Healing a Home Marked by Hell Magic

Up until this story, I had done one cleansing with my mentor, so I was still fairly new to the practice—but I really wanted to do more. I had this very charged feeling of excitement resonating throughout my whole body when thinking about going into more spaces to cleanse them. Little did I know that all this excited energy was going to manifest my first—and scariest—house cleansing, alone.

This story begins with my friend, who eventually was going to ask me to do this cleansing for her. She was going through a very messy and scary breakup with her boyfriend of seven years. I had always felt uncomfortable around her boyfriend and sensed that he was a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” type of person, so I was relieved to hear they had broken up. She had shared stories with me about his sometimes volatile and manipulative behavior, and yet she still continued to stay for seven years. It took almost a month for him to move out, and eventually she had to hire lawyers to help. Again—very messy.

Once he had moved out, she asked me to do a cleansing of her space. I was ecstatic. I began to prepare all my house-cleansing items, going through my spell book and meditating on the energy of the home so I knew what I was about to deal with. I suddenly got very nervous. The energy was very heavy and dense. I thought, Do I need to bring someone else with me? Then I quietly heard, No, you’re fine. This is yours to do alone. So I trusted that and continued to prepare for the cleansing the next day.

I arrived at the house the following day, and it was eerily quiet. I set up my cleansing altar, laid out all my tools, and began on the third floor. Now, just to paint this picture more clearly, this is a three-story home with a creepy basement that was built in the late 1800s or early 1900s. It’s an old home that feels even more eerie now that I’m alone with all this heavy energy around me. I begin on the third floor and work my way down.

On the second floor, I encounter a couch with a black cloud attached to it. I assume that’s where he sat a lot of the time. I clear this couch for what feels like ten minutes. The energy is stubborn and doesn’t want to clear. But as the black smoke begins to fade, I see a young child revealed from the haze. It’s an aspect of his inner child. This tells me everything I need to know about him. He presents as this very tough and sometimes intimidating person, but at the center of it all is a lost and hurting child. Suddenly, my fear of him begins to fade as I realize this. I then call in my guides to take this child back to him.

I move on and begin to clear the rest of the home. There are more areas where the energy is stubborn, but nothing too extreme. The last area of the home I need to go to is the basement. I can feel a dark and heavy presence down there, and I’m beginning to be afraid of what I’m going to find. My guides remind me not to connect with fear, as it’s only going to make the situation worse—and that this is mine to clear, so I’m more ready than I realize. I take a deep breath at the top of the basement stairs and walk down.

The basement is split into three different areas: the main large area, a small bathroom, and a strange closet area. The floor is concrete, and the walls are irregularly shaped and made of placed stone. Thankfully, there is a light down there. I can feel the dark presence of something in the strange closet area in the southwest corner. When I do cleansings, I often go clockwise around the room, so that was the last area I was going to do. I can feel this energy watching me, and I sense the same smoky energy I did with the couch. I am so nervous. Then it is time to enter that closet and see what is waiting for me.

I take another deep breath and walk in—and I see something hellish. Thin, purply skin. Glowing red eyes. Wings and horns. I immediately go into my fear brain and begin aggressively wafting smoke at this entity, commanding it to leave the home, that it is no longer welcome, and basically telling it to get the f*** out. I brace myself for it to attack me in some way and try to be as aggressive as possible so it will back off and run away somewhere else.

But it isn’t trying to come at me at all. In fact, it is cowering. The more smoke I throw at it, the more it sinks itself into the corner. I can sense how afraid I am. This makes me pause, and I hear my guides say, Take another deep breath and get out of fear. This isn’t what you think it is. Investigate.

I do—and I begin to ask this entity questions. I ask who it is and why it's here. I am not expecting the answers it's about to give me. The entity shares with me that it was actually the spirit of a young boy before me enslaved into this form. He shows me what he looked like: dark hair falling over his forehead, a round face with blue eyes. He wore overalls and black pants and said he had been wandering as a spirit for a long time.

He then tells me there was a dark energy that pulled him into this basement—like a magnet he couldn’t get away from. Once he was sucked into the basement, he says that whoever the man was who lived here enslaved him to help in his magical and spiritual practices. Over time, through different types of dark magic, the man turned him into the hellish form I now see. I knew my friend’s ex was spiritual, but I didn’t know what kind of spirituality or magical practices he was involved in.

This is all news to me. I didn’t know spirits could deform into negative entities. I almost wonder if I am making this all up in my head—but I continue. I ask the spirit what he wants to do. Does he want to stay in this form? Does he want to leave? He says he wants to be reunited with God and go to heaven.

So I call down a column of light from heaven and ask my angels and sacred guides to escort him into the light and take him where he wants to go. As soon as he steps into the light, the monstrous aspects of him flake and dissolve away. It is very beautiful to witness.

I then cleanse the rest of the home and leave. I am in shock over what has just happened. If this is true, then it gives me more insight into what he was most likely doing to my friend. If he was enslaving spirits, I can imagine he was doing something similar to her—whether psychologically, emotionally, energetically, spiritually, or all of the above. She was hypnotized by whatever he was doing or manipulating to stay with him for seven years. It all begins to make sense.

The next day, I call her and share everything with her. I am so curious about what she is going to say about the entity. She shares that he did have strange spiritual and magical practices that involved—I'm paraphrasing here—dark and hell magic. This confirms everything for me and also makes me confused and upset that, even knowing this, she stayed. But again, if you have been manipulated for seven years, it isn’t easy to just get up and leave. So I am proud of her for finally making that decision.

What this taught me is that fear will only make any situation worse. My fear was preventing me from properly investigating and assessing the situation and was actually causing harm to the spirit. It also taught me that not all things are as they seem. I could have easily believed this was a malevolent demon and cast it out of the home—but because I took a step back and asked questions, the truth was revealed.

Cleansing homes and dealing with demonic or shadowy energies doesn’t have to be scary. Hollywood does a great job of instilling that belief in us. If you are ever faced with something that feels scary, always know that you will never be put in a situation you don’t already have the inner tools for.

If you need help releasing an entity or spirit in your home, email me at alex@soulinspiredart.com