By Tim Binnall
A Bible camp in Canada is under fire after a staff member performed an exorcism on a teenage attendee and left those who witnessed the ritual shaken by the unsettling experience. The very weird incident, which came to light this week, reportedly occurred back in July at the Redberry Bible Camp in the province of Saskatchewan. Following several days in which staff member Carlos Doerksen is said to have cautioned the children that they could be possessed by demons at any moment, his words of warning reached a crescendo when one of the boys suffered a nosebleed and began convulsing on the floor. Rather than provide medical attention for the youngster, the man set about performing an exorcism on the troubled teen.
Following the ritual, the self-described Apostle went so far as to hand out business cards to the campers with the caveat that he was the only person who could cast demons out of them. As one might imagine, the teens who watched the exorcism unfold were unnerved by what they saw and, shortly afterwards, four of the boys went so far as to call their parents in the middle of the night begging them to take them home. "I arrive and my son is cowering in the corner, clutching a Bible," one father recalled. He went on to explain that the camp "told me it was necessary to cast out multiple demons and it was a 'spiritual event.'"
Another parent who retrieved her son from the camp said that she is "still in shock" over what had happened and revealed that, during a subsequent family vacation, the teen was too terrified to go outside, lest he encounter sinister spirits. Meanwhile, the counselor who performed the exorcism has expressed no remorse over his actions and insists that "there were definitely multiple demons" inhabiting the boy's body prior to the ritual. Although the irate parents say that the directors of the Bible camp "fully backed all of this" and told them that "we've had satanic activity in the past," it would appear that the facility have since cut ties with the counselor behind the ritual after the Canadian media caught wind of the peculiar case.