Explaining several well documented cases of Demonic Possession?

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I've been studying a lot of old religions, and it seems most of the modern ones speak of some kind possession or influence from a supernatural spirit or demon. I've read a few cases which did startle me a bit, it was the case of Latoya Ammon. I read the story about how here children began having oddly deep voices, bulging eyes, and in one instance she says her one child was flung across the room.
The only reason why I continue to discredit this happening, is because the lack of photographic, or video evidence. Why is it when something like this happens, there so happens to be no one who owns a camera, camcorder, or even a phone with a camera on it. - We can only go by word of mouth from the witness of the paranormal occurrence, no photos, no videos, not even physical remains of what happened. The Ammon House was supposedly the "portal to hell", and something about a member of the Ghost Hunters purchasing the house, probably for investigation. I'm assuming the family moved out of the house after such a crazy event. I hope the family is doing well and all; but what are you guys' stances on this whole documentation of another demonic possession, again without any physical evidence that there was one in the first place.
(Please only Atheists; I understand that Jesus protects his follows and all that. I just want a logical explanation for this story. Thanks.)

mokrie · Answer

According to the stories, all tech stops working. No recorders will record or you get an hour of grey static. The old movie the Exorcist was taken from a true story only it was a boy in real life. Most of the time I would say the person is mentally ill however there is no logical explanation when it comes to phenomena.

gscottphilly · Answer

According to a board-certified psychiatrist, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College and Dr. Richard E. Gallagher, who documented a case of demon possession in the March 2008 issue of the New Oxford Review, (http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.j... an unnamed American woman with a long history of involvement with Satanic groups was observed by a team of priests, deacons, several lay assistants, psychiatrists, nuns, some of whom also had medical and psychiatric training, levitating six inches off the ground while objects flew off shelves in the same room, . “Periodically, in our presence, Julia would go into a trance state of a recurring nature,” writes Gallagher. “Mentally troubled individuals often ‘dissociate,’ but Julia’s trances were accompanied by an unusual phenomenon: Out of her mouth would come various threats, taunts and scatological language, phrases like ‘Leave her alone, you idiot,’ ‘She’s ours,’ ‘Leave, you imbecile priest,’ or just ‘Leave.’ The tone of this voice differed markedly from Julia’s own, and it varied, sometimes sounding guttural and vaguely masculine, at other points high pitched. Most of her comments during these ‘trances,’ or at the subsequent exorcisms, displayed a marked contempt for anything religious or sacred.” The subject would have no recollection of speaking these phrases upon recovering from the trance-like state, according to Gallagher.

“Sometimes objects around her would fly off the shelves, the rare phenomenon of psychokinesis known to parapsychologists,” reports Gallagher. “Julia was also in possession of knowledge of facts and occurrences beyond any possibility of their natural acquisition. http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.j...

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Explaining several well documented cases of Demonic Possession?

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