[Music] bada bing badao ever since Ronan a mom in Taiwan she's invited her daughter back to come live with her ever since the two have been reunited very strange things have been happening 6 years ago something happened where the mom Ronan could no longer take care of her daughter anymore her daughter's name is dodo and she could hardly take care of herself let alone make sure that dodo is Being safe and wellfed but that's 6 years ago Ronan today she's different now she's ready to be a mom again she can take care of her daughter
dodo after 6 years of being a part obviously the initial meeting is definitely a little awkward but there is this connection there because that's her kid so for a little while it seems like the two of them they're going to go home they're going to slip into a very natural familiar family life where they just Enjoy doing all these mundane things that they missed out on together but then all these strange little things start happening and there not little on the very first night that daughter dodo returns home they hear this huge bang in the
other room and there's this sound of shattering glass Ronan runs into the next room to investigate because it sounds like a home Intruder or something but when she gets in there all she finds the floor covered with shattered glass And there's a tiny little cockroach it seems like the Cockroach crashed in through the window breaking the glass is that even physically possible it's so strange later that night Rona notices what looks like a burst eye vessel inside of her daughter's eye but it's very eerily shaped like the shape of a cockroach how old is the
daughter six oh and I think if that were all maybe Ronan would try to look past it and start fresh because you know there could be Explanations for all of these things maybe the glass was already shattered maybe the cockroach is just a coincidence there can be a thousand and one explanations but things start coming unavoidable it's not even just the Small Things anymore like how do you explain when dodo wakes up one day and her entire mouth is filled with teeth she has double the amount of teeth they're practically growing on her tongue they're
everywhere or the fact that dodo Her daughter is able to magically shut doors she could be on the other side of the room and the door swings shut the window's not even open it's not a breeze how is she doing that and who does she keep talking to she keeps talking to someone that doesn't exist like she's playing with invisible friends that aren't actually there yes it's her daughter but it's not normal and she's confident that the real reason the real problem here is that Ronan is cursed She's haunted and this curse is being transferred
to her daughter 6 years ago Ronan for the sake of a YouTube video entered this forbidden tunnel a Sacred Space and ever since then her life has been cursed and now her daughter is going to die unless she can find a way to help her and this sounds very much like the plot of a movie does it not and that's because it is that is the plot of the Taiwanese horror film incantation the reviews for that movie Read it's terrifying exceptionally dark if you can't watch anything terrible happening to young children don't watch this it's
a type of movie to break your brain I watched it and the movie stayed with me for years I still think about it to this day not in a good way but the truth is the movie incantation is actually based on a true story of a family in Taiwan and what happened to them when they get cursed by a demon how they are tortured for 2 months straight Until one of them ends up dead [Music] [Music] we would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mango to support the pan Foundation
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additional information please let Us know down in the comments today's case also mentioned some mental health conditions the compulsive eating of non-food items physical assault and a brief mention of essay so with that being said oh I do actually have another disclaimer listen I have a very strong appreciation for religion and cultural Traditions I think it's one of the more beautiful aspects of life and just The Human Experience in general but I'm personally not a firm believer of Anything when it pertains to religion or spiritual Journeys so anything said in this episode is not to
push some sort of narrative or belief onto anybody I truly have no skin in the game I just am very intrigued by a lot of different cultures and religions there is information included that I find to be enlightening and pertinent to the case itself and also just fascinating that I wanted to share with you but I am not trying to get anyone to believe one thing or Another or anything at all also another side note many of the Gods mentioned in today's episodes the deities they have very complicated backgrounds on how they came to be
and obviously there's different interpretations and beliefs for each one but I do want to mention that it does seem that at least a few of them are based off of Hindu gods so this is again not me trying to erase that link or not give credit where credit is due but I think to Deep dive into the Origins of each God would take a lot of care and expertise and I'm mainly trying to include the parts that would be relevant to the actual case so if you guys actually know more about each deity please let
me know in the comments I would love to learn more from you guys because the internet is a tricky place where everybody disagrees a lot so with that being said let's get into it April 11th 2005 it's a very normal Monday afternoon and Mr a well let's call him Mr a is at home watching TV and he hears this knock at his door Mr a is one of the few neighbors that are still around all the other neighbors had interestingly packed a little bag and moved out into hotels leaving most of their stuff Behind still
paying rent it's very odd Mr a gets up and he walks to the door looks through the tiny little peephole and he sees his neighbor a middle-aged man Mr Woo just standing there looking very anxious Mr Woo what's Wrong how can I help you Mr Woo leans in closer to the door call an ambulance what Mr a fumbles with his locks and by the time he opens the door Mr Woo has gone he looks to the right he looks to the left no Mr Woo he didn't even know middle-aged men could move that fast that's
wild so he grabs his phone puts on his jacket and his shoes and he starts making his way over to Mr Woo's house which is at the top of a neighboring building it's a three-story Building and Mr Woo is at the top that's his residence third floor so he's running up the stairs he approaches the door he doesn't see Mr Woo anywhere he's nowhere to be seen he presses on the handle of Mr Woo's front door the door creaks open and a fly comes flying out at him so strange he walks inside and once he
sees why an ambulance needs to be called Mr a runs back out of the house he's dry heaving on the pavement and immediately calls the police when The police arrive at the scene they want to know what the problem is with the woo family I mean arguably they seem very incredibly normal if not very mundane the woo parents have four children the eldest daughter works in Taipei the second daughter is a nurse the third daughter goes to college the son the baby of the family works at a local printing house they're all adults the kids
are in their 20s at this point it's a very normal family until the police Talk to the neighbors they are not normal what do you mean by that neighbors have been reporting hearing very strange noises coming from inside the house all night long this loud sometimes it's like a banging noise sometimes you don't know what the source of the sound is sometimes you do know and then sometimes it's just the most obnoxious gong going off all night long which is definitely frustrating for Neighbors to deal with the constant Ruckus from the upstairs residents but the
neighbors aren't even annoyed they're not even pissed off in fact they're just scared something about the noises is different okay sometimes the family of six would sit there just splashing water on each other in silence splashing cold water all over each other shivering but they say they're hot it's weird sometimes the neighbors would wake up in the middle of the night to hearing someone screaming other times to Chanting they look up at the house and yeah the police are like that's not a normal place they look at the signs posted on the Windows into the
house there's a red eight trigram symbol posted onto the window the eight trigrams are ancient symbols used in Tais philosophy that represent the eight principles of funu fun being Harmony of individuals in their environment at its core funu is about creating balance and flow in your living area right so the Eight principles of having good funu balance oversimplified are Heaven Earth Thunder water Mountain Wind Fire Lake which symbolizes joy and pleasure so they all mean something and when you put that symbol of the eight trigrams on the window it typically means that whoever lives in
this home is seeking protection they likely want to word off negative energy and Spirits which is not too crazy of a thing to want I feel like we all want that they see that red eight Trigrams typed to the window which itself is very normal standard even but it's everything else that makes a feel so strange on the balcony of the house there are these black clothes that are sticking out of the windows like Flags it does not appear that the clothes are being hanging to dry they're hanging on sticks just floating in the air
like Flags or like ghosts wearing black clothes and hanging out of the window whichever one you want to Envision when You step foot into the house you hear this crunching noise and you look down and the entire floor is covered like a beach but instead of sand it's covered with salt and rice grains the whole floor they can hear flies buzzing around the house they walk further in and on the dining table they find a whole table setting laid out plates Bowls the bowls are filled with fulu a talismanic paper soaked in water and the
plates are smeared with the main dish the main Course feces poop the Flies are just circulating over the table but that's not the only source of the smell feces has been thrown at the walls covering the walls sliding off the walls not a single window was left open to let in some fresh air not only that but the windows are covered in these yellowish papers taped to the windows resulting in this severe lack of sunlight coming in which means feces are hanging off the Walls the air is thick from the smell not a single hint
of a breeze just still air sitting marinating in the poop stench and no sunlight to try and balance things out it's dark dingy grimy and the smell of feces is overwhelming in one of the bedrooms there's a 28-year-old woman lying motionless on the floor her limbs are stiff and she does not appear to be breathing she has no pulse they rush her to the hospital but it is no luck she Has been dead for 2 days before the police found her body the hospital starts an autopsy on the woman and her whole body looks incredibly
pale there's these massive wounds all over her body giant bruises fists sized up and down her body but more puzzl than that are these tiny circular uniform burn marks similar to cigarette butt Burns but not really it's much smaller it's about the size of like an ink dot so if you were to take the tip of a Sharpie and just Hold it onto your skin it's kind of that size what could even cause Burns that size that are that consistent and uniform all over her body believe it or not there's another medical mystery that the
doctors cannot even wrap their minds around shoved into the woman's nostrils mouth in her esophagus and smeared all over her skin is a mixture of urine and feces furthermore her entire stomach the only thing in there is no food nothing but just semidigested feces the sheer Volume of feces would indicate it was most likely human feces so why how I mean who who did this to her the police are able to confirm that the deceased woman is the eldest daughter of the wo family the residence that she was found in which means the people most
likely to have answers to what happened to her are her family members but there is no trace of the rest of the woo family after Mr Woo knocked on his neighbor's door he vanished along with his wife and his two Daughters and his one son all five of them are gone they hadn't taken any belongings nothing they just disappeared Into Thin Air from this house and there are just some places that you you just do not go in the movie incantation the place that you're not supposed to go is inside this tunnel in this remote
Village Temple but because the main character Ronan the mom and her boyfriend at the time they run a YouTube channel where they go ghost hunting they Weighed out the options and they thought go into the tunnel to get great views or not go into the tunnel they go into the tunnel ronan's boyfriend and his cousin decide we're just going to get the good footage despite being warned by the locals multiple times never to step foot in here we're just going to go and get the footage and that's how they get cursed and ronan's boyfriend and
cousin ultimately die Ronan ends up giving Birth to a daughter that she didn't even know she was pregnant with at the time she has to give up custody to her daughter for 6 years because of how mentally messed up she is from everything that has happened inside that tunnel because again there are just some places that you just should not go in the real life case of incantation the woo family they travel to the five finger Mountain it's called the FiveFinger Mountain because the peak of The mountain has five prominent Peaks it looks like The
Ridges of the fingers of a hand it's a natural Landmark but some people don't think it's the safest not just in terms of physical safety but spiritually I mean in many folklore mountains are considered sacred places that are inhabited by Supernatural entities which means yeah you can go there to get guidance from the good supernatural entities but when there are entities one might believe leave there Must be good and bad you can't just cherry pick according to many folklore those who died unjustly or have unfinished business they typically dwell in the mountains waiting for their
chance to get revenge they may want to trap the living just due to how angry they are and it said that the path on the middle finger of the five finger Mountain has the most negative energy many people experien and have reported feeling Stuck physically like they they feel like they can move but their legs won't move they feel exhausted all of a sudden drained but not just oh I'm I'm a hiker I'm tired it's weird it's unexplainable they hear voices they have all these unexplainable Supernatural encounters on the third finger but like I said
when there is good there's also bad so it works in the opposite way meaning some people believe no if you go to the FiveFinger mountain and you meditate You're going to get amazing guidance to spiritual problems that you may be having so the three woo sisters are sent to the mountain for a month to meditate this is the real life family three of the sisters so they have three daughters and one son the three daughters are sent to the FiveFinger Mountain for an entire month to meditate at a local temple oh so this is before
the sister was dead yes they need to use the power of meditation to drive out the demon inside Of the eldest sister the one that ends up dead it's going to take at least a month they're going to stay at the temple and they are not to come back home until they are cleansed I mean it's not like the sisters really wanted to do this but they don't really have a choice their lives were incredibly normal until it wasn't normal and it all starts February 2005 it starts with the woo family's eldest daughter so she's
the oldest She's the one that passes away and she's the only child that no longer fully lives with the entire family so the youngest daughter she's in college she lives in the dorms but she comes home every single break the eldest daughter she's actually moved out complet completely to taipe mhm she's managing this convenience store with her boyfriend so let's just call them sister a b c and Son okay okay she gets a call from her mom what's going on hello and The mom tells her I'm I'm very worried I'm very concerned I know that
things have been happening over there with you what do you mean sister a is confused she's trying to figure out why her mom is freaking out why she's saying I know something's happened nothing has happened I mean absolutely nothing has happened if something had happened she would have called her right away but her mom is just frantic she's dead set that something weird is going to happen or It's already happening and you just don't feel it you just don't realize it sister a calms her mom down and she hangs up the phone thinking okay that
was a little bit strange but I think she's okay now a few hours later the door to the convenience store opens and it's her mom the car ride to get from where her parents live on the south side of Taiwan to Taipei is a 4-Hour long drive you just don't drop in and say hello her mom never does this this is The type of visit that requires a lot of planning you take the weekend off you come to visit you have an itinerary so what the hell is Mom doing here Mrs woo tells her daughter
you need to come back to the family home immediately or else very bad things are going to happen to you listen she must have a lot of faith in her mom because she grabs her things and just instantly leaves Taipei she drops everything she leaves work mid shift to go with her mom interestingly Enough when she gets home the energy and the family resid is quite happy everybody's happy I mean it's been a minute since all of them were gathered since everybody's busy with work in school Mr Woo even cooked up this massive delicious food
table for the kids and then during dinner they start discussing what's been going on and the woo family like I said consists of three daughters and one son the whole situation started when sister C comes Home from college for winter break cuz it's February of 2005 she's normally someone who sleeps well every single night night but ever since she got back to the family home for winter break she's been having nightmares every single night and it's always about the third Prince the third Prince nja nja yes the third Prince according to mythology he was born
after spending 3 years and 6 months in his mother's womb his mom was so sick of him in her Stomach that she would get frustrated and quote pound her stomach in Anger for such an extraordinary long pregnancy and to make matters worse when she finally gives birth to him instead of a baby a giant ball of Flesh rolls out of her body and her husband the third Prince's dad Witnesses all of this and is convinced that his wife just gave birth to a demon that needs to be extinguished he grabs his sword attacks the ball
of Flesh it opens up and out comes a fully Formed boy the third Prince that can talk immediately out of the womb now you may be thinking that's a pretty tough dad and son relationship to mend after your dad is adamant that you're a demon the second that you come into this world but despite that the third Prince has a strong dedication to his family The Prince and his dad are known to fight all the time but ultimately it seems like the third Prince has a strong sense of filial peity I mean he is at
the end Of the day one to protect his family which is why he is typically worshiped for protection of Children and Families and sometimes ensuring safe travels the third Prince deity is typically known as the patron God of children in terms of worshipping deities the third Prince is not an intense one to worship if that makes sense it's just some deities are more fickle some are more secretive than others but the third Prince he sounds kind of chill I mean generally he Prefers offerings fruits Meats nice duck meat he doesn't like because it's considered sacred
to him so you have to be very careful he's also a teenage deity so he really likes candies and if you really want protection from the third Prince to just have a small statue of him is usually a good way to get it he's a guardian deity though keep this in mind he's very protective he's a protection God now Sister C comes home from winter break and every single night She's back in the family home she's plagued with these nightmares and she can't sleep now because she's terrified of her own dreams the third Prince is
somehow popping up in her dreams which makes it feel like somebody needs protection around here she has these migraines throughout the day that make her drop to the floor with how intense it is she's never had these before she's supposed to be resting before school starts so what is happening her parents Suggest her to go to the temple that's going to help get her soul back now to give you some context and again a quick disclaimer not everybody in Taiwan believes one thing or the other like same with America everybody has their own beliefs and
then you have people who are very extreme in their beliefs and then some people who are a little bit more casual with it I will say the woo family is as Extreme as it gets they're very extreme with their beliefs you're Not going to see the extremity of their beliefs right now but you'll see it as escalate so keep that in mind they're like you need to go to the temple and get your soul back some people believe that the soul can leave the body because of many different circumstances we've kind of talked about this
before with the microwave case remember okay yes yes the soul leaves the body when there is some sort of trauma or shock near-death experience intense fear or pain Spiritual attack sleep or dreaming sometimes Souls will wander out of your body during sleep and then when you wake up your soul can't get in and your soul is lost they say that you can typically tell when someone's Soul has left their body they suddenly have a very hard time recalling specific events they might have memory loss or they suddenly have weakened immune systems and they just feel
this emotional numbness they look like they're zoning out all the time it Looks like they're missing a part of themselves because their soul is missing that is what the woo parents believe is happening to Sister C they encourage her go to thecal loal Temple they can perform this Soul calling ritual to bring your soul back home back into your body you got to go sister C goes to the temple to get her soul back which it does seem to work but she ends up getting a lot more than what she asks for she states to
her family that Suddenly out of nowhere the third Prince showed up again and this time he had a Divine message for her he tells her that sister a the eldest sibling has to come home immediately or else her life is in grave danger she's the one working alone in I pay the family take this information incredibly seriously if the third Prince is saying that that means he would only be saying that to protect the children of the family he's a guardian deity after all which means Something might happen to the children even if the third
Prince didn't say anything to Sister C in the dream the third Prince even showing up in one's Visions or dreams or sites typically symbolizes that the dreamer or someone close to the dreamer is in need of protection because the third Prince like I said is almost synonymous with protection this means something the next day after the third Prince shows up in Sister C's dreams the mom goes all the Way to Taipei and gets her eldest daughter brings her back home on my desk I have this inch thick daily planner actually I recently went to South
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she's home she's so familiar with this place this is where she grew up with everybody that she trusts more than anything and she drifts into sleep and hours later she's awake drenched in sweat gasping for air her mom slams open the door she's been screaming all night she runs and what's Wrong what's wrong tell me what's wrong sister a tells her mom that everything little sister said is coming true there's this nightmare that she just had where she was essayed by a strange man and then ended up up killing him and there was so much
blood and everything bad is happening her mom drags her out of bed and both of them kneel at the family's at home altar to start praying but the next night it happens again another nightmare now the Eldest sister can't even go to sleep without feeling this intense fear she won't even sleep during the night she dozes off here and there during the day but that's about it like think of it as naps she hasn't gotten a good night's rest since she got home whenever there's a loud noise she starts freaking out if someone is talking
in a pitch higher than an inside standard voice she freaks out eventually the eldest daughter likely out of serious sleep deprivation And feeling mental torment she starts slapping herself she starts like slapping her own legs slapping her arms and the Woos are really alarmed by this they drag her to the temple where the youngest had gotten her soul back and the parents tell the ones that run the temple they think they know why this is happening right now we understand why okay so the family thinks the reasoning of all of this is because they moved
the third Prince statue in their house so Way before he showed up in Sister C's dreams the third Prince had his own altar at the woo family house they worshiped the third Prince but a while back they had gone to a different Temple and with some guidance one of the mediums there told the woo family that their family situation seems unclean he was very ominous about it he didn't give them much more information so the woo parents being firm believers they start getting paranoid they ask him to come to Their house to exercise the evil
spirits that's making the residence unclean and while they're exercising the place they move the statue they move the altar of the third Prince to a new location inside the house but maybe maybe they shouldn't have done that maybe that messed with the protection of the house somehow and made it so that another entity could enter like a nonprotective entity could enter their home at the temple the eldest sister was able to be Cleansed by the spiritual mediums and when she comes back home things they're normal again in fact after a few days she's had zero
nightmares zero like slapping herself on the legs she's like maybe I should go back home to taipe I mean we avoided this looming tragedy likely it was nothing we just needed to move the statue back I should just go home and resume life as normal that's the best case scenario yes as the eldest daughter is spending the last few days With her family she gets this phone call it's like a rather brief phone call nobody can really even make out who she's talking to or what she's saying but by the time she hangs up the
phone she is no longer their daughter she is no longer cister she turns around and states to the entire wo family that she is the goddess of Mercy wait she hung up the phone and she say she's a goddess now to give you some context this is good and bad news Depending on your own beliefs if you do not believe in deities being able to possess humans this is very bad news if you do believe it like the woo family does then this might be the best deity to be possessed by the goddess of Mercy
is often described as the kindest of all deities she is the mother of compassion and mercy she's believed to have unconditional love and compassion for all beings even humans she's not fickle where you know fickle deities might want More in return or set you up in some aspect she's not like that she's known to work tirelessly to save all beings from suffering so if the goddess of Mercy has taken their daughter's body that means there is a Divine message that for them the wo parents think wait maybe all of this going on is because our
daughter is a spiritual medium and this is the way we find out a vessel is the spiritual medium between the deities and the humans the so-called translators Between the gods and The Mortals so when Mortals like humans have questions they have nowhere to seek answers they may approach a spiritual medium and request that they ask the deities for the answer being a spiritual medium is typically from my understanding a job that calls you you don't call the job the job chooses you people will naturally find themselves being able to connect with spirits and with further
guidance or training of sorts they can be Full-fledged spiritual mediums it's not an easy job one medium describes it as the first time your body feels very warm really hot the energy is starting to come to your body starting to surround you so you feel very very warm within the first 5 10 minutes the Energy starts slowly coming and within that time you'll know the energy belongs to which deity and what they are here for and what purpose during The Possession you won't know what's happening until you Wake up then you'll feel very tired afterwards
it's a lifetime commitment being a medium it's very exhausting which side note there's actually a lot of harm when it comes to being a spiritual medium one of the key components is for I'm sure many reasons spiritual mediums will feel the need to harm themselves so while they're being the vessel for the deity a lot of the times will write these talismanic papers so these charms on a piece of paper that You take for protection and they will use the blood from their tongue so a lot of the times they'll cut their tongue and use
the blood to write but they don't feel pain when they're in this state they say they'll even pin Flags to their skin so you know those wooden skewers that you grow things on I don't know if it's those that are used precisely but that's about how thick they are some of the spiritual mediums will pin Flags onto their back they will Pinch a piece of their lower back skin stab the skewer into their flesh and have it standing upright so that the flag is near their necks and they'll pin like five of them so they
have Five Flags pinned into their backs see I've seen that visual but I didn't know they stab into themselves yes and then they will stab skewers through their mouth like metal bars through their mouth it's said that that's kind of proving to The Mortals that they are a Vessel because it's very difficult to do that it's said that spiritual mediums don't feel any pain when they're possessed by gods or spirits and for that same reason they tend to heal quickly and without infection so it's a lot some spiritual mediums will stab their stomachs with sewing
needles when they're in a trance they'll even Pierce a full metal needle through one cheek to the other like I said I mean some of them have whips with Needles and in their transes they will begin whipping themselves one spiritual medium says I believe it's a way the dees protect the medium by helping them not feel pain during the rituals it's also a way that the deities show their powers to us humans the woo family thought for a moment maybe this is what's happening to sister a their eldest because she's banging her head up against
the walls the tables she's using her nails to dig into her face Scratching her skin off her whole body looks like it's being covered in bruises now it's like she has this crazy superhuman strength and in order to even get her to stop they have to tie her down with ropes just running a rope around her until she can't even move an inch wait so she's saying that she has been possessed by the goddess of mercy and she is keep harming herself yes the parents look at each other because at first they thought maybe our
daughter is A spiritual medium but this is not the goddess of Mercy inside their little girl this feels like something else this feels like a demon sister A's eyes look different I mean they say that she starts laughing but having these Eerie bursts of laughter that sound very maniacal and she starts dancing around her siblings almost like she's taunting them I am the goddess of mercy here to quell the chaos and eliminate adversity for You that night the six of them are back on their knees in front of their ancestral tablets their altars praying another
sleepless night trying to figure out what is going on this is when they decide this is no ordinary possession which means they cannot have an ordinary solution they must go to the FiveFinger mountain and get rid of the evil spirits for a singular month so while the three sisters are gone the woo parents and the youngest son are left at home alone they Decide we need to cleanse this place before the sisters come back because if they come back and the demons are still in this house what is the point of them being gone for
a month according to Masters of spirits they say someone's front door can tell you a lot about what's going on inside that home the front door is a very important boundary between the outside world and the safety of the home it's the critical line between the two Realms the outside world And the inner Sanctuary it's a it's a physical entrance but it also has an energy border if you will now this is not an attempt to be dramatic about a literal front door historically there are households that would perform sacrificial rituals to Door Spirits that's
what they're called to make sure that their doors are properly managed and well protected there's door deities that are supposed to help guard against evil influences but they can't be so Stubborn and not letting anything into your front door because then you're not going to get wealth and good fortune either so it's a very tricky balance you don't want to piss off the door deity yeah in China you will see like they put almost like a painting stick one on each door so there are two of them they help you guard the doors yes so
people will do rituals for them and and like rituals I'm not talking weird rituals like they'll just offer fruits and stuff now Right upon entering the woo Family House the master that they've invited to cleanse the entire residence sees a fox spirit standing guard at the door that's what he says now seeing any sort of spirit at anybody's front door is a very worried some sign let alone a fox he said a fox Spirit typically is a symbol of chaos foxes are Sly they're mischievous Little Creatures they like to get into all the little naughty
things there are some that believe foxes Can predict disasters they can tell when there's Impending Doom coming so to see one at the front door that's not a good look but that's not even the main problem with foxes foxes are known to feed off of human Vitality in Taiwanese folklore there's a tale of a village where young men kept falling mysteriously ill nobody knew what the problem was they all ate different things they're all drinking water from different streams there's no reason for All of them to be sick is it the air and the women
were surprisingly fine it was later discovered that a family of female fox Spirits had taken residence nearby and the female foxes were seducing and draining the men's Vitality foxes may be here to cause chaos or to symbolize impending doom or to slowly suck the life out of the residence of the house not always but that's how the master interprets this fox now if it was just the fox standing at the front door maybe The family would have been fine but the master tells them this is a house full of fierce demons if you live here
for too long you will definitely be eaten up you will be possessed there's no way around it as he's told to go further into the house he keeps shaking his head no and starts walking out of the house the master just tries to leave like he u-turns after a few steps into the woo residence and Mrs woo the mom is not having it she paid a pretty penny for This man to come into her home he's going to tell her what's wrong and he's going to fix it fun at its core like I said is
making sure your home feels harmonious it really depends on how deeply someone wants to take it some just take it purely as usage and design purposes yes using a to large coffee table with sharp Corners that you bang your leg against could be bad funu but it's also just like a really bad design element or others take it a bit more Seriously certain plants certain placement of furniture Beyond Design Elements either bring positive or negative energy into the home you don't want too much pieces of furniture with sharp Corners sharp edges because it's a different
type of energy that you're welcoming in for example some common functuay tips don't keep broken items around in your home either fix it or get rid of it broken items carry broken disrupted chaotic energy don't keep the Toilet lid open when you're not using it open toilet toilets are thought to drain wealth and positive energy avoid mirrors directly facing the bed it's said that not only does it disturb sleep it potentially invites a third party into your marriage or place your desk in a position where it faces the office door but it's not directly in
line with it if you're directly in line with it any and all energy coming into the office you will impact your work with but you want To be able to see the door without being directly in line with the door because you want to see the opportunities that are coming your way you need a clear line of sight but you could take it even a step further and the belief is that funu can impact the kind of spirits that come into your home the house they live in is positioned in a way where the sun
does not come in it's very dark it's lightless it has an IR regular shape which gives it extremely poor funu right Off the bat it's a house that basically invites the ghost in but worse than that there is a road that goes up to the front of their home they are at what's called a tea Junction they sit on a road but there's also another road pointing directly towards them a home that sits on a te Junction the master States is very very bad because the energy is all directed to the house and the rushing
energy can be very harmful it can bring in quite Unstable Spirits into the home and create a a poison arrow if you will where the fast moving energy is almost attacking the home non-stop it's Relentless the master tells the family over time living in in a house with bad funu will drain your spirit and once you're in this vulnerable weakened State you can easily be possessed by bad spirits every day that the demons have been growing it's even more dangerous to get rid of them you have to be very very Proactive do you understand now
side note anybody living in a house in a tea Junction don't freak out I think this has as much power over you as you believe it does I would say most people that I know believe in funu in a rather casual like they don't really believe spirits will come but just the flow the flow of your furniture they honestly treat it more like a design suggestion so don't freak out nothing's going to happen to you but like I said this is Just an extreme case with people who have very strong extreme beliefs but conveniently the
master can fix it for a price he holds a multi-day exorcism he States now the house is cleansed there will still be upkeep maintenance of course but overall it's good now the woo thought oh when now that you say that I do feel more relaxed even our bodies I feel like the tension is loosened that we've been holding on to but just to make sure that the house is ready for The Sisters to come home the woo family they purchase a lot of the talismanic papers the charms from the master as well as Jos sticks
jaw sticks are basically incense sticks and are often burned before a shrine it's believed that if you have a perfume jaw stick to a certain deity they will be pleased and give you Their Blessings and even the number of jaw sticks offered is Meaningful one is for worshiping the deceased two for Guardian Spirits or for Food offerings three is the most common it represents the core elements five is for worshiping the deities and the elements seven sticks is for the sun deity and the nine sticks is the most auspicious they say it's for used for
worshiping Buddha's Graces or Guardian Angels so you burn them at the altar or near the front doors or the windows and technically you're supposed to use the jaw sticks in a well ventilated area but the family decide why don't we plug up Every possible ventilation outlet and burn the jaw sticks because that would be the ultimate deepest cleansing that would be the most condensed scent and I think the deities would be the happiest they even hung Fabrics outside their house they're described as exorcism cloth meaning that they've been blessed and prayed upon and it's supposed
to give the person in need as well as the property a spiritual cleansing it's thought that even touching the cloth can Help Drive the evil spirits out of you they feel the entire ire apartment with the talismanic paper the fulu if you will and they fill it with the JW sticks they keep burning them they hang the black clothes outside the window they have the eight trigrams posted on their window by their front door this is when the three sisters are at the mountain yes so the father and the parents and the son are is
doing this at home yes to get them ready to come back because There's no point of them being in the mountain if they're just going to get tainted in the house all over again mhm and it works a month later the woo sisters come back home from the FiveFinger mountain and the family of six are reunited everyone seems to have their lives restored the disaster is over until one night all three sisters lose their minds and they start chanting incantations saying they want to return home this is not home they need to go to Their
real home and this is how everything spirals out of control until one ends up dead and five end up missing the movie incantation is a found footage horror film that people genuinely thought was cursed even if you watch this horror movie you will be cursed that was the consensus one online Forum post reads is incantation movie actually safe for me to watch can the movie invite actual demonic influence into my home viewers have reported feeling Cursed after watching the movie they say I just watched incantation last night I said the chant like 20 times power
went out a couple minutes later I've never been so scared in my whole adult life another comment reads just watch incantation I'm so freaking cursed now I think this movie just literally cursed me the movie incantation explores the idea of a shared curse meaning just by watching the movie by seeing the footage and repeating the incantation in the Movie you now share the curse the movie tricks you into staring at this symbol the main character tells the audience because it's found footage it's like she's vlogging she tells the audience that the symbol is for blessings
she asks the audience to help save her daughter from the curse by chanting the incantation together and she thanks everyone by wishing her daughter blessings so that she can be cured but the truth of the movie is the symbol the Incantation all of it is a curse the mother has asked the audience to repeat these things because she knows they are a curse so that they can take the burden of the curse away from her daughter they can share the curse with the audience wow in the real life cas there is also a shared curse
it is that of shared delusion Collective psychosis of the entire family so after getting back of from the mountain the three sisters start losing their minds the Family's gathered in the living room the parents and the son are trying to figure out what to do how to help the sisters and also why are all three of them losing their minds why are they all possessed all of a sudden they're burning more JW sticks chanting more incantations to get rid of the spirits inside their family members and it's in the middle of all of this that
the dad turns to the rest of the family and he announces I am the Jade Emperor the Jade Emperor is a Celestial ruler of Heaven he has Supreme sovereignty over all the deities Immortals and humans he's the one if you remember from our baby garden episode the Chinese zodiac animals were all in a race he's the one that organized the race he represents the ultimate authority over the universe he's a deity and he's known to be quite compassionate and fair and merciful and now Mr Woo claims he is the Jade Emperor which Makes Mrs woo
stand up I mean her husband just lost his mind and so did her three daughters and so has she she states I am queen mother of the West one of the most ancient and Powerful goddesses the Jade emperor's wife she has complete control over creation destruction death most of her days she sits there in her peaches of immortality they have a little Garden in their palace she alone can determine the lifespan of every living Being wow which means the dad is now the Jade emper the mom is the Queen Mother of the West the emperor's
wife the eldest daughter is still the goddess of Mercy the second daughter sister be claims she's the seventh fairy the youngest daughter of the Jade Emperor and his wife wow then we have the third sister the one that came home from college and started having the nightmares she claims she is now the third Prince the Protector of children the guardian Prince leaving just the youngest woo family son he looks up at his family members standing there and he says everyone stop I am the drunken monk what this is another character from mythology a monk that
was unconventional in the fact that he was always drunk but his heart was always in the right place oh I know yes okay okay is the name m so they're all good deities from what I can Tell yeah yeah yeah the whole family at this point believe that they're all possessed but what are the odds that all six of them are possessed by good deities slim to none that's what they think they think there must be at least one person in this family that has been possessed by a devil and that is why everybody else
is possessed by a good deity to get rid of that demon and it's up to them to figure out the fake one when the police are called to the Woo residents the family are not found until 3 days later so they find the eldest sister A's body and then the family is found 3 days later in a temple about an hour away from their home the five remaining woo family members are covered in bruises as well as the same scars that sister a had those circular burn marks the police have so many questions sister a
is dead the whole house is smeared in poop the rest of the family Have similar Burns to sister a what happened in the past 2 months in that house at this point the dad refuses to talk to the police he states he will be haunted by Demons by disclosing Secrets he's not taking that risk ever again the police try to talk to the mom the mom is sitting curled up in the interrogation room and the interrogator is trying to ask her where the family has been for the past few days we had to leave to
avoid Disaster avoid disaster what disaster the mother looks up and starts shouting she seems paranoid she keeps looking around if you don't leave you might be possessed when confronted with her daughter's death the mother just kept repeating it's not my daughter who died but the demon who was attached to her the police are getting frustrated so they try to think of something different they bring in the emperor's ruler which Is this Square wooden stick it has sacred titles of deities and scriptures carved into the wooden stick it's supposed to cleanse evil spirits and block them
from entering do they believe in the emperor's ruler no the police do not but they it's only when they bring this in that everyone starts opening up and starts sharing what happened in the past 2 months what the past 2 months has been an utter living hell in the woo Residence each one of them becomes possessed by a deity they all come to the same conclusion that there's just no way that every single one of them is possessed by a good deity so there must be a demon amongst the group because why else would they
be suddenly possessed by powerful gods they just need to figure out who is the demon so first they start by sprinkling the floors of the entire apartment with rice grains and salt because demons don't like that they Believe the salt will purify the evil spirits and neutralize their bad intentions they start setting up ceremonial Arrangements where they Place rich ual objects talism offering in a specific layout to expel the evil spirits and each time they pick a new victim they just go in circles being like that one is the one with the demon neighbors said
they would force they would see this through the windows and they would hear it they would force one Of the family members to kneel down and they would just use their hands like automatic slappers just slapping their face left and right to beat the demon out of them they do that to everyone yes including parents yes and it's not working so they start taking rice turning it into sticky rice mixing it with salt and smearing it all over each other to get rid of the spirits still nothing because the indicator is the Demon is gone
the rest of the possessions will be gone but if they're still possessed by these deities that means the demon is still here in this very living room they start smearing each other with sticky rice salt but nothing and that's when they start beating each other they take turns every day at some else with a broomstick with mops walking sticks they're using the JW sticks to burn holes into each other like you would burn cigarette marks but With the jaw sticks it said that deities prefer cleanliness even demons I guess the logic the family comes up
with is that if the spirits all Spirits even the bad ones hate dirtiness that means they like cleanliness then if you make yourself so dirty why would a spirit want to be in you or be around you why would they possess you if they hate dirtiness that much that's how they start smearing an excrement all over the walls as well as on the dinner plates They Splash each other with urine and feces and when that still does not work they resort to Cleansing the spirits from within which I guess in that moment in their minds
it makes sense to a degree that they would need to consume the feces in urine they start fasting they don't eat any other food and this is actually showcased in the movie as well incantation they start starving and only feeding themselves feces the entire family showed the authorities All their scars to show the eldest daughter was not the only one injured in this Mass Exorcism they were trying to hold but still it doesn't matter clearly her injuries were the worst that caused her to die to which the mother has a theory she explains to the
detectives that the demon that possessed her daughter was successfully exercised because of the exorcism because she was the first to get possessed and had been possessed for so long her real Soul Could not return to her body which led to her death after 2 months of torture sister a the eldest had passed and now talking about it the family seem relieved they finally got the demon that was plaguing the family I mean even if it results in the loss of their own daughter they seem relieved the police obviously bring in a psychiatrist to evaluate the
family one by one the psychiatrist states that none of them have any sort of mental Condition that would set off psychosis none of them are schizophrenic with hallucinations individually they all seem like completely normal people completely normal people is how the psychiatrist phrases it not me okay but it's when they're together for those past few months what they all partake in it seems like a shared delusion Collective psychosis that's the only thing that the psychiatrist could come up with it is the psychiatrist belief That they genuinely believe that they were the demon inside of one
of them that is a belief that they shared legally speaking the burns and beating scars were not fatal enough to cause the eldest daughter's death her cause of death was multiple organ failure which was her willingly eating feces paired with her willingly starving herself which led to her organ shutting down the prosecutors state that it does not appear that she was forced trapped or Bound to any of those things she was beat but they don't believe that she had no way out it seems like she was as deep in the delusion as everybody else the
family members were initially charged and found not guilty of murder their exorcism did not directly result in her death they were charged with then the crime of abandoning a corpse after death but it does not appear that any of them served any jail time basically they do believe this is the Actual event like they all kind of felt like they were possessed and that was the truth and a lot of people who know the family for I mean as long as they've been around they said that they are especially superstitious they are probably as Extreme
as it gets so it's not out of nowhere it happened it seems like it's ingrained in them they had this very long-term belief in these types of things yeah yeah yeah and just like that After this the family goes back to living normally no possessions which has sparked a lot of people to come up with their own theories because how can they just suddenly go back to normal some netizens believe that they were actually possessed by spirits and now that the demon spirit is gone the family has naturally returned back to normal some neighbors believe
this to be true because after the eldest daughter's death all of them start donating money To the family to exercise the spirits of the eldest daughter from the house once and for all they're like because your daughter died in here you need to exercise the house all over again so some of these people have very firm beliefs that this is genuinely what happened some argued one of the biggest problems here is that the family enshrined many different statues of gods at the same time which means the gods had to compete for the incense they Believe
in which then caused them to go after family members to try and gain more power in the home one nzen comments they were all possessed by evil spirits and demons and that's why this happened then you have most people who believe they were in a shared psychosis a shared delusion I would say yeah the family was entranced just not by demons One Source states that the local psychiatrist actually believes the family to have been a state of Mass hysteria they say a Lot of people might find it hard to believe considering how few of the
family members were in the medical field so two of them were starting to be nurses one of them was already a nurse the daughters but the family has always been very superstitious so that coupled with sleep deprivation lack of food and water the repetition of praying at the altars one nzen comment reads the whole family is sick sometimes being too superstitious is also a disease another One comments I once heard a toist priest say if you feel something strange about your body please see a doctor first if you still don't feel well then you come
to us for treatment so they're saying I mean this is a very real belief and a lot of people honor it but this is just so extreme another nzen writes there is nothing wrong with the faith itself it can be a spiritual substenance but excessive Superstition is a huge mistake One nesen agrees writing Faith should lead people to the right path and bring peace of mind rather than causing trouble to others or even harming themselves or others another group of people believe yes they were in a state of Mass hysteria but it was brought on
by a bad Master they likely went to a public temple in the mountain in the woods the five finger Mountain where they think that maybe they had run into someone who Does not practice these types of things well someone who perhaps wants a lot of money and sees this as an opportunity a family who is so distraught by even just a few nightmares he starts implanting all these crazy ideas into the sister's Minds before they leave likely the master never thought it would spiral into something like this but it did then you have another group
of people that think well aside from superstitions let's put aside Mass hysteria some People are even more cynical of people and they think that the family from day one wanted to kill the eldest daughter wo or at least the parents did they tricked the other children into believing the Superstition so that they could get the job done there's really no proof behind this at all I mean there's no proof behind any of these theories or anything at all in this case but they think what if it's an expertly planned Murder By the family to get
rid of the Eldest daughter for whatever reason other netizens point out how it's convenient and interesting that the family comes back to their senses after the eldest daughter's death and they're never possessed again I would say that's a little tricky but that's a belief that is floating out there and lastly a good chunk of people believe yeah it could also just be mold poisoning they're saying that the apartment that they lived in was a Little bit older it was a little bit more rundown and Taiwan being near water things get moldy it's a very tropical
climate yeah it's very humid during summer so people are saying it could have been some sort of toxic substance in the house has anybody looked into that and they're not getting ventilation cuz they're closing up all the windows they're getting sleep deprived it could definitely be mold poisoning yeah so there's a lot of discourse about all of That but that's the case that's it they just went on to live the rest of their lives nobody has really heard from them since to the point where people are like this feels like an urban legend so the
movie was inspired by this case or inspired by the case really mhm yeah and there's a lot of discourse about the movie as well incantation I think it's very interesting so some netz have stated the message of the film is brilliant because They State it's a replication of religion and spiritual beliefs in a movie form so if you believe in a spiritual belief or a religion in real life right it becomes more real to you so same with the movie they're saying if you say these incantations and you are a little bit more superstitious then
you're going to believe you are cursed yeah so it really is fascinating that's what people say I don't know okay they state that the fact that everyone is in A theater chanting this this terrifying curse you could go one or the other way with it you could go home thinking you've been cursed or you could realize wow it no longer holds power because when all of us are chanting it nothing happened so there's also this discourse of a lot of these things feel very individual based like nobody wants to be individually cursed but when they're
doing it in a group it feels like a crazy fun Human Experience activity I don't know see even like the this whole case I just feel like as someone who's not very spiritual it feels like let's say the family everything they said was true it it it just feels like they're very open to suggestions so it started with with a dream and then they believed it and they act upon it and then they feel like the eldest daughter feel like oh she is possessed and then she start having dreams and then they took action and
Then they feel like things are better but then like something else happened so everything's like suggestion and then yes they all lost their mind oh and just another quick disclaimer religion and like spiritual practices are different I keep grouping religion into it because a lot of people in Taiwan consider it a religion some people consider it more so like a folk religion that they practice some consider it like a full-blown religion so that's why but I do think It's very interesting because I'm not a very spiritual person but I am incredibly superstitious and I think
I forc myself not to go down that path cuz what you were saying of once you know something you start spiraling so I feel like if I were to talk to someone who could spiritually tell me my future or how I behave it would just be living in my head you're more suest yeah you're more suggestible like so suggestable yeah you will you will start see things And feel things and think about these things like constantly in your head cuz I know a lot of people might look at the family and think wow this is
so dumb but I can't even do that because I think I'm a little bit more suggestible than most people so I feel like if I were really in that situation and I grew up in that environment with my family believing in all of this so strongly especially parents believing it those are your guidance figures so it's very Interesting yeah yeah the director of the movie once sted when I heard the story of the real case in the news I realized that I didn't dare to know too much about what happened and I was surprised at
how much the topic scared me then I realized that the fear surrounding religious beliefs and taboo are very obscure it's something we can't shake off we don't need to convince people that it's real rather we tell them it's fake but even then it's still Scary why are we so scared of things we know are fake so he's not saying the religion is fake but the movie itself is fake he's saying all the incantations the symbols they made up yeah someone just like whipped it out but people are so scared even though they're told it's fake
it's fake it's fake yes I wanted to put those elements into a film so that when the audien has watch the film they they feel like they shouldn't continue Watching it's very interesting what are your thoughts on this case let me know in the comments please stay safe and I will see you in the next one
