By Tim Binnall
A school in South Africa was forced to close for the day after dozens of students began acting strangely in a mass hysteria incident that has been blamed on 'evil spirits.' The unsettling episode reportedly unfolded last Monday morning at the RA Padayachee Primary School in the community of Dolphin Coast. Beginning with a handful of students claiming that they were having visions, a panic swept through the school and ultimately ensnared approximately 30 children who were overcome with a hysteria that caused them to scream and frantically run around their classroom.
The bizarre outbreak prompted administrators to cancel classes and hold a meeting with parents wherein the weird situation was addressed. A father who attended the gathering recalled that the principal explained that the perceived possession actually started days earlier "with a few kids" and grew to a full-blown case of mass hysteria wherein "almost the whole class started screaming." Eerily, the man said he was told that staff attempted to quell the situation using prayer, but "that's when the children started jumping around, pushing desks, and running."
The school subsequently held another prayer session this past weekend, presumably when there were no afflicted students in the building, in the hopes of quelling whatever caused the commotion. To that end, a distressed parent put forward her own theory and offered some insight into the alleged vision that sparked the strange case. "We've never experienced anything like this with our kids before the Satanic church was established here," she said, pointing the finger at the controversial group that arrived in Dolphin Coast back in 2020, "now, kids see an image of a girl."