Okay, well I started going to this church when I was 9 years old (I’m 18 now). It was a Pentecostal church that I attended with my parents and my brother (he is 3 years older than I am). At that church they had different bible classes depending on what age you were. My brother was old enough to be in the “youth class” at the time but I was still too young.
Well I remember, I’d always tell my brother that I wanted to be older already so I could be in the same class as him, because every year around July they’d have a youth camp for kids that were from the age of 12 – 18 and I wanted to go really bad. I continued to go to that church for a couple more years, then when I finally turned 12, I was really excited that I could finally be in that class so I could go to camp.
July came around and my brother and I started packing up our things one day at home, just talking about how we were gonna have so much fun there. We planned to do so many things, and hang out with all of our friends. Since my brother had already attended 2 camps in a row before this one, he was giving me a heads up on what to expect when I got there.
Well I was really psyched that I couldn’t even sleep that night because I wanted it to be the next day already so we could leave to camp. The morning finally came, I got up at around 6 am and my mom took my brother and I to the church, and as everyone was getting settled in we said goodbye to my mom and then we finally took off on the road. It was about a 2 or 3 hour drive to the camp ground. But once we got there we looked for our dorms (girls and boys were in 2 separate buildings) and we finally got settled in. I decided to go with my friends to “explore” the place, and see what there was to do on your free time, so we walked everywhere. After a couple hours, our church counselor came to look for us, and she told us that there was gonna be a church service that night at around 7 pm, and that we had to attend, so we listened and we started getting ready about an hour before church service was gonna start.
We got to the place where they were gonna have church and there was just so many people it was really amazing! I couldn’t believe how packed it was in there. We took a seat somewhere in the front and it was a pretty great service, there was singing, dancing and then a pastor took the microphone and started preaching about teenage kids following Jesus and I was pretty into it at the time and so was everyone else. After about an hour of the pastor preaching, he called everyone up to the front, to pray so we got up and just followed the crowd up to the front and we started praying all together while soft music played in the background.
I remember that church service lasted from 7 pm all the way till 1am it was long but pretty powerful and I felt great that I attended it. Everyone started heading back to their dorms, and after a while of talking in our room, I ended up falling asleep like at 2 am. I remember having a dream that night of someone kneeling over me saying “wake up Stacy, wake up!” at that moment I opened my eyes to find one of my friends crying telling me to sit up but to cover my ears, I didn’t listen because I was too busy asking everyone what was going on, I got so scared. I remember hearing people screaming and crying in the hallway. They were also singing a really slow song, I remember my mom used to sing it in church all the time. I was so confused I didn’t know what was happening and no one was telling me, and that scared me even more.
I got so mad and I started crying, then finally, I heard silence in the hallway, and I heard, in a demonic voice’ laughter coming from what was said to be a young 13 year old girl. I asked “what is that?” the counselor and all my friends were just crying and they put their heads down. I asked once more “what is that?” and they finally told me that it was a young girl around my age that apparently took tarot cards to camp that day and started playing with them in her room with her friends while everyone else was sleeping. My counselor said that while I was asleep she kept hearing 2 girls laughing in their room right next to ours, so she got up and went to see what all the noise was about, and that when she opened their door she found them playing with those cards and she automatically asked them why they had brought them to a Christian camp in the first place, one girl didn’t know what to say, while the other girl, the one that was in the hallway, just looked down. The counselor said that she saw that girl starting to shake and twitch, and when she asked her what was wrong, the girl looked at her and screamed then she got up and ran out the door into the hallway and started to run into the walls, screaming and hurting herself everywhere. Soon enough, everyone in the dorm woke up and that’s when I had woken up to find all this out.
We prayed and prayed in our room, while out in the hallway all I could hear was the possessed girl laughing demonically and talking, saying that she was possessed by 7 demons, she named them one by one and every couple of seconds you would hear her real voice come out saying “help me….” then the demons would take over her once more. Every time the demons would talk I felt a cold shiver down my spine and it only made me pray a lot more.
We stayed up for about 4 hours straight. Then we finally went downstairs for breakfast but out of everyone, I was the only one that was still in shock from it all, I wouldn’t even move. They called my parents and they rushed to pick me up from camp and the whole way home I cried, and once we got home the counselor explained everything that had happened and I told my parents everything I felt.
After that day, for months, I would wake up screaming and crying in the middle of the night. I couldn’t sleep, I ended up getting insomnia, and I became afraid of the dark. I refused to be alone at any time of the day.
My parents took me to see psychiatrists to help me deal with what they said was “hallucinations” but I knew in me, that they were not hallucinations, they were very real, everything I’d hear and see was real to me. As many times as I’d try to explain what was going on no one would fully understand. Only I could of course. I was traumatized. For many years, and until this day I still hear and see lots of things and I still have nightmares almost every night. But I try praying more. I’m still very traumatized but I’ve learned to cope with it a lot better now.
I guess with more years I just learned what to do to take my mind off of it a little more. I’m 18 now, graduating from high school in 2 weeks. I really wanted to share this story with you because I never thought something like that could ever happen to someone that never even did anything wrong… but it can happen to just about anyone. It’s real and its not a game.
I have faith in God, I know he’s there even though sometimes it doesn’t feel like it. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll have to go through this… but all I know is that, I’m strong and I know ill be okay eventually. It’s been 6 years and I’m still breathing.
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Stacy, do you know what happened to the girl that was possessed? Were the demons driven out of her? Just know that whatever happens to you, it can be fixed, if not by a psychiatrist then by perhaps a clergyperson or demonologist. Hope that helps allay your fears a little bit.
well my youth pastor was praying for her that whole night and from what i heard they got the demons out of her, but im not exactly sure what happened to her after that…i never heard from her again…but i am still terrified and traumatized from it and it just eats at me alot, but i dont like to tell too many people, because theyve told me before that im just crazy but, i really felt like i needed to share it.
thank you very much for your adcive (:
Stace, what you are dealing with yourself is one of the very reasons that Christ dided on the cross. He sufferred your torment and fear so that you would not have to. All you have to do is fully trust Him and lay these memories and troubles at His feet and He will bare them for you. Jesus did not give us the spirit of fear, fear is a tool used by the devil to keep us from living a happy and victorious life here on earth long before we have a glorious eternity in Heaven. God may have allowed this to happen to you, He did not caused it to happen. It sounds to me like you may have some gifts that He has given to you and He wants you to seek Him to learn what He wants you to do with them. Seek Christ in everything you do, empty yourself of all those burdens of fear that you are holding on too. Jesus gave us the spirit of Love and Love conquers all. Ask Him to come and live inside you through the Holy Spirit and He will be there for you always and this fear will be no more.
thank you so much for your words, i have let fear in alot, and im tired of being so frightened by what happened, and i have walked away from god many times, and im not proud of it, but its also for many other reasons as well :/ i pray alot, it seems i do that alot these days, ill try my best to make this fear go away…thank you so much (:
hey stacy I recently finished reading a very strong christian book called The Divine Defense by Robert Jeffress. It emphasizes on Ephesians 6:10:18 or spiritual warfare and it will explain exactly what happened that night and why. It is hard to find in book stores but try ebay or amazon its usually no more then 5 dollars.
ya that would be scary.what ever happened to the girl?does she remember anything what happened that night?maybe the counselers should maybe check the bags and if there anything in there they can put them aside until they got back form camp.people wouldnt like others to go in there stuff but if thats the only way then why not.thanks for the story.
yeahh i know :/ im not really sure what ever happened to the girl, i never heard from her again, but this whole thing just still haunts my thoughts.
you should find out what happened to the girl just to make sure shes o.k.maybe she wants you to see her.thats just me.thanks for commenting me back.
i would but i have nooo idea what her name is or anything about her :/
i wish i did though
and youre welcome dear (:
I have used Tarot I have Tarot. With all due respect I am not possesed nor have I ever been. I dont shake or twitch either. Tarot cards are not evil however some people would use things like Tarot or divination to scare people from using them.
If you are afraid of something dont use it. If its against your religion dont use it.
I just feel sorry for the child that brought it maybe she was shaking and twitching from threats or fear? of what the Pastor was saying to her? Maybe he traumatized the child.
If I was that girls mother I would have throwed a law suit on the church and gave the pastor my opinion on private property and scaring a child.
These are stories that will bring back fear of the occult and start the Witch Trials all over again. That poor girl.
yeahh well i do know that, the girl was really scared and that she regretted ever playing with those cards, but what happened was something she had to learn from no matter how bad it scared her and also it made me open my eyes to it too, im still scared everyday, and i think about it alot but i just pray in hopes that itll go away..im not sure how much longer ill have to go through its already been about 6 years.
My boyfriends mother has Tarot cards and she went on Tarod card course and she never got possessed and she uses them everyday. I really think that demon’s entered that girl before you even got to camp and the councelor finding her playing with the cards made It worse.
im not really sure what the reason was exactly, but i know it made me fear alot and it drew me away from alot of things and made me have a bad childhood but i have faith to get me through each day
I have to agree, i use taort and have had many many readings and never heard/seen of anyone getting processed. Cards aren’t evil and I have never heard of people trying to scare people from using them =\
It is a very big wonder why a girl would take such cards to a Christian retreat in the first place, I am sure other things must of been going on to have caused a procession – esp. with 7 deamons. But yes poor girl.
well im pretty sure everyone who uses tarot cards arent always gonna end up the same way, everyones different, but she just wasnt as fortunate as people who use them and nothing happens :/
Stacy,
What happened to the girl that was possessed? Pray everynight before you go to sleep and ask God not to let you have bad dreams. I use to go and have my cards read, I thought it was no biggie like a game, but it’s not. Only God knows the future and tarot cards are not from God.
Stephanie
im not sure what ever happened to the girl, i think about the whole situation alot though ): it really scares me and i freak out alot, thakn you for the advice stephanie (: i agree that only god knows the future i pray to him all the time, hes the only one thats keeping me safe still.
Actually tarot cards are from God. That’s how hy work. God speaks through them. Its called divination. Same hing as turning to the page of a book and praying for an answer or a
sign.
Hey Stacy,
I wanta know if U really think that U have been traumatized by the experience or do U think dat Demons might have gottn attached 2 U? & R U still in contact W/ the other kids dat U wen’t 2 the church camp with & if so, R dey experiencing or have ever experienced what U R experiencing? I wish U da best of luck & hope U get btr soon. God Bless
well i talked to this doctor a while back and she told me that the demons could possibly have come back home with me, but im not too sure if thats correct or not, but i truly think that theres something around me at times. not in me but around me. and it follows where i go but i pray and i feel better but only for a few minutes or so. i talk every once in a while to the other people who were there that day that it happened but as far as i know, im the only one thats being traumatized by this, theyve moved on and nothing has ever happened to them since that day.
but thank you very much (:
im hoping all this will be resolved soon.
Stacy, I hope you are getting better. I found it hard to understand whether you feel it’s trauma alone, or that you think you may actually be posessed. Maybe a bit of both? Certainly a traumatising experience can leave you feeling very scared in case it happens again or happens to you. I think it would perhaps be good for you if you could talk about it with others who were there at that time, if you haven’t already done so. It’s good to know you still have your faith in God. This will protect you ultimately, believe me. There is Good (God) and Evil, and while I know that tarot cards are just cardboard, it’s all in the attitude of the person using them: they can be just a psychological tool which uses archetypes or a channel for spirits, depending on the intention. They are not in themselves evil. Teenage girls can be very susceptible and psychically “open”. Perhaps the powers of Evil, whatever they are, are attracted to Good, like moths to a light. That church service sounds like it was a major spiritual event; all those people praying together for so long. Perhaps the demons were attracted to come there and found their way in through a girl who was playing with tarot cards as she was too “open”?? Whatever the explanation, I hope the girl recovered, and all the others too. And I wish you all the best. Please don’t live in fear, and do believe you will get over it one day soon. We are shown things for a reason; with your faith, you are a powerful source of light in this world and perhaps your experience, traumatic as it was, will eventually be a source of strength for you and may one day help you to help others .God bless you.
thank you very much for this, honestly, your words brought tears to my eyes. iv had to live with this for 6 years now and i am really tired of having fear all around me. iv woken up before in the middle of the night screaming or crying, and i get relaly scared because when a new day come i wont really remember what triggered it..im not exactly sure if i was or have ever been “possessed” in any way, i know i was, in fact, traumatized, because like you said it is a very traumatic thing to go through. but thank you very very much for your kind words. they really have helped me. and i know theres hope to get better and with Gods help alone ill be free from fear once again like i used to be. i just feel bad when i look back on these six years of my childhood and know it wasnt like every other persons. but God is by m y side and i trust he’ll help me.
thank you once again. God bless you always.
When you wake up instead of screaming and crying, ye’ll out God rebuke you or leave and never return in Jesus name. Read your Bible at bed time and put it under you pillow or clutch it like a stuffed animal, it will work, try it and let me know. Stop trusing in yourself and put all of your trust in the One who made you. Do this and you will not suffer another day. If this is happening every night then it is certainly effecting your life, this is serious, you must commit or recommit your life to Christ and this fear will no longer be able to remain as part of your life. Do not let the fear make you who you are. You are a child of the King.
i will deffinitely try that, thank you very much.
i would really like to stay in contact with you
if thats okayy , your words have really helped alot.
Either you left out chunks in your story, or something is definitely wrong here. You said you woke up to hear people screaming and crying in the hallway. Then you said that the counselor couldn’t sleep because of girls making too much noise, then later one of the girls “ran out the door into the hallway and started to run into the walls, screaming and hurting herself everywhere.” I find it totally appalling that this so-called counselor, whom I presume to be an adult, wouldn’t call other adults, grab the girl and take her out of the building somewhere else to calm her down. Why in the world would this “counselor” stand there, watch this girl hurting herself and letting her wake everyone else up? That makes no sense, and if I were the parents, this camp would have been sued into oblivion. That’s the whole purpose of having adult supervision. An adult should have taken charge. There was absolutely no reason for the entire building of children to be traumatized in this manner.
When I read this line, I realized that this was not a camp where anyone should have gone, much less vulnerable children, “We prayed and prayed in our room, while out in the hallway all I could hear was the possessed girl laughing demonically and talking,” I’m truly sorry you went through that. I think whatever happened at that camp must have affected you deeply and you’re still carrying the effects of that event with you. Please talk to someone. I think it’s been with you long enough.
im sure the counselor would have wanted to help alot more sweetie. and she did try to hold her down but as i said in my story, she was possessed and im not sure if youve gone through that before but its not exactly that easy to hold someone who is possessed down, its very very hard, youre dealing with a spirit that has alot of power its not easy at all. the counselor even got hurt from trying to hold her back and she had to be hospitalized from what the girl did to her.
but yeahh i have gotten treatment and have been helped alot, but nothing seems to work only my prayers occasionally.
No, gratefully, I’ve not had that sort of experience. However, my thought process was that I presumed there was only one counselor (one adult) – or perhaps two in your building. I did think that the adult would have yelled at a couple of the kids to go get some more adults to help her handle this out of control person. Even if someone isn’t possessed, if they simply go into a raving temper tantrum, a human is very difficult to pin down in such a highly agitated state. I realize it would take at least two to six adults to deal with this, but I just thought this adult would have gotten help one way or another and not continued to let this girl disrupt everyone.
On the flip side, when you’re in the middle of something that traumatic, you’re probably not in your best thinking mode and mistakes can occur. Stay safe Stacy.
there were 9 adults, not just one.
and also there were 2 counselors per church group.
so there was quite a few.
but thankss.
you too
Stacy I have no idea why people call you crazy. And if people do call you crazy just ignore them, I believe that you are not crazy at all. Plus I believe everything you said. And I would make sure that these demons are gone. I heard that some ghosts or demons can stay hooked on to you and they can stay hooked for awhile. So be careful!
thank you very much for your kind words suzi (: it means alot to me, and yeahh iv heard that many times too…i will be very careful.