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The police?
Quickly I type Nathan’s naine A news ite
THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT
Local boy, pulled over by police,
claims demonic possession
When police officers found Nathan Daldry, 16, of 22 Arden Lane, sleeping in his vehicle along the side of Route 23 early Sunday ers would blame their condition on alcohol use, but not Daldry He claiotten where he was The answer, he said, was that he must have been possessed by a de," Daldry tells the Crier "The whole day, this thing was in charge of my body It made me lie to my parents and drive to a party in a town I’ve never been to I don’t really remember the details I only knoasn’t me"
To make matters more mysterious, Daldry says that when he returned home, someone else’s email was on his computer
"I wasn’t myself," he says
Officer Lance Houston of the state police says that because there was no sign of alcohol use and because the car wasn’t reported stolen, Daldry was not being charged with any offense
"Look, I’ All I can tell you is that he didn’t do anything illegal," says Houston
But that’s not enough for Daldry
"If anyone else has experienced this, I want them to come forward," he says "I can’t be the only one"
It’s a local paper’s website, nothing to worry too much about And the police don’t see case But still, I’m worried In all my years, I’ve never had soine how it happened: Nathan is woken up on the side of the road by a police officer tapping on hisMaybe there are even flashing lights bathing the darkness in red and blue Within seconds, Nathan realizes what kind of trouble he’s in--it’s well pastto kill hiarettes and alcohol, and he has no way of reh He is a blank--a sleepwalker waking up Only … he has a sense ofhi on, he says he doesn’t know When the officer asks hiets him out of the car, makes him take a Breathalyzer test Nathan proves to be stone-cold sober But the officer still wants answers, so Nathan tells hiine anyone who takes over bodies except for the devil This is going to be his story He is a good kid--he knows that everybody will back hi to believe hiet ho ahead to his parents They’re ahen Nathan gets there They’re angry and concerned He repeats his story to them They don’t knohat to believe Meanwhile, so about it on the shortwave, or er who snuck off to a party and then tried to blame it on the devil The reporter calls the Daldry home on Sunday, and Nathan decides to talk Because that will make it more real, won’t it?