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People slowly became suspicious when they hadn't seen Sheena's baby for almost two years.

Despite the mother's insistence that the little girl was being well looked after by someone

else, there was something troubling about

the child's disappearance. Sheena had been rambling about a Tibetan spirit guide in the sky

that commanded her to do things. Her parents worried that Sheena's interest in the occult

had gone too far.

Welcome to They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

This is the 43rd in a series of bonus episodes.

Sheena Bockeland had always been known for being a bit eccentric.

Even before she was 10 years old, she showed an interest in black magic and the paranormal.

Sheena's fixation began with books by British occult author Dennis Wheatley,

who wrote a number of novels including The Devil Rides Out, the Satanist,

and to the devil a daughter which was later made into a horror film in 1976.

To the devil a daughter is about a young woman who was raised in a satanic cult with the intention of becoming a vessel for the devil on earth after a child's sacrifice.

Sheena's parents, Flora and Henry, assumed their daughter's interests were part of a fleeting face, but they were mistaken.

Their child became immersed in tarot reading and spiritualism.

Gina's focus moved away from her studies at Edinburgh University, and she dropped out without graduating.

In 1982, 20-year-old Gina McLaughlin and her close friend Helen Queen travelled to London where they met a tarot reader called Dharma.

Helen laughed at the idea of psychics and the unexplained,

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