Heading right back to Brazil again this week for a very different reason.

Jow, Texaria, DeFaria, also known as John of God, is a self-proclaimed medium and psychic surgeon from Brazil.

Jowal ran a wildly profitable spiritual healing center in the rural city of Abidjania, called the House of St. Ignatius of Loyola, or just the Casa, for short.

Joal claimed for decades that his treatments, which consisted of anything from meditation and prayer,

to shoving forceps deep into a person's nose, to scrape into a patient's eyeball,

without anesthetic or antiseptics, or cutting into their flesh,

then pulling something out with his fingers could cure any ailment.

And then it wasn't really him performing these miracles.

No, no, no.

It was one of his many spirit guides.

Ghosts, basically, that took over his body, possessed him, and healed the unhealable.

How cool.

Millions of people came to see him for physical and spiritual ailments,

often making donations to the CASA or purchasing

Joel's special herbal prescriptions to ensure they would be cured.

60 Minutes Australia would estimate that he earned over $10 million a year from prescription

sales alone. Joal received coverage on CNN, ABC, even the Oprah Winfrey show, which brought

even more tourists from all over the world.

There were, of course, skeptics. People who thought in healing benefits were just placebo effects,

but their voices were drowned out by the thousands and thousands of believers and stories of

miracle cures. There were also rumors of something much darker going on. There were reports from

young women who were invited to private sessions with Joao,

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