Monday, October 3, 2016

Tourist goes totally batshit! after being pushed by a ghost at Nan Madol ruins

About 2 weeks ago, an old friend of mine who works as a tour guide and lives near the famous and haunted Nan Madol ruins, Skyped me with an incredible story about a foreign tourist who had an extremely frightening experience during one after noon after wandering off on his own to explore the ruins. Apparently, the male tourist, an Australian who was loud throughout the whole tour and complained alot about how hot it was. Well, this Aussie bloke, as they call them Down Under, wanders off on his own into the mangrove swamps hop-scotching and skipping over stone boulders that line the pathways around the Nan Madol ruins. After about 30 minutes or so, the group noticed that he was missing and so they started a frantic search for the lost tourist.
This is near where they found the Deranged Batshit Crazy Aussie tourist. Finally, after about an hour of searching, we came across him covered in mud from head to toe, naked as a bird, and mumbling senseless words in a language none of us recognized. It sounded like a mixture of Latin and Spanish and spoken in a guttural grunting-like voice. As soon as he saw us approach, we held his arms out and started hissing and growling at us like a wild rabid dog. One of the members of the tour group, a fellow Aussie, called his name - "Freddy" several times and judging by the look on his face and his behavior, "Freddy" was not home. And so as the local tour guide, my friend quickly realized that this was another case of spiritual possession which has become quite common these days after Nan Madol was opened up to tourism. According to the locals who live near the ruins, they often hear and see strange things at night there. Some report strange glowing circular orbs floating up from the depths of the ocean and moving around the ruins. Some claim to have heard voices that sound like noise from a crowded traditional feast. Anyway, my friend the tour guide, says that they had to enlist the local village witchdoctor to cast a calming spell on the naked mud covered, deranged and batshit crazy Aussie tourist. After they had calmed him down, they took him back to the hotel where he completely trashed his room, threw a chair out a window, jumped out the window, rolled down a hill, then ran into the restaurant and defecated on a table. And to the horror disgust of the customers dining at the restaurant, the deranged, batshit crazy Aussie tourist then proceeded to smear himself with his own feces then scooped some with his fingers into his mouth and started eating it. Again, the local staff at the restaurant had to contact the village witchdoctor who quickly responded to the situation by drinking a special potion out of a bottle and spitting it on the deranged batshit crazy Aussie. This calmed him down a bit and several minutes later, the local police showed up and took him into custody. The next day, he was placed on a chartered flight with armed guards and flown out of the country. My friend the local tour guide now carries a blessed crucifix and some holy water with him (even though he's not a Catholic), everytime he takes tour groups to the ruins at Nan Madol.

1 comment:

  1. You know Pohnpei is a very small island and for something like this to happen and no one knowing about is just unreal. I think whomever made up this story either hates Pohnpei or otherwise.

    Nanmadol is our ancient site and Pohnpeians respect and look after it. What hotel and or restaurant did this happen so I may call and ask if this is true.

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