Welcome back to The Exorcist Files, the podcast that delivers you from boredom and dark spirits.

I'm your co-host Ryan Bethay, and today we bring you another round of spiritual encounters

I would love to call To Haunt to Handle, but instead we'll have to settle for ghost stories too.

Original, right?

Earlier this season, we discussed ghosts,

those mysterious houseguests who never seem to pay their rent.

Ghost stories have a way of grabbing our attention.

Whether you believe in ghosts or not,

the topic raises questions that we can't easily ignore.

Are these accounts just old houses creaking, a figment of someone's wild imagination?

Or is there something more?

A soul that refuses or cannot move on.

Or perhaps even, a malevolent entity.

As always, we leave it to you, dear listeners, to decide.

Now to help us navigate the Riviera that might scare you, here's the one and the only, Father Carlos

Martens. The human soul is immortal, and death is not the end, but merely the next step in its

never-ending journey.

Given the fact that a soul must be in a state of perfection to enter God's presence,

of those who are saved, most upon departing this life, will enter a purificative state that the Catholic

Church calls purgatory. At times, God permits such souls to appear to the living,

both as a warning and a personal plea for prayer.

Such apparitions are not simply the stuff of folklore,

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