Family Background and Supernatural Lineage

• 🧙‍♀️ Maria's family has a history of witchcraft, with her mother and grandmother actively practicing, which she discovered around age five or six.
• 🌧️ A notable early experience involved her grandmother making it rain on her with a flick of her hands on a clear day.
• 🕯️ Her mother, also a witch, inquired about Maria's interest in practicing, particularly after Maria bought a black candle in Salem.
• 🙏 Maria's mother later converted to Christianity after experiencing ovarian cancer, and her father, a minister, was unaware of his wife's witchcraft when they married.

Disturbing Experiences in Religious Settings

• 💧 Maria recounts an experience at a Catholic school where a Mary statue appeared to weep tears, which was reported in the news.
• 🐞 In a third-grade classroom, cicadas inexplicably flew out of her teacher's desk, leading to Maria being blamed and punished by a nun principal.
• 👻 Other unsettling occurrences at the school included shadows, giggling in hallways, and apparitions in bathrooms.
• 😨 The church building itself was described as creepy, with a heavy feeling, books falling off shelves, and a persistent smell of smoke in Maria's room.

Paranormal Activity in Childhood Homes

• 🏠 Maria's family moved into an old house built in the late 1800s where three people had died in a fire.
• 🚪 The basement door pulsated, and the basement itself was extremely cold, with the area where the deaths occurred being particularly unsettling.
• 😇 Angel figurines on a nightstand were found turned facing the wall, and an alarm clock levitated over Maria and her sister while they slept.
• 🧸 Children's laughter and toys moving on their own were common occurrences in the basement, and dogs refused to enter the area.
• 🎹 A piano in the living room would play a single key by itself at night.
• 👁️ Maria's sister saw red glowing eyes in a locked alarm room, causing her to scream in terror.
• 🔥 Maria witnessed her bedroom wall appear to be on fire, only for the fire and damage to vanish moments later.
• 🚫 Flowers would not grow around the property, and a persistent scratching noise came from a converted dumbwaiter closet in her room.

The Ouija Board Incident and Red-Eyed Demon Dogs

• 🎲 Maria and her sister played with a Ouija board at a friend's house, which they later threw away in a dumpster.
• 🚪 After discarding the board, the friend's house experienced paranormal activity, with doors slamming and lights/stereo turning on by themselves.
• 🐕 While stationed in Texas, Maria saw a pack of five dog-like entities with red glowing eyes and a muscular build, resembling the dogs from Ghostbusters.
• 🐾 These entities were described as blacker than black, hunched, and appeared on a military base, negating the possibility of them being stray animals.

Mysterious Encounters and Prophetic Dreams

• 👤 Maria encountered a man in a red flannel shirt with a beard in a locked room and later saw him with a red-eyed dog that growled at her.
• 👦🏼 In Texas, Maria and her ex-boyfriend saw two children with completely black eyes and monochrome clothing, resembling characters from "Children of the Corn."
• 🇰🇷 While stationed in Korea, Maria had a prophetic dream involving an altar, flashes of light, a woman's face, a scroll with Aramaic writing, and a message about a son being born.
• 🤰 This dream eerily coincided with her mother-in-law's dream about a winged boy on the stairs, and years later, Maria's own son, with blonde hair and blue eyes, reenacted the scene from the dream.
• 📜 The symbols from Maria's dream were identified by professors as Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.