When people hear about my job, they assume I burst into people’s houses like the exorcist from the film. That couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not dramatic. I’m much more likely to turn up and say, “Hi, I’m Jason – I’ve been sent to sort the leak in the temporal timeframe, if you could just show me where it is.” Like a gas engineer, but for paranormal activity.
As well as being an Anglican priest and the dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, I am a “deliverance minister” dealing with poltergeist activity, houses that are “haunted” and things that go bump in the night, as well as people who believe they are possessed. There are some misconceptions about how the Anglican Church deals with the supernatural. The fact that every diocese in England and Wales has a team of people like me shows that the Church is more open to these things than people assume. In my diocese, we deal with about a dozen incidents a year. Despite what people often think, it’s no worse on Halloween.
