from your loved ones or the priests either because don't know what someone watching might cast upon that food how

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are you ever supposed to even buy food in this town I think buying from a store is okay I'm so curious when they like stock the shelves in the market what they have to do I don't know and then the one other rule kind of tacked on to that one is eating and drinking within the premises of the temple is strictly prohibited I think maybe that helps people not accept food or anything from people but also probably just for the sacredness of the temple do not eat and that's a common thing in Many religious places also just to be like extremely practical with the risk of choking when people are like violently moving about like who knows if suddenly as they're eating they're about to be possessed or like something is GNA yeah so liability wise I can see that being a good uh Rule and the final Rule and this is probably well they're all pretty important but one of the most important when you leave the temple keep your head and eyes forward ahead of you do not under any

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circumstances look back keep walking and never look back it is believed that an evil spirit might catch you and take possession of you because after people are read of these evil spirits these evil spirits are now lingering around the temple looking for a body to possess a new you see anything in your peripheral ignore it just eyes forward walk out do not look back Appalachia whistle in the woods mind your own business mind your own business that is the Temple of BAGI and the exorcisms in India and that's only even just scratching the surface yeah because there are so many other towns and there are so many other practices but there are a lot of places in India that are known for successfully ridding evil attachments and then homing those in temples which is at least they have a home like we know where they're staying but they're supposed to be they're not supposed to really follow you home if

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you follow all the rules no they are not supposed to follow you home and I mean people say even just entering these towns it's this weird thing where and I've never been but you feel the heaviness and you also simultaneously feel this like ethereal lightness because there's such strong goddesses and deities who have spent eternity yeah protecting or banishing evil right but then there's also hundreds if not thousands if not who knows how many evil spirits stuck there I'm also curious if they have a busy season you know interes if there's around some of their holidays and like sacred times if there's way fewer people because there's just so much prayer and energy being put out that it's kind of like diluted or if you know like for is it more popular because that's when the energy is more powerful that they can rid the darkness true I have no idea but like I'm thinking about like Halloween the veil is thinnest on

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Halloween night and yes you know things come through I wonder if there are some if they can like Mark certain times that it seems like people are more Afflicted right I mean I would love so badly to communicate and speak with someone who is trained and performs the exorcisms and rituals here because the knowledge that they must have and the spiritual richness like is probably So Beautiful to experience yeah I don't know I I feel like there's an acceptance of spirituality in India that is almost like it doesn't matter what you believe in if you believe you need Aid they will help you yeah and they can help you I just think that's like yeah and of course there's like depending on where you are there's different cultures there's different religions there was a story from the boot Busters they were staying at a hotel and the room next to them was a family with a possessed

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relative and they like heard a lot of noises and stuff throughout the night but at the end of their trip the family was like checking out and the family member was like relieved and like almost seemed like a completely different person God which I think is beautiful that is like that's what I want filmed I want like the I know it's like what Chad and Carrie were saying where like they went and saw this person and it's like I am tempted to want to go do that but it also sounds scary it does sound scary and it's also hard cuz it's like the filming of people possessed it feels like you're filming them in their absolute worst moments and most vulnerable moments but I want to hear the sides of the story like when they come out of it I want to see like what happens right after like I want the video of them coming out of it's like the American Idol audition where they come out of the studio and they're like I'm going to Hollywood you know like I want to see that joy and the relief right I want to see them feel free that's why I I as much as I love our

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format of the podcast where we sit in our home and regurgitate information that we found from online and from other sources there's a part of me that would love to take it on the road and interact with people interact with places and spaces and see it firsthand right so call us Netflix call US Travel Channel we want to do it so fly us to your home and we'll show up looking like this and we'll see to strange people in masks strangers that terrifying I hate The Strangers so much one of the worst movies isn't it based off a true story is it I don't know most affected me in terms of the last line of any movie you were home because you were home never forget there's a new um strangers that came out with uh one of the girls from Riverdale the redhead meline yeah I can't remember her last name and apparently there's a part two coming out soon okay I'm like do I watch it do I not because the first one it's not as scary as the first one I will say okay but then I I need to separate it and

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pretend like it's not related to the first one so I can watch it because I don't want it to I don't want to feel the pressure of yeah enjoying it as much as I did I enjoy the first one or did my entire family not sleep for like 3 years probably that we have the movie poster in our basement that's well I was going to say we could recreate that but they're just wearing masks so put it on the wall yeah exactly it's us that's uh a very very small example of exorcism practices in India jeez my gosh well it sounds extremely scary I'm glad that those places exist for people because there's certainly nothing like that around here no so hopefully no one ever has to experience that but if you do at least you know that there's a place for you R kitchen Let Me Whip off my glove now I'm like Michael Jackson if I just take off the tie and I have the one white glove it just reminds me of inep brothers when they go to get go to interview and they're wearing full t oh my God that's hilarious and

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together hey ladies hey just thought I'd share my crazy story with you crazy okay I absolutely love your podcast who is this do we know Mandy this is Mandy hi Mandy hi Mandy it's what starts my day on geez sorry Mandy I'll save you if you come to my warehouse and play a game if you win the game that was actually pretty good whenever I do it like two voices come out of me it's so weird it does Mandy Mandy you too we're both possessed there's six of us here I absolutely love your podcast it's what starts my day on the way to work and ends it on my way home your entertaining stories are the most perfect sandwich to my daily to-dos thanks for being so awesome and keeping me company on the road anyway here's my creepy story I rarely talk about it because it makes me sound like a whacka dooodle do it's pretty long so get comfy here go this is a Content warning for suicidal ideation and sexual violence when I was

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12 I played with a Ouija board I know I know I was a kid and obviously I didn't know any better a group of girls and I were having a sleepover and we decided to pull out my friend's board we asked it some questions we contacted a being that seemed nice and when we asked it who it was here for the board said it was visiting me we asked it for a name and it gave us a name that nobody else could have possibly known would relate to me on a particular level level as it was a rather unusual name and I'd never mentioned it to any of them before I for sure knew that this was legit come to find out many years later that this thing had attached itself to me and was going to torment me for years oh no Mandy I'm sorry I know oh I started suffering from severe depression and even tried to take my own life at the age of 13 I stayed in a mental health unit for a little over a week and around the same time was when I started to inflict self harm H many times I do it and not even really exactly know why or

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what brought on these feelings to lead me to do this but years later I learned about empaths and the infj personality type which explains so much more about me and my beneficial and also frustrating ability to pick up on other people's energies and feelings oh Mandy I get it I'm an infj too are you I'm an ENFJ we're we're kind of close we are very close the only thing that se separates us is introvert extrovert often times without even realizing I guess this entity was able to play off that ability and the older I got the more I felt its presence often times I would wake up and feel that there was something in the room with me watching me sleep jesz weird things started happening to the electrical outlets in our house things would turn on by themselves the radio the vacuum cleaner our juicer Etc I also would wake up and my alarm would go off and I'd feel this heavy damp weighted blanket feeling like it was covering my entire body and I could see with my third eye and like feel this dark gray black energy just

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swirling above me I'm not going to lie that's how I felt this entire day we've

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been recording today oh God I hope no that was mean what were you going to say I going to say I hope you bring it with you on your way out the door cuz this is I hope it stays with you but I don't want you to be on to either I hope it just you know moves on maybe next episode you'll be performing an exorcism on me similar to storm clouds or the way that cream looks when you first pour it into tea or coffee that's what it looked like that weird expanding swirling oh I would also sometimes Hear Voices when it was quiet enough usually when I was driving to work or class in my truck and they always sounded far away far away enough that I couldn't really ever make out what they were saying I couldn't understand them I would try to talk about it in my late teens and my early 20s to my friends that I felt close enough with but nobody ever really seemed to get what I was talking about that's so sad and isolating isolating and especially if the sound is like close but distant and you can't really hear what they're saying that's also and confusing and it's also scary if it starts to get closer and closer the

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years like it's coming for you yeah don't like that after a while I just didn't talk about it at all and really hardly ever talked about it because I felt very judged and uncomfortable no one understood me cut forward to my post school years where I started my business and I ended up going to a large Spa conference in Vegas with all of my co-workers a spa conference yeah what's your job I want to go to us massages I want a head massage oh I just want that full body massage so badly like for two hours we rented a large house off the strip and everybody got to pick a room some of us had to double up because we were a big salon slspa and the house that we rented was big but it was definitely not a mansion one night we were cooking dinner together and I got this incredibly intense sensation of dread and sorrow and panic and fear I removed myself from the group and I went up to my room to do some deep breathing exercises and as much as I tried to calm myself down nothing was helping I ended up having a full-on panic attack and crawling into

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the closet a coworker came up to tell me the dinner was ready only to find me hysterically sobbing and rocking back and forth in the closet like a [ __ ] psycho and another cooworker of mine who is a very spiritual healer came up put his hands over me and began to send me calming blue light and asking angels to come help us these are great co-workers I'm glad that you have them another co-worker who's very Christian came into the closet and started to pray it was like one by one everyone started pouring into the room the closet or the hallway outside the room and I'm so fortunate to have been part of such a diverse and eclectically spiritual group and family that never judges one another hooray for friendship I do think there is this like very beautiful connection between massage or Spa practices and the Paranormal yeah well because it's like you're healing people you're touching them you're sharing energy the woman I go to in Marblehead for massage is Kelsey shout out to Marblehead massage is also a raiki Healer oh really and she

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combines raiki and massage because she's trained in massage I I'm always curious I'm like do you end up like while doing regular massages like end up picking on people's yeah energies yeah I wonder if she just like sprinkles it in sometimes too when people aren't even really supposed to get it yeah anyway cut to a few minutes later when I was finally able to get a grip and I was so energetically exhausted and everything felt like a weird dream my cooworker and I walked out of the room while he continued to send me good Juju and I get to the doorway where the hall starts and the rest of my co-workers are sitting on the floor up against the wall one of them was speaking in tongues and not going to lie that creeped me out a little bit more than the spirit did and another two were sitting there crying it was like a scene from a shitty movie it still doesn't feel real it's a shitty movie yeah it still doesn't feel real or like it actually happened and the next few hours were a blur I remember having dinner and then deciding to take a nap on the couch and to try to gain some energy back before we went out to paint

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the town red and when I woke up I could hear two of my co-workers talking about me one of them was telling the other that they could hear people whispering in my ears while I slept shut up talk about not wanting to sleep anymore enter my insomnia haha so we went out we had a fun time I forgot about the craziness until we got home I was still pretty weirded out and so I decided to take some sleep aids to help me calm down and pretend like nothing happen happened I woke up hours later to my coworker frantically shaking me and trying to wake me up we had to share a bed because there weren't enough for everyone and so she was right there with me all night I turned around to face her groggy and confused as to why she would be acting so urgently and she told me that she woke up because she felt like someone was violently shaking the bed another coworker came to the room because she wanted to see what was going on and I was so tired I was confused so I just rolled over and I went back to sleep after I convinced her that everything was okay but she did take a sleeping aid too so drugged up I don't think she was actually very convinced by me the next

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morning I felt really bad because I'm sure she had a hard time getting back to sleep after that night everything seemed fine and we had a great time even though I always have a hard time in Vegas it puts my spider senses on the fritz and energetically is overwhelming as hell Vegas is when we were like flying in remember we were just like like yuck there was just like a picked up on something yeah I have no desire to ever go back to that place no me neither sorry to all of our our Vegas listeners but it didn't Vibe with our energy no it did not later that month we were home from the conference SL Expo and I was still waking up to these overpowering sensations of pain and sorrow and oppression and I was talking to a few of my co-workers in the break room and they all agreed that something was wrong there was definitely a negative entity that was following me around one of the girls offered to have us over to her place for a little blessing and I'm not a fan of organized religion but I was desperate to be free of whatever was going on some people people from her church came over to bless me they basically treated the situation like I had basic depression

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and Suicidal Thoughts even though the rest of us knew that it was something more than that while they had their hands on me praying I could feel a very evil presence watching all of us from a top of the stairs almost taunting mocking us nope my friend's Church guys left and we were talking about how that whole experience just felt pretty pointless the group asked me how I felt and I had regretfully admitted that I felt the same I didn't really feel like it had left it seemed like it was still there and when they asked me where I pointed to the stairs and said up at the top and some of them agreed and then randomly one of my super hippie co-workers grabbed my arm and started begging me to figure out how to deal with this because she said that while those guys were at the house praying over me the entity whispered in her ear to our word me I'm not kidding the last like and I'm sure you can see it on the video but like I'm I literally had to plug my ear because it felt like there was like a ringing and like an intense like sound in my ear oh

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my God we're very afflicted by the by and I'm so nervous to share any of like what I'm feeling with you because I don't want you to think anything your house and we have to record here and we have to record here but I also don't think it's anything negative I just more am like I think I'm so hyper aware right now because we're talking about it I'll tell you when we record in November about all of our updates but this neighborhood has some real darkness to it so we might be calling something from the top of the hill down should we go record at the top of the hill there is there's houses there so well I'll ask my neighbors if we can record in their yard one mistake we did not do is set intentions that's true I think I have permanent intentions set up though yeah yeah yeah I think we're trying to guard ourselves enough okay so that was [ __ ] creepy right and that was so shocking and horrifying to me to this day and as a victim of sexual assault starting at a younger age that was by far the most triggering thing she could have ever said to me it was like I was kicked in

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the core of my soul a couple days later my guy cooworker asked me randomly do you want to get rid of this thing for good hell yeah and of course I said yes obviously so he told I want to keep it around I love this thing makes me feel not alone he told me that he knew exactly what to do and he took me to his family friend who was a very developed psychic who actually teaches classes on spirituality and psychic development I took a couple coures with her and they were really great wait link I want I want to know who this is tell us who this is okay here's where it gets even weirder and please don't judge me for this part because I already feel weird enough dude no judgment ever Mandy you're safe here I already feel weird enough having to write this out we basically didn't exorcism in her Learning Center it was just the three of us her my friend and yours truly before we began she told my friend that he had to hold my feet down and that I may or may not resist she said whatever happens to just stay strong and to know at certain points in

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the process it might not actually be me in my body needless to say I was so scared yeah I could go into detail about the whole process oh I just got like the crazy cold chill in my back again good good good it's where is the freaking Breeze coming from it's just hugging me yeah it's it's a holding you through the rest of the story I could go into detail about the whole process or what I remember of it anyway but it would just be more words and we started with some prayers and a protection and assistance from ancestors and so on and then it began but just know that it was nothing as weird or like they show in all those scary movies but it definitely was intense yeah after that process was done she told me that she knew to be true about what had just happened she said that when I was younger about 12 or so which was spoton I invited an entity to attach itself to me so the Ouija board she said that this entity was from a past life it was an ex-lover back in India and I've always

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been super drawn to India I swear I've lived there so many times wow this lover apparently was insanely jealous and possessive back in the lifetime and could not stand the idea of me existing without him around how she could have known any of this was beyond me but it all makes sense whether or not it's true is still unclear because I'm typically skeptical of so much even though I definitely am a believer in the other side and of the Unseen but I mean do we ever really know for sure no but I do know one thing to be true after that day I never felt that presence follow me again oh thank God Mandy I know sometimes I do feel other presences and I still experience some weird paranormal things here and there but this story is by far the most intense and freaky so there it is that's one story hopefully you're able to make it to the end without having to get up and stretch for a snack keep sharing your amazing podcast with all of us out there you guys so great to see you on the other side Mandy Mandy it wasn't about getting up and needing to stretch or have a

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snack it was about wishing we had gotten up because we were feeling uneasy yeah needing a little pray or something got to go grab some crystals hug that's terrifying and and also the fact that that Spirit or ex-lover P from a past life was with Mandy for what more than 18 years yeah it's absolutely wild I mean that's so terrifying so glad you were able to get rid of it uh yeah I'm sorry you had to go through all of that like just with the mental health toll the physical stuff that it came with like that's just so heavy and so much to carry no one should ever have to experience that no and I hope no one does but I know that a lot of people do and it's just I think the silver lining of this is how many people and what an Eclectic group Mandy had that was there willing to share what they had at their in their Arsenal and their tool Bo one after one kept coming up to the room and giving protective energy to Mandy is the most beautiful it's just weird like If

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This Were A Movie it's almost this like mirroring moment from like the Ouija board with a bunch of 12-year-old girls where everyone's giving energy but it's a little bit like scary yeah and then this moment that led to the closure of the story of all these like adults coming to protect you and it's also so interesting too cuz like some of it was very unprovoked it was like just someone like everyone's thinking about her to she's not asking for or even in the room with them right they just see her and they're like I need to do this for you I need to help you well those are some good people to have in your life sounds like you should keep them keep them get rid of Creepy Past life possessed person following you also I realized I could do this oh wow I love that a Samara hair scarf this feels like very Moira Rose ofio like I feel like she would wear one of her wigs as a scarf Samara SL Moira the croning the craning um well that was terrifying but also if any of you have

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been possessed let us know and we know someone who was possessed not personally but in next week's episode we have yet another possession case for you lovely and we uh can't wait to talk about more scary stuff and we will definitely do some intention setting but maybe not next week no but like we already recorded maybe you should all do some in intention setting and then we'll pretend we did it off screen yes yes yes email us at two girl1 GHP podcast gmail.com if you want to watch these episodes we have a YouTube channel where you can watch if you want all the episodes ad free one week early and some bonus content additional episodes Etc you can check out our patreon it's really fun we have one tier so everybody gets everything if you join we also have social media so you can follow us on all of those pages you know the Spiel you do know the Spiel thank you so much to our editor and producer Jamie for making us sound like we know how to pronounce things hopefully a little less clunky CL yes

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because I do feel a little une easy right now oh okay well we're going to go caffeinate ourselves bathe ourselves in some holy water I have some on the counter actually from perfect brought over by my mom the other day I love that and I'm going to go to our PO box and S we've got plans we've got things to do we' got things to do protect ourselves from dark things and prepare for you for next week voice but anyway we love you happy hauntings happy October and we will see you on the other side I really need to do this very spooky