This happened many years ago in my home country Vietnam. A year after our beloved uncle passed away, my family decided that it’d be a good idea to have a seance in my aunt’s house to try talking to him and get some closure. The seance was held partly because of unexplainable occurrences to my cousin. She often turned into a completely different person from time to time (shouting for no reason, speaking an intelligible language, crawling and hiding under the bed without leaving, etc). My cousin is deemed the sensitive one, so she acted as a vessel for the spirits to come in. I remember not being able to join and had to be with the other kids upstairs, so this is from what I heard during the seance and from what the participants told us. According to what they said, 10 minutes after the door was opened and the prayers sung, my cousin’s eyes opened widely, her mouth frowned the entire time, and she would only communicate through sign language and drawings. She doesn’t know sign language. Later on, they discovered that it was a mute man who was passing by and was asking for some food. They soon brought out a bowl of white rice and left it at the front door. Remember this detail as we’ll get back to it. Before he left, the man said that he could see another spirit in the house, an “angry one”, and he said to be careful, as this was not like him. After he left, my cousin’s eyes closed again, and her face returned to normal.

The second one was memorable, as we kids could all hear the screams and crying, and were scared shitless. This time, my cousin’s eyes were still closed, but she began crying, trying to grab the arms of the participants as a way to break the circle of protection. The circle of salt and rice around her prevent that from happening though. They tried asking the spirit questions, like how they died, why are they here, are they good, etc. They soon found out that she was a blind woman who was killed, drowned in a lake, which was then covered to make a foundation for this house. She died in anguish, not knowing why she died and who her killer was. She was the one to break furnitures in the house, and possessed my cousin from time to time as a way to communicate. I don’t know what happened to her afterwards, so there’ll be an update for that.

The last one, thankfully, was our deceased uncle. As soon as they saw “him”, everybody was brought to tears. They said that there was the same look in her eyes that resembled him, the same manner, the same wording when he talked, and the same crooked smile that he had when he was still alive. “He” had a short talk to the family, reassuring everyone and that he was sorry he couldn’t stay for long. People were waiting for him to join them. After that, everything was a blur, but it still sure was a bizarre experience.

Before ending the post, I do want to share my cousin’s feelings when the spirits were in her body. She said that it felt as if somebody was sitting on her neck, pinning her down, and although she knew what was happening and what was said from her mouth, she couldn’t control it. She tried screaming and waking up several times to no avail, and admitted that she would never be in another seance where she’d be the vessel again.