Joe's Lightbox (continued - page 3)
Report by: Debra Pickman
Joe started the session and we watched intently for any signs of trouble. A few minutes into the session, Tony began swatting at the area around his legs as if there was a fly bothering him. Joe and I did not pay much attention to this.
When the experience was complete, he took off the apparatus’ and remarked that it was sort of like being at a carnival. He also reported nothing unusual. Joe, being proactive, told Tony to be careful for the next few days because the experience may have long lasting effects, and might still bring on a seizure. Then Joe got up and left the room for a minute or two.
Tony and I discussed and compared our experiences with the strange little unit and at one point Tony asked me, “Which cat was bugging me while I was doing that?” “What do you mean?”, I asked. “Around my legs”, he said. As he pointed out the area he continued, “I felt one of them scratch my leg.” I told him there wasn’t ever a cat in the room at the time, but as he brought his leg up into view, I saw six significant scratches that varied in length from two to six inches on his left leg. There were even more around the backside of his leg. As he checked over the rest of his body, and Joe was returning to the room, he found five more ranging from three to eight inches long on his right leg. As he was doing that, I pointed out two on the right side of his face that went from just above his temple down to his jaw line.
For me, the experience was a bit terrifying. We had sat with him, and our eyes trained on him, the entire time he was using the electronic machine. We could say with certainty that there was no animal in the room and that Tony did not make the marks himself.
The three of us spoke about the possibilities that could have caused the scratches, but the only conclusion was that somehow Tony had unconsciously made the scratches appear. Joe left a while later and asked us to keep in touch and to us to call him whenever we wanted to.
The next day I came home from work and Tony met me at the front door. With urgency in his voice he said, “Come here, I want to show you something.” When he removed his shirt, he was covered with scratches front to back: no less than 42 on his back and 22 on his front. For the longest time I could not speak. “What the hell happened?” I asked.
He had no definitive answer. He simply stated that they were not there when he got dressed and ready for work that morning. He pointed out that he never felt a thing until he started sweating at work. In fact he apparently did not know why he was feeling the burning sensation until he got home at the end of the day and went to change out of his work clothes.
Was the spirit from the Sallie house responsible for this? Had it followed us to this house? Why such a horrible attack? Had Tony been the one to do this damage a day after the interaction with the light box? What sort of brainwaves had the box affected? How long would these repercussions last? If it was possible for Tony to have done this, what did this mean? What were the catalysts for these scratchings? Could he have been responsible for the scratching at the Sallie house? More alarming, how could he possibly have done this – no matter how subconsciously or how strong a mind he might have?
There was never another scratch that we could relate back to this incident. To date, the opportunity to use the box again has never presented itself.
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