A professional exorcist has debunked movie myths and revealed the people who are most likely to get possessed by ‘demons’.
Ralph Keeton, a medium and exorcist from Hull with more than 25 years of experience under his belt, went on the People Are Deep podcast to share his stories of apparently communicating with spirits.
The interviewer on the show spoke about the 1973 supernatural film The Exorcist which follows a young girl who has become possessed after playing with an Ouija board.
In one scene, she is filmed sitting up as her head spins around and she is also seen throwing up green vomit while having a violent fit – but this is an inaccurate depiction of a possession, according to Ralph.
He said: ‘It’s much more of a natural phenomenon. On a very rare case is someone lifted or moved around a property.
‘Most of the time, it’s more physical things happening to a person. So it’s like an object hitting you or a lesion coming onto your skin or mental breakdowns.
‘It’s things that are more common. That case with the film, I’ve never witnessed anything like that.’
Ralph gave an example of one of his rarer cases where he dealt with a woman who had ‘a sexual ghost attacking her’.
Ralph Keeton, a medium and exorcist from Hull with more than 25 years of experience under his belt, went on the People Are Deep podcast to share his stories of apparently communicating with spirits
He said: ‘When you see fingerprints on skin, legs being pulled apart and lifted up and dragged, you can’t tell me that’s her doing it because we couldn’t physically stop it. It was a case of me getting a hold of her and then deciding what we were going to do.
‘It’s a hard concept for anyone to get their head around because this type of stuff exists in CGI and films and things like that. When it’s happening in real life, it’s a whole new ball game.’
During the chat, Ralph revealed that ‘weak’ individuals are the most likely to apparently get possessed as they will likely allow the spirit to take over their bodies.
He said: ‘You’ve got to be quite weak-willed for it to happen because you need to let someone take control of you. In most cases in life as a human being, you naturally go against that.
‘I don’t know about you, but when someone says “No” to me, I say “What do you mean, no?” But they will try and take over you.’
The experienced medium said that it can be challenging to get rid of an energy once it has taken over someone’s body.
‘Once an energy is gone, it’s like a bereavement. In half the cases I’ve dealt with, a lot of people are half expecting it to come back,’ he added.
‘Well if you’re half expecting it back, you’re half bringing it back again. So I’ve got to literally deal with this and tell people once it’s gone, it’s not coming back.’
Ralph revealed that ‘weak’ individuals are the most likely to apparently get possessed as they will likely allow the spirit to take over their bodies
He spoke about how much attitudes towards ‘demons’ and ‘spirits’ have changed over the years admitting that possessed individuals would be seen as ‘mentally ill in the old days’.
‘Today, there are thankfully processes in place to see if that person is anguished or not,’ he added.
Ralph said it can usually take months or even years to heal someone from a ‘demon’, adding that his longest client has been seeing him for 25 years.
He claimed: ‘There’s a young lady up in Edinburgh who can’t have a working life because her bones go floppy.
‘Hard concept but you’ve got a very strong bone in your arm, but when it turns to rubber and it flops and you’re moved into different angles, you’re looking at a different kind of energy and this energy won’t leave her alone, it torments her.
‘It doesn’t do it every day, but when it comes in, it’s devastating for her. I certainly can’t get to the bottom of it, there’s a fair few of us dealing with it and we’ve got professors of medicine with her trying to find out what this is.’
Despite several people attempting to assess this woman to help her live a normal life, Ralph said she is still experiencing the problem and cannot control it.
‘It’s an energy form that will, in time, dissipate but it’s 25 years on and it’s still playing,’ he added.
