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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Speaker 2: Reverend Sean Whittington is an exorcist, seminarian, ghostbuster, lecturer, and
Speaker 2: teacher of paranormal studies and spiritual warfare. Sean and his
Speaker 2: wife Sharon are both survivors of extreme demonic attacks and
Speaker 2: together they have more than forty years of experience in
Speaker 2: the field. They founded and operate Ghost be Gone, which
Speaker 2: is a spiritual warfare service based in Las Vegas, assisting
Speaker 2: with paranormal problems of various types and severity. Sean is
Speaker 2: a cast member on Eli Roth presents the Legion of
Speaker 2: Exorcists on the Travel Channel and Max. The show shares
Speaker 2: the real life experiences of six exorcists, and he also
Speaker 2: hosts the Reverend Sean Whittington's Paranormal Ministry podcast, which is
Speaker 2: live on Facebook and available on YouTube. Sean, Welcome back, Reverend.
Speaker 2: How we have you been, George?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: While I missed you, I miss you too. It's been
Speaker 2: about four years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I know want to bug you. I know
Speaker 3: you're a little busy, and I don't unless I have
Speaker 3: something really interesting to bug you about.
Speaker 2: I'd rather not bug you, that's okay. Anytime you've updated
Speaker 2: God Ghosts in the Paranormal Ministry.
Speaker 3: Well, it's actually a completely different book. The first one
Speaker 3: was my autobiography, and the second one that just came
Speaker 3: out this past Memorial Day is actually just cases some
Speaker 3: of the most severe demonic cases and hauntings that I've
Speaker 3: worked over the past ten years. Let's say, stories that
Speaker 3: actually weren't able to be used on the show. So
Speaker 3: pretty severe, and they were just something I needed to
Speaker 3: get Doing the show taught me that I needed to
Speaker 3: release this stuff and get it off my back and
Speaker 3: share the stories and experiences with people. So that's why
Speaker 3: I brought the second book out. But it's a completely
Speaker 3: different book than thereat one.
Speaker 2: Were you a paranormal investor, gator first, or a minister first?
Speaker 3: Paranormal investigator for many years of my wife before getting
Speaker 3: into the deliverance ministry.
Speaker 2: Field, and that has been everything you expected.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you, this is your show. You know
Speaker 3: I love you and respect you. There's no wrong answer here.
Speaker 3: You tell me how you feel about this, But I
Speaker 3: know we're probably going to bring up some dark topics,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people refer to this hour as
Speaker 3: the witching hour. And I know back east I have
Speaker 3: friends listening and they would like to they think of
Speaker 3: this hour as the three o'clock three am back there,
Speaker 3: as the demonic hour. You, if you you know, don't mind.
Speaker 3: I have a very short and very powerful prayer of
Speaker 3: protection that I can recite and put some protection over
Speaker 3: you and I your show, your your crew and all
Speaker 3: your listeners, if you'd like me.
Speaker 2: To do that, if you think it will help, go ahead.
Speaker 3: In the name of the Father and of the Son
Speaker 3: and the Holy Spirit Amen. In his name and by
Speaker 3: the power of His Cross and Blood, I ask Jesus
Speaker 3: to bind any evil spirits, forces and powers of the earth, air,
Speaker 3: fire or water of the nether world, and the satanic
Speaker 3: forces of nature. By the power of the Holy Spirit
Speaker 3: and by his authority, I ask Jesus to break any curses,
Speaker 3: hexes or spells and send them back to where they
Speaker 3: came from. If it be His holy will, I beseech
Speaker 3: thee Lord Jesus to protect us by buying by pouring
Speaker 3: Thy precious blood on all of us here, mister Nouri
Speaker 3: and I his show, his crew, and all his listeners,
Speaker 3: which thou hast shed for us. And I ask THEE
Speaker 3: to command that any departing spirits leave quietly, without disturbance,
Speaker 3: and go straight to thy cross to dispose of thou
Speaker 3: sies fit. I actually to bind any demonic interaction, interplay
Speaker 3: or communications. I place all of us here under the
Speaker 3: protection of the blood of Jesus Christ, which he shed
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: Amen, thank you by doing that.
Speaker 3: You're welcome, sir.
Speaker 2: Did you did you write that?
Speaker 3: No, that's not up. A beautiful book called Deliverance Prayers
Speaker 3: for Use by the Laity, and it's a you can
Speaker 3: get it online and it's such a really beautiful book.
Speaker 2: How did you get involved with Eli Roth?
Speaker 3: You know, the person that doesn't get mentioned on the
Speaker 3: screen and the credits is God. He's absolutely the definite,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, my humble opinion, the actual show creator
Speaker 3: of this of this show. It basically got laid into
Speaker 3: my lap and I got a call from a producer,
Speaker 3: but actually before the pandemic, so we working on the
Speaker 3: project for a very long time, and I realized rather
Speaker 3: quickly on that this just was something that was being
Speaker 3: led down a path, and this was just something that
Speaker 3: God arranged and I wish I could get him to
Speaker 3: answer that question for you, because I don't know how
Speaker 3: it all came to be, and I'm still wondering what
Speaker 3: the message is. There has to be a message here
Speaker 3: somewhere that's meant for many people to see and experience
Speaker 3: and feel from this show. I know the show's not
Speaker 3: for everybody, but we're all very proud of it, and
Speaker 3: I'm waiting to see what comes next. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I know that wasn't a very good answer to
Speaker 3: your question, but it just came out of it. It
Speaker 3: just came out of out of nowhere. I got a
Speaker 3: call one day and a gentleman introduced himself and said
Speaker 3: he was working on a project for a production company
Speaker 3: about demonic possession and exorcism. Would I be interested? And
Speaker 3: I just, you know, I didn't believe them at first.
Speaker 3: And then after I spoke to people that he worked
Speaker 3: with and show creators telling me their ideas and running
Speaker 3: them past me and having interviews with me, letting me
Speaker 3: tell my stories and stuff, I started to buy into
Speaker 3: it and realized that they're onto something here. It's something
Speaker 3: unlike anything I'd ever heard of before or been presented with,
Speaker 3: and before you know, I was, I was on board,
Speaker 3: and then here we are two weeks after filming. They
Speaker 3: crammed about twelve weeks of filming into like two weeks.
Speaker 3: That's we didn't We didn't really know Eli was a
Speaker 3: part of it. To be honest with you, I don't
Speaker 3: know if they purposely kept that a secret from us
Speaker 3: or not. I'm not sure. But the last day of filming,
Speaker 3: he showed up to do all of his parts and
Speaker 3: to meet us all and to let you know, let
Speaker 3: the cat out of the bag that he had put
Speaker 3: his name on it and he was going to be
Speaker 3: part of the show. And that was that. Honestly, it
Speaker 3: blew us away. We couldn't have been a more a
Speaker 3: bigger surprise to us, but we were definitely I'm sure
Speaker 3: if someone would have taken a picture of us, who
Speaker 3: were probably all staying there the cat, that is, with
Speaker 3: our mouths wide open and our jaws dropped down because
Speaker 3: we were when he showed up. It was definitely we
Speaker 3: didn't know.
Speaker 2: Reverend tell us about exorcisms and demonic possessions. I mean,
Speaker 2: I keep thinking of the movie The Exorcist. Does it
Speaker 2: really happen that way?
Speaker 3: You know, every exorcism is different, and I know exorcists.
Speaker 3: I was just having this discussion with an exorcist the
Speaker 3: other day. I've never seen the total black eyes. I've
Speaker 3: seen the eyes rolled back. I've never seen the total
Speaker 3: black eyes some exorcists. I've never seen levitation. I've seen
Speaker 3: levitation once, but it was on a very small scale
Speaker 3: of a young girl who was possessed, who couldn't move
Speaker 3: and was in any wheelchair. The actual wheelchair would move
Speaker 3: and it's almost she was in it. But I haven't
Speaker 3: seen the type of levitation that you've seen in that movie,
Speaker 3: The Exorcist, even though that was based on a true
Speaker 3: story and I'm sure all of that really happened. I
Speaker 3: haven't seen a head spinning around. I've been thrown up on.
Speaker 3: I've seen people facing the opposite direction and completely turn
Speaker 3: their head all the way around and look back at me.
Speaker 3: I've heard sounds of what sounds like every bone in
Speaker 3: a possessed person's body breaking the spirit is manifested in them.
Speaker 3: But I would have to say that every exorcism is different,
Speaker 3: and some of that stuff you see it does happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, how does somebody get possessed? I mean, what do
Speaker 2: they do, do they let their guard down because it
Speaker 2: doesn't happen to everybody.
Speaker 3: Well, I think nowadays the reason why it seems to
Speaker 3: be on the rise and one of the busiest exorcism
Speaker 3: courses one can be blessed to be accepted into is
Speaker 3: the one the Vatican offers, and every diocese right now
Speaker 3: has at least one or two exorcists on there, you know,
Speaker 3: on location there. It's really out of hand right now
Speaker 3: and different than it was, let's say, twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: I think the reason why it's so much on a
Speaker 3: rise now is because we've just gotten away from God.
Speaker 3: Humanity as a whole has gotten away from God, and
Speaker 3: that has allowed the veil to thin and be pulled down,
Speaker 3: the curtainty pulled down in some areas, and allowed the
Speaker 3: demonic to run more freely amongst us. And it's just
Speaker 3: like an out of control, deadly cancer now. But that's
Speaker 3: why I believe it's happening now on the scale that
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 2: Well, a believer, a righteous person, a God fearing person,
Speaker 2: will they get possessed.
Speaker 3: And that's the very sad but extremely mysterious part of
Speaker 3: some exorcism. In some possessions I have known people like
Speaker 3: that that we're very holy. I knew a priest that
Speaker 3: got possessed. I've known very holy, devoutly religious people who
Speaker 3: have gotten possessed. And other exorcistms will tell you that
Speaker 3: sometimes God allows that to happen because there's people in
Speaker 3: that person's life that need to witness the power and
Speaker 3: the glory of God when this person gets delivered. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't have I know you and
Speaker 3: I will both get the answer to that one day
Speaker 3: when we're both in heaven. I don't know why some
Speaker 3: people like that tend to be get targeted by the demonic.
Speaker 3: Most of the cases that come across my table are
Speaker 3: people that have said the wrong thing, done the wrong thing,
Speaker 3: been at the wrong place at the wrong time, and
Speaker 3: did something to open up a doorway make themselves a
Speaker 3: target and have these types of things enter into their lives.
Speaker 3: But it happens that we're all a target. Clergy's the
Speaker 3: biggest target of all. I remember one of the episodes
Speaker 3: I quoted saying that every exorcist has a wanted poster
Speaker 3: hanging in Hell of him land her, and we have
Speaker 3: to be very careful in our families too. And I
Speaker 3: you know I experienced that firsthand. Both my wife and
Speaker 3: I are survivors of extreme amonic attacks, and she's lucky
Speaker 3: to still be here. So they can happen to anybody,
Speaker 3: and you just have to be very, very careful and a
Speaker 3: little good life.
Speaker 2: How do you ward them off from you?
Speaker 3: For example, I'm blessed, I you know.
Speaker 2: Are you concerned, Reverend Sean?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I'm only human. You know. God gave me
Speaker 3: the the emotion of being able to be frightened. I
Speaker 3: don't take my wife on cases anymore because she was
Speaker 3: lucky to survive her attack, and the couple of attacks
Speaker 3: that I've been through were very frightening. One had me up. Actually,
Speaker 3: I let the deliberance ministry field for a couple of
Speaker 3: years because it had frightened me that bad. And I
Speaker 3: get a little bit of that every time the phone
Speaker 3: rings and I talked to somebody, and the spiding senses
Speaker 3: go up, and I truly believe that what they're telling
Speaker 3: me is true, and they are in the presence of
Speaker 3: the demonic. And I'm planning my next you know, how
Speaker 3: I'm going to approach this case and my plan of attack.
Speaker 3: I'm a little nervous, a little scared. But people close
Speaker 3: to me, and especially that have come with me and
Speaker 3: helped me on cases, say that something happens to me
Speaker 3: and I go to these locations and I change. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't see myself doing that, but they
Speaker 3: say that I change. And I think I've just been
Speaker 3: a blessed person called to this for one But I
Speaker 3: think I'm a blessed person, and God has allowed me
Speaker 3: to be a conduit in a vessel for the Holy
Speaker 3: Spirit and other prayer warriors and angelic beings and so
Speaker 3: forth to come through and help me when I'm working
Speaker 3: these cases and on location and helping me take care
Speaker 3: of these them. They says, I don't have any magic powers.
Speaker 2: Have you seen a difference in someone who's been exercised
Speaker 2: and the demon is eradicated. You see a difference in
Speaker 2: their personality, the way they.
Speaker 3: Look absolutely like night and day. Absolutely, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: The thing that we struggle with now because it seems
Speaker 3: to be in a borderline out of hand. The thing
Speaker 3: that a lot of clergy and colleagues of mine in
Speaker 3: the field struggled with now is two things. One h
Speaker 3: complete integrations and one time we thought it was impossible
Speaker 3: we thought if a person got possessed, that the evil spirit,
Speaker 3: the unclean spirit, is so unclean and so foul that
Speaker 3: the body the longer it stayed in there, the body
Speaker 3: was just decayoa. But now we feel that these invading
Speaker 3: unclean spirit can actually push the original soul out and
Speaker 3: if they're left, if they're left in this person's body
Speaker 3: long enough, they completely take over. And then what you
Speaker 3: have is a person walking around that's actually a demon,
Speaker 3: but they just look like a regular person. And if
Speaker 3: you see some of the violence that people are are
Speaker 3: dishing out to one another out there in the world,
Speaker 3: you have to you have to wonder if that's not
Speaker 3: really the case going on. I've had people walk by
Speaker 3: me on the street that I don't even no and
Speaker 3: I have the clergy collar on and just yell at
Speaker 3: me at the top of the lungs in my ear,
Speaker 3: Jesus wasn't real and then just walk off like you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't just do that, They just so matter of
Speaker 3: fact they walk away from me. That's very disturbing.
Speaker 2: Really, is my gosh? What is a demon? Sean?
Speaker 3: I like to keep it simple and just refer to
Speaker 3: them as a fallen angel. I believe they were once angels.
Speaker 2: What do they want, Well, they don't want.
Speaker 3: To be under God's rule. They want to do whatever
Speaker 3: they want to do. They want to just do whatever
Speaker 3: they want to do. And they hate us. To just
Speaker 3: say that they hate us, it's pretty inadequate. I can't
Speaker 3: really adequately put it into terms how this level of
Speaker 3: hatred they have for humans. But they would rather be
Speaker 3: any where they chose. They made the choice to follow
Speaker 3: Satan in battle God for supremacy of the heavens and lost,
Speaker 3: but they would rather be anywhere than in hell because
Speaker 3: they suffer too. So their goal is to is to
Speaker 3: possess a human body. And if they can take a
Speaker 3: life and destroy a human life in the process of
Speaker 3: possessing and capturing someone's soul, then then they prefer that
Speaker 3: at the feather in their tap. But they just want
Speaker 3: to in the and they know that the war has
Speaker 3: already been one, but they would like to try and
Speaker 3: win as many battles on the way to end of
Speaker 3: days and to when they finally are put forever where
Speaker 3: they're going to spend eternity in hell before they get
Speaker 3: locked away down and there they want to reach as
Speaker 3: much havoc on humanity as they.
Speaker 2: Can included why would anybody want to be an extorssist?
Speaker 3: I got drug into it, George kicked it in scream
Speaker 3: and I didn't plan on it at all. My wife
Speaker 3: and I were just just trying to have fun many
Speaker 3: many years ago, just paranormal investigators.
Speaker 2: It's not where you wake up and go I want
Speaker 2: to be an exorcist that way, not at all.
Speaker 3: I still do that. I still wake up every day
Speaker 3: and pray that I never have to take authority over
Speaker 3: another exorcism again. It's not fun. But we had something
Speaker 3: follow us home from a case many years ago and
Speaker 3: it took residence up in our home here for about
Speaker 3: two months, and I didn't know what I was dealing with.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3: So I reached out to the paranormal community, and God
Speaker 3: bless them for once they came through for me. And
Speaker 3: they introduced me to my then mentor, who took me
Speaker 3: under her wing and by the hand and walked me
Speaker 3: through everything and helped me fight whatever it was that
Speaker 3: was in my home out. And then she saw something
Speaker 3: in me that I didn't see and said, I think
Speaker 3: you're being called to this, and if you're interested in
Speaker 3: continuing the training. I can get you me appropriate training
Speaker 3: and see what happens. And at that time I said
Speaker 3: yes only because I wanted to be ready if it
Speaker 3: ever happened again. But then so many wonderfully divine things
Speaker 3: that happened to me since me saying yes, that I
Speaker 3: eventually realized that I truly was being called to this.
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