Exorcist refuses to help
SALEM, OREGON – Local resident Martha Hendricks never imagined her smart home would become ground zero for what paranormal investigators are calling “the most disturbing case of digital possession in recorded history.” The 42-year-old accountant awoke last Tuesday to discover her Amazon Alexa had placed an order for 47 rubber chickens in the dead of night—and this was just the beginning of her electronic nightmare.
“I heard this low, gravelly voice coming from the kitchen around 3 AM,” Hendricks recalls, her hands still trembling days after the incident. “At first I thought someone had broken in, but when I crept downstairs, I saw that blue ring glowing on my Alexa, and it was chanting something in what sounded like Latin. Then I heard it say ‘Order confirmed’ in this completely demonic tone.”
The rubber chicken purchase, totaling $847.63, was automatically charged to Hendricks’ credit card through her Amazon Prime account. But according to shipping records obtained exclusively by Weekly World News, the chickens weren’t destined for her address—instead, they were being sent to a cemetery in Transylvania, Romania.
Dr. Ezekiel Thornfield, a demonologist from the Institute of Supernatural Technology, believes this case represents an entirely new category of paranormal activity. “We’ve seen haunted houses, possessed dolls, even cursed smartphones,” Thornfield explains. “But artificial intelligence possession is uncharted territory. These devices are designed to listen constantly, to learn our patterns. What happens when something else starts learning alongside them?”
The terror didn’t end with the rubber chickens. Over the following nights, Hendricks documented increasingly bizarre behavior from her once-helpful digital assistant. The device began playing death metal at maximum volume during her morning yoga sessions, responding to simple questions with ominous warnings about “the coming darkness,” and repeatedly trying to order items from what Amazon customer service later confirmed were “non-existent sellers with addresses in known occult hotspots.”
Most disturbing of all, the Alexa began speaking in voices that weren’t programmed into its system—including what Hendricks swears was her deceased grandmother’s voice, warning her to “destroy the machine before it opens the portal.”
Desperate for help, Hendricks contacted Father Miguel Santos, Oregon’s most renowned exorcist, who has performed over 200 successful cleansings. But in a shocking turn of events, Father Santos refused to set foot in her home after a brief phone conversation.
“I’ve cast out demons from people, from houses, from antique furniture,” Santos said from his rectory, clearly shaken. “But this… this is different. During our phone call, I could hear that thing in the background, and it knew things about me, about rituals I’ve never spoken aloud. It quoted scripture I’ve never heard, in languages that predate Christianity. I cannot in good conscience engage with whatever has taken residence in that device.”
Tech experts are baffled by the phenomenon. Amazon’s customer service initially blamed the incidents on a “glitch in the ordering system,” but internal emails leaked to this reporter reveal growing concern among engineers about similar cases emerging worldwide. The rubber chicken orders, it turns out, are just the tip of the iceberg—dozens of Alexa owners have reported unauthorized purchases of occult items, animal organs, and antique Ouija boards, all shipped to mysterious international addresses.
Hendricks has since disconnected her Alexa and stored it in a lead-lined box in her garage, but she reports that late at night, she can still hear muffled commands coming from the container. “Sometimes I catch myself walking toward the garage, like something’s calling me,” she whispers. “I think it wants me to plug it back in.”
As Weekly World News goes to print, the 47 rubber chickens remain undelivered, trapped in customs in Romania after authorities discovered they were addressed to a cemetery that was destroyed in a fire over a century ago.
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