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I’ve been looking into cases worldwide where "Shamans," "Deliverance Ministers," or "Witch Doctors" convince families that a loved one is a vessel for something demonic. It’s always the same result: months of isolation and "cleansing" rituals that are indistinguishable from torture. The families are groomed to ignore the screams because they’re told it’s just "the entity" making noise.

It feels like a massive, global "faking" of the paranormal to justify human cruelty. We talk about demons in the shadows, but what about the "healers" who use religion to break people physically?

Has anyone actually witnessed one of these interventions that was clearly just abuse? Have you ever encountered a "shaman" or "preacher" who seemed to be feeding off the fear they were supposedly "curing"? I want to know if it's ever a real haunting, or if it's just a human using a dark narrative to get away with a crime in plain sight.

Edit: I'm not looking for help or a consultation. I'm looking for documented experiences and stories from people who have seen these 'healings' go wrong in their own neighborhoods or families. If you have a story about the ethics or the fallout of these rituals, please share it here for the discussion.

First off, thanks for the 3 AM stories, some of those actually gave me a pit in my stomach. But now I want to talk about Closets.

Almost every culture has stories of children disappearing into closets or seeing "long-limbed" figures peeking from behind the door. I’m convinced this is just a collective human delusion, our brains "faking" a monster because a dark, narrow space triggers a primal fear of being trapped or hunted.

But then you hear the stories where the kid actually vanishes for hours, or the parent finds physical scratches on the inside of a locked closet door.

1. Does anyone have a "closet" story that is physically impossible to explain?

2. Has anyone actually had a child (or sibling) disappear in a room with no other exit, even for a moment?

3. Is it just a shared phobia, or is there a reason we all feel like the closet is a "dead zone" in the house?