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President flees palace ghosts
From correspondents in Blantyre, Malawi
March 13, 2005

MALAWI'S President Bingu wa Mutharika had temporarily abandoned his controversial palace because he was being haunted by ghosts, a top aide said today.
"It's true that the president is no longer staying there, and we have asked clerics from several Christian churches, including the Roman Catholic, to pray for the new state house to exorcise evil spirits," said Malani Mtonga, an aide on religious affairs.

Mr Mtonga said that since the president, who is a Catholic, occupied the palace in December last year, he had been hearing "strange noises that keep him awake, or feels rodents crawling all over his body, but when he turns on the lights, he sees nothing".

Since abandoning the palace in the administrative capital Lilongwe, Mr Mutharika has been operating from another palace in Kasungu, 100km away.

Mr Mtonga said the president had asked for "special prayers" to exorcise the evil spirits.

Until last year the building housed the country's parliament, but Mr Mutharika kicked out the politicians, saying it was intended to be a residence and should "revert to its original proper use".

The palace, containing some 300 air-conditioned rooms and set in 555 hectares of land outside the capital, is widely seen as a folly of the country's founding president Kamuzu Banda.

It took 20 years to build, but was only occupied by Mr Banda for 90 days.

Mr Mutharika's predecessor Bakili Muluzi refused to live in the palace, saying it was too extravagant.

Mr Banda gained notoriety for building a number of palaces across the southern African nation as millions of his subjects suffered extreme poverty.

Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12532008-13762,00.html)

Boo! Run boy, run! Those ghosts are catching up to you! Bah! beter let the politicians have it then! At least it seems some things are the same no matter where you are, politicians are jokes.

Oh wow...
That is funny.
:D

Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12532008-13762,00.html)

Boo! Run boy, run! Those ghosts are catching up to you! Bah! beter let the politicians have it then! At least it seems some things are the same no matter where you are, politicians are jokes.
Isn't it the job of a politician to give out orders and flee when it gets deangerous?

They wont need the aid of a computer exorcist would they...? Aw...I'm running out of work!

(sigh)

I'll call the Swiss Guard. Hopefully they'll just firebomb the place! That'll get rid of any "ghosts".

*Sneaks up behind Neo under a white sheet with two eye holes* BOO!!:D :eek:

This one's up there with G.W. choking on that pretzel.

This one's up there with G.W. choking on that pretzel.
lol

Pretzeldent, anyone?:D

Ahh fear the ghosts!

Anyone seen 'Exorcist the Begining"?

...No... I heard it was crap.

...No... I heard it was crap.
It is, but so? Its horror, R, and involves evil spirits.

The original was a lot better, and it was rated R and involved evil spirits.

The original was a lot better, and it was rated R and involved evil spirits.

Was one of those evil spirits metho?

The original was a lot better, and it was rated R and involved evil spirits.
The original was excellent. I enjoyed it. Scariest movie I ever saw. Are there any scarier ones?

Was one of those evil spirits metho?
The evil spirit was the Devil.

No. It was Satan (in the form of a possessed 12-year-old girl).

Man, that was one fucking gross movie.

Satan is the Devil.


That movie was wrong but unbelievably cool. When she's masturbating with teh crucifix. That was a kick ass scene.

have you seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The evil spirit was the Devil.

Yes, um, I err, know. I was sort of, um, trying to make a , err, joke. At least I know I'm not funny now.:(

That post wasn't directed at you, but yeah, you're right (though I knew that anyway, but since it's all bullshit, it's really no biggie).

Yeah, that scene was... Something. And no, I haven't seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, though oddly enough I was listening to that song by the Ramones about thirty minutes ago.

have you seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I've seen the new one. Is it really based on a real story?

No, that was just an Urban Legend.

Well it was Malawi the average IQ is 71.

http://www.volkmar-weiss.de/table.html

I've seen the new one. Is it really based on a real story?
Very, very loosely based on the perculiar habits of an Ed Gein. Who must be the most unkown yet most influential sicko killer over the last 50 years. He also inspired the book - and thus the movie - "Psycho", the song Ed Gein by Killdozer, the character 'Buffalo Bill' in movie "Silence of the Lambs" and of course "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Warning - Don't read the stuff below if you're of a sensitive disposition!

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gein/geinmain.htm
On November 17, 1957 police in Plainfield, Wisconsin arrived at the dilapidated farmhouse of Eddie Gein who was a suspect in the robbery of a local hardware store and disappearance of the owner, Bernice Worden. Gein had been the last customer at the hardware store and had been seen loitering around the premises.

Gein's desolate farmhouse was a study in chaos. Inside, junk and rotting garbage covered the floor and counters. It was almost impossible to walk through the rooms. The smell of filth and decomposition was overwhelming. While the local sheriff, Arthur Schley, inspected the kitchen with his flashlight, he felt something brush against his jacket.

When he looked up to see what it was he ran into, he faced a large, dangling carcass hanging upside down from the beams. The carcass had been decapitated, slit open and gutted. An ugly sight to be sure, but a familiar one in that deer-hunting part of the country, especially during deer season.

It took a few moments to sink in, but soon Schley realized that it wasn't a deer at all, it was the headless butchered body of a woman. Bernice Worden, the fifty-year-old mother of his deputy Frank Worden, had been found.

While the shocked deputies searched through the rubble of Eddie Gein's existence, they realized that the horrible discoveries didn't end at Mrs. Worden's body. They had stumbled into a death farm.

The funny-looking bowl was a top of a human skull. The lampshades and wastebasket were made from human skin.

A ghoulish inventory began to take shape: an armchair made of human skin, female genitalia kept preserved in a shoebox, a belt made of nipples, a human head, four noses and a heart.

The more the looked through the house, the more ghastly trophies they found. Finally a suit made entirely of human skin. Their heads spun as they tried to tally the number of woman that may have died at Eddie's hands.

All of this bizarre handicraft made Eddie into a celebrity. Author Robert Bloch was inspired to write a story about Norman Bates, a character based on Eddie, which became the central theme of the Albert Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho.

In 1974, the classic thriller by Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has many Geinian touches, although there is no character that is an exact Eddie Gein model. This movie helped put "Ghastly Gein" back in the spotlight in the mid-1970's.

Years later, Eddie provided inspiration for the character of another serial killer, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. Like Eddie, Buffalo Bill treasured women's skin and wore it like clothing in some insane transvestite ritual.

Very, very loosely based on the perculiar habits of an Ed Gein. Who must be the most unkown yet most influential sicko killer over the last 50 years. He also inspired the book - and thus the movie - "Psycho", the song Ed Gein by Killdozer, the character 'Buffalo Bill' in movie "Silence of the Lambs" and of course "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Warning - Don't read the stuff below if you're of a sensitive disposition!

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gein/geinmain.htm
Yeah. I got that stuff off the internet as well a couple of months ago after seeing the movie. Very disturbing.

Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12532008-13762,00.html)

Boo! Run boy, run! Those ghosts are catching up to you! Bah! beter let the politicians have it then! At least it seems some things are the same no matter where you are, politicians are jokes.
Don't be too surprised if it's disclosed someday that this was a covert psyops operation. :)