Man dies watching 'The Conjuring 2', body goes missing

20 June 2016 - 08:43 By The Daily Telegraph

A 65-year-old man died in a cinema auditorium last week while watching The Conjuring 2. The incident occurred at the Sri Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The cinema-goer had complained of chest pains during the film's climax and fainted shortly afterwards. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.Medics ordered his body to be sent to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem but the cadaver, and the person charged with transporting it, have both gone missing.Inside our trip to London to interview the stars of The Conjuring 2I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of horror movies. Sure, I’ll watch a horror movie with the missus but it’s often through the gaps in my fingers as they cover my eyes. While there are no doubt rational explanations for both the man's death and the disappearance of his body, the story has fuelled supernatural panic on social media.A video purporting to show a woman who "got possessed while watching The Conjuring 2" has been viewed close to five million times since being uploaded on Facebook last week. But the video is thought to have been filmed in 2013, long before the release of the film.The Conjuring 2 movie review: Don’t forget to look under your bedThere’s something about a ghost story that intrigues and captivates. The fear of the unknown, meeting the supernatural, it’s all so bloody unpredictable! Another viral Facebook post, from Singaporean man Damian Ng Yih Leong, shows a "cross" on a hotel room mirror the man claimed to have found after watching The Conjuring 2, which he described as "my first firsthand encounter with paranormal activity"...

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