A 65-year-old man died in a cinema auditorium last week while watching a screening of horror movie The Conjuring 2.
The incident occurred at the Sri Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, a town found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The cinema-goer, from Andhra Pradesh, had grumbled of chest pains during the film’s peak, and collapsed shortly thereafter.
He was hurried of to a nearby Old Government Hospital, where medics pronounced him dead. Doctors then ordered his body to be sent to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem but, according to the Times of India, the cadaver, and the person charged with transporting it, have both gone missing.
While there are no doubt lucid reasons for both the man’s death and the vanishing of his body, the story has fuelled a wave of paranormal panic on social media that has escorted the film’s release.
A video alleging to show a woman who” got possessed while watching The Conjuring 2” has been watched close to 5 million times since being uploaded to Facebook last week, with many viral news sites in South East Asia reporting the “possession” as fact. Though, the video in query is assumed to have been filmed in 2013, before the release of the film.
Another viral Facebook post, from Singaporean man Damian Ng Yih Leong, shows a “cross” on a hotel room mirror the man claimed to have found after watching The Conjuring 2, which he describes as “my first first-hand encounter with paranormal activity.”
So this just happened last night after watching The Conjuring 2.
We came back to the hotel room at about 2:30am. As we were too beat, we decided to nap first. At about 2:45am, Legacy Voronia decided to brush her teeth before continuing her sleep.
After brushing her teeth, she came out of the toilet asking me if I pranked her with a cross drawn on the mirror in the toilet. I was puzzled, as I was resting on the bed all the while and I thought she was trying to prank me.