This scientifically documented story is taken from the data published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, September 1994.
Born in India of a successful family the child's prospects appeared good. On moving to Britain in 1978 the family
flourished brining money, fortune and respect, but also the attention of a spiteful jealous aunt. It is not clear if the aunt was
herself a witch, or if she consulted one, but she cursed the boy to poison the happiness of his family. She cursed him to be
possessed by the sprit of an evil dead woman.
The spirit would creep up on the child, now a young man, appearing as a mist drifting towards him, settle on his chest, crushing him,
then slip inside the victim through the nose. Struggling was rarely successful and was vigorously punished by the ghost, once she
forced the young man to jump in front of a train for resisting her will. The young man was fully aware of his actions while possessed
but unable to act. He was forced into truancy, to shoplift and steal, to rob cars in order to tend the grave of the dead evil spirit.
His family sort help from all the religious counsellors they could find, Hindu, Moslem and Christian exorcisms all failed.
Eventually the actions of the possessed brought him to the attention of the police who not being aware of the plea of not guilty due
to possession having been accepted before in English law, placed him in prison.
It was not long before his terrified cell mates were pleading to change cells after witnessing the evil spirit coming to their
fellow cell mate. The prison chaplain was called. He was sceptical until he too saw the fog coming for the young man "a descending
cloud and an impression of a face alarmingly like a description of the dead woman."
Eventually, a latter day Van Helsing, Dr. A Hale of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital, London, was called. Faced with the apparent
failure of traditional techniques he turned to science to expel the ghost with drugs. Initial therapies failed until he hit upon
one drug that successfully fought off the spirit from entering the body of his patient.
As far as I am aware the young man still stakes his medicine, and as far as I am aware is still free from the possessive spirit.
