One of them was my manager at work who said she felt like she got possessed after burning a box of old stuff while cleaning out her father’s attic after he died

Wow do you think she had some kind of emotional reaction at both the reminder of the inevitability of mortality, her own future death, as well as a complex set of emotions arising from burning things that weren’t hers and inevitably would remind her of her father and her loss??

nope it’s gotta be demons, yeeeeup