The Shadow of Simon Magus

In 1995 forty year old Paul Michaelson makes a long overdue appointment seeking help from psychiatrist Dr. Morris Bornstein. He tells the doctor that he has been harboring a terrible secret for most of his life. At age 13 while playing with a ouija board he seemed to make contact with an entity who claimed to be the Biblical sorcerer Simon Magus. Instructed by the entity how to perform a secret ceremony he believed that he became possessed by the spirit. But did he? Was he really possessed by a spirit or was he sufferering from a serious mental illness? That is what he hopes the doctor can tell him. His life as a living Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been a living Hell. In "The Shadow of Simon Magus" author Samuel Spulman explores the facts of this bizarre real life case and the story behind the story. For Paul believes that the entity which has enhabited his body came from the family's previous home. The one they moved away from when he was only 4 years old. Paul grew up listening to his mother's tales of that old place. Revealed here for the first time you will read of a house so haunted that it made all other haunted houses seem like a bed and breakfast!

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