Samantha E.
Harris is a “
demonologist, deliverance minister, guest TV host, director of MPRA” (the “Michigan Paranormal Research Association”), “psychic, and spiritual healer” – yes, she is an adult person who
fails to distinguish Poltergeist and The Conjuring franchises from real life
(or, as she puts it herself: “The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The
Exorcist are two of the more accurate films depicting demonic possession in
Hollywood productions”). Her career is devoted to removing hauntings and demons – basically
performing ‘blessings’: “[a]s of 2017, she has performed over 120 house
blessings for severe hauntings and counting” – and to ‘educate’ people on
how to avoid such things: it’s basically the tricks you’ll find featured in the
aforementioned movies. Her work has been featured on venerable purveyors of evidence-based information like the Travel Channel and the
Discovery Channel. Insofar as she is “a sensitive”, her “most personal and frequent
experiences are: dream premonitions, intense empathy, and discerning
spirits/energy”, or in other words: Her standard of
assessment for her choices, diagnoses and assessments are largely whatever
she feels about the issue at hand. She also has a book, Fighting
Malevolent Spirits: A Demonologist’s Darkest Encounters, which we admit to
not having read.
The MPRA,
on its side, was “established to allow experienced paranormal groups in
Michigan to unite, creating a paranormal think-tank and allowing groups to
assist each other with educating, training, experience, scheduling and manpower”;
its website really fulfills all your preconceptions about paranormal research,
with its commitment to horror-movie aesthetics (fuzzy black-and-white pictures
of old abandoned houses and so on), and thoroughly fails to dispel the
suspicion that they’re not entirely serious.
Diagnosis:
Whatever. Probably mostly harmless.
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