Secrets of the real-life exorcist: He's the vicar who's been specially trained by the Church to banish poltergeists and this is why he's certain that supernatural hauntings are real
Daily MailTwenty-seven years ago, after the Very Reverend Dr Jason Bray was first ordained, he and his wife moved into a small house in a churchyard in Abergavenny, where he was to be a minister. ‘If I pay attention to my breathing,’ he says, ‘I just know something’s happening.’ A few years ago, Bray was approached by a lady whose parents had died and she wanted to sell their home. Spiritual activity is more likely during people’s dying days, and Bray says most care-home residents and workers have stories of ‘slightly odd’ occurrences. ‘These people have so many feelings bottled up, and that energy grows and grows and it has to release itself somewhere.’ These goings-on aren’t necessarily evil, but they’re certainly ‘spooky’, Bray says. Bray says possession – in which people become a vessel for an evil force, as in the film – is ‘vanishingly rare’.
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