(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.
At a Baton Rouge marina, boats were strewn like trash, but not a shred of paper could be found. Except for the pages of a Bible that was found by a soldier. It was open to the Book of Revelation.
At a nearby church, nearly destroyed, another Bible was found, showing the exact same passage from Revelation.
Like the power of nature, there is a power at work in New Orleans that defies explanation.
[/align]By Janet Yee
(CBS5)
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RE: Guardsmen Encountering the Occult in New Orleans
I wonder why I have heard so much of folk seeing . . .visions or ghostly manifestations of a little girl. This has become kinda personal to me because I have at different times in my life seen this same thing . . .always fleetingly. Before I lost my last house to a fire , it was not uncommon for me to see this. It was a thing that I never mentioned to anyone. But once when a friend of mine was over, he said that he could have sworn he saw a little girl standing by the window. I have never . . ."imagined" that I have seen her in my present house but I have had this experiance in a school building one morning before school started. Subconciously , I think I always related it to the death of one of my daughters because the child looked much like one of my children would look.
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Guardsmen Encountering the Occult in New Orleans
