ghost stories

It wasn't holy water. It just needed to be cold.

 

Like how John mentions he turned water into wine at the request of his mother?

 

Didn't Jesus though give authority to man to make things holy? His disciples were able to baptize, perform exorcisms, raise people from the dead and so on.
So why wouldn't those called by God be able to make water holy?

 

Well, if we look at the early church his disciples passed down those God given gifts to their own followers through the laying of the hands. And this trend hasn't stopped.

I mean in a theological sense, the purpose of God becoming man was for the sole purpose of sanctifying man and creation to become holy. We no longer live by the old testament law where God was the only one who can perform miracles, Christ gave us that ability because he has united us with God. Now I do agree not everyone can make water holy, but there are men who are able to, ones who were bestowed that gift through the laying of the hands which goes all the way back to the apostles

In a literal sense, Christ himself touched the waters of the Jordan which in an essence has sanctified all of the waters on earth.

From my own personal experience, I've seen the power of holy water and the affect it has on the demonic. During the soviet era in Russia, there were many people getting possessed, and one of the ways that they would test if a person was possessed or mentally ill they would give them 2 cups of water to drink from, one being holy water while the other regular. If the person drank both then he would be sent to mental hospital, if he only drank one and refused the other, he would be sent to a priest.

 

hmm I see your point.

 

Touche

Here's my Ghost story, well it's not actually mine but it really did happen. This is the story of Robert the doll, the real story that influenced the Chucky franchise.

The story of Robert the Doll dates back to the early 1900’s when a young boy named Eugene Robert Otto was given a one-of-a-kind handmade doll by a servant that worked for his parents in his home. Eugene, who everyone called Gene, named the doll Robert and quickly became attached to his new friend.

The home where Eugene lived, now called the Artist’s House, is located at 534 Eaton Street and was built between 1890 and 1898. It was here that Eugene was given Robert The Doll and where a friendship that lasted throughout his lifetime… and beyond was forged. While he seemed like an ordinary cloth doll, it wasn’t long before Robert was involved in strange and somewhat terrifying events. The first hint that something out of the ordinary was happening was one night when Gene, who was only ten years old, awoke to find Robert the Doll sitting at the end of his bed staring at him. Moments later his mother was awakened by his screams for help and the sounds of furniture being overturned in her son’s bedroom. Gene cried for help, begging his mother to rescue him. When she finally was able to wrench the locked door open, she saw poor Gene curled up in fear on his bed, his room in shambles and Robert The Doll sitting at the foot of the bed.

Nobody knows for sure why or how this child’s plaything could actually wreak havoc on a child’s bedroom or do anything at all; after all, it was just a toy, right? But the weird and inexplicable didn’t stop at that one occurrence. Gene’s parents would often hear their son upstairs talking to the doll and getting a response back in a totally different voice. They reported seeing the doll speak and witnessing his expression change. Giggling and sightings of Robert running up the steps or staring out the upstairs window were also reported. Robert continued to live with Gene throughout his lifetime and after Gene’s parents died, he moved back into their home with his wife, Anne. Gene decided that the doll needed a room of his own and placed him in the upstairs room that had a window overlooking the street.

Anne felt uneasy with Robert in the house and although she couldn’t put her finger on it, she wanted Gene to lock the doll up in the attic where he could do no harm. Gene conceded and as one could imagine, Robert the Doll was not happy with his new digs. Soon, visitors to the home heard footsteps in the attic, the sounds of someone pacing back and forth and devilish giggling. Neighborhood children reported seeing Robert watching them from the window in the upstairs bedroom and told accounts of the doll actually mocking them as they walked to school. When Gene heard this, he immediately went to investigate, knowing that he had locked Robert in the attic and there was no way he could be sitting by the window of the upstairs bedroom. But to his complete shock, when he opened the door to the bedroom, there was Robert, sitting in the rocking chair by the window. Gene locked Robert back up in the attic several times; each time discovering him again sitting by the window in the same upstairs bedroom.

Gene Otto died in 1974 and when a new owner moved into the house on Eaton Street, their ten-year-old daughter was delighted to find Robert the Doll in the attic. But her delight ended soon when she claimed that Robert was alive and that the doll wanted to hurt her. She awoke often in the middle of the night screaming in fear and told her parents that Robert had moved about in the room.