Haunted St. Lucia: Ti Bolom

HAUNTED ST. LUCIA: Ti Bolom
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI's Esoteric Detective
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When my half-brother Joseph (Joe) Anthony Soyo went on vacation to St. Lucia, I asked him to dig up some information on The Ti Bolom. The Ti Bolom is also referred to as the "little devil". The island has sightings of these little beings and some families on the island have been terrorized by these creatures. Legend has it that children who were not properly baptized and face an unexpected death, become Ti Boloms. These Ti Boloms hide in bushes and try and lure locals and tourists into the bushes and steal their souls. According to my brother, a local heard a baby crying and followed the sounds into a secluded part of the island, only to come face-to-face with a Ti Bolom. The Ti Bolom jumped on the local and sat on his chest and sucked out his soul from his forehead. Another local heard the screaming of the man and ran over to him. The victim of this Ti Bolom explained to the man on what happened and then went into convulsions and died on the spot. Some locals are known to summon Ti Boloms by placing a raw egg under their pillow. They will then sleep on the pillow with the raw egg for three days and on the 3rd day, a Ti Bolom will appear and the Ti Bolom will become a servant to the local that summoned him. The Ti Bolom will do the evil bidding of the summoner.

Now, I know that this myth sounds like a fantasy, but there have been news reports as recently as 2014, describing Ti Bolom encounters. Below are two reports that I discovered:

St. Lucia News Online
May 29, 2014 ·
Evil spirit forces family out of Castries home, but haunting continues. Apparitions of a black male figure, scratching and tapping sounds, a croaking frog, doors opening and closing, whispers, and knocking, all sound like scenes from a Hollywood horror movie, but this is currently happening right here in St. Lucia. About three weeks ago, a Guyanese family was forced to flee their unfinished three-bedroom house in Bisee, Castries by what they describe as an “evil spirit” which has not only possessed their 16-year-old son but has no intentions of leaving until all members of the family are killed.

Dominica News Online
March 12, 1998
When a man in the small community of Sarrot in Bexon, St. Lucia decided to take a photo of himself, little did he know it would turn into a sensation. According to HTS News when the photo was viewed, something in the background “turned out to be a shocking revelation.” The daughter of the man said only three individuals were in the room when the photo was taken but somehow something else appeared in it. And she said it does not look like any of the other people present. Soon news of the photo began spreading and residents of the community became convinced that the image in the picture is not human. Many said it is in fact what is well known by folks in St. Lucia as a ‘Ti Bolom.’ According to St. Lucian folklore, a Ti Bolom is a two or two-and-a-half-foot boy or girl, that is brought into the world on Good Friday by someone with evil intent. After it is brought into existence, the Ti Bolom carries out its master’s evil bidding with great relish. The stories go on to say that the Ti Bolom survives on raw meat, which the master must supply in great quantities or be eaten himself. Family members of the man in Bexon are now convinced that there are unwanted guests in the house and some supernatural being has taken over.

My brother Joe says that the girl he was dating made claim that her uncle was terrorized by a Ti Bolom. The story goes that her uncle got into a physical altercation with a man at a bar over a woman that both were courting. Her uncle got the best of the man he was fighting. As her uncle was leaving the bar, the man that he fought with cursed him and said within the week, he will be visited by a Ti Bolom. This prediction came true. In one week, her uncle came face-to-face with a Ti Bolom. The Ti Bolom, that the uncle came in contact with was an evil little boy that had black eyes. The white of the eyes or the sclera was all black. The uncle while looking at the Ti Bolom heard a voice in his head telling him to kill himself. The uncle then started praying out loud and finally the voice in his head stopped and the Ti Bolom vanished. The next day, the uncle went to his local church and had the priest pray over him and bless him. After the blessing from his priest, he was no longer bothered by the Ti Bolom.

Out of all the Carribbean islands, it would seem that St. Lucia is the main focus of the little devils known as Ti Bolom.