tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post927768920020916024..comments2023-12-01T01:00:34.093-05:00Comments on The Paranormal Pastor: The Specters of OomPastor Swopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16008265694116146151noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-46744539737371181822017-06-08T21:43:11.222-04:002017-06-08T21:43:11.222-04:00...attended the school and lived in Moseley (both ......attended the school and lived in Moseley (both the new wing and the old wing) from mid to late 90's. <br />...yeah, there were areas beneath Moseley, (kind of a basement sort of deal) that had been used as a make-out room over the years, but it was all sealed up by then... (an RA and I were talking about it... you'd find valentines candy and underwear... (Nyack is a -very- conservative school... strict 'thou shalt not' policies about not doing annnnnything remotely 'tantric,' --but it was full of kids who, knowing the Lord or not, could be fraught with horn, (so to speak,) and any area that was out of the eye of others, was convenient. <br /><br />...oddly enough, from the mid 90's up to... possibly present day, the denomination became obsessed with 'Deliverance Ministries' (basically casting demons out of Christians,) and it was seen as a cutting edge therapy tool with counseling (less counseling sessions if you just do an exorcism and cast the demon out.) <br />-wrought havoc on the student body, emotionally... and was a real mess theologically. <br />--As I lived at the campus (in Moseley) year round for those years, and was always there, Pardington, Simpson, and the Admin. Building... as an older student, I was not aware of any unusual spiritual activity... (other than, Spiritual Emphasis week) and the odd practices of those practicing that particular counseling method. <br /><br />The whole thing about elephants and devil worshipers up off in the hills? was known to be rumors handed down by upper-classmen... <br />...though, a few years back, the newer building they had 'SkyManor' or something, blew out all the windows on it's second floor, when maintenance was fixing something and had a gas leak... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-11789878719164911272014-03-04T23:08:56.144-05:002014-03-04T23:08:56.144-05:00So I go to Nyack College now and I live in Simspon...So I go to Nyack College now and I live in Simspon hall.I don't think any of these thing happen now expect the boys in Moseley would all have bad dreams and it would be the same dream.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-51885282025762522662012-03-13T01:55:37.737-04:002012-03-13T01:55:37.737-04:00Posted by anonymous: My ex-husbnad & I were st...Posted by anonymous: My ex-husbnad & I were students at Nyack College in the early 1960's. At that time there was a small cicular sunken & mostly enclosed (by tall bushes)garden to the south of Shuman Hall and directly off a porch. In the center of the garden was a defunct fountain. Two or three stone steps led down into the garden from the rear of the house.<br /> One humid azalea/apple blossom-prefumed night in spring of 1964, my fiance & I were standing face to face on these steps kissing.<br /> Suddenly I looked over his shoulder across the garden to see an extremely tall (at the time I guessed 7 feet) white translucent apparition that seemed to be watching us intently although there were no features apparent. I whispered to my partner to turn/look, did he see what I was seeing? --and he affirmed that he did see it.<br /> As we watched (too scared to budge at this point)the unusually tall being began to turn toward the Hall. As it did a 2nd much smaller entity of the same translucency appeared next to it. Together the two silently glided toward the porch of Shuman Hall & disappeared--at which time my fiance & I took off moving as fast as possible away from the darkened Hall & back toward Christie Hall. We expected to be ambushed be something unspeakable as we had to pass the front of Shuman, but thankfully nothing appeared.<br /> <br />When we got back to Christie our first thought was that we could have seen another couple out that late evening, but on checking the sign-out book we found only one other couple "abroad" that night--both short people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-91457992206107531252012-01-24T12:43:28.989-05:002012-01-24T12:43:28.989-05:00i went to Nyack in the spring of 92 and again in 9...i went to Nyack in the spring of 92 and again in 95-96<br /><br />i HAVE BEEN IN the tunnels under Mosely. and have gotten all the way to where they collapsed them and baracaded them.<br /><br /><br />also on a side note pastor swope my brother, sister in law and 2 cousins where at nyack in 84-88 mark and becky are my brother and sister in law ( i wont say there last name for their sake)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-13569328197019367222010-05-24T16:43:06.034-04:002010-05-24T16:43:06.034-04:00I can't address what happened in the room you ...I can't address what happened in the room you mention, Robin, but the old mansion that was/is the library was never owned or used by Bernard (Oom the Omnipotent). It was built in 1930 by the wealthy widow of Jacob Wertheim and purchased by the college in 1954. There was no tunnel between the mansion and the Clarkstown Country Club. This is repeating a lot of the erroneous rumors that we heard there as students in the 1980s.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785294953949748978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-61174722937005197932010-04-29T12:57:46.800-04:002010-04-29T12:57:46.800-04:00Pastor,
You and your readers might be interested ...Pastor, <br />You and your readers might be interested to know about my new book, The Great Oom, which is published today by Viking. See reviews in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and also this sunday in the New York Post. Robert LoveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-38514958088423018562009-04-27T18:14:00.000-04:002009-04-27T18:14:00.000-04:00Yes, I've heard the 'tunnel' stories too, but it's...Yes, I've heard the 'tunnel' stories too, but it's never been confirmed. What is true is that in the library (Shuman Hall) there is a stairway that doesn't go anywhere. The story was that Oom thought that evil spirits would get lost there and die. He was one strange dude! I was student in the late 60's, early 70's.<br />Besides the mirrored room (which freaked me out when I first saw it through a crack in the door- the multiple mirrors made it look like a mile across as you looked from mirror to mirror to ....) was a room on the back that had a cork floor. It was dirty- and no way to clean it, so we bought a wool rug to cover it. We'd get such static build up that we'd never walk into the room in the winter without a key in our hand to discharge our selves. The key would glow on the end! About three to four inch sparks would fly when you came near anything metal.Paul Rentznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-45309682829839527282008-10-26T02:58:00.000-04:002008-10-26T02:58:00.000-04:00I'm the best friend of one of the sons of a promin...I'm the best friend of one of the sons of a prominent person in the college, in fact his dad might be the president of it now I'm not sure. However I used to live on campus when my dad was getting his pastoral degree, we lived on campus housing. Anyway my friends family moved into on of the houses near the buildings, in fact it was right next to the cafeteria building. Before they moved in a group of prominent people from the college, including my dad, went into the house and performed an exorcism of sorts I guess it could be called. While they were there a person got pushed down the stairs by an unseen entity. I'm honestly not surprised, that town and the college campus can get really creepy. I also hear there is a series of tunnels that Pierre created underneath the campus, can anyone back me up on that? I wasn't aware that the halls were once part of his country club though. Anyway I now live in Texas but whenever I visit my friends from Nyack every summer I always stay in that house, the one my friend lives in... it's really creepy. But so far no paranormal activities have taken place there since the day it was investigated to my knowledge. But just the thought that I am somehow connected to that house and campus is somewhat frightening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-17171699700809159282008-07-05T06:59:00.000-04:002008-07-05T06:59:00.000-04:00Wow, a much more exciting place than where I went ...Wow, a much more exciting place than where I went to college at the U of T.<BR/><BR/>There the only thing to fear was an irate professor whose deadline for the submission of papers had passed.Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13824632356834631279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-31823396591557051742008-07-03T05:50:00.000-04:002008-07-03T05:50:00.000-04:00Yoga...Tantra...sex magic...hypnotism...occult rit...Yoga...Tantra...sex magic...hypnotism...occult rituals...sounds like we had our own home-grown Aleister Crowley! I wonder if they knew (of) each other, or corresponded.<BR/><BR/>"It appeared as a misshapen dark mass of a creature that mixed the characteristics of a humanoid and a frog." Very Lovecraftian, that.<BR/><BR/>Has anyone thought to <I>remove</I> those mirrors?NickJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04692930261848771802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-67511922693608935592008-07-02T16:19:00.000-04:002008-07-02T16:19:00.000-04:00You have led a life most of us only dream of, Past...You have led a life most of us only dream of, Pastor.<BR/><BR/>Jeez, you've had a lot experiences. Enough to last a lifetime. I'm sure I could sit and listen to your stories all day long. Good show. <BR/><BR/>As usual, good post...<BR/>Keep it up.<BR/>I meant that, too.cryptidsrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184539509191478028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-26382771986886260462008-07-02T11:35:00.000-04:002008-07-02T11:35:00.000-04:00Fascinating! I think this "hands-on training" is ...Fascinating! I think this "hands-on training" is much more valuable than the accounts of attempted exorcisms that you posted previously. I definitely believe that Bernard summoned some nasty spirits that reside there to this day, and perhaps even created a vortex, which would explain the continued appearances after exorcisms of the buildings.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974092666147444930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-914842448114558426.post-90651967073042578352008-07-01T13:00:00.000-04:002008-07-01T13:00:00.000-04:00WOW. Great account sir, thank you!WOW. Great account sir, thank you!cchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15398286827259509312noreply@blogger.com