From CBS5:
The presence of the supernatural and the influence of voodoo long have been synonymous with New Orleans.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the U.S. military are saying that there’s something spooky going on and it’s not just images of death and destruction that’s haunting them.
By all accounts, the Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans sits empty and evacuated except for military personnel who have taken over the campus as a staging site for missions around the battered city.
But the men in uniform have the feeling that they’re not alone. It prompted a chaplain to utter this directive: “In the name of Jesus Chris, I command you Satan to leave the dark areas of this building.”
Said Sgt. Robin Hairston of the California National Guard: “I was in my sleeping bag and I opened by eyes and in the doorway was a little girl. It wasn’t my imagination.”
Hairston wasn’t the only one seeing things. Spc. Rosales Leanor had her own close encounter.
“I was using the restroom and I just saw a little shadow,” Leanor said, “kind of looming in front of me.”
Another member of the Guard unit said that she saw and heard a little girl laughing when she opened a closet that contained cleaning supplies.
Huh. Sure hope the little demons brought their water wings …
(h/t John Cole)
Is “Jesus Chris” friends with Onstad, or something?
Chrisaphobe.
We followers of Jesus Steve declare Jihad!
BOO!
I miss out on everything. Shouldn’t there be at least the ghost of a pilot or two out here at New Orleans NAS? Bah.
George Bush doesn’t care about Spectral-American people!
Ooooh! I’m a headin’ to NOLA fo’ shu’ now. Maybe I can get me a succubus.
Shouldn’t there be at least the ghost of a pilot or two out here at New Orleans NAS?
IIRC, there is a school out near you named “Our Lady of Hopeless Cases” (I’m not kidding). You might try there.
Can you imagine how unsettling it must be to be in an abandoned town, water lapping and making things fall over at random?
Christ. This is one of the things that makes me glad to be one of the soft, pasty civilians who gets to run like hell when these things happen.
I see the campaign to lure the tourists back has already begun.
*George Bush doesn’t care about Spectral-American people!*
I so needed a laugh like that today. Thanks )
i asked rto if he’d seen any ghosts and he said no. also said he knew NO was known for being haunted and he blames the french.