LOL @ jamie. My transition into atheism lead me to the final frontier, the final test or proving ground as it were, to find out for myself whether supernatural claims of demons and evil spirits had any validity to them.
I had just mind-humped myself by going up against Jehovah Himself and kicking his feckless ass all over the courtroom getting custody of my kids from their JW mother and stepfather. Nothing bad happened to me. Then a very pissed off and bitter exwife dropped off my kids and their belongings to my house because the judge had not only granted me sole custody, but also forbade her to so much as crack open a WT magazine in front of them let alone ever take them to the Kingdom Hall again. That was it. I fought the custody battle pro per against her family law scheister and of course Jehovah Himself with the courtroom seats filled with Firm-n-determined JW holding Watchtower magazines out infront of them like crucifixes to ward off vampires, and I actually beat that little bitch, Jehovah, and his followers, down . . . I was Danai Gurira with a Samarai sword slashing bitch=ass zombies, ha ha ha Just kidding, and back to my point. Jehovah became impotent before me and my own mental and emotional power and focus trumped His Almightiness.
I would sit late at night in nothing but the glow of the tv and dvr'd ghost hunter reality shows, one episode after another with common snake oil salesmen posing as full-time plumbers moonlighting as paranormal investigators caught evp's, caught startling glimpses of apparitions (always somewhere off camera), and pulled bullshit stunts during live episodes . . . and I watched a creepy college student leading a band of loser pimple-faced kids into the homes of emotionally and mentally disturbed, mentally ill, substance abusers and alcoholics giving merit and validity to their claims of paranormal activity in their double-wides, speaking intelligently with special insight into demons under the pseudoscience of "demonology" as each episode lead us along his very private and painful lifelong struggle with a very powerful demon-stalker Belial (don't say its name out loud) who continues to follow and harass him determined to possess his soul. Vomit. finally, I embarked upon my own little paranormal investigations at locations in my own town known for heavy paranormal activity and did exactly as they did, and never once captured an evp, caught a glimpse of a spirit, caught a single misty mystical on video camera, heard or saw a single thing I could attribute to supernatural origins. Total craps. I attended and held candlelit seances eliciting any kind of contact whatsoever with spirits of any kind, then begged them to show themselves, then contemptuously demanded they show themselves, hell, I even did the ultimate and unthinkable! I went into my bathroom, stood directly in front of the mirror, turned out the light, and recited the forbidden words, "bloody mary come alive, bloodly mary come alive, bloody mary come alive!" . . . The hair standing up on the back of my neck was all for naught and anti-climatic, and all that resulted was the urge to purge my bladder of the coffee I had consumed 30 minutes earlier.
it's all bullshit. Anyone who makes claims of supernatural experiences is either a nutter, a liar, a tweaker who has been up for days, or has been horns-waggled, or refuses to look for natural causes for their experience(s).