The Grand Midway Hotel Exorcism
Sunday, September 28, 2008
midnight

Adam Blai works with the Catholic Church as a licensed psychiatrist, as required to be present during official exoricisms. Adam felt a need for finally banishing certain potentially negative spirit-beings within the building. He never liked the "man in the hall" story or the story of the dark angry energies of room #12, which he felt were one and the same. And most immediate, he felt the story of the Squidlana was obviously anything but good. The other night, at his request, an exorcism rite was enacted here within the Grand Midway Hotel.

We began about midnight. He'd had Fransiscan monks chanting hauntingly for hours on reloop throughtout the hotel bar. He burnt church incense which wafted throughout the entire building. The brand was Three Kings. He had a bottle of holy water as well as his large open prayer book, both tools of which he'd used in earlier exorcisms. Adam had me accompany him as he walked from room to room and blessed the entire building.

After a longer ritual involving the entire building, the two of us went to the creepiest "chill spot" of the hotel. This would be room #3, the Canopy Room. These potential spirit forces, positive as well as negative, have never necessarilly bothered me to too much of any degree. But there have been some fascinating and even very alarming stories related to me by visiting hotel guests. I have found the Canopy Room area to be uncannily less-comforting than the energy of the rest of the building. And there has been many a night over the years walking past that open door in the dark halls glancing in to that dark room imagining someone inside standing there staring back out. The warning coming from the room toward men is always "Stay out!" And many women have reported being drawn into the room, with the warning being flipped into a "come into this room...stay here." It was in this room that the Ouija night went very badly for some visiting guests. It is this room that housed the "haunted furniture" brought from other locations and thought to be a potential part of these energies. It was in this room that more than a few sensitive guests pointed out the belief that there were faces or spirits in the old mirror. It is this room we associate with the inhuman "squidlana" story that crept around on the floor and left people screaming running from the hotel. As entertaining as all of this was to me, I will put it this way, I was getting a little bored with feeling annoyed with this room.

So Adam had been requesting for a while to face the building's negative energies and confront them, and this night the time just jelled to allow an exorcism to happen while a visiting exorcist just appened to be staying within the building. Have at it, I permitted him. Adam has been involved with this sort of energy shifting working with the Catholic Church for a few years now. It was an interesting evening.

At one point we entered a room on the third floor which struck me in the moment as having dim lighting. It is lit by two new, curly halogen bulbs. Adam felt this third floor room, like the Canopy Room, had attacking negative energies at work. He dotted the room with holy water and said certain prayers. He said how whatever was in the room, and he spoke in plural, were angry with him for what he was doing. He pulled out a chalk stick and began to write over the doorways and around the windows. I remember noting that the lighting in the room seemed suddenly a tad brighter, as if the two bulbs had somehow been turned up a notch. The room seemed brighter to me. But what was interesting, and confirming, was that without me mentioning my observations, Adam said aloud, "The room is brighter. That is one of the perks of working with these rituals. Its like there was a fog, that you don't even realize, and then suddenly it is lifted."

Some rooms seemed to have a slight breeze sifting through them. Other rooms had completely dead air. Once in a while I'd reach a pocket of energy that would send a chill up my shoulders and arms. Without me announcing this, Adam would concur experiencing the same encounters. He said angels were floating around everywhere doing work here. It was his experience that once commands were put into motion it would take about half an hour to fully notice the difference in spiritual environments.

We seemed to reach a kind of mutual experience. Adam and I, though both believing we are here in this lifetime working on missions for God, have had seemingly very different paradigms from which we operate. But lately there has been a great triumphant energy btween us. We are accomplishing a lot lately, with earlier projects rounding up and new projects beginning, and even both of us living here within the Grand Midway Hotel in the same season. So this night, there was something energizing and empowering about the two of us walking these halls, calling on angels, calling on our sensitivities to feel and share what we were each picking up on, and to focus and demand exactly how we would WILL the churning hotel energies to reconstitute.

So to climax this ritual, we found ourselves standing alone in the Canopy Room. In that final half-hour Adam called on every potential negative or innappropriate being anywhere in the building to manifest within this room with us. It was kind of a shocking, interesting moment. I wasn't expecting to be asking everything negative of the thirty-two rooms, from the ground below, from any items within the building, from residue left behind by guests, all to show up before us within this one creepy room. Then from his past experience he prayed, called on angels, and commanded anything negative potentially within the room with us that its time had come, to move on and leave this place forever.

I will leave some of the details of the prayers spoken and angelic energies summoned as part of the exorcism for Adam to divulge.
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Adam Blai writes:

Just a few clarifications...

I'm not a licensed psychiatrist, I'm a masters level psychologist or therapist. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who is trained in prescribing psych meds and some therapy. I assist at exorcisms and do work like what Blair described. Clearing homes is not really an exorcism in the formal sense, but there is something called the minor exorcism that can be used for homes.

Instead of trying to explain it all please read my site if you want more background: www.religiousdemonology.com
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Blair writes:
 
Coincidentally, university speaker and television personality and demonologist "Godfather of the Paranormal" John Zaffis just called... He was in PA for some business. So he drove over to the hotel and visited Adam. It was great to see him. As John walked around upstairs through halls he commented to me over and over how genuinely different the hotel energy now felt. It has been about a year since he was here last. A lot of work and changes have been put into the building. "A vast spiritual improvement," was his final word on the place.

So while Adam and John were upstairs getting ready to go to dinner, I was down in the kitchen cutting a cat door into the wall. And what do I find in this little six inch section of wall? More bones! I just pulled out three old bones from the wall. In the past we've found bones in the walls of the Monkey Room as well as the basement. I wonder if the hotel walls are flooded with bones.


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Typewritergirl Crystal Hoffman writes:

Wow! That's ridiculous!