[mathewsanders]

The author claims to be rational, but they don’t volunteer any alternative hypotheses to demonic possession that they’ve considered, eg speaking ‘unknown’ languages could be exposure that they had as a child and had since forgot (still pretty remarkable, but less remarkable than paranormal entity), ‘knowing’ facts about strangers could be just a guess and there’s a sort of survivorship bias where only the correct guesses are documented.

Levitation is harder to explain, but also the author does not claim to have witnessed that themselves so the easier explanation is that it’s not an accurate report of whatever occurred.

Having said that, I think it’s important to stay curious about these claims. A close friend and myself experienced a physical phenomenon, and many years later I’m still don’t have any plausible explanation for what it might have been.