You guys requested it, so we’re back with a part 3 of our list of the Top 5 Items At
The Warren Occult Museum.
Hey guys welcome back to Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m your host Lucy McPhee.
For those of you who are just jumping now, make sure you check out part 1 and part 2
of our lists before jumping into this one.
The Warrens are American paranormal investigators whose work have been brought to light thanks
to Hollywood films such as The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, and The Nun.
And in a small Connecticut town you can find their occult museum full of some of their
most infamous findings.
So without further adieu, let’s jump in.
5 Brick From Borley Rectory Labelled as the Most Haunted House In Britain,
Borley Rectory was built in 1862, it housed the rector of the parish of Borley, before
being damaged by a fire and later demolished in 1944.
However between those periods, paranormal events began to occur at the old rectory,
beginning in 1863, only a year after the house was built.
Locals of the town had reported hearing unexplained footsteps coming from the house, and then
in 1990, four daughters reported seeing the ghost of a nun 40 yards from the house.
Other locals had also reported strange occurrences, such as phantom carriages being driven by
headless horseman.
By the 1930’s a new set of residents were occupying the house, and were driven to hire
paranormal investigators to perform exorcisms, during which time, one of the men was struck
by a fist-size stone.
Ouch.
In 1939, the fire was deliberately set ablaze, and locals had reported that they saw the
figure of the ghostly nun not long before it happened.
*Shudders*.
With the history of the house, it’s no surprise the Warren’s are holding onto one of the
surviving bricks in order to conceal the spirits trapped within.
4 Human Skulls This is the first of ma few on our list to
be collected from a Satanic Practice, and the picture is eerie and VERY unnerving.
The human skill has a star on the forward and is situated on a shelf on top of a miniature
thrown-esque stand.
I say this because the Warren’s haven’t go into too much detail about the history
of the skull or the satanic practice it was used in.
Likely it was used as a host, to draw in a demonic entity, or the devil itself.
Many satanic rituals regarding devil-worshipping made use of murder and cannibalism in their
rituals.
However, at the end of the twentieth century, hysteria surrounding satanic rituals died
down, and summed up as myth.
Even FBI investigator Ken Lanning stated that he had investigated 300 allegations of satanic
ritual abuse and found no evidence for satanism or ritualistic activity in any of them.”
I don’t know though, we live in a world devoted to the macabre, and I’m sure there
are folks out there that partake in rituals like these, but what do you guys think?
3 Ouija Board As we know, Ouija Boards, also known as Spirit
Boards, or talking boards, were introduced by Hasbro as a child's game, each player taking
turns to as questions and wait to see what the planchette spells out.
Innocent enough, right?
Well, we all know that’s not the case.
The catholic church were the first to point at that the “game” can lead to occurrences
such as demonic possession, y’know, the usual, and advised inexperienced users to
not mess with it.
In 2001 Ouija boards were even burned in New Mexico by fundamentalist groups because they
believed them to be symbols of witchcraft.
But don’t fret, they also burned Harry Potter books, so I’m not sure their heads were
screwed on quite right.
Regardless of everything, it’s arguably pop culture that heightened the fear around
the game, with films such as The Uninvited, The Exorcist, and Paranormal Activity, all
including the game, and violent entities communicating with it.
Now, the Warren’s of course have their own Ouija Board in their occult museum, there
isn’t much information about it’s history or where they took it from, but I’m sure
it’s pretty damn creepy.
2 African Fertility Dolls Akua-ba are wooden fertility dolls from Ghana
and surrounding areas.
They are primarily used in ritualistic ceremonies and carried on the backs of women hoping to
conceive a child.
In present day they are more of a souvenir than a ritual device, but traditional users
will still wash and care for the wooden doll in hope of one day barring a child.
Like our previous number there is not much information about the dolls in the museum,
but I imagine they are storing some hefty secrets.
I mean, take a look at this picture.
Spooky.
1 Masks Used To Project Evil Entities As we now know, many of the items at the occult
museum were collected from witchcraft rituals and voodoo ceremonies, and this one is no
different.
It’s a handmade Sri Lankan mask comprised of evil spirits, and primarily used in a ritualistic
ceremony to invoke the supernatural.
This is usually presented through practices such as mime, facial and body painting, and
are connected to the worship of their ancestors.
There are a handful of demon dance ceremonies, some with the belief in monsters of gigantic
proportions, know as the demon of the graveyard, and others that are just associated with a
group of demons.
Either way, these ritualistic masks are used to summon demonic entities, and the history
this mask holds is dark and unnatural.
Well there we have it!
We are very quickly running out of items in the Warren Occult Museum, but feel free to
let us know if there are any that you think we missed.
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