Happy Monday! 🤍 cheers 🥂 to another week. This isn’t just an ordinary week; it’s Halloween week! Spooky. The case I have for you today is one I learned about last night, and it blew my mind.

Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the unexplained and supernatural. This story will leave you stunned and a bit spooked. Onwards to the case, so we’re now in Seattle (circa 1991)

Destination: Seattle, Washington- Spring 1991

First stop: San Francisco, California- Spring 1991 📍

The Setup:

In order for us to understand what happened in Seattle, we have to start a few days earlier in San Francisco. Christopher Case was a 35-year old music executive. By all accounts a healthy, rational, and grounded guy who didn’t spend his time looking into the paranormal or alternative beliefs. He was in California on a routine business when he met a woman through mutual acquaintances.

According to reports from his close friends after the fact, the encounter took a sharp turn when the woman expressed a romantic interest in Chris, and he politely declined. Unhappy with the rejection, she allegedly made a chilling claim before they parted ways: she told him she was a practicing witch, placed a curse on him, and warned that he only had one week left…to live.

At the time, Chris brushed it off as a bizarre, uncomfortable encounter. He was a practical, sensible person who didn’t believe in curses. He got on his flight back to Seattle, expecting to pick his normal life right back up where he left it… but…

He had no idea that within three days, his entire reality and his mental state would completely unravel.

Spooky. Are your bones rattling yet?

The Descent: Seattle, Washington- April 1991

When Chris returned to his Seattle apartment, he tried to carry on as normal. But within 48 hours, fear completely took over.

He began making frantic phone calls to his closest friends. He reported hearing whispering voices echoing through his empty apartment, seeing dark shapes moving in the shadows, and feeling an overwhelming physical force pressing down on his chest in the middle of the night….

For a man who had never believed in the supernatural, his reaction was swift and desperate. He transformed his living space into a fortress:

-Protective Symbols: He bought dozens of crucifixes, rosaries, and religious figures, hanging them over every single doorway and window frame.

• Salt Barriers: Thick lines of salt were poured along the baseboards, walls, and entryways to keep the dark forces out.
• Continuous Rituals: Dozens of candles were burned around the clock while soft religious music played on a loop.

By day five, exhausted and terrified, Chris confessed to a friend, “I’m not going to make it to the weekend.”

The Discovery: April 18, 1991, Seattle, Washington

On April 18 1991, exactly one week after the encounter in San Francisco, concerned friends called the Seattle Police for a welfare check after Chris stopped answering his phone.

When offers stepped inside the apartment, they found a scene that looked like something out of a horror movie.

-The apartment was dark, illuminated only by burned-down candle stubs.

-Religious music was still quietly playing on repeat.

-Unbroken lines of salt bordered the room.

Then..in the bathroom, police found Christopher Case dead. He was fully clothed, kneeling inside a completely dry bathtub with his head resting against the side wall. There were no signs of forced entry, no signs of a struggle, no drugs or alcohol in his system, and no physical injuries on his body.

The coroner later determined that his cause of death was acute heart failure. At 35 years old, with no prior history of heart conditions, Chris Case had quite literally been scared to death.

My Theories: What Really Happened?

Honestly, this case instantly reminded me of the movie Drag Me to Hell. Where a normal everyday interaction turning into a rejection triggers a terrifying chain of bizarre, unexplainable events.

When I look at everything that happened to Chris, I find myself torn between two main theories:

1. The Supernatural Encounter: I do believe in the supernatural myself, and the timing here is too exact to ignore. The warning, the one-week timeline, and then…it actually happens? He may have very well encountered something unexplainable that targeted him.
2. Extreme Psychosomatic Reaction: On the other hand, the human mind is extremely powerful. It is possible that he worked himself up into a state of pure terror and sleep deprivation that his adrenaline spiked to a lethal level, causing his heart to physically give out?

What do you think? Did Chris encounter an actual dark force, or did sheer fear take over? Let me know in the comments! 🎃

Rest In Peace, Chris. 🤍🕊️

Until next time, L.W. 🖤