The Hopewell Haunting

After numerous instances of families being scared out of a rural house just outside of Hopewell, Kentucky, the local pastor, Walter Howell is chosen to try and put an end to the haunting. Based on the actual interview recorded by the acclaimed paranormal investigator, Simon Coots, the preacher attempts to spend the night in the old house with only his bible in hand.

As a skeptic at first, the preacher soon becomes a believer after he encounters unexplained noises, furniture moving by itself, and mysterious voices coming from the darkness. After spending just one horrifying night in the old house, the preacher soon understands why no one could ever make it past the first night.
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‘The Ouija board made me do it’

‘The Ouija board made me do it’: Teen tells cops the spirits told him to stab his friend 

A teenager charged in the stabbing of his 14-year-old friend told police a Ouija board made him do it.

The 15-year-old, from Texas, was charged with attempted murder after stabbing his friend with a 4-inch knife on February 29.

He pulled the weapon on the friend in a wooded area behind a high school in Weslaco, a small town along the U.S-Mexico border at the southern tip of Texas.

The victim was treated in intensive care for three days for a severe cut to his intestine, Weslaco police spokesman J.P. Rodriguez said.

He added that the alleged assailant, whose name was not made public, has no history of mental problems or criminal behavior.

‘I'm not making excuses for the kid, but I think sometimes it's harder for them to separate reality from fiction,’ he said. ‘This is kind of bizarre.’

After stabbing him, the boy took his friend to a nearby auto repair shop so the owner could call an ambulance.

A third boy said that he witnessed the stabbing, and that his knife-wielding friend told the victim to say he fell on the blade, police said.

Marketed by Hasbro, the Ouija board has a flat surface marked with letters, numbers and symbols.

It is used in a seance game that is said to help players communicate with the dead.

Rodriguez called the case ‘a little eerie’ but said investigators believe the boy used the Ouija board to rationalize the attack.

‘He actually believed what the Ouija board advised him, that the friend was the cause of his problems,’ Rodriguez said. ‘That's kind of the incredible part.’

Via The Daily Mail

Caius Domitius Veiovis writes of disdain for 'Twilight' franchise - and media's reporting skills - in jailhouse letter

PITTSFIELD – Triple-slaying suspect Satanist Caius Veiovis wants the world to know that he is not speaking with a forked tongue when it comes to expressing his disdain for the Twilight movie and book franchise.

“Pop culture inspires me to vomit hot blood,” wrote Veiovis in a jailhouse letter sent to the Berkshire Eagle.

The 31-year-old Pittsfield resident, along with Adam Lee Hall, 34, of Peru, and former Springfield resident David Chalue, 44, are charged with abducting and killing three men whose bodies were recovered from a trench in Becket on Sept.10.

Pittsfield residents David Glasser, 44, Edward Frampton, 58, and Robert Chadwell, 47, were last seen on Aug. 28. in an apartment shared by Glasser and Frampton.
Veiovis, who started life as Roy C. Gutfinski, chides the media for reporting that his adopted name comes from a character in the vampire-based romances which has inflamed the passions of legions of mostly young and mostly female fans.

 

Santorum and Opus Dei - the Real Story

Maureen Dowd made a comment in her New York Times column today that Rick Santorum is attracted to Opus Dei’s asceticism. Few Americans know anything about Opus Dei because it was founded in Spain where it eventually took control of the post-war clerico-fascist Franco government. Mostly Spaniards, therefore, have written “insider” accounts which reveal the true nature of this organization.

The context in which the above group of Opus Dei members operated in politics was a correction of the Spanish economy mandated by international financial organisms and directed at ending the previous model of self-sufficiency or autarchy. The adjustments took place in a regime where public criticism or opposition by organized labor was not allowed. Things did not go well for the network of interests and enterprises woven around the "Work", as they internally called the institution. Mostly led by people without experience, the group ventures into the realms of finance, publishing, and international trade, ended in internal and external conflicts, spectacular failures, and a reputation for immorality and arbitrariness that have subsequently characterized the business ventures of men whose mentors proclaimed the idea of sanctification of work. Criticism grew to the point that at the end of the 1960s, [founder, Fr. Josemaria] Escrivá decreed the suppression of auxiliary enterprises or "common works" in internal terminology. The scandals around Matesa, Rumasa, and so many other affairs are full of Opus Dei names. Opus Dei authorities had presented the supernumerary member José María Ruiz Mateos as a model father and businessman, and an outstanding benefactor. He was suddenly excluded from the list of acknowledged members after public controversies with other members whom he blamed for his fall. (Jesus Ynfante, Opus Dei. Así en la tierra como en el cielo, Grijalbo Mondadori, 1996)

The above was quoted by Alberto Moncada, "La Evolucion del Opus Dei en Espana" (Ponencia al VI Congreso Español de Sociología, A Coruña, 1999) and translated by the Opus Dei Awareness Website which deals mostly with the trauma of former members. Interestingly, Moncada also notes “the sympathy of many Opus Dei officers and some civilians for the February 21, 1981 coup d'etat attempt was apparent. General Armada, one of the masterminds of the coup, is close to Opus Dei, ‘Military men, by the very fact of their being that, already have half the vocation to Opus Dei,’ Escrivá used to preach.” This information can be ominous in view of a recent report by veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh of a disturbing outlook he found at top levels of the U.S. military: