On Sunday, he had gone out to brunch, snapping photos of his food and his friends for his Instagram Story. So. Stage two, meanwhile, is “Oppression” — or, “where the entity makes its true nature known and moves into full attack mode.” During this stage, targets may experience “sleep deprivation, increased paranormal activity, bites, scratches,” and other such occurrences. — are frequently cited as signs that someone has been possessed by a demon, according to people who, y’know, believe it’s possible for people to get possessed by demons.

“They’re totally boring brunch photos,” Ellis said. Until then, read the entire ghost story on his Storify. It’s not good. Adam Ellis's story about his experiences with a ghost he called Dear David went viral last year and gained him a million followers on Twitter. After sleeping soundly for a while and feeling all-around pretty top-notch — save a few concerning memory gaps — Ellis was finally ready to celebrate the end of the saga on Twitter. Hello Giggles may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Furthermore, this piece about the stages of demonic possession published on Exemplore in 2016 suggests that Ellis is truly in the danger zone now. Maybe Dear David just wants Tom Hardy or Chris Evans to read him a bedtime story. Even though I knew it was time, I second guessed the decision right up until the end. znscr.parentNode.insertBefore(zergnet, znscr); It’s “Full Possession.” At this point, “the evil entity will be in control more often than not”; “manipulation is at an all time high”; and “the demon may even have control of the host body like a parasite.”. Honestly though, Ellis would also benefit from being read a bedtime story by Chris or Tom. People had taken screenshots and sent them to me.”. The Story has vanished by now, of course — such is the nature of Instagram Stories — but he does have some screenshots he was able to take of it before it disappeared into the digital ether. The Dear David story haunting Twitter is back with a new tale involving bottomless brunch, Instagram stories, and his guy needs to call Ghostbusters. Adam’s story saw him provide digital evidence of what appeared to be a haunted doll – which he would only address with ‘Dear David’ – as it terrorised him (and his cats.) Yikes. zergnet.src = (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? 3. Here’s what you need to know about “Dear David,” from the first nightmare Adam Ellis ever had through the present. Texas Ghost and Spirit Intervention notes that people who are possessed “may hear voices when no one is present,” while the Paranormal Society states, “The demonically possessed victim may report unexplained auditory experiences where they hear voices seemingly coming from within or from the external environment from no identified source.” And as for the lost time?

The first, “Manifestation and Infestation,” is described as, “a form of haunting with the express idea of the demon introducing itself to the intended target through surreptitious means.” The demon is “seeking … approval to stay” at this point — basically, it needs its target to let it in. “I was sleeping through the night again.”, https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead/status/953468232358297600.

I guess I’ll keep you updated if something happens.”. })(); Kris Seavers is the IRL editor for the Daily Dot. Only time will tell if the Dear David saga will follow Ellis into his next chapter of life. “I quit my job at BuzzFeed last week,” the comic says, showing a cartoon Ellis leaving the BuzzFeed office and walking the streets of New York City. https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead/status/953468754943467526. A comic drawn by Ellis posted to Reddit on Wednesday explained the decision. Just after New Year’s, Ellis dropped what may be one of his scariest updates yet. That’s right, Dear David braved holiday travel to spook Ellis into the new year. However, soon things started to get pretty dark as Ellis updated Twitter on Dear David’s cause of death, and later revealed that the ghost was not haunting Ellis’ apartment but rather Ellis himself. Ellis began tweeting this update late on Tuesday night (Jan. 16, 2018, for those keeping track) — and although he had originally thought that David might finally have backed off, it turns out the story is far from over. When he booted up the app, though, he realized he had many more notifications than usual — and when he went to check out why that might be, he found person after person asking him what the heck was going on with his latest Instagram Story. Interestingly, though, Ellis began his latest update by observing that things had been relatively quiet since then. There’s one last detail. But in general, things were fine.

But, uh… something apparently happened to that photo between then and now.

That is, until Dear David decided to desecrate the beloved sacrament of bottomless brunch. Indeed, all of the other symptoms Ellis said he’s experiencing — hearing things, losing time, etc. While at first, Ellis’ tweets about a ghost in his apartment didn’t seem too out of the ordinary — because a ghost is a ghost, amirite? If I was a ghost, I feel like that would certainly be helpful to my plight and make me want to haunt people less. It’s been about two weeks since the last update, during which we learned that a) David had followed Ellis home to Montana for the holidays, and b) that David had seemingly attacked Ellis while he was asleep by dive-bombing onto him from the ceiling. And as for stage three? “But the next day I had a zillion messages about the third photo I posted. You see, Ellis and his friend went to brunch and documented it on his Instagram story, as one does, and left it at that. Copyright © 2020 Meredith Corporation. Adam Ellis shared a post on Instagram: “Anyone who points out the orange lady has two right feet will be bANNED. According to the latest update, Dear David appeared in Adam Ellis’ Instagram Stories over the weekend… and now people are worried that Ellis might actually be possessed. Anyway, Ellis also revealed that after their excursion West, he used a recording device to capture a photo of Dear David hovering him like Casper the potentially murderous ghost of your nightmares. Ellis, who up to now was known to work for BuzzFeed, appears to have quit his job. “After what happened a couple weeks ago,” he wrote, “everything stopped.” He hadn’t had anymore dreams. Your dream is a symbol of a bigger problem. It looks, in fact, like the part of David’s face we saw through Ellis’ apartment door’s peephole way back in October: Additionally, the photo may indicate that we’re not actually dealing with a ghost; rather, David might be a demon, which is something else entirely. It wasn’t a complicated Story; it just featured a couple of photos from a brunch he had gone to with a friend on Saturday: He also posted one additional photo at the conclusion of the brunch. But when he opened Twitter to share that David seemed to be gone for good, Ellis noticed he had an unusual number of notifications.

Offers may be subject to change without notice. Honestly, I’m really nervous. People had taken screenshots and sent them to me.”. Yeah... nope. https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead/status/953469120242241537, “Everyone was tweeting to me about something I’d posted to my Instagram Story the day before, saying they saw something weird,” Ellis wrote. “Despite all that, I felt ready to put it all behind me,” he said, referring to the chilling ghost encounters that had fatigued him since August, including unexplained moving furniture and snapshots of a boyish figure in the dark.

Ellis went on to reveal that he had no idea how the glitch happened…before correcting himself to say that he knows exactly how the glitch occured — looking at you, Dear David — but added that he’s almost reached the point where he doesn’t even care because he just wants his life to go back to normal. He was, he said, “actually… feeling great.”, At the same time, though, something was — and is — still clearly not right. Either way, though, what the photo itself might mean is that David has actually possessed Ellis — or, if he hasn't done it already, that he's going to possess him very, very soon. zergnet.type = 'text/javascript'; zergnet.async = true; And, as always, stay tuned to his Twitter account and Storify page —because apparently there’s still a lot more to come. “I wasn’t having dreams anymore and I was feeling better,” Ellis wrote. "https:" : "http:") + '//www.zergnet.com/zerg.js?id=85309'; “It looked perfectly fine on my phone when I uploaded it. The illustrator took to Twitter to share that Dear David had left Manhattan to pay Ellis a visit all the way in Montana. The colors are highly saturated, and Ellis’ face, in particular, looks like it’s been overlaid with another image—possibly of another face. var zergnet = document.createElement('script');

Just kidding — Dear David doesn’t need to pay travel fees because he’s a ghost. 2020 Bustle Digital Group. Those times Ellis has heard something when no one has actually spoken? I would argue that a good deal of the “Dear David” story has taken place during this stage; the "surreptitious means" seem to have been primarily dreams. Ellis swears up, down, left, and right that the photo looked normal when he posted it — but either way, the implications are… troubling: OK. I mean, the good news is that, again, the whole thing is almost certain to be fiction. And if we do that, the glitched photo implies that David is more strongly tied to Ellis than ever. I can think of a few possible reasons the photo may have looked fine to Ellis when he posted it : One, it’s possible that it was fine — and then David wormed his way into it and distorted it once it was live; or two, it’s possible that it wasn’t fine, but David manipulated Ellis such that he saw the photo as fine. I’m no paranormal expert a la Peter Venkman or Abby Yates but it sounds like it could be worth a try. Definitely not good. var znscr = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; “It felt so strange to be walking home for the last time. Regardless, we’re certainly wishing Ellis all the best as he attempts to live his best Dear David-less life. He wasn’t waking up in the middle of the night anymore. As he put it, “Basically, as good as things have been for the past couple weeks, I can’t shake the feeling that something is off.”, Which is, uh, not a good sign. Ellis tweeted Tuesday to explain to his loyal following that after the latest update—wherein Ellis found small footprints in the snow in Montana and photos of a childish figure in his bedroom back in New York—things had settled down.

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