In 2004, the reality TV entertainment industry had a whole new quest to release an endless supply of ghost-related and paranormal television shows into the world. I should know because that was when my addiction to paranormal began. I was a full-blown addict to all things ghostly and paranormal and I didn’t know why until God showed me.
Weekly Entertainment
The first show that had me hooked was a weekly show called Ghost Hunters on the now-defunct SyFy channel. Every year, there were similar new shows released to tickle the fancy of the paranormal reality TV viewers with all things ghostly and scary. There was Ghost Adventures, release in 2007, Paranormal State, also released in 2007, Most Haunted, A Haunting, Celebrity Paranormal Project, Extreme Ghost Stories, and the list went on and on for the last 14 years. These shows had been released before but not in the reality TV way it was now being portrayed. I just had not realized how popular the older shows were since I had only begun to watch it in 2004 in the new, more addictive, and attention-getting format. I have viewed and purchased many seasons of these shows and found myself watching and rewatching the episodes. God, please bless my family for having endured this! I was fascinated by the paranormal and everything that it entailed and I was not alone.
It was in 2018 that I finally had a moment where I realized that I had looked at these shows all wrong. These 43-minute episodes fed my appetite for fear, only it wasn’t my appetite, but a demon of fear I had acquired. Demons of fear love these shows and have us coming back to them over and over, wasting our time, stealing our peace and joy, taking our blessings and we end up not producing anything fruitful without lives as a result of it. I had nothing to show for all the years of my TV viewing, except for spooky tales of various people giving testimonies of their experiences with, what I now know are, demons.
Ghosts and the Demonic
Ghost shows have it all wrong, well, that is all of them except one, which is Ghost Adventures. This show has been on the air for over 13 years. At one point, I had purchased every episode and season of the show and spin-off show (Aftershocks) since its inception into the paranormal franchise of television entertainment. Every year, I watched the people on these shows go from chasing spirits, or ghosts, in old western towns, to globetrotting across the world to various and notoriously haunted, or at least quite spooky, locations and every place in between. I was thoroughly addicted to these shows, that is until I was baptized in the Holy Spirit.
These shows have us all fooled. There are no ghosts of people hanging around old decrepit and abandoned places. These aren’t spirits of people at all, they are demons.
These shows have us all fooled. There are no ghosts of people hanging around old decrepit and abandoned places. These aren’t spirits of people at all, they are demons. And if you watch Zak Bagans and his crew does their research for the past 10 years, they had come to know this to be true as well. They had to increase their show’s viewership by keeping the show titillating enough that their audience was supernaturally glued to the TV by ramping up the fear factor associated with their genre of television programming. Demonology is where they put all their focus for the maximum amount of profit, and rightly so, these shows made a lot of money and fear.
Demons?
How do demons mess with us? Demons have been around for a long time. While I will not get into the biblical theology or other alternative theories that show where demons likely came from, we will say they have have been around humans long enough to know a great deal about us. They have these supernatural powers because they were created supernaturally, by God. Some say they are all fallen angels, while others say they are created by Satan himself using a spiritual children theology that I will not get into. Needless to say, they are here and they are just as bad and evil as we have come to know them. They hate us!
And why shouldn’t they? We were created in the image of God. We are alive and we have been given bodies. They have no bodies, they are personas without bodies, meaning, they have personalities, thoughts, feelings, etc. but they do not have a body. They have to use a host to experience life. So they live in us. This is what a ghost or an apparition is. A once connected to a human spirit that still retains the likeness and image of the host that had passed away. Since they no longer have bodies, they can appear as the people who once lived or breathed, because they were the deceased person’s familiar spirits.
Fear Not!
This is not to scare you, but if I told you that you have a staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria on your forehead, would you be alarmed? You shouldn’t as this bacteria is quite common on normal human skin and is known as our healthy skin flora. Well, much to the same effect, this is how demons can infect humans, except there is nothing good in demons, they are thieves trying to steal, kill, and destroy. Demons are real and they can be dangerous, but still, don’t be scared. We weren’t made with a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind as described in 2 Timothy 1:7. God protects us.
Addiction to Scary Things
Why did I like these shows? Well, I did learn a lot from them and how they operate in people’s lives much more than many suspect, and it was a precursor to my life now in Christ, especially with the discerning of spirits gift I received in 2018. These evil spirits are in the world and they are constantly watching, planning, and harming people to keep them from their God-given blessings. They also cause horrible things to people in life to cause damage to God’s kingdom and His relationship with them when people are kept from the true purpose that God created them for. We must not put anything above God.
It’s so negative, why do you focus on them? Well, I don’t focus on demons all the time, but I do know they exist. I’m learning more and more each day as to how they manifest, how they operate, often in demon gangs, and most importantly, how to permanently cast them out. I hate evil spirits. They have caused so much loss in my life, and now that I know they exist, I am on a mission to help people identify, understand, and get rid of them from their lives through education. Besides, we are commanded to cast them out.
Many ministers get to the topic of demons and they think that all there is to know is about them is to cast them out and they should just stay out. While I agree 100% that this is what should happen, it is my experience that shows me that they do not stay out, especially when the host or person who had them make an accidental agreement with them. Jesus spoke of this in Matthew 12:43. For example, in the case of addiction with porn, a person makes an agreement that they are accepting and deriving evil pleasure from the activity of watching people, they do not know, having sex on a computer or TV screen. The person watching, and likely doing more than that, may or may not be married, which switches the sin from fornication to adultery. Both are bad, yes, as we (believers in Christ) are not to be engaged with anything that makes the body of Christ impure. So we do need to feed the sheep by educating others to the truth of Satan’s kingdoms and the strong grip he has on us because of the entertainment industry and shows them how to keep evil out of their lives. Yes, it is self-control and discipline, and it is required of us to reject the world to live for God’s kingdom, not Satans.
The Battle is Real
I had to reject paranormal TV for several reasons. One, it was too addictive for me, and two, it is demonic, meaning it is used to worship Satan and his kingdoms, not Gods. I learned that I had demons of fear of evil things, which gave me a fascination with evil things and kept me in bondage to these shows. I had to repent for this, so I deleted all the TV shows from my library and DVD collections, and I haven’t watched an episode since 2018!
These shows can be gateways into the demonic, especially if you start ghost hunting and participating in demonic teachings by having lust for more of it and becoming involved or infatuated with the paranormal. I have seen enough of these shows, and now that I know how demons are attention thieves and distractors, I am on a mission to tell others. The main purpose of demons is to steal, kill, and destroy. If this is true, what do they steal? Peace, blessings, hope, love, kindness, patience, and other fruits of the spirit. What do they kill? They murder our character, our God-given drives, our ability to move to help others, and do God’s will and they kill our blessings. What do they destroy? Anything they can. If they manage to destroy God’ s children, it’s for the glory of their father in hell, Satan.
Paranormal State
One example of a show gone wrong is that of Paranormal State. I had enjoyed this show because of its host, Ryan Buell. Ryan seemed authentic, kind, and serious about helping those afflicted by paranormal while on the screen with the “clients” who had suffered from attacks. The show ran until 2010 when Ryan stepped back and canceled the show unexpectedly. What the audience didn’t see was how much the show affected the personal life of Ryan Buell. I started following Ryan on social media in 2014 when I learned he was teaching a demonology class. I thought, “what the heck, why not” and I signed up for the $100 class.
The class started, but after one or two classes, Ryan made excuse after excuse to not complete the remaining six-week course. He would sometimes show up in a meeting forum and then would drop out again. He’d kick off a class and the lightning from a storm would flash outside and an evil smile crossed face as the feed went dark and later would give an excuse that the storm had taken down his internet. He then continued using vague excuses that dragged on for months. I never did receive a refund for the class and I was okay with it. I forgave him. You see, Ryan gave me a front-row seat to what a demonic attack looks like, but this was before I was able to understand it. This attack made Ryan fail to follow through with plans. It caused him to self-destruct and it destroyed his reputation, his business, and his ability to overcome his challenges. Ryan tried resurrecting the class in 2017 to save face for the fraudulent class and later I learned that Ryan was suffering from a severe drug addiction that he finally received treatment for the same year. He is clean now and trying to resurrect his past glory in the field and the show, but is meeting limited success because of burned bridges. This is a perfect example of how a seemingly normal young paranormal investigator can become demonized and not know how to defeat a dangerous, smoke-like enemy, because of spiritual blindness during involvement with the paranormal.
The TV is a gateway or portal. It allows demons to traverse technology into your home to see if they can live with you in your home, which is your vessel or body, mind, and soul.
Paranormal TV shows have become more demonic as time advances. At the time I stopped watching Ghost Adventures, the programming was nearly 100% focus on devils, satanism, and evil people. They performed satanic rituals on the shows with seances, ouija boards, satanic and evil artifacts from serial killers, and the like. Demons can walk right into your home from an evil show, especially one where they perform rituals, chants, and spells. I only know this, because when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and subsequently baptized by a crown of thorns with the gift of discerning of spirits, I could physically see, hear, and feel spirits entering through certain modalities. The TV is a gateway or portal. It allows demons to traverse technology into your home to see if they can live with you in your home, which is your vessel or body, mind, and soul.
Conclusion
Time to shut it off and repent! If you are a Christian or are have concerns about addiction with paranormal research shows, ask yourself, “why do I like this so much?” When you answer honestly, you realize it’s the pleasure you receive from the jump scares, the fearful visuals and sounds they create, and the possibility that it just may happen to you. If you have any fear at all with these shows, you are a potential target for more spirits to affect your life in ways that you will only realize when it’s too late. They can affect you deeply.
Three main spirits work with these types of shows, seducing spirits, lying spirits, and the spirit of fear. Together, they will keep you in bondage to sin, not just for the TV show, but in any area of your life that you have a weakness. Other spirits that have attacked people from these types of shows are witchcraft and sorcery, divination spirits, and spirits of necromancy which are summoned during seances that paranormal shows have often done live during holiday specials.
These shows can be very dangerous, they are door openers to the demonic and they steal your time away from the Lord if you are not with a mouthful of praise and worship at all times. If you get to a point where you can no longer stop yourself from watching, you can fall into the sin of idolatry, which has serious consequences in the spirit realm. Also, if you are around anyone who chooses to continue watching these shows, pray before, pray after and praise the Lord all the way through and declare that He has defeated the enemy for them.
If you have also had the desire to learn more about ghosts or have been ghost hunting yourself, please get into your prayer closet and repent, and pray to the Lord to remove any influence of the demonic spirits from you and your family. Have faith that He will and He will!
Blessings to your understandings of this post, I hope it will educate and arm you in your spiritual warfare against our unseen enemy, the devil. God bless!
In Christ,
Darrell B. Jones