Santosh Sonawane,TNN | Apr 7, 2015, 08.16AM IST

NASHIK: In yet another case of black magic, the Niphad police on Saturday arrested three persons for putting some material in front of a woman's house for getting a court verdict in their favour in a land dispute case. 

The three suspects, Shankargiri Gosavi (70), Balu Kacchu Gole (50) and Sahadu Namdeo Khaire (70), all residents of villages near Niphad, have been booked under sections of the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013. 

The accused were produced before a Niphad-based court on Sunday which remanded them in police custody till Tuesday. A complaint in this regard was lodged by Tarabai Gosavi (58), a resident of Niphad. 

According to the complainant, the trio put material including different types of pulses, eggs, lemons with pins pierced, turmeric powder, kumkum and various other things to threaten her and perform black magic in front of her house around 4 pm on Saturday. 

The Niphad police said the complainant and Shankargiri Gosavi have their farms divided by a boundary at Kolewadi. A case of land dispute between them is underway in a court. During investigation, the police found that the accused were performing black magic to get the court verdict in their favour. 

Head constable P K Kadam of the Niphad police station said the trio had not been to any tantrik to perform the act. However, Khaire apparently had some knowledge of such activities and helped Shankargiri Gosavi in performing them. 

Police said the complainant had heard some noise in front of her house while the three suspects were putting the material. After Gosavi came out, she found the material at her doorsteps and watched the trio escape. She immediately approached the Niphad police. 

Recently, the Chandwad police had registered one such case in which nine people allegedly cheated a woman of Rs 12.85 lakh by promising to multiply her money by performing black magic.

Twenty-one human skulls have been found in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, leading to fears that they could be related to human sacrifice or "black magic" rituals.

The skulls were found under a bridge on the Kushbhadra river along with bones, dry flowers and vermillion powder.

Police are questioning a local tantrik, or so-called witch doctor.

Report said the tantrik told police he had been stealing skulls from a graveyard for the past five years.

He is reported to have said that the skulls and bones were dumped under the bridge by his assistant's son who did not approve of his father's work. The assistant died on 13 November.

"We have sent the skulls for forensic examination. We will be able to come to any conclusion only after we get the reports," local police official Subhash Mohanty told BBC Hindi.

Local people say the presence of dry flowers and vermillion powder - used extensively in Hindu religious rituals and regarded as a symbol of fertility - near the skulls suggest they could be related to witchcraft.

"Black magic" is often practised in poorer parts of India - many people believe it can help childless women to bear children, cure illnesses and produce more rainfall.

PETALING JAYA: The promise of getting US$5mil (S$6.5mil) from the "netherworld" proved too good a deal to pass up for a 40-year-old businessman, who was duped into paying almost RM400,000 to secure a key to this "magical" world.

He was first lured by a con artist into buying a ring for RM2,000 in September, but ended up paying a total of RM393,500 (S$160,000) to perform a series of rituals in rented houses or hotels.

Ampang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Khairuldin Saad said during the rituals, the victim was required to offer prayers and money to a "genie".

"He purchased three suitcases to put in 519 bundles of paper resembling dollar bills.

"He then added real money into the mix as part of the ritual," he added.

ACP Khairuldin said the victim had been paying the con man every month since September but lodged a police report early this month after not getting the promised money.

Acting on a tip-off, police arrested a Georgian national in a recreational park in Pandan Indah at about 9pm last Friday.

ACP Khairuldin said the man admitted to scamming the business owner and led police to a premise in Taman Cahaya Indah where the three suitcases and ritual paraphernalia consisting of candle sticks and pieces of cloth were found.

Police also seized the man's mobile phone.

The case has been classified as cheating under Section 420 of the Penal Code.

In a separate incident, police nabbed a Congolese woman for conning an incapacitated man of RM10,000.

ACP Khairuldin said the woman approached the man, who is in his 30s, late last month in Ampang Point to introduce him to a gold investment scheme.

"She promised the man that he would get a 15 per cent to 20 per cent return on his investment in two weeks and he invested RM10,000 in the scheme," he said.

ACP Khairuldin said the man, who lost his job as a ship welder due to chronic back pains, lodged a police report after realising he had been conned.

"We arrested the woman in her Taman Kosas residence at 10pm Monday.

"Her four-year-old daughter, who was in the house during the arrest, was handed over to the welfare department," he said.

The case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code for cheating.

Interview With Her Almost Had Them Fleeing


Jul. 28, 2014 8:54am
Billy Hallowell

Two skeptical journalists were just minutes into an interview with a Pennsylvania homeowner who claims her house is infested with ghostly and demonic forces when they found themselves so scared they almost abandoned the investigative report altogether.

WPMT-TV’s Katie Kyros was recently accompanied by photojournalist Nick Petrillo on a visit to DeAnna Simpson’s home in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Considering that the woman claims she’s seen a seven-foot “shadow man,” heard mysterious voices and experienced rogue scratches, they decided to explore.

But it’s what they say happened just five minutes into the interview that had the two so scared they almost left

“Basically, when we walked in the home, I didn’t feel anything at first,” Petrillo said during an on-air report explaining the experience. “I felt — it was something like a piece of hot metal almost … I looked down on my wrist and I noticed there was a scratch there.”

The mysterious “shadow man” that DeAnna Simpson claims is infesting her home (Image source: WPMT-TV)
The photojournalist said he’s “never felt anything like that” in his life. In fact, Petrillo was a skeptic before entering Simpson’s home, but now says the experience has made him a believer.

“I actually didn’t really believe in it until this actually happened,” he said. “I was very skeptical of it until this.”

The burning sensation and scratch Petrillo felt didn’t surprise Simpson, who told the two that she believes the mere fact that they were covering the story was enough to anger the supposedly evil entities inside the home.

“You know why? Because you’re telling the story,” she said of the purported injury. “Because you’re putting it out there … I’m telling you right now, that is their way of a warning.”

Watch the WPMT-TV report, showing footage of a door shutting, an image of the so-called “shadow man” and the journalists’ claims below:

Kyros, who reported that she was also touched and pinched inexplicably while at the home, claimed that she and Petrillo saw “strange lights on the walls and heard noises.”

Simpson and her husband, who have lived in the home seven years, want to leave, but she said that they would need to recoup the money they invested into the house in order to do so.

Kyros and Petrillo purportedly brought a Ouija Board with them, but Simpson was so terrified she asked them not to bring it inside.

The home was also featured on “The Dead Files” on the Travel Channel this past Saturday.

By Staff

Published Monday, September 29, 2014

A Saudi Raqi (religious healer) raped a girl who visited him for treatment of a psychological illness after misleading her into believing her womb was haunted by the jinn (spirits), a newspaper reported on Monday.

The Raqi in the capital Riyadh told the girl he has the powers to exorcise jinns in one session if she accepts his recipe at his home.

Once the girl, whose age was not specified, surrendered to the man, he raped her, causing her to lose virginity, 'Arar' Arabic language daily said.

Police arrested the Raqi after the girl realised her mistake and reported him despite his threats to expose her if she resorts to the police.

“He told her that her womb was haunted by the jinn and that he wanted to exorcise them,” the report quoted the police as stating.

The paper said social networks in Saudi Arabia went viral in reaction to the crime and that hundreds of readers slammed both the Raqi and the girl.

“It appears our society is still living in the dark ages…almost every sin and vice are practiced under the cover of religion…we would like to ask the justice and interior ministries: shouldn’t the Raqi considered a sorcerer, who must be punished,” said Souad Al Shammari, a prominent Saudi activist.

But another reader, Sarah Al Waleed, had a completely different opinion. “The woman who simply surrenders herself to a Raqi claiming to have such powers is stupid.”

A reader identified as Dalal agreed by saying:”Why blaming only the Raqi…how could such a stupid girl allow this man to do this to her.”

Plans to build a new road in Iceland ran into trouble recently when campaigners warned that it would disturb elves living in its path. Construction work had to be stopped while a solution was found.

From his desk at the Icelandic highways department in Reykjavik, Petur Matthiasson smiles at me warmly from behind his glasses, but firmly.

"Let's get this straight before we start - I do not believe in elves," he says.

I raise my eyebrows slightly and incline my head towards his computer screen which is displaying the plans for a new road in a neighbouring town. There are two yellow circles marked on the plans, one that reads Elf Church and another that reads Elf Chapel. Petur sighs.

"Ok," he acknowledges wearily. "But it's not every day in Iceland that we divert roads for elves. It's just in this case we were warned that elves were living in some of the rocks in the path of the road - well, we have to respect that belief." He grins shyly and picks up his car keys.

"Come on, I'll show you where the elves live," he says indulgently.

Posted on 12 March 2014

A faith healer who admitted molesting a 13-year-old boy in his office was jailed for two years on Tuesday.Mohd Noor Hamid, 65, had been hired by the youngster's parents to provide spiritual treatment for their son, reports The Straits Times.On Aug 21 last year, his mother and elder sister took him to see Noor to celebrate his birthday, with the boy taking him a pair of sandals as a gift.The pair were meant to go for a meal together at a nearby restaurant.

But instead they stayed alone in his office at Rawatan Ruqyah Syariah on Joo Chiat Road.Noor closed the door and told the boy to lay on the carpet to rest, then went to lay next to him. He hugged the youngster, kissing him on the cheeks and lips but the victim pushed him away.He was released when he claimed he had a stomach ache, then locked himself in a toilet and called his mother.

She picked him up and made a police report.Noor was previously jailed for five years in 2000 for a similar offence and for unnatural sex. He could have been jailed for up to five years and/or fined for outrage of modesty. 

Taiwanese fighter jet disappears in 'Bermuda Triangle of Asia'

By Daily Mail Reporter05:50 11 Mar 2014, updated 12:05 29 Oct 2008

The disappearance of a Taiwanese fighter jet during a routine training mission over Taiwan's Penghu Islands has prompted speculation that the area could be the country's 'Bermuda Triangle of Asia'.The two-seater plane vanished on October 20 and although debris and body parts were discovered the next day, authorities are at a loss to explain what happened.Following the incident, sections of the Taiwanese media aired grisly images of earlier plane crashes in the area, while the newspaper United Evening News ran the headline: 'The Bermuda terror.

Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years'.The reports prompted Penghu officials to issue a statement disputing the Bermuda Triangle comparison, which they fear might scare away investors.Most experts dismiss the idea and speculation that an irregular magnetic field disrupts navigation instruments.Scientists have found nothing abnormal in the area, geologist Chen Wen-shan at National Taiwan

University The Penghu Islands is located just off the mainlandThe pristine waters around the Penghu Islands, a popular beach destination 50 miles (80 kms) west of the Taiwanese mainland, have seen their share of crashes.Government records show at least three commercial planes, one civilian helicopter and five fighter jets have crashed in the area in the past two decades.During the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, several spy planes reportedly went down or missing while flying missions to mainland China.

The military refuses to confirm the reports, saying most of the documents remain classified.The deadliest accident came in May 2002, when a China Airlines flight to Hong Kong broke into four parts over seas north of Penghu, killing all 225 aboard. Seven months later, a cargo plane crashed in the same area.The back-to-back crashes bolstered the Bermuda Triangle speculation so much, that tourists all but shunned Penghu in the following months.

A rescue boat searches for bodies after an earlier crash in Penghu in 2002. Last week's plane disappearance has led to speculation the region is the 'Bermuda Triangle of Asia'So far, the recent fighter jet crash has not rekindled as many jitters among the public, much to the relief of local officials.Penghu County Chief, Wang Chien-fa, blamed the crashes on the high volume of air traffic, saying most of the mishaps have been shown to be the result of either human or mechanical failure.'With so many aircraft flying over our air space everyday, the chances of crashes are proportionally higher, and that's all,' he said.

Yuan Hsiao-Feng, an aviation expert at National Chengkung University, points to the high risks of military training flights.The islands, first settled by shipwrecked Chinese sailors 700 years ago, have an undersea ancient wall and other ruins. They also are an attraction because they were once at the forefront of the bitter Taiwan-China military standoff, said tourism official Hong Tung-lin.Hsiao-Feng said the Chinese have long seen the islands as mysterious, because of their inaccessibility and a past history of shipwrecks.South of Penghu, an area called the "Ditch of Black Waters" is a graveyard for numerous boats, said to have capsized in swirling seas during the height of Chinese immigration to Taiwan two to three centuries ago.Japanese pilots and sailors are said to have tried to avoid the rough seas off Penghu, known to them as the "devil's sea" during Japan's 50-year rule of Taiwan that ended in 1945.

Today, trawlers and cargo ships sail through the region safely.Hong said: 'The mystic perception is fine but we hope people will not associate this area with danger.'

OLEH: MOHD ISKANDAR OTHMAN

Tarikh: February 4, 2014

Keadaan mayat mangsa yang terputus dua ditemui orang ramai.GEORGETOWN - Mayat seorang lelaki ditemui reput dan terputus dua dalam belukar Hutan Simpan Bukit Gedong disini petang tadi.Mayat lelaki tanpa identiti itu dipercayai mati sejak sebulan lalu ditemui penduduk tempatan kira-kira jam 5 petang.Ketua Polis Daerah Barat Daya, Superintendan Lai Fah Hin berkata, kepala mayat berkenaan ditemui tergantung manakala badannya yang  sudah  terputus ditemui tidak jauh dari kepalanya.

Menurutnya,pemeriksaan awal mendapati kepala mangsa diikat menggunakan akar pokok.Beliau berkata, mayat berkenaan memakai baju berwarna kelabu dan berseluar hitam.Turut ditemui sepasang selipar yang dipercayai miliknya."Mayat berkenaan dianggarkan berketinggian dua meter tetapi identitinya masih belum dapat dikenal pasti.

"Buat masa ini, kita klasifikasikan nya  sebagai mati mengejut dan siasatan lanjut akan dijalankan," katanya ketika dihubungi.Fah Hin berkata, polis akan melakukan pemeriksaan untuk mengesan kemungkinan ada individu yang membuat laporan kehilangan ahli keluarga.

30 January 2014 02:40 PM By Chris Bradley Mum-of-three Latoya Ammons, from Indiana, told police her children could walk up walls, levitate and speak to ghosts

 A police captain has said he believes the story of a woman who claimed her children were being attacked and possessed by DEMONS.Charles Austin, an experienced cop with more than 35 years experience, is convinced a spooky haunting in Indiana is true.Mum-of-three Latoya Ammons, told police that all her children walked up walls, levitated and spoke in different voices.

When two psychics visited the terrified mother they told her there were more than 200 demons haunting the house.Even official reports from 2012 document paranormal activity with psychologists stating they witnessed a nine year-old child speak in "different voices" and walk "up the wall backwards".They added: "He flipped over and landed on his feet"After visiting the house and interviewing Ms Ammons, Captain Austin admitted he was a "believer", according to the Indianapolis Star.

State documents filed by the Department of Children Services detail further strange events at the house, often witnessed by medical experts and people outside the family.But some witnesses to the eerie behaviour, like Hospital Chaplain Rev. Mike Maginot, was sceptic that demons had possessed the children.He told the newspaper that after carrying out an exorcism on the children and her mother, they only reacted when he spoke about demons.Rev. Mike said: "Whenever you would praise God in Latin, no reaction."But you start condemning the demon, condemning the evil spirit, all of a sudden she [the child] is reacting to that."Their names were removed to protect their identity from the official papers on the haunting in Gary, Indiana.

Soon after the family moved into the three bedroom rented property on March 10 2012, Ms Ammons claimed she saw her daughter levitating above her bed.In another incident the mother found her seven-year-old son inside a closet allegedly talking to another boy only he could see.When asked what they were talking about, his mother claimed he told her the unseen presence was describing what it felt like to be killed.The young boy also reportedly THROWN by a malevolent spirit out of a bathroom and Ms Ammons 12-year-old daughter required stitches to her head after an attack.But new tenants now live in the property - and there have been no complaints of ghostly goings on.