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Is there a demon in the White House who thrives on chaos and affects administrations when it comes to world affairs? If so, how did it get there?
Premise: Did an act between two grieving First Ladies release a malevolent presence that still haunts America’s presidents, their families, the presidents’ closest advisors, and guests at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? The two grief-stricken mothers did what many well-meaning, mournful humans did during that time. They turned to spiritualism, and séances in particular, in order to connect with their dearly departed sons.
President Franklin Pierce and First Lady Jane Pierce lost their son Benjamin at age 11.
In 1853, Franklin Pierce became the 14th President of the United States.
Mere weeks after Pierce won the election, his son Benny died during a horrible train derailment.
The tragedy rocked the Pierce clan and especially Pierce’s wife Jane, a “melancholy” woman who’d been
raised as a strict Calvinist by her preacher father. Jane responded to this loss by writing letters to Benny.
She also enlisted the services of the Fox sisters, who had become renowned as pioneering spiritualists
capable of communing with the dead through séances. Before long, those in the White House came to
claim that Jane could be heard talking to her deceased boy. As the Fox sisters sitting around a table
asking Benny to respond to them by knocking once for yes, and two for no. In those and innumerable
other sequences, a tall, dark, red-eyed demon invariably materializes in the corner of the room or
directly behind an unsuspecting person.
Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act—which heightened domestic tensions over slavery, resulting in the “Bleeding Kansas” violence of 1854-1859—under the influence of demons, thereby insinuating that the ensuing Civil War was the handiwork of Beelzebub’s minions.
President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd’s son, William, died at the same age and she too was no stranger to séances. Mary Todd became involved with a spiritualist of her own. That medium, Charles Colchester, may have predicted the president’s murder before it took place, although since he also had ties to Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, he might have been both a fraud and a co-conspirator.
Both children perished during their father’s administration. Archival papers, correspondence, and diaries to document a timeline of supernatural events that unfolded after these grieving families sought solace in the fashionable new spiritualism and séance movement – and the potentially catastrophic consequences that followed.
As new presidential families moved into the White House over the past 150 years, there continued to be supernatural activity and strange happenings within the walls of this famous residence. One of the presidents most vocal about the paranormal activity was Harry Truman who wrote several letters to family members explaining the disturbances. Historians count nine separate occasions that he wrote about the ghost of the White House, and once said, “Sure as shooting the place is haunted.”
It is believed that renovating a building can stir up ghostly activity. When the White House was being gutted, Truman hired National Park Service photographer Abbie Rowe to document the historic process, accidentally revealing paranormal activity. One ordinary photo shows a bulldozer and three men standing in a corner. On the other side of the frame, is a figure that appears transparent The three men standing at the same distance are obviously solid, their shirts and ties are identifiable, and the other figure has no discernible articles of clothing. This enigmatic photo may be the first documented ghost photo at the White House.
For centuries, spirits have been reported in the White House. If the presidential home is haunted by something demonic, and if so, what could it possibly want? Destruction. Moreover, we should all be immensely spooked, because demons are intent on manipulating the living, and thus there might be no graver danger faced by America than an evil spirit getting its hooks into a president. It is, in fact, “a matter of national security.”
If the world is dominated by Satan and is his personal playground, is there a strategic level warfare going on to this day with territorial demons involved in politics? A key idea in spiritual warfare is that demons don’t only attack people, as in depictions of demonic possession, but also take control of places and institutions, such as journalism, academia, and both municipal and federal bureaucracies. By doing so, demons are framed as advancing social projects that spiritual warriors see as opposing God’s plans.
(This photo was taken at President Joe Biden's first speeh before a joint session of Congress on April 29, 2021. A dark figures stands ar the back of the room. The photo is labeled "miscaptioned" by Snopes.com but does that debunk it? What is that?)
Black, nebulous and apparently floating. Is this a demon?
Deep State
This spiritual war against the deep state can be understood as part of post-truth politics. While sometimes seen as a politics which delegitimizes truth itself, post-truth can also be understood as a destabilization of mainstream narratives about society. One that allows new narratives to be pushed. In spiritual warfare, this new narrative is one where God is retaking control of the US from demonic forces. One where God’s truth is being reasserted over competing truths, which are reframed as demonic lies. Spiritual warfare here becomes a struggle over competing narratives about what America is, or should be. Dismantling the deep state is part of this struggle. But it is not the only one.
References:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/paranormal-investigators-believe-theres-a-demon-in-the-white-house
The Discovery Channel's attempt to explain how and why the White House may have resident demons.
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