A paranormal investigator says he was left bloodied by a spirit which warned of violence during a live stream on social media. Matt Paranormal was streaming to his Facebook followers last week while using a piece of ghost hunting equipment known as an ALICE box.
The software device is intended to be used by paranormal researchers to help them communicate with 'spirits'. It emitted the word "violent" on two separate occasions during the session broadcast live from his office in Wrexham on Thursday evening, North Wales Live reports.
Matt can be heard in the almost hour-long video inviting spirits to join him sitting around a table. After the word "violent" is heard, he responds by saying: "You can be violent towards me, no problem with that at all. If you want to harm me then please come forward, I'm not afraid of you."
The broadcast was the last to take place in this room as the 35-year-old is set to move to a separate office space in the same building. Posting on his Facebook page on Friday, he wrote: "So last night through the Alice box the word Violent came out twice! (you know me I was dead excited for something violent to happen!!) I’ve been waiting 8 years to be attacked!
"When the live ended last night I was just about to walk through the door and bang! The most painful scratch across my little finger ever and wouldn’t stop bleeding for a good 10 mins! Could this be my punishment for moving HQ?"
Matt is also known for owning a haunted doll called Annie which he purchased believing it could be possessed. He had it fitted with paranormal equipment in the hope of proving there is life after death and has even appeared on ITV's This Morning with the doll.
Annie was in the room at the time of the Facebook live show and when Matt felt a sharp scratch on his finger. Speaking of the incident, Matt said: "No names were given at all during the session, so I'm not sure who the spirits were.
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"Annie was in the room at the time but I can't confirm whether it was or was not the doll who did it. The only thing I can imagine is that they didn't want me to leave and they knew it was the last time I was going to be going live from there, as if it was a warning."
Surprisingly, Matt isn't the slightest bit disappointed or scared by what happened, and even said that he had been "waiting for eight years" to be "attacked by a spirit". He added: "If anything it makes me more excited, and more ambitious.
"This is physical evidence and it's definitely going to leave a scar. The building I'm in is around 200 years old and dates back to the Georgian period and we already know of a family of spirits here."
Matt is also known for his show on Amazon Prime - "Matt Paranormal Is There Anyone There?" where he and his team explore some of the most haunted locations in the UK.
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