

She says it was during this time that her “spirit guide” began to convince her to end her life. While her dad never pulled the trigger, the incident drove Sumpolec deeper into the occult, bringing with it nightmares and “negative” spiritual experiences that she says were difficult to explain. “He had three guns with him at the time, and my mother had left with my younger sister to take her somewhere safer but had left me there.” “It was the most terrible moment of my life,” she said. It all came to a head when Sumpolec says her dad aimed his shotgun at her. They can’t even compare!”Īround the same time, Sumpolec said her father began using drugs and weakened the “bond” the two had shared. Satan does have some limited power on Earth, so that’s why psychics are sometimes right and why witchcraft seems to “work.” Don’t mistake Satan’s power for God’s. “Yet, just because “stuff happens” doesn’t mean that it’s truth. I don’t even like to think about the things I saw,” she wrote. “Since the power source that witchcraft taps into comes from Satan, a lot of stuff actually happens. In a blog post for CBN titled “Confessions of a Teenage Witch,” Sumpolec warned that while there is a “prince of the power of the air,” that’s not the end of the story. “ all these spirits that I thought I was messing with that I thought were good and that were guiding me,” she said.

Sumpolec says she was suddenly faced with the dark side of the supernatural realm. “He doesn’t come in with this big evil intention … it’s a slow luring in, and it’s like, ‘Oh, look at this power.'” “This is the biggest thing that I wish I could communicate on a grander scale to, especially teenagers … that the enemy is all about seduction,” Sumpolec said. Then, she says, things began to take a more sinister turn.

Practicing what she called “white magic,” Sumpolec would cast spells as a “good witch” and worship “gods and goddesses” at a makeshift altar she built in her bedroom. “I had an entire altar set up in my bedroom.” “I really felt like I had … opened up this key of something that I was meant to do, and identity is huge, especially when you’re a teenager,” she said. She recalled at one point her father telling her witchcraft is “who we are as a family.” Upon devouring the book’s contents, Sumpolec says she finally found common ground with her father and soon learned more about him - and his spiritual proclivities. Her dad gave her a “very old book” on witchcraft, which Sumpolec says “was the first time he really ever introduced the supernatural or his interest in the supernatural.”
