Early Europeans feared that these marauding spirits had a much darker motive: They were hunting for live bodies to inhabit. To appease ghosts, our ancestors used to leave food offerings outside their homes and sacrifice animals. Halloween has a malevolent history: According to two-thousand-year-old legends, it’s the night when spirits of the dead roam the world, intent on playing terrifying tricks. But awful as the crimes of man can be-and in my sixteen years on the police force, I’ve seen more blood and gore than you could ever imagine-they’re not the only evil that intensifies on October 31. We race from one crime scene to the next, our sirens screaming, locking up the animals who prey on children as fast as we can. At the Forty-sixth Precinct in the South Bronx, where I work as a sergeant, the 911 calls start pouring in.
After I became a cop, patrolling dangerous public housing projects, I saw another side of this holiday: Every pervert and nutjob in New York thinks it’s suddenly open season on kids. It wasn’t always this way: When I was a child, I liked to dress up and collect candy from the neighbors and when I was a little older, I was one of those guys who would go out with eggs and shaving cream, ready for a night of nasty fun. This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Ralph Sarchie's NYPD revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror. In Beware the Night, he takes readers into the very hierarchy of a hell on earth to expose the grisly rituals of a Palo Mayombe priest a young girl whose innocence is violated by an incubus a home invaded by the malevolent spirit of a supposedly murdered nineteenth-century bride the dark side of a couple who were literally, the neighbors from hell and more. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient - and most dangerous - foes. For New York City police sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real - and dangerous - as midnight patrol.Ī sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South Bronx.
SATANIC RITUALS.įor most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. Ralph Sarchie's NYPD revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror.ĭEMONIC POSSESSION. In Beware the Night, he takes readers into the very hierarchy of a hell on earth to expose the grisly rituals of a Palo Mayombe priest a young girl whose innocence is violated by an incubus a home invaded by the malevolent spirit of a supposedly murdered ninteenth-century bride the dark side of a couple who were literally, the neighbors from hell and more. Now he discloses for the first time his investigation into incredible true crimes an inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient-and most dangerous-foes. A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's south Bronx.
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