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Published on July 14, 2007

Detainees complained they could not sleep after having seen a ghost several nights running.

Six detainees complained to guards that a man detained on credit-card-fraud charges had been possessed on Thursday night. He began "moaning painfully" about being released.

The man, Phiphat Nabnian, later regained consciousness and explained that he had seen a "mysterious man" in a red tank top squatting on a cardboard box in the cell and staring at him for two nights in a row. This statement coincided with an account by cellmate Phitsanu Narkkhon. He said he had seen the same man a couple of nights before.

Phiphat said he had seen the mysterious man on his first night in the cell. The apparition came to him in a dream, and the man was running towards him intent on harming him, he said.

"So I lashed out in my dream, and my fist landed on a cellmate, and then I passed out. I came to when the others shook me," he said.

According to police records, there had never been paranormal incidents in this cell until a man charged with raping his niece, Chalard Senarat, hanged himself on July 1. The incident was reported in several newspapers.

According to these reports, Chalard tore up a long-sleeved shirt to make a rope. Police records do not indicate if Chalard wore a red tank top.

Acting division commander Colonel Phongphat Chayaphan ordered the exorcism for the peace of mind of inmates and officers on duty.