The incident occurred at the Sri
Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, a town in the Indian state
of Tamil Nadu. The cinema-goer, from Andhra Pradesh, had complained of chest
pains during the film’s climax, and fainted shortly afterwards.
He was rushed to the nearby Old
Government Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. Medics ordered his
body to be sent to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for
post-mortem but, according to the Times of India, the cadaver, and the person
charged with transporting it, have both gone missing.
While there are no doubt rational
explanations for both the man’s death and the disappearance of his body, the
story has fuelled a wave of supernatural panic on social media that has
accompanied the film’s release.
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 to Facebook last week, with many
viral news sites in South East Asia reporting the “possession” as fact.
However, the video in question is thought to have been filmed in 2013, long
before the release of film.
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
describes as “my first first-hand encounter with paranormal activity.”
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