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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Crime / Death The Beguiling Power of Prayer

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:27 PM

Yesterday, the body of a 93-year-old man disappeared from a Detroit cemetery, to the horror of friends and family. Today, Detroit police discovered the man's body stuffed inside a freezer in his son's basement, where he was reportedly being kept until the son could resurrect him through prayer:

Next-door neighbor Gwendolyn Coleman, 50, said she has known the son... for about five years.

“He done lost it, for him to do something like that, take their father from the cemetery,” Coleman said. “That was wrong.”

She didn’t know the elder Bright. But she attended Saturday’s funeral to pay her respects to his son.

“At the funeral, he said, ‘Y’all might think I’m great, y’all might think I’m great’ — everybody heard that at the funeral,” explained Coleman, standing in front of the now-boarded front door of the man’s home. “Then he said, ‘Watch what I’m going to do, watch what I’m going to do.’ Everybody heard that — the whole family, too. We didn’t think he was going to do nothing like that, though.”

In all fairness to the son, it's unclear whether the resurrection was a failure or if police simply recovered the freezer body before the prayers had a chance to work.

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Mark 11

24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Posted by Rob in Baltimore

on January 16, 2013 at 10:18 AM

@9, Outstanding!!

Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM

Why is it OK to make fun of the mentally ill?

Posted by tacomagirl on January 15, 2013 at 10:06 PM

@9 wins the Internet

Posted by sperifera on January 15, 2013 at 7:47 PM

In Lutheran Sunday school we used to get little plaques with the words "Prayer changes things".
Well, the same goes for decay!

Posted by Juan Alfredo on January 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM

God did answer his prayers ... He said "NO!"

Posted by blackhook on January 15, 2013 at 6:20 PM

Another fine story brought to you by a google news alert for corpse hoarding?

I hope he put a hat and some mittens on poor dead dad in anticipation of his resurrection. That's not the sort of place one should have to wake up in.

Posted by Zebes