Over the past several weeks, I have brought the first four season of this great series, "A Haunting" on DVD! "The Possession" is one of my favorite episodes of this series! I enjoyed this episode more than the feature length movies with very similar themes, "The Exorcist" and "The Exorcism of Emily Rose"! It didn't have any of the vulgarity in it as did "The Exorcist", even though it was somewhat less creepy than that movie! Not only was "the Possession" scary and thrilling, but I like how it seem to showcase the Catholic faith in such a positive light and showed how God may let us suffer for a while, but if we remain steadfast in our faith in him he can bring us out of any trouble that the devil puts on us! The next episode in this series "The Presence", which deals with an demonic infestation, was just as good!
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Terrifying
ccharris-0420421 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I have been experiencing and studying supernatural and paranormal activity my whole life. At 40 years old now, I'll never forget this episode of A Haunting.
Before I finally located the episode after close to 15 years since I last seen it, I still remembered the name Mary Vogel.
The whole episode was well done. Very impactful storytelling and acting. But there is one scene that was absolutely terrifying to me the first time I saw it. Spoiler alert but I feel compelled to share it.
While she was picking up her son from a friends house I believe to take him home. The narrator described and the actors depicted an experience where Mary became posses by the entity when the son got in the car.
She stares at him demonically, and begins to drive home. The story goes that she maniacally navigated the brief car ride home, all while staring at the child next to her in the passenger seat.
They finally arrived at the home and the boy was said to have darted in the house. I believe they said he never spoke of it again, and Mary had no recollection of it.
Then, and now, it's absolutely terrifying implications at the true power of higher levels of wickedness. It gives hope to know that light and love can balance and ultimately banish those forces just a turning on a light switch in a dark room.
But these stories, as the opening credits read so well, are where we have to accept that the living personification of nightmarish places and beings actually do exist, and nothing to take lightly.
Like the movie Hereditary, I honestly don't feel like I want to see that episode again. It is that troubling.
Before I finally located the episode after close to 15 years since I last seen it, I still remembered the name Mary Vogel.
The whole episode was well done. Very impactful storytelling and acting. But there is one scene that was absolutely terrifying to me the first time I saw it. Spoiler alert but I feel compelled to share it.
While she was picking up her son from a friends house I believe to take him home. The narrator described and the actors depicted an experience where Mary became posses by the entity when the son got in the car.
She stares at him demonically, and begins to drive home. The story goes that she maniacally navigated the brief car ride home, all while staring at the child next to her in the passenger seat.
They finally arrived at the home and the boy was said to have darted in the house. I believe they said he never spoke of it again, and Mary had no recollection of it.
Then, and now, it's absolutely terrifying implications at the true power of higher levels of wickedness. It gives hope to know that light and love can balance and ultimately banish those forces just a turning on a light switch in a dark room.
But these stories, as the opening credits read so well, are where we have to accept that the living personification of nightmarish places and beings actually do exist, and nothing to take lightly.
Like the movie Hereditary, I honestly don't feel like I want to see that episode again. It is that troubling.
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