Late in the 1990s, on a cold night, I fondly recall being covered up with warm blankets.. the room was dark.. and a small AM radio was playing next to my bed. Long before iPods and phones, the age of dial up was just too slow.. The radio worked fine. The voice of Art Bell interviewing Father Malachi Martin billowed through the shadows… They chatted about the ‘perfect’ possession.. Bell bragged that Martin told him of the TRUE secrets of Fatima.. it was all given to us like a novel, like a perfect novel. About perfect possession.
Father Malachi Martin was a very real Jesuit priest. He passed away just before the turn of the century.. His mark was made on the paranormal world thanks to Coast to Coast AM at that time, and other media outlets that broadcast his story ..
Martin’s fame was given a higher credibility after his numerous appearances with Bell. But his story did not end with the radio show appearances.
Father Martin is well known in the exorcism community as being a major player — he often even said he could spot possessed persons as he walked the streets of his home town of New York City..
He was involved in a number of exorcisms.. He battled demons, he said. And now thanks to a new Netflix documentary hitting this weekend, others will say he claim he battled demons as well..
The new feature length documentary HOSTAGE TO THE DEVIL will feature some stunning claims .. such as this: That after an exorcism in 1999, and after a fall that later led to his death, Fr Martin told a friend that an invisible force had pushed him, leading to the head trauma…
Writer and producer Rachel Lysaght recalled how Fr Martin, from Ballylongford in Kerry, had his first encounter with exorcism while in Egypt working on a book, The Scribal of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The story will go on to showcase ACTUAL footage from exorcisms.. we are told that faces will be blurred to protect the possessed.
One amazing claim gaining a lot of traction today thanks to a link on the Drudge Report (Drudge was a listener to Art Bell back in the day as well, don’t forget) is this: The UK DAILY MAIL is blaring this: Catholic priest who inspired The Exorcist died from a fall after a ‘possessed’ child spoke to him and he was ‘pushed over by an invisible force’, CIA agent claim
Reporting from the MAIL as follows:
Ahead of the release of a new documentary, his close friend Robert Marrow has lifted the lid on the moment he believes the priest was effectively killed – when a possessed four-year-old girl he was meant to be exorcising spoke to him in America. Talking to RTE Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show, the producer of the feature-length show called Hostage to the Devil Rachel Lysaght recalled a harrowing moment during filming. Former CIA agent Mr Marrow retracted the steps to Connecticut where Father Martin had offered to carry out an exorcism on the four-year-old girl. When he arrived at the neutral home, the family were already there, and the girl walked up to the priest and said: ‘So you’re Malachi Martin – and you think you can help her?’, suggesting she was talking while having an out-of-body experience. It has been claimed that after the exchange in 1999, a fall led to his death from a head trauma at the age of 78. He told a friend that it was caused by an invisible force that pushed him. By this time, the father from County Kerry in South-Western Ireland was hiring himself out as a private exorcist and it is believed he was the inspiration behind the famous film released in 1973. Due to Father Martin’s age, Mr Marrow drove him to his clients across America where he had relocated after turning his back on the church. The former CIA agent told RTE the encounter between the priest and the girl was the most disturbing thing he had ever seen, according to Rachel Lysaght, who also wrote the new documentary.
There are times I have my doubts.. We all do. Faith in God is one thing. Faith in the devil– or at least the acknowledgment that one exists– seems more difficult. But Father Martin had no doubts. He was aware perhaps of things that none of us want to be.. that none of us are able to be.. that very few of us would ever believe if we saw.
If the stories presented are to be considered true, then the real mysteries of the paranormal and bizarre are even deeper and more foreboding than anything we know.
I plan on watching this documentary and contemplating the meaning..
A LOT of inside jokes on this picture that virtually no one except about 50 people who graduated from a school in East Central Pennsylvania in 1999 would understand..
These were the days.
Having a nostalgia filled Sunday morning. And nostalgia is the thing I crave least.. the emotion I want to dissuade from occurring the most. And the brain warp that happens way too often as I see hours slip through my fingers like the sands of time.
I am late to the game, I know. .but I downloaded the game HELLO NEIGHBOR today .. Attempting to play the best I can. My son Ayden is much better since he watched the ANNOYING ORANGE videos of it long before I even knew of it..
STX’s launch of horror film “The Bye Bye Man” will be a player as it’s outperforming expectations with forecasts in the $14 million to $16 million range. The fifth weekend of Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is also heading for the same territory and should finish the weekend with around $500 million in its first month.
Good to see ROGUE ONE is still doing so well..
As for BYE BYE MAN? ….the ROLLING STONE called the movie an insult to horror and VARIETY said it will be a one week wonder..
We have been hearing about the future of nightmare bacteria was coming..
We may now be entering it. If not already being securely within..
From the article on this concerning story:
The case involved a woman who had spent considerable time in India, where multi-drug-resistant bacteria are more common than they are in the US. She had broken her right femur — the big bone in the thigh — while in India a couple of years back. She later developed a bone infection in her femur and her hip and was hospitalized a number of times in India in the two years that followed. Her last admission to a hospital in India was in June of last year.
The unnamed woman — described as a resident of Washoe County who was in her 70s — went into hospital in Reno for care in mid-August, where it was discovered she was infected with what is called a CRE — carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae. That’s a general name to describe bacteria that commonly live in the gut that have developed resistance to the class of antibiotics called carbapenems — an important last-line of defense used when other antibiotics fail. CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden has called CREs “nightmare bacteria” because of the danger they pose for spreading antibiotic resistance.
The restaurant formerly known as Marrones on a snowy vacant day in Girardville PA #girardville #coal region
I already posted this photo today .. but I was so moved by it I am positing it again.
You have to imagine the scene.. Girardville Pennsylvania. One Saturday during the snow.. it was lightly coming down at this point, the roads were covered.. the former MARRONES restaurant was just .. simply.. there. Vacant. Lights were out.. No one was home.
There are collapsing buildings in Girardville on 2nd St.. The former home of the former Second Street Pub. And now just a street littered with the remnants of yesterday, the memories of a time gone.. of a century gone.
Girardville is very sad to me lately.. There are amazing and beautiful people in the town. But so many places within are literally falling. It is somewhat emblematic of so many other areas of the coal region..
So cheers for what once was. ….and tears for what is no more.
“We have finally pinned down a minimum age for the moon; it’s time we knew its age and now we do,” said Mélanie Barboni, the study’s lead author and a research geochemist in UCLA’s Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.
The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called Theia, a UCLA-led team of geochemists and colleagues reported in 2016.
The newest research would mean that the moon formed “only” about 60 million years after the birth of the solar system — an important point because it would provide critical information for astronomers and planetary scientists who seek to understand the early evolution of the Earth and our solar system.
This would appear to be a monumental thing.. a showcase of the changing times we live in.
The circus, once celebrated and honored, is closing down..
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey is calling it quits after 146 years – 146 people, that is a long, long time..
There are a few shows to go .. but the curtain is closing.
The times are changing.
The two touring circuses will perform a total of 30 shows over the next four months. Most of the shows will be held in the South or the East Coast. Major stops include Atlanta, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn. Tickets can still be purchased online and at venues…
