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00:00The gates of hell are unlocked.
00:04In the end, Hades is going to get you.
00:07And its devilish secrets are being unleashed.
00:11What devil may have influenced a founding father and still stalks the New Jersey Pine Barrens?
00:18It killed the midwife and it flew up the chimney and out into the woods.
00:21Does a scene straight out of The Exorcist shed light on a hellish reality?
00:26The boy walked up the wall backwards. I said there was something definitely there.
00:31Plus, what could stop a nightmare on Christmas when this anti-clause comes to town?
00:37Picture, if you will, the devil, but with Jim Simmons' tongue.
00:41Its end to the depths of hell to reveal the surprising truth behind the most legendary devils in history right now.
00:55One of America's most famous monsters
01:18is said to have been born in the 1700s, deep in the woods of New Jersey.
01:25Its story stretches through the centuries with ties to a founding father and even Napoleon.
01:32But did it ever really exist?
01:34And could it still be on the prowl?
01:36One of the most iconic American legends is that of the Jersey Devil.
01:41A winged chimera that has been allegedly stalking the Pine Barrens of New Jersey for almost three centuries.
01:49I'm from Philadelphia.
01:51Jersey's right next door to us.
01:52And you start hearing these tales of the Jersey Devil.
01:56It's just that idea of something not human, something not even an animal, a monster among us, creeps us out.
02:06Some years ago, I was trying to get into the mood to write a horror novel.
02:09And I went camping in the Jersey Pines.
02:11It was a very dense, inhospitable forest.
02:15I was so filled with a primitive dread.
02:20Feel that darkness and how much is in there that you can't see.
02:26The Jersey Devil was reportedly born out of that darkness.
02:31Back in the year 1735, there was a woman known as Mrs. Leeds who had 12 children.
02:37And when she found out that she was pregnant with her 13th child, she cursed it.
02:41Deborah Leeds is thought to have been a witch who dabbles in sorcery and necromancy and the occult.
02:48And so, according to the legend, on a stormy night as she was giving birth...
02:52She screams out in agony, oh, let this one be a devil.
02:55And the devil, it became.
03:01The child appeared healthy, but within moments, transformed into something subhuman.
03:07The legs curled into goat-like legs and claws and hooves.
03:15Bat-like wings, a long muzzle, and a long fort devil's tail.
03:20It could almost be like a kangaroo-shaped head, massive haunches, enormous wingspan.
03:26It killed the midwife and then flew up the chimney and out into the woods.
03:40To spend the next several centuries, accosting any unfortunate passerby who happens along and runs into it.
03:51It wasn't just unfortunate folks passing by who encountered the Jersey Devil, but some of history's most notable figures.
03:59Joseph Bonaparte, who was Napoleon's brother, who was living in New Jersey for a while, wrote about it quite often in his diaries.
04:06There were farms where every animal was killed and you saw little goat footprints everywhere, including one where the goat prints went up to the side of a barn and then continued on the inside of the barn, which freaked everyone out.
04:18But that was nothing compared to the panic that erupted at the turn of the 20th century.
04:25In January of 1909, there were many, many reports of the Jersey Devil within a three-week period.
04:31And this actually caused a state of mass hysteria as people moved out of the area and so forth.
04:38I think there was like a bounty out on it and people were actually out hunting it.
04:43They were closing schools because of it.
04:45The police were called in and sightings have persisted to this day, like the one Hunters reported in 2014.
04:57Warn me next time.
04:58You get him?
04:59Oh, yeah.
05:00I'm here.
05:12It's here, guys.
05:13It's here.
05:14It's up in the trees.
05:17It's in the trap of us, man.
05:17It's up there.
05:18Look out!
05:24You're shit.
05:25Guys!
05:27Guys!
05:28Guys!
05:28What the hell happened?
05:32This cannot be the same animal.
05:35What the hell happened?
05:36So what's really happening in New Jersey's Pine Barrens?
05:40Is the New Jersey Devil real?
05:42Are those prints?
05:44It's like a bear print?
05:45I don't know what.
05:47Dave, look out!
05:48One explanation for the Jersey Devil could be an atavism.
05:54An atavism is an extremely rare genetic condition where an individual displays throwback features from an earlier evolutionary state.
06:04For example, there have been cases of humans actually born with vestigial tails.
06:10Is it possible one of Deborah Leeds' 13 children had a similar birth defect that inspired the Jersey Devil legend?
06:19We looked for birth defects in the records and couldn't find any.
06:24Oh, push, Deborah!
06:25Come on, man, push!
06:26And there aren't any records of a woman named Deborah Leeds either.
06:30But there is real history here, and the Devil is in the details.
06:36It has everything to do with colonial America, religious infighting, political power plays, and a future founding father.
06:47The story does involve a character named Leeds, but it's not Deborah.
06:52It's Daniel, a man whom historical records suggest was her father-in-law.
06:58At the end of the 17th century, Daniel Leeds began publishing almanacs.
07:03They were like blogs are today, keeping people up to speed, while also containing calendars and crucial information on when to harvest crops.
07:14But Daniel included some radical views that upset the religious Quaker community.
07:19Daniel Leeds was an intellectual who was well-educated, well-read, was into science and astrology.
07:27He is the first person in New Jersey to actually publicly support a heliocentric view of the universe, which was something which was not widely accepted yet.
07:38Heliocentrism is the astronomical model that says the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.
07:44The term was coined in the 16th century by Renaissance mathematician, Nicholas Copernicus.
07:51Science has proven him right, but in Leeds' time, this theory was in opposition to the Quakers' beliefs.
07:59They referred to him as Satan's harbinger, and I believe that's where you begin to see the birth of the Leeds' devil legend.
08:07Daniel's son, Titan, took over the almanac business and began including the family crest, a crucial detail in demystifying the Jersey Devil legend.
08:19One of the symbols he even used for his company was a wyvern, and it kind of matches the Jersey Devil pretty closely.
08:28Wyverns are dragon-like creatures, and to the Quakers, they were an anti-religious symbol.
08:33The Quakers turned on Leeds, and so did their good friend, Benjamin Franklin.
08:40Franklin published an even more successful almanac, Poor Richard's Almanac, putting Leeds out of business.
08:48And he went one step further, using it to libel Leeds and label him as the devil.
08:55In the very first issue of Poor Richard, Franklin begins to suggest that Titan Leeds may have been a sorcerer, may have come back from the dead, that he is somehow involved in the occult.
09:11Franklin's almanac trounced its competitor, making a killing for the future founding father.
09:17Things didn't turn out as well for the Leeds family.
09:19Even to this day, when you ask someone, oh, what was the first almanac in America, people will always say, Poor Richard, because that's the one they remember.
09:27Leeds' almanac completely disappears from the historical record.
09:33It vanished just about the same time the Jersey Devil was supposedly born to Deborah Leeds and her husband, forcing them to forever pay for the sins of his father.
09:44The search for the Jersey Devil fulfills that basic human instinct of a rite of passage.
09:56You want to be able to go to somewhere that is scary and come back to tell the tale.
10:02In a sense, it's a basic human need to be able to face down a fear.
10:08And the Jersey Devil, for that reason, has to exist.
10:11And all of this goes towards us trying to figure out who we are and where we fit into the universe.
10:17When people go tramping around the woods looking for the Jersey Devil, they're looking for themselves.
10:22In 11th century Germany, St. Nicholas was bringing joy to children at Christmas.
10:46But what most people don't know is that he had a nemesis, Krampus, who brought something very different.
10:56Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
10:59But is there really a Krampus?
11:02In the Alpine cultures, they have spirits called pectin, and some of them are good, and some of them are bad.
11:12And the Krampus is most definitely one of the bad ones.
11:20St. Nicholas obviously brings good things to well-behaved children.
11:25Krampus brings really awful things to poorly-behaved children.
11:28Picture, if you will, the Devil, but with Gene Simmons' tongue.
11:37And you've pretty much got what the Krampus is.
11:39He is a satyr in appearance.
11:42He's got a fistful of birch tweeds that he uses to whip you.
12:05And he's got a sack that, if you're exceptionally bad, he will stuff you into and carry you off him.
12:10When Krampus comes, punishes poorly-behaved children, he doesn't just do it in your house.
12:19He actually takes you to his lair.
12:22If you're a kid, and you're hearing this story about this character, and if you've seen some of the imagery of Krampus,
12:31you don't want that guy coming up and dragging you to the underworld.
12:35That would probably ruin your day.
12:36Just how did Krampus become the anti-clause of Christmas?
12:41The reality is, Krampus is an amalgamation of pre-Christian pagan folklore from Germany, Austria, and Poland.
12:50While St. Nicholas, or center clause, has December 25th covered, Krampus roams towns in the Swiss Alps three weeks earlier,
12:59on his own holiday called Krampus not.
13:03When Christianity took over, they became a yin and yang of Christmas.
13:09By adopting or at least acknowledging some pre-Christian rituals and celebrations,
13:15the church thought it would have an easier time getting people to buy into their ideologies.
13:20Krampus is an amalgamation, like, we're also going to take your evil creature and make it part of Christmas.
13:29And that evil creature became, in this case, the devil.
13:33Today, Krampus is going from a creature to be feared to somewhat of a celebrity.
13:38A lot of people actually dress up as Krampus in, like, Austria and Bavaria.
13:44During St. Nicholas Week, you dress up as Krampus, and you go around scaring children.
13:50In America, we look at this story of this creature who comes at Christmastime,
13:54it's supposed to be a time of joy, and does these awful, horrible things.
13:57And we say, that's terrible.
13:58But the people who love this myth, who celebrate this myth,
14:01they really embrace it.
14:03To them, it's a part of their culture.
14:05If nothing else, Krampus is a very real reminder
14:09for kids on Santa's naughty list to right their wrongs.
14:14So while he isn't a real monster,
14:16the legend of his existence has a very real purpose.
14:23The Krampus is a figure that is kind of like a bogeyman.
14:28He's used to scare children into behaving better.
14:31And if you're a parent, you probably have done this.
14:34Even if you're trying not to do it,
14:36it seems sometimes it's very convenient to tell your kid,
14:39oh, don't go over there, you know, the bogeyman will get you.
14:41Or if you do that, something bad's going to happen to you.
14:43Sometimes we need a little bit more than the promise of a reward
14:47to do what we need to do.
14:49Sometimes we need the threat of punishment.
14:52The lesson of Krampus is behave yourself.
14:54Cloaked in a helm of darkness and wielding a trident,
15:13Hades was a Greek god you'd never want to meet.
15:17But in a way, we all will.
15:20And the clues to why might be found in his story.
15:24In Greek mythology, Hades was the older brother of Zeus and Poseidon,
15:29and he ruled the underworld.
15:33Zeus took the sky, Poseidon got the earth and the seas,
15:36and then Hades got what was underground.
15:38The underworld is the place where all the dead go,
15:40so he's lord of the dead.
15:42Hades is actually one of the only Greek gods
15:44who doesn't have his own throne on Olympus.
15:47I think his siblings were like,
15:49look, dude, you creep us out.
15:50You know, we love that you're down there
15:52keeping track of the dead people,
15:53because, like, none of us want to do that.
15:55But, like, don't kill our buzz by crashing our parties.
15:58Hades is vilified because people are terrified of dying.
16:01He's not a bad guy, and everybody eventually dies,
16:04so he's sort of inevitable.
16:06His main line is, um,
16:07I'll see you later, you know, and he will.
16:12People believe certain places on earth
16:15are gates to Hades' underworld,
16:17like this cave in Caesarea Philippi
16:20at the base of Mount Hermon between Syria and Lebanon.
16:25Here, rows of temples were built to seek the favor of the gods,
16:29but not Hades,
16:31because people feared that any attention from him
16:34would meet certain death.
16:36But there was one legendary character
16:39brave enough to go face-to-face with Hades
16:42and his wife Persephone,
16:44risking death for something greater than life itself,
16:48true love.
16:51The story of Orpheus really begins on his wedding day,
16:53and his wife, Eurydice, is walking in the tall grass,
16:57and she runs afoul of a satire who chases her down,
17:01and in trying to get away from him,
17:02she falls into a pit of vipers,
17:03and she's bitten on the ankle,
17:04and it's a lethal bite,
17:06and she ends up down in Hades.
17:09When Orpheus finds her body,
17:12he's overcome with grief.
17:14With his gift of music,
17:16he descends into the underworld
17:17and decides to take a chance
17:19at pleading with Hades and Persephone
17:21to bring her back to life.
17:24Orpheus descends into the underworld,
17:26and he plays his songs for Hades and Persephone,
17:30and they're so moved by his music
17:32that they actually agree that he can take his wife
17:34and lead her up out of the underworld on one condition,
17:37that throughout the route, he'd not look back.
17:40As he got up near the surface and he could see the daylight,
17:43he was just a little bit nervous.
17:44Is she really still behind me?
17:46Is she still following me?
17:48And he made the fateful mistake, and he turned around.
17:51And the last thing he saw was her crying out
17:54as she was swept back down into the underworld.
18:00To Hades, Orpheus was just another person
18:03who tried to control the inevitable and couldn't.
18:07What's real about Hades is what he represents,
18:10a truth that is inescapable,
18:13the reality that death will come to us all,
18:16and it's irreversible.
18:18Ultimately, the Orpheus myth
18:20is one that teaches us that there is a finality to death
18:23and that some loss must be accepted,
18:27that regardless of our talents and abilities,
18:29to try to sway the universe to the will that we have
18:32of trying to rescue someone from beyond the grave,
18:35that it isn't possible.
18:37Orpheus botches it?
18:38In the end, everybody knows, you know,
18:42who's gonna get you.
18:44Hades gonna get you.
19:02Hell, in Norse mythology, and this would be H-E-L,
19:25hell is both the name of a person and a place,
19:28very similar to the Greek Hades.
19:29In the case of Norse mythology, though,
19:32hell is a woman,
19:33and the place that she rules is called Hellheim.
19:36One half of her is dead and looks very, very bad,
19:40and the other half of her is beautiful.
19:43And when you go to hell, you're met by her,
19:47and she's quite terrifying.
19:49Hell was a medieval two-face,
19:51the Norse ruler of the underworld.
19:53She was said to be born in the frozen landscape of Scandinavia
19:58to a giantess and the trickster Loki,
20:02sidekick to god of thunder, Thor.
20:05In Old Norse mythology,
20:07there are these horrendous, awful children,
20:10the Fenris wolf and the giantess, Hell.
20:12And to get rid of her,
20:16the gods put her in charge of the realm of the dead.
20:20Like Hades, her Greek counterpart,
20:23Hell watches over all those who have died, good or bad.
20:28She is often depicted holding a plate named hunger
20:31and a knife named famine.
20:34And it's that imagery that holds the clue
20:37to the reality behind this true monster.
20:40In medieval Scandinavia,
20:42hunger and famine were rampant
20:44for one very specific reason.
20:47The extremely cold, harsh weather
20:49created a land untenable for crops.
20:53Cold as hell, we get it from.
20:55Norse mythology, hell is a cold place.
20:57If you're living on the edge of the North Sea
20:58in the pre-industrial age,
21:00cold is way worse than warm.
21:01I don't care how hot it gets in the summer,
21:03it's not as bad as how cold it gets in the winter.
21:05Although hell emerged in the icy North,
21:09the idea of hell eventually made its way into the Bible.
21:13But for Christians in the Holy Land,
21:15the idea of a cold hell didn't make much sense.
21:19Christianity and the Abrahamic religions
21:21come from the Middle East.
21:23And in the Middle East,
21:25what is the most destructive thing in the Middle East
21:28is the heat.
21:29And so heat and fire and brimstone
21:33are things that they would fear the most.
21:36So of course,
21:38their place of punishment for evildoers or sinners
21:41is going to be a place of extreme heat and fire.
21:46Christianity is not by any means
21:47the only faith that believes in a hell-like place after death.
21:51The reason for it, I think,
21:52is that people have a sense
21:53that there needs to be some kind of final justice in the world.
21:56The medieval Norse believed the goddess hell
21:59judged everyone after death.
22:01And that is an idea that's found its way
22:04into the fabric of spiritual beliefs around the world.
22:08And it may be hardwired into us
22:09to believe that at the end of the day,
22:11the end of our lives,
22:12there is some way in which we're going to be called to account.
22:26In the book of Revelations in the Bible,
22:30Satan is simply known as the beast.
22:33But nearly 900 years earlier,
22:36he went by a very different name,
22:38Lucifer, the angel of light,
22:41the most angelic of beings.
22:44Even the prophet Ezekiel wrote of his glory,
22:47you were the seal of perfection,
22:49full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
22:52You were the anointed cherub.
22:54But Satan's glory came crashing down in flames
22:58when he rebelled against God
23:00and wanted to emulate his power.
23:03Satan is God's archenemy.
23:05He was the highest of the angels created,
23:07had the most authority,
23:08but then rebelled against God
23:10and took a number of angels with him.
23:13And so there's a civil war of sorts going on
23:15in the heavenly realm,
23:16and he's the head of the whole thing.
23:18He's a person who tries to lure people
23:21into sort of the temptations of the flesh,
23:25the temptations of the world,
23:26and keep them away from higher spiritual purposes.
23:30If the story of Satan's fall into damnation
23:33sounds familiar, there's a good reason.
23:36It's a persistent theme
23:37in our favorite books and movies.
23:40Star Wars is great
23:41because Anakin was a savior figure.
23:44He was essentially the Messiah of the Force.
23:47And to watch his journey into being the villain,
23:50it's the same thing of Lucifer falling into Satan.
23:53And it's done through pride.
23:55It's exactly the same thing.
23:57But how exactly did we go
23:59from a beautiful angelic being named Lucifer
24:02to a grotesque creature we call Satan?
24:06The real story may surprise you.
24:09When someone asks a question like,
24:11is Satan real?
24:12My first question is,
24:13what do you mean by real?
24:14The devil represents this idea
24:17that we as human beings,
24:20we make choices.
24:21We have to be presented with choices
24:23in order to make decisions.
24:25I believe there is an opposition force out there.
24:28We call him the devil.
24:30Since the Middle Ages,
24:31he's been depicted as, you know,
24:32this red beast with horns
24:34and pitchfork and hoofs and tail.
24:39There's a reason why Satan looks like he does,
24:42and one need look no further than Pan,
24:46the god of the mountain wild and Greek mythology,
24:49to see the real roots of Satan's diabolical persona.
24:53Pan, a god of fertility,
24:55had globin hooves and a tail and horns,
24:58symbolizing lust.
25:00And, of course, the early Christians
25:02were not fond of lust as a positive thing.
25:04So, using these pagan symbols,
25:08they evolved into being projected
25:10on what would be considered something evil.
25:12There's something about the fusing
25:14of the animal and the human
25:15that is terrifying to us.
25:17It represents something that we fear
25:19might be inside of us,
25:20this animalistic side
25:22that wants to devour and kill.
25:25Pan and Satan fascinated the famous poet Dante,
25:28who took liberties with both characters
25:31and crafted the inferno,
25:34a spiral of hell
25:36in which the devil resides at the center.
25:39There are nine circles of torment
25:41where each person suffers according
25:43to his or her bad deeds.
25:47There's limbo,
25:49lust,
25:51gluttony,
25:53greed,
25:53anger,
25:56heresy,
25:59violence,
26:00fraud,
26:02and the absolute worst,
26:04treachery.
26:06Dante's Inferno
26:07is the ultimate tit-for-tat,
26:10a divine balance
26:11of the scales of justice.
26:13In fact,
26:14modern depictions of hell
26:15come more from Dante
26:17than from the Bible.
26:19Dante
26:19is a great example
26:22of the power
26:23of a compelling story.
26:24He creates this elaborate hell
26:26and then,
26:28you know,
26:28a thousand years later,
26:30we're all taking this
26:31as kind of religious canon.
26:33And that's because
26:34it's good storytelling
26:36and it's great detail
26:38and it resonates with us
26:41kind of emotionally.
26:43And so we take it
26:43and we assume
26:44that it's always been true.
26:45Something that would surprise
26:46a lot of Christians,
26:47never mind non-Christians,
26:49is that the term hell
26:50never appears in the Bible.
26:51Instead,
26:52what Biblical translators did
26:53was use the term hell
26:55as a stand-in
26:57for other words,
26:58as a catch-all term
26:59to describe the bad place
27:01people might end up
27:01when they die.
27:02One of the reasons
27:03why I think a lot of people
27:04are afraid of death
27:05is because the church,
27:06especially through the Middle Ages,
27:07did such a good job
27:08of scaring the hell into them.
27:10The main thing I think
27:11that makes people
27:12afraid of death
27:13is just the unknown.
27:15It seems to me
27:16that in some ways
27:17we find the idea
27:19of eternal torment
27:20to be more comforting
27:21than not knowing
27:23what might happen
27:24or even worse,
27:26the fear
27:27that afterward
27:28there might be nothing.
27:29devils come
27:43in many forms
27:44and stories
27:45of one devilish creature
27:46have persisted
27:47through the ages
27:48and taken on
27:50a life of its own.
27:52Some believe
27:52this monster
27:53is real
27:54even today.
27:56But the story
27:57actually starts
27:58centuries ago
27:59with an old,
28:00poor fisherman
28:01who cast his net out
28:02four times a day.
28:05First,
28:07he reeled in
28:07a dead donkey.
28:09Next,
28:10a pitcher of dirt.
28:11Then,
28:12simple shards
28:13of glass
28:14and pottery.
28:15But after his fourth cast,
28:17he netted
28:18a mysterious bottle
28:19with the mark
28:20of Solomon
28:21on its seal,
28:22removing the lid
28:24with his knife,
28:25a plume
28:25of smoke emerged.
28:27Escaping from it
28:28was an evil jinnie
28:30or jinn
28:31who'd been trapped
28:32by Israelite
28:33King Solomon himself.
28:36Captive in a bottle
28:38for 100 years,
28:40this jinn
28:40wasn't offering
28:41three wishes,
28:43only a choice
28:44for the fisherman
28:45who freed
28:45his bitter spirit
28:46of how he'd
28:48like to die.
28:49The jinn
28:50is a desert demon,
28:51one of the
28:51Arabic demons.
28:52The Qur'an
28:54has numerous passages
28:55about the jinn,
28:56whom King Solomon
28:57alone
28:58is given power
28:59to control.
29:01The Qur'an
29:01also hints
29:02at a hierarchy
29:03that puts man
29:04in his place.
29:06The creatures
29:07in the world
29:08are divided
29:08into three parts.
29:10There's jinn,
29:11there's angels,
29:12and there's humans.
29:14The humans
29:14are actually
29:15in the middle.
29:16Jinn,
29:17who are,
29:17for the most part,
29:18considered evil
29:19or troublesome,
29:21they represent
29:22the flip side
29:24of angels.
29:25And if angels
29:25are really good,
29:26then jins
29:26are going
29:26to be really bad.
29:27At the same time,
29:29like humans,
29:30they have free will.
29:31In the fisherman
29:32and the jinn tale,
29:34the fisherman
29:34eventually tricks
29:35the jinn
29:36into going back
29:37into the bottle.
29:38And when the jinn
29:39pleads for mercy,
29:40the two strike a deal,
29:42and they both
29:43live and prosper.
29:44But when it comes
29:46to jinn,
29:47not everyone
29:48gets so lucky.
29:50They can actually
29:51possess
29:53the body
29:54of a human,
29:55which is something
29:56that most people
29:56associate with
29:58dark demonic forces.
30:00Some people believe
30:01that everyone
30:01is assigned a jinn,
30:03which whispers
30:04in our ears
30:04and leads us
30:06to do evil things.
30:08The malevolent nature
30:10of jinn
30:10might come
30:11as a surprise,
30:12since the most
30:14celebrated jinn story
30:15isn't about
30:16an evil spirit
30:17at all.
30:18Probably the most
30:19popular genie story
30:21of all time
30:21is the story
30:22of Aladdin,
30:23who,
30:23in the course
30:24of the story,
30:26discovers a lamp
30:27which contains
30:27a genie
30:28who is basically
30:29there to do
30:30the bidding
30:30of whoever
30:31owns the lamp.
30:33It's a fun story.
30:34You know,
30:34a guy finds a lamp
30:35and there's a spirit
30:37inside who
30:38is grateful
30:40to be released
30:40and so bestows
30:41rewards
30:42upon him
30:42who wouldn't
30:43want to have
30:43that happen.
30:45The evolution
30:46of sadistic jinn
30:47into wish-granting
30:49genies illustrates
30:50people's collective
30:51need to tame
30:52our fears.
30:54We take a monster
30:55and we make it
30:56agreeable so that
30:57we can be around
30:58that monster more
30:59often and not
31:00be afraid of it.
31:02But is there
31:03any chance jinn
31:04could actually
31:05be real?
31:06Both jinn
31:07and jinn
31:08sound like the
31:09stuff of fantasy,
31:10but for people
31:11outside the
31:12Western world,
31:13they're much more
31:14real than that.
31:15During the Rwandan
31:16genocide,
31:18rival Hutus
31:19and Tutsis
31:19refused to enter
31:20a Muslim enclave
31:22for fear
31:22of encountering
31:23the jinn.
31:24Most people
31:25think of genies
31:26as storybook stuff.
31:27They don't realize
31:28that they had
31:29a massive cultural
31:30significance
31:31to a large population
31:32of the world.
31:34The Rwandan tribes
31:36weren't the only
31:37modern-day believers.
31:38In 1980,
31:40a Pakistani scientist
31:41named Basharuddin
31:42Mahmood suggested
31:44fiery jinn could
31:45actually be an
31:46untapped power source
31:48that could solve
31:49his nation's
31:50energy crisis.
31:52Whether they're based
31:53in any sort of
31:54physical reality
31:54or not,
31:55as time goes by,
31:56legends, mythology,
31:58changes,
31:58it evolves
31:59with each culture
32:00that gets a hold
32:01of it.
32:02And there's never
32:03any way of predicting
32:04how that will go.
32:08our father
32:18return to heaven.
32:22How would he be
32:23thy name?
32:27Hi, baby.
32:29Grandma?
32:30Yeah.
32:30Yeah.
32:34I'm going to kill you!
32:36In America,
32:46exorcisms are on the rise.
32:49Satan is a real fear.
32:53And no one
32:55has more proof
32:56than LaToya Ammons.
32:59In 2011,
33:01something evil
33:02took hold
33:03of her tight-knit
33:04family of four
33:05in Gary, Indiana
33:06for reasons
33:08no one could explain.
33:13Not even her exorcist,
33:26Father Michael Magano.
33:28Flies.
33:29Over and over again,
33:31the porch
33:32has horseflies.
33:33There's always piles
33:34of dead flies.
33:35We clean them up
33:36and they just keep
33:36coming back.
33:39What makes you think
33:40that there's something
33:41unnatural about this?
33:42There could be a logical
33:42explanation for all of this.
33:44The very first
33:45phenomena
33:46that the family
33:47described was
33:48dead horseflies
33:49appearing on the porch.
33:51She would sweep them up
33:52and then the next day,
33:53there'd be a whole new
33:54series of horseflies.
33:56They were always dead.
33:56there is something
33:58wrong with this house.
34:00What you're describing
34:01is scary,
34:02but there's no reason
34:03to be alarmed
34:04that the house
34:04is possessed.
34:07Tell him.
34:09Well,
34:09one night I heard
34:11my daughter screaming
34:12for help,
34:13so I run upstairs
34:14to her room
34:14and I see her
34:16floating above the bed.
34:21When did this start?
34:22Tell me now,
34:26when...
34:27One night she saw
34:43a dark figure
34:44pacing back and forth
34:46in the living room
34:47and when she got up
34:49to see what was there,
34:51turning on the light,
34:52no one was there,
34:53but they saw muddy prints
34:55on their wooden floor.
34:57The children
34:58were appearing
34:59in school
34:59with bloody noses
35:01and blood coming
35:02out of their mouth,
35:02but they couldn't figure out
35:03what the source
35:04of that was.
35:06At one point,
35:07clairvoyants
35:08were called in
35:08who said the house
35:09was besieged
35:10by over 200 demons.
35:14Police,
35:15physicians,
35:16psychiatrists,
35:17and the Department
35:18of Child Services
35:19were called in
35:20to investigate as well.
35:22Eventually,
35:24the Amman's family
35:24kids were taken
35:25from the home
35:26because of spiritual
35:27and emotional distress.
35:31But in the end,
35:32no one could agree
35:33on any underlying reason
35:35for the disturbing events.
35:37Jesus Christ commands you
35:39to leave this home,
35:40go back into the darkness,
35:42back into hell.
35:46God, our Father,
35:47for all that is light
35:48and goodness in this world,
35:50we ask you to take
35:50this demon from this home
35:52and cast it back
35:53into a hell.
36:01The local police chief
36:02and the exorcist
36:04were called in
36:05to cast the demons out.
36:07Both went on record
36:08as believers.
36:10I said,
36:10you are possessed.
36:11And she says,
36:12I know.
36:14Father!
36:14Father!
36:18But was the Amman's
36:20family possession
36:21a case of real
36:22demon possession?
36:24Or was it all
36:25just made up?
36:26the exorcist?
36:30Whenever we're doing
36:33an investigation
36:34for an exorcism,
36:35we do have to rule out
36:36a psychological explanation.
36:39And certainly,
36:40something witnessed
36:41by several people
36:42will rule that out.
36:44Retro satana!
36:45In that particular case
36:50was witnessed
36:51by several professional
36:52staff that a boy
36:53walked up the wall
36:54backwards.
36:55I said,
36:55there is something
36:56definitely there.
36:59In the United States
37:01and around the world,
37:02exorcisms are on the rise.
37:04The practice itself
37:06involves evicting
37:07demonic spirits
37:08from a person
37:09physically overcome
37:10by seemingly evil forces
37:13in opposition to God
37:14or a more benevolent
37:16higher power.
37:18The Archdiocese of New York
37:21was quoted as saying
37:22that in the 1990s,
37:24he had no cases.
37:25But by 2000,
37:27he had 300.
37:29I have personally
37:30seen a face twitch
37:32in the most unnatural
37:33ways that I don't think
37:35a person could ever
37:36just do.
37:38Another time,
37:39I saw a young lady
37:40with one of her eyes,
37:42her left eye,
37:42rotated three times
37:43counterclockwise.
37:44She was grabbing me
37:45and growling at me.
37:46Demons are frightening
37:47because not only
37:48do they lurk possibly
37:49out there in the darkness
37:51beyond the reaches
37:51of our understanding,
37:52but there's also a potential
37:54that they could possess us.
37:57The Vatican's chief
37:58exorcist claims
37:59to have treated
38:00over 70,000 cases
38:02since 1975.
38:04And now,
38:05there are more
38:05official exorcists
38:07in the ranks of the church
38:08than ever before.
38:10In 2001,
38:12CNN reported
38:13that even Mother Teresa
38:14had an exorcism
38:15in her later years.
38:17But how often
38:18does exorcism work?
38:20And did it work
38:21for the Ammons family?
38:22The root of evil,
38:23betrayer of nations,
38:24is to be out of the response.
38:26Jesus Christ commands you
38:28to leave this home,
38:29go back into the darkness,
38:31back into hell.
38:32We decided
38:33to do the old rite,
38:35which many exorcists
38:38said is very powerful.
38:42God our Father,
38:43for all that is left,
38:44whenever I was praising God,
38:47no reaction.
38:48But the moment
38:48you started condemning
38:49the demon,
38:50it reacted.
38:52more violent,
38:58more convulsions,
38:59still eventually weakened,
39:01and she fell asleep.
39:02And that was usually
39:03the sign that
39:04we were done.
39:06Since the exorcism
39:07in 2012,
39:09the Ammons family
39:10has been demon-free.
39:12And in 2013,
39:14a Department of Child
39:15Services caseworker
39:16noted there were
39:17no demonic presences
39:19or spirits
39:20in the home.
39:26But that doesn't mean
39:27there isn't another
39:28devilish monster,
39:30myth,
39:30or legend
39:31lurking around the corner.
39:34People see evil
39:35in the world.
39:36They say things
39:37that they can't explain.
39:39And what do we do with it?
39:40We have to give it a name.
39:42Whether it's devils
39:43that haunt the shadows
39:44or find their way inside,
39:46whether Satan
39:47or Krampus
39:48makes us behave,
39:49and whether hell
39:50or Hades
39:51was the beginning
39:52of it all,
39:53our devils
39:54and demons
39:54scare us
39:55because they're
39:56a real part of us,
39:57whether we like it
39:59or not.
40:00The best myths
40:01in history
40:02are the ones
40:02that reveal something
40:04about the way
40:04the world is,
40:05the spiritual world is,
40:06the physical world,
40:07and the way we are.
40:08And it tells a story
40:09about ourselves.
40:10And that's why they land.
40:11That's why they're so powerful.
40:12To that degree,
40:12they're true myths.
40:13That's why they're so powerful.
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