The Possession of Michael King 2014

Documentarian Michael King’s skepticism about supernatural phenomena was in stark contrast to his wife Samantha’s deep-rooted belief in the unknown. Despite this divergence, Samantha devoted years to seeking spiritual guidance from medium Beverly, whose help ultimately led to a tragedy: Samantha’s unexpected death. In a deeply moving encounter, Michael confronted Beverly about her involvement in his wife’s fate, receiving only compassion in return.

Overwhelmed with grief and struggling to adjust to his new life, Michael leaned on his sister, Beth, who stepped in to support him and care for their young daughter, Ellie. In an effort to rebuild, Michael became obsessed with a new documentary project aimed at disproving the existence of an afterlife. He willingly put himself in a perilous position, agreeing to undergo extreme rituals in his quest for undeniable proof.

His search for answers took him online, where he posted an ad inviting suggestions for experiments to counter his beliefs. One of the first to respond was Gibbons, a spiritual person who claimed to have overcome his own demons through a prayer to Satan—something Michael dismissed as mere coincidence. With each passing day, he dug deeper into the unknown, ordering various tools online meant to facilitate communication with the supernatural, yet he met with no success.

His quest then led him to visit self-proclaimed demonologist Augustine and his wife Marsha, who promised to uncover the afterlife’s secrets through a series of rituals. In their dimly lit cellar, Michael underwent a harrowing experience, ingesting LSD while being bound to a cross, only to find himself lost in a hallucinatory state, a mere pawn in Augustine and Marsha’s private endeavors.

Determined to uncover the truth, Michael sought out a funeral director rumored to possess necromantic abilities. This enigmatic figure administered DMT, derived from a toad (specifically, 5-MeO-DMT), leading Michael on an intense journey through his mind. The ritual turned dark when the director took him to a cemetery under the cover of night, preparing to transfer the spirit of a freshly departed soul into Michael’s own body. This ominous plan was thwarted by the arrival of police, forcing a panicked escape. Later, Jordan, Michael’s cameraman, discovered that Michael was in a trance-like state, claiming to feel and see Samantha’s presence, an experience that deeply unsettled him.

At a séance with a medium, Michael and Jordan were met with an unsettling silence, suddenly broken by the medium’s seizure. This incident left Michael in turmoil, and once home, he became tormented by a persistent and maddening noise in his mind. In search of relief, he consulted a psychologist, yet even hypnotherapy failed to ease his anguish. The sessions were interrupted by bizarre occurrences: flickering lights and Michael’s erratic outbursts filled with unfathomable intensity.

As Jordan reviewed their footage, he was taken aback to find that the sounds emanating from Michael were beyond any human capacity. As the noise crescendoed, Michael fell deeper into the belief that a sinister force was manipulating him from the inside. Desperate, he sought the counsel of the funeral director once more, but his warnings went unheeded.

Days turned into nights of growing dread, with the entity in Michael’s mind growing more powerful, whispering sinister thoughts. Unbeknownst to him, he roamed the night, compelled by an unseen malevolence. In one chilling moment, he found himself at Beth’s bedside, blissfully unaware of the danger looming just outside her door.

The torment in Michael’s mind intensified, manifesting into a voice that urged him towards destruction. Consumed by paranoia, he attempted an exorcism alone, but disaster ensued: a Bible ignited and he bore the scars of the entity’s creeping influence. As darkness tightened its grip, Michael’s grip on sanity began to slip, driven by the voice’s insatiable demand to harm those he loved. In a desperate bid, he handcuffed himself, hoping to escape the entity’s hold. When morning came, he woke to chaos—bloodied Latin script smeared on the walls, a horrifying testament to his lost control.

With each passing night, Michael’s futile struggles continued, trapped in a cycle of torment. The following morning, a recording revealed Jordan’s desperate interjection into his affliction, culminating in a tragic discovery: Michael faced the grim reality of finding his friend hanging lifeless from the ceiling, a stark reminder of the darkness he could not escape.

Although the chaos neared its climax, a mysterious force intervened, halting his self-destructive spiral. Amidst the turmoil, hope flickered when Michael stumbled upon a recording of Samantha, her voice offering him solace from a hospital bed. Speaking with otherworldly tranquility, she reassured him not to worry for her, as if she understood his internal strife. Slowly, he realized that the dissonant whispers haunting him were the cries of angels striving to drown out the malevolent entity within.

The entity’s grip tightened further as Beth returned with Ellie. In a heart-wrenching moment of despair, Michael succumbed to the darkness, ending Beth’s life and grappling with his conflicting emotions for Ellie. Driven by the demon’s relentless whispers, he desperately sought Samantha’s guidance. The coin she once used for decisions spun eerily, offering him a fleeting chance of self-control. Seizing that moment, Michael hurled himself from the window, gravity claiming him as Samantha whispered sweet reassurances: > “Everything will be all right now.”

In the aftermath of Samantha’s death, the family faced the painstaking task of piecing their lives back together. On one sun-soaked day, Michael and Samantha found themselves reunited in a park with Ellie and Fishbone. As they shared a serene moment, a mundane incident involving an expired parking meter suddenly transformed into a poignant reminder of life’s fragility. In a tragic twist, when Samantha bent down to pick up a coin dropped on the road, a car approached with fatal consequences, leaving her life hanging by a thread.