Demons? anyone have any run-ins?

[Mike_D30]

I heard this story from my mother recently and I was amazed by it, because my mother was a Principal, and my Father a Fireman, both completely sane normal people.

When my parents were young and my older brother was just a baby, my father was awakened from a bad dream where something was telling my father the devil is trying to get your son. My father awoke and went into the nursery and he saw perched above the baby’s crib, a denom, about 2 feet tall, red eyes the whole 9 yards. My father began to pray, and the demon was gone. My father packed what he could and they moved in with my grandparents. Apparently after they sold the house and talking to the neighbors around there, they were the third family in two years living in that house, everyone left rather sudden.

My father never told anyone because he didn’t want people to think he was crazy. My father passed away 14 years ago, and I heard this story from my Mom. Knowing my parents especially my father I believe it.

I wonder if any posters here have any similar or run ins with demons?

 

[legeorge]

I think I may have had a run in with a demon in human guise a couple of weeks ago, but I have never seen anything like you describe. Padre Pio used to be attacked by demons. But I think most people, like your Dad, don’t talk about this stuff because they think people will think they are crazy.

 

[aimee]

legeorge:

I think I may have had a run in with a demon in human guise a couple of weeks ago, but I have never seen anything like you describe. Padre Pio used to be attacked by demons. But I think most people, like your Dad, don’t talk about this stuff because they think people will think they are crazy.

in human guise? what happened?

 

[John-the-Seeker]

I think this is more common than we might realize for. One couple related to me how the wife had been dreaming about a creature with long bony fingers trying to strangle her. She jumped to get away from the creature thus awakening her husband who momentarily ‘saw’ wrists, hands and bony fingers in the air above the bed they were sleeping in. He got up and searched the house finding no one and nothing. Prayers have been said in the house and for the family. Both have returned to a deeper faith and regular practice of their faith. Prior to this they had many problems in their relationship.
I have heard of other incidents but feel the proper approach is to focus on The Trinity, Mary, the saints and angels, in other words the solution and not the problem. If someone should have a scary experience, seek help and endeavor to use it to increase your faith life experience.
Jesus Emanuel Save Us Sinners. Jesus is the answer to all questions for He is Truth.

 

[migurl]

I have had weird things happen. Sometimes it is definitly a person who I think the devil put into my life to try to lead me astray…the biggest one was a young man who tried to offer me anything I wanted. I had been having trouble with my family and my boyfriend and I felt like everyone was trying to control my life. He suddenly showed up talking about how I should move out, and do what I want, live MY life…he almost got me too. BUt in the end I told him to beat it and now my family and I are great and I am engaged!!!

OTher weird things happen too, like waking up with bruises all over my legs, they look like finger tip marks…but I never hit myself on anything and I don’t play sports.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

When my bipolar illness was really acting up, I would “see” demons in various ways around the house at night, and feel them. One in particular that really spooked me was a particular computer mouse. This was early in 2004 as I recall, when I was in great spiritual warfare. Whenever I went looking around the house to check on my kids and make the sign of the cross in each room with a stick of incense at night, this computer mouse appeared as if it were alive, with glowing red eyes. When I would see this I would say prayers and “dance” around a bit and then continue to “bless” the rest of the house. Technically I figured out what it was, but it had a strange “presence” about it that in retrospect seemed to reflect my state of mind. During the day it looked like a mouse, but I still questioned whether it had a mind of its own and it was just being still during the day. After a few days I finally saw it at night and was able to convince myself that I didn’t know whether it was a sign or just coincidence – and I started attributing less energy to it until it was just a curious visual after that.

I’ve also “seen” a number of other images, and at this moment explain it like I was seeing some kind of visual phantasms or something. Like, for example, when one closes his eyes there are usually blotches; for example where and you were just looking toward bright things. When one’s mind is under torment, one sees everything like a giant Rorschack test. Those blotches take on momentary and sometimes longer lasting forms that can very much seem like they are to be seen. In this state of mind, everything takes on meaning and everything is a message. Something simple, like a coin sitting on a table – may be verrry significant if you look at it and it was heads up and you seem to remember seeing it the other way, or maybe you notice that you put it down so the head on it is framed a certain way.

Maybe since I am a math/science person I try to explain these things in my mind, and I am fairly confident that my mind conjures these demonic (not always demonic but strange anyway – and not always scary or harmful but sometimes comforting) images out of its own agenda and past baggage and fears and expectations. Whether there is a divine component at the time was beyond question, though looking back at it now I am not convinced it was anything but my own mind playing tricks. When I read of things that happen in the Dark Night that are spectacular, I don’t have any trouble picturing them at all because once you turn the lights down in spiritual warfare, all the shadows take on form. When one expands this concept to turning the lights down on the false self, then all sorts of things can happen that seem unreal.

I’m trying to explain things that I don’t remember clearly and were unexplainable at the time, so my words are not really getting the job done. In trying to document these, I recognize how inadequate my own ability is to explain, so I hope I don’t come off like I’m all holy or weird or something, or that I’m making stuff up. Whether there were spiritual entities at play that were outside of my own consciousness I really don’t know, but I am convinced that spiritual warfare does take place and to the mind that is engaged in it, at the time it is very real.
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[AlanFromWichita]

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The main thing I had to learn, I believe, was not to fear these illusions. In many ways and in many forms, we have illusions that cause us fear and anxiety and we don’t even get to see them because they are just feelings or movements in our heart and don’t really have a “visual” on them. I’m convinced that overcoming anxiety shares a lot of strategy with being able to walk through a dark house with phantom eyes watching, and know that God is in control of my wife and children as they sleep. To “dance” around in an environment of such entities and not be afraid of them is quite a learning experience, and has done me a great deal of good it seems to me.

When I first heard about Pio being “obsessed” with satan, I felt a great closeness because soon after I had these things Julie and I started going to the 11:45 daily Mass at the Newman Center as she was trying to get back to her own daily Mass devotion and get me out of the house a little instead of sitting home feeling all suicidal and stuff as even with the spiritual consolations and visions I was not getting better. I also thought I was possessed, and that in January of 2004 I experienced what I thought was a form of exorcism – though I never actually went to our diocese exorcist to get an expert opinion. Anyway, the first time we went Father Matt was not there, but there was this great big tall priest who was just more … something … than other priests I’d seen who spoke in a booming, no-nonsense voice. I don’t remember how, but during the sermon the topic was Padre Pio, and this priest spoke about his wounds and talked about him – he had met him personally and attended a Mass Pio said for only five people during the time he was not allowed to celebrate openly. I was completely overwhelmed with this person, and when he spoke of Pio’s obsession I felt I could relate, having “danced to demons” some myself.

Lately, these exotic experiences hardly ever happen at all, but this strange “dancing” that I was doing to the string of powers I didn’t perceive has taken on new forms. It seems to guide me now when I’m in a room full of people; I find myself making movements and twitches and other ceremonies based on how the room “feels” at the time, and I have come to believe that somehow those become subliminal clues to the others in the room. What I have found is that I can walk among people who are in a high degree of contention and defuse it, or when a person is really sad or bummed I can like “soak it out of them” in a short period of time. For a person with excellent technical skills but whose people skills – especially around people under pressure – were lacking, this is a strange and wonderful phenomenon. It used to be my very presence, the way I sounded when I breathed even – was annoying to other people and now everything is backwards.

Alan

 

[Tonks40]

Throughout my life, I would occassionally get dreams about demons trying to do harm to me. Many of these dreams felt very real at times. I found prayer while in my dreams were very effective in ridding them - I’m one of those who are ‘concious’ in my dreams and can sometimes control the outcome of the dream. They no longer bother me anymore.

 

[child_of_God85]

I’ve had a few run ins I think. I didn’t actually see anything at these times, but I felt a really bad presence.
For about 2 years almost everytime I said my Rosary at night I would just feel as if there was a bad presence in the room. Everyone else was in bed, so I know I was alone. I’d also just barely hear whispering a few times. It was just that bad feeling you get in the pit of you stomach. There were three other occasions where I had been sleeping, and I wanted to get up but felt like something wouldn’t let me wake up. I could almost see the room that I was in, but I could feel hands on me. The third was the worse. I could actually hear this deep unearthly voice (didn’t understand what it was saying though) and like the other times I could see the room but couldn’t get up. I started saying the St. Michael prayer in my head and almost immediately I woke up. It freaked me out. I was going through a bad time with my religion at the time. I felt as if I was being pulled away from God.
I’m strong in my faith now and haven’t felt anything for about 3 or 4 months.

 

[JW10631]

About two years ago, my wife and I were woken up by a voice that seemed to be coming from the television. It said, “Help me, help me, help me!” in a pleading tone.
Then there was an evil, deep voice laughing.

The television was not on. No radio was on.

Creepy.

 

[John-the-Seeker]

I offer what I believe to be good Scriptural and practical advice on how to handle unsettling encounters or experiences.

1. Immediately pray for the protection of God and His angels and saints. Ask the Holy Spirit for discernment.
2. Consult with someone whose advice you trust, this could be a medical problem or perhaps something caused by some environmental mal-function or condition.
3. Follow the examples of Jesus and God’s angels found in Scripture.

When Jesus encountered Satan after fasting He did not engage in the conversation at all, but rather quoted scripture to reveal the lies being spoken to Him.

1. Do not Fear. Imitate God and HATE evil.
   God said in Genesis, “I will place enmity between the Woman and you.” Pray the Rosary. If God wished He could simply stop thinking of those who oppose Him and they would cease to exist, but God loves all of His creation. He Hates what they do. (HATE is a Holy Abhorrence Toward Evil when it is working for you and a Haughty Attitude Toward Everyone when it is working against you.) God has left it to us, the Heel of the Woman, to ‘kill’ evil by loving our enemies, while hating what they do, until they die as enemies and, (should they give permission), are reborn again as friends.

I believe I have little faith and much fear. I believe I have met people that will never turn to God. I believe I have met people who have never learned to love and have great fear. I believe I have met people who are possessed and wish to be freed. All that I can suggest is for us to turn to Jesus and Mary and their example in all things and let Love be the center of our response. Do not try to convert, defeat or convince anyone. Just love them and trust God. If those in these encounters have not asked for anything of us, why respond? Why become anxious and lose your peace? Sixty seconds of anxiety is a minute of peace lost forever and our moments here are numbered as are the hairs of our heads. Why waste even one?
Do not necessarily see this as ‘your problem’. Have Faith in Our God and His Holy Spirit to protect and lead all to the Heaven of their choice. His Heaven for those who believe and Heaven’s Eternal Love Lost, (HELL), for those who don’t. Pray for the protection and guidance of all people.
Believe that these encounters have been permitted by God and can be used to feed your faith giving growth to it as your fears die from starvation. Our trials and tribulations are designed by God, to draw us closer to Him.
"Fear not, I go before you always. Come follow Me and I will give you rest. My Yoke is easy and My burden light for those who trust in Me."

 

[Ambrose]

My wife, bloudres who’s at her Secular Fransican meeting now, could tell a wild enough story. There where two young boys at the day care she worked at who would display all kinds of ‘para normal’ behavior at times. Talking in deep unearthy voices, latin, starring at other kids to the point they couldn’t even move, contorting their bodies, all sorts of stuff. The minute they (she and a nun who works there) would take one of misbehaving kids into the chapel and put him in front of the tabernacle, the kid would change immediately. He would get very quiet, and stand there with his head bowed down. It was as if he was being chastised by Christ.

Well the mother was very Gothic looking, would drop off the kids and wear a t-shirt with the wording ‘burn in hell’ on it for example so you knew it was coming from the home. Eventually a Priest got involved and she agreed to have the kids baptised even though she herself didn’t want to. She said she, the mother, had also seen some wild things at home, visions like the boys had seen. A cow with green eyes was one of the visions. Bottom line was that when her husband (they’re divorced) heard about it, he yanked the kids from the school. He was of course more or less a wicca guy like her.

The kids hated any type of Marian devotional and thats what would set them off. The wife would use that to keep them in line, that and trips to the tabernacle. Send her a note if you want more details, our family is **very **glad to have this behind us.

 

[Sir_Knight]

John-the-Seeker:

When Satan attempted to engage St. Michael the archangel in conversation to discover the location of the body of Moses, his response was, “I will leave it to My Father in Heaven to correct you.”

What scripture passage is this in?

 

[Nana_Rose]

I’m glad that someone thought to pose this question. I’ve had several things happen over the years, and didn’t know what to do. The first thing happeded to my husband and I both as we were sleeping one night. He felt he was dreaming, but said it was very real that something was on him, he could not get up and could not talk…but had the feeling that if he could only touch me or I him, that it would break the power of whatever it was. At the same time I too could tell he was in trouble, but I also felt pressed upon and somehow felt that if I could just touch him that it would break the power. I was finally able with prayer to touch him and immediately we both sat up and were talking and telling each other what happeded. Seemed odd that we both felt oppressed and had the same “dream”. I took out some holy water and blessed our room and bed, we prayed and went to sleep and everything was ok.

Next time something happened was when I started to devote a lot more time in the morning to prayer and reading the Bible. I would start to have very vivid sexual images come to my mind. These were very upsetting and would be most prominent when praying the rosary.
I was so upset but to embarrassed to talk to my priest about it. I would stop praying and do anything to make the images go away.
Finally they were so bad I did talk to the priest. He told me this was Satin, and not to stop the praying, but to pray through and that it will stop. And he was right. The very next morning it began when I started praying the rosary and I stayed with it and the images stopped. Once in a while it will start, especially when I devote more time, like now during Lent, but it stops quickly.

Recently I started having very oppressive dreams, the feeling that “something” was on me. I began wearing my Miraculous Medal to bed everynight and blessing my self with holy water and it stopped immediately.

I do think Satin and his demons attack us trying to get us off the path. He knows what will upset us and uses it against us. I have found that talking to the priest, the sacraments, prayer, including asking Mary for her motherly protection, are all very powerful. Your scapular or medals and holy water.

I don’t know if we can mention books on here? But I found a good one in “An Exorcist Tells His Story” from Ignatius Press. There are very good prayers of deliverance in there and the book helped me understand how Satan works and how we can respond. I pray these prayers for my children too. Thanks for letting me share.

 

[Troy7]

I dont doubt any of these stories, I have some as well…but this is one of those niggles I have with the faith. Its almost like preaching to the choir. Whats the point of christians always experiencing this stuff when it would serve people like agnostics and atheists much more? I would really love to hear from any atheists or agnostics who have experienced such activities. Any of you guys out there care to comment on any personal experiences that have happened to you that you cannot explain or scared you into investigating this site or the christian faith?

 

[child_of_God85]

Nana Rose:

I’m glad that someone thought to pose this question. I’ve had several things happen over the years, and didn’t know what to do. The first thing happeded to my husband and I both as we were sleeping one night. He felt he was dreaming, but said it was very real that something was on him, he could not get up and could not talk…but had the feeling that if he could only touch me or I him, that it would break the power of whatever it was. At the same time I too could tell he was in trouble, but I also felt pressed upon and somehow felt that if I could just touch him that it would break the power. I was finally able with prayer to touch him and immediately we both sat up and were talking and telling each other what happeded. Seemed odd that we both felt oppressed and had the same “dream”. I took out some holy water and blessed our room and bed, we prayed and went to sleep and everything was ok.

Next time something happened was when I started to devote a lot more time in the morning to prayer and reading the Bible. I would start to have very vivid sexual images come to my mind. These were very upsetting and would be most prominent when praying the rosary.
I was so upset but to embarrassed to talk to my priest about it. I would stop praying and do anything to make the images go away.
Finally they were so bad I did talk to the priest. He told me this was Satin, and not to stop the praying, but to pray through and that it will stop. And he was right. The very next morning it began when I started praying the rosary and I stayed with it and the images stopped. Once in a while it will start, especially when I devote more time, like now during Lent, but it stops quickly.

Recently I started having very oppressive dreams, the feeling that “something” was on me. I began wearing my Miraculous Medal to bed everynight and blessing my self with holy water and it stopped immediately.

I do think Satin and his demons attack us trying to get us off the path. He knows what will upset us and uses it against us. I have found that talking to the priest, the sacraments, prayer, including asking Mary for her motherly protection, are all very powerful. Your scapular or medals and holy water.

I don’t know if we can mention books on here? But I found a good one in “An Exorcist Tells His Story” from Ignatius Press. There are very good prayers of deliverance in there and the book helped me understand how Satan works and how we can respond. I pray these prayers for my children too. Thanks for letting me share.

That sounds a lot like what happened to me. I never had the sexual immages, but whenever I prayed my Rosary I’d just get this terrified feeling like something was in the room with me that wanted to harm me.
The dreams also sound a lot like what I had.

 

[John-the-Seeker]

My apologies. Although I believe it to be true, this ‘quote’ is not found in scripture.

1. Follow the examples of Jesus and God’s angels found in Scripture.
   When Satan attempted to engage St. Michael the archangel in conversation to discover the location of the body of Moses, his response was, “I will leave it to My Father in Heaven to correct you.”

 

[Sir_Knight]

Nana Rose:

I do think Satin and his demons attack us trying to get us off the path

I doubt that Satan himself attacks us. I think that he leaves that to his demons. Remember, Satan is not omnipresence like God. Given the amount of people in the world, or even just the amount of Catholics in the world, it would be virturally impossible for Satan to get to most of us.

Given the fact that there are about 1 billion Catholics in this world and assuming on average a 75-year life span (yeah, there are people who live longer but there are also people who live shorter so 75 is a good average), that would allow Satan 2.3 seconds for each us us. If use you all of the people in the world instead of just Catholics, Satan would be able to devote 0.39 seconds to each of us.

So, fortunately, most of us will never be attacked by Satan himself. I think he saves himself for what he considers bigger prizes.

 

[legeorge]

aimee:

in human guise? what happened?

I was at my prayer group outside the abortion clinic. Usually, we have lots of people shout at us or give us the finger, etc. These things don’t bother me. Even the pro-abortion arguers don’t bother me. I know how to debate them. But I believe we got attacked a couple of weeks ago.

A man stopped by. He had stopped once before and inquired about going to the March for Life in DC, so I believed him to be a supporter and had no reason to suspect him. He began by questioning the messages on our signs and I thought he was just making a suggestion. I encouraged him to make a sign with any message he thought appropriate and come join us. He then began to ramble on about scripture passages, and justice and began firing questions at me. Some of the others in the group saw where he was leading and began to place themselves between us and try to get him to leave. I (naive me) thought he was still just confused and was trying to reason with him. At one point I reached out to touch his arm because I wanted to have a calm discussion (and that usually communicates to people that you care and are trying to calm the situation). Well, he jerked away like I had burned him (and I barely brushed his coat) and yelled at me not to touch him. Things quickly got out of hand with him screaming at us that we didn’t love Jesus and we were all horrible sinners, etc. I ended up in tears (because of the attacks he was making on these people I love dearly), and the older members of my prayer group got him to leave by threatening to call the police. This was a rabid man. I don’t know how else to describe it. I have never seen anything like it. It was like he changed all of a sudden. Perhaps he was just a badly misled fundamentalist, horribly anti-catholic, but this was outrageous. We were praying outside an abortion clinic after all, and even most fundamentalists support that. And the change in this guy was so surprisingly abrupt, I have the feeling he might have been taken over by a demonic presence. Whatever happened, it shook me up for a bit, but just made me all the more determined to keep fighting for life. At least I know better now. But hopefully I will not be put in that situation again.

In the past, when I was away from the church, I had many scary run-ins with what I believe to be evil forces. But that is a whole other story.

 

[epower]

In my parent’s house, things get flung at me, objects fall off of tables, boxes move, etc. My wife helped me clean a few times, and she saw stuff happen also. I think she might have been a little sceptical until she saw things happen herself.

The other week, I was shot with a rubber band. If I am about to go to Confession, it gets really bad. I start tripping, and being pushed over things. I cursed at the evil spirit a few times. Recently I read that I should tell it to leave in the name of Jesus Christ, and not say anything else to it. I did that last week, so I will see what happens the next time I am there.