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UnFictional

Possession

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4923 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

I once saw a woman possessed right in front of me. Her eyes glazed over, she shook, and she wasn't there anymore… someone else was. (Repeat)

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Podcast

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listen to the organist the culturally omnivorous

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intellectually ravenous

0:08.0

podcast from the editors of the believer magazine

0:10.0

part of poetry is learning how to speak.

0:13.5

Chilly Billy, Chilly Billy.

0:15.8

I'm also a horse.

0:17.4

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

0:22.5

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

0:25.4

Find the organism on KCRW.com

0:28.0

or wherever you download podcasts.

0:31.1

From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

0:40.0

Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and today on the program a story of spiritual possession.

0:50.0

One night when Christian was 19 years old, he says he met a series of voodoo spirits in Haiti.

0:58.0

They possessed a woman who was visiting his father's house, and then they talked to him, through her for hours.

1:06.7

And then about 15 years later, he was still haunted by the events of that night.

1:11.4

He went back to Haiti to find out what it all meant, what he was supposed

1:14.6

to think about this thing that had happened. Plus he wanted to find out more about the

1:19.2

rituals of Haitian Voodoo and the people of this small Caribbean nation where Voodoo is a religion and a way of life.

1:27.0

But a strong warning that this program contains descriptions and sounds of animals being killed during a ceremony, which certainly could

1:35.5

be upsetting, especially to children.

1:38.1

If you feel you may be disturbed by this, I suggest you skip this episode.

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