Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that upholding the law is one thing for the Thai police - dealing with the Thai public and their many problems and superstitions quite another. 

 

In fact in the north of Thailand this week officers had to turn to the dark arts to satisfy a woman who thought she was being spooked by spirits. 

 

A quick thinking corporal decided to hold a kind of exorcism to send the spirits back from whence they came!

 

Chief of the Wiang Chai station in Chiang Rai Pol Lt-Col Daen Jaihan told the media that a woman had been continually calling 191 to say that something she couldn't see kept going into her house. 

 

She asked them to send someone round.

 

Not surprisingly the cops didn't see anything either.

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Then the woman started calling again - in fact 277 times - so the cops took her into the station to file a formal report in which she said someone had been dabbling in the dark arts and making trouble for her. 

 

This not being a crime in itself put the cops in a quandary. Anyway, they decided that the best course of action at this stage was to get a rescue foundation to take her to hospital for a mental health check.

 

Maybe that would stop the calls.

 

However, more trouble flared when she created a commotion at the hospital and three officers including Pol Corporal Sirathee Jitrong had to respond to calm things down.

 

It was at this point that Sirathee decided that a different approach was needed and he called on his own rudimentary knowledge of dark rituals.

 

He decided to take the woman to her house and conduct a kind of exorcism called Kwai Thanu (buffalo bow) that Thaivisa understands is prevalent in the superstitious agricultural communities of Thailand. 

 

This casting out of the spirits did the trick in calming the woman. 

 

Sirathee said he didn't know the real magic formulas for the exorcism but made do with some Buddhist incantations and that satisfied her.

 

Many online saw a clip of the cops' actions praising them for their work in sorting out a tricky situation.

 

Sirathee told Sanook that he had been a cop for five years and this was the first time he had had to perform an exorcism - but, hey, it was all part of the job.

 

Thaivisa notes that the Crime Suppression Division has told us that April Fool's Day jokes are a complete "no no" in Thailand this year because of fake news problems. 

 

We can assure our readers of the genuineness of the Sanook story.

 

Unless they're "havin' a laugh" that is.....

 

 

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This is no joke.  One of my Vietnamese step-daughters in the States saw ghosts for years.  Also, she constantly anticipated negative events. Now in her 40's with a grown up son, she has pretty well calmed down, partly because she has been fantastically successful in the insurance business.

Students of Evolutionary Psychology will recognize the role that the adaptive unconscious probably plays in this.  The adaptive unconscious is said to make decisions and set our moods without us being consciously aware of its workings.  

It's interesting that when my step-daughter divorced her difficult and worrisome husband, then became financially secure, the ghosts faded away.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Chief of the Wiang Chai station in Chiang Rai Pol Lt-Col Daen Jaihan told the media that a woman had been continually calling 191 to say that something she couldn't see kept going into her house.

If she couldn't see it how did she know.....  ohhh never mind.

"It was at this point that Sirathee decided that a different approach was needed and he called on his own rudimentary knowledge of dark rituals."

 

and yes - there is a medal for that as well......