Fire Poltergeist. Turkey

This story began in 2012, but continues to this day. The whole family is very exhausted by what is happening and does not know what to do. Paranormal forces repeatedly tried to expel the imams with prayers, but this did not help.

On the night of August 13, 2012, in Siirt, Turkey, a street vendor named Zeki Toprak, his wife and four children were awakened by the smell of smoke and discovered a fire in their small 3-room house.

For unknown reasons, almost all the property and furniture of the family were damaged by the fire that came from nowhere. Some things were only slightly touched by the flames, but many were burned to ashes.

Many household items were damaged, but the strangest thing was that traces of the flame after extinguishing the fire were found even on the bare ceiling, where, it would seem, there was nothing even to burn.

In addition, firefighters found it difficult to name the cause of the fire, because the flames spread even in those places where there was nothing flammable. And there was no one specific point where the fire could have started.

Because of these oddities, the Toprak family and their neighbors started talking about the fact that the fire was caused by supernatural causes. When the electricians came to the Toprak house, they did not find any damage to the wiring in the house, that is, the fire definitely did not occur due to a short circuit.

Gradually, the Toprak family calmed down and began to consider the incident only an accident. Soon, however, things started to light up again in the house. And these spontaneous fires did not lose their intensity over the next few months.

The fire could occur both during the day and at night, both on the bare ceiling, and on clothes, prayer mats, floor carpets, children's plastic bath tub, and even inside clothing cabinets that were locked with a key.

After a while, it became clear that the fiery "spirit" was attached to the daughter of Zeki Toprak named Melek, who was studying in the 5th grade. One day, when she came to school, her outerwear, notebooks and textbooks caught fire on their own during a lesson in front of the teacher and other students.

This strange incident aroused great interest among journalists and the teacher told them that at first they thought that someone had sprayed Melek's things with a flammable liquid and then set them on fire, but they never found any liquid or anything else that could have caused the fire.

When the fires began to occur more frequently at night, the Toprak family, in fear of the fire, took their mattresses and pillows out into the courtyard and slept for some time in the open air. But two weeks later, fires began to occur in the courtyard.

Simultaneously with the appearance of the fire, other anomalous phenomena occurred in the Toprak family's house. Objects disappeared from their usual places to appear in another, usually completely unexpected, place. Then the household appliances began to turn on and off by themselves.

Completely terrified of the persecution of the "fire spirit", the Toprak family collected the remaining things and moved to live in the house of their relatives. But the fires followed them.

Then Zeki Toprak finally decided to seek help from the imams. He appealed to them to drive away the "mischievous genie" and clean his house with prayers. The fact that it was all the fault of the genie, was stated by the local mufti Faruk Arvas.

In Islam, jinn are spiritual beings who can be good or evil. Arvas stated literally the following: "According to our belief, there are beings called jinn. The fires could have been caused by such creatures."

Several times the imams tried to come to the house of Toprak and drive the jinn away with prayers, but each time after their visits, the fires only intensified and occurred more often. It was as if the genie was very angry at the attempts to calm him down.

After the imams failed, Zeki Toprak sought help from the Governor of Siirt, Ahmet Aydin, who, accompanied by a TV channel 56 film crew, immediately arrived, interviewed family members and examined the damage.

Although the djinn initially refrained from starting any serious fires during this visit, TV cameraman Sawyer Ozan felt a burning sensation as he left the residence and discovered that part of the sole of his shoe had melted. Properly impressed, the governor declared the problem a " supernatural (i.e., paranormal) event."

The story soon reached the mainstream Turkish media, and soon dozens of reports appeared in regional and city newspapers, on television and radio. At the peak of interest, the rector of the University of Siirt, Professor Murat Ehrman, decided to see if science could shed light on the situation. In late December, his team, which included a psychiatrist, a sociologist, a physicist and several engineers, interviewed the family and, together with the police, installed cameras to monitor key points throughout their home.

To the disappointment of the scientists, the poltergeist, genie or hoaxer-refused to manifest itself these days and all the fires that occurred during the month-long investigation broke out exclusively outside the limited field of view of the cameras.

At the end of February, a three-page report by the researchers, which dealt only with the fires and ignored other strange aspects of the case (such as the operator's shoe), laid out predictably skeptical conclusions:

"The Commission considers that the possibility of metaphysical involvement is insignificant. A full understanding of the problem requires long-term observation of the socio-physiological nature of all members of the Toprak family."

The obvious assumption was that the family had staged the phenomenon. And to prove this, the report claimed that the Toprak children were once caught with a lighter in their hands. However, the Toprak family was deeply outraged by this suggestion. They claimed that they were really very exhausted and did not say false things in any way.

In another attempt to escape from the fire genie, the Toprak family decided to go 140 km away to the city of Cizre to visit distant relatives. By March 2013, they were living in six different homes, but every time they met, a fiery nightmare haunted them. It was claimed that in the seven months since the terror began, at least 300 fires had occurred.

"We had to buy new furniture and I work a lot. to be able to do this. So why should we burn it? We don't need fame and we don't try to make money out of it. We only need peaceful places to live and work. We always pray that no one else will have to go through this, " Zeki Toprak told reporters.

Then the journalists questioned the children and Toprak's wife in detail and found out some details that had not been previously published in the media.

Shortly before the first fire, the Toprak family had to call a locksmith, as the key inside the front door of their original home seemed to turn of its own accord and locked them all from the outside. That is, before the fires, a poltergeist appeared, moving things.

Mrs. Toprak told how on another occasion she put down the breakfast plates, went into another room, and came back a few seconds later to find that all the plates were gone. They were found neatly laid out in the garden. The TV remote control, mobile phone and other equipment also disappeared from the closed premises and were apparently teleported to the street.

Zeki Toprak was very annoyed by Dr. Murat Ehrman's report, especially his claim that the children were caught with lighters. He told how everything could really happen:

"One night in Siirt, we were all sleeping in one room because we were so scared, and suddenly we smelled smoke and searched the other rooms. We didn't find anything, but when we returned to the bedroom, our beds were on fire. Then I found a lighter under my pillow, but we don't know where it came from."

Zeki Toprak was also angry that the scientists were completely focused on the fires and ignored other strange phenomena.

Judging by the subsequent regular publications on the network, the Toprak family still continues to suffer from sudden fires. In 2018, it was written about them that they are very much exhausted by all this and do not know what to do. And moreover, all family members are in a state of great stress and ask for psychological help.