The de­ba­cle of the Gas­par­il­lo buck is con­tin­u­ing to make the rounds on so­cial me­dia, draw­ing de­ri­sion from some and laugh­ter from oth­ers. Apart from hi­lar­i­ous memes, the “buck” now has a Twit­ter ac­count and a Face­book page cre­at­ed by some peo­ple who felt it need­ed to tell its side of the sto­ry.

Guardian Me­dia, which broke this sto­ry of the buck tor­ment­ing the Mathu­ra fam­i­ly ex­clu­sive­ly ear­li­er this week, has been bom­bard­ed by re­quests from peo­ple want­i­ng ex­pan­sive cov­er­age of the de­vel­op­ments.

Sev­er­al peo­ple, in­clud­ing meta­physi­cian Dr Karin Kow­lessar, vis­it­ed the fam­i­ly yes­ter­day to make an as­sess­ment as did sev­er­al oth­er su­per­nat­ur­al ex­perts.

Dur­ing an in­ter­view, Kr­ish­na Mathu­ra said he did not think it was fea­si­ble for me­dia crews to spend the night at his home to wait and lis­ten for the buck.

“It would not come out. When­ev­er peo­ple are here it does not come around. I don’t think it makes sense spend­ing a night,” Mathu­ra said.

He said a Mus­lim heal­er came with the po­lice last night to make an as­sess­ment. Mathu­ra said the man told them the house had a gin (spir­it).

“He came about 1.30 am with the po­lice. He did a rit­u­al. He light some cam­phor and placed spir­i­tu­al oil on the ground. He told us that he saw some­thing fly­ing across the yard from end to end,” Mathu­ra said.

He not­ed that dur­ing the prayers the fire light­ing on the cam­phor be­gan to move strange­ly.

“The fire was go­ing up and down. The Mus­lim man told us that some­thing is buried in this place and that it was an evil spir­it. He said he has to come back and find it,” Mathu­ra added.

He said the Gas­par­il­lo po­lice have al­so been mak­ing fre­quent pa­trols at their res­i­dence.

“To­day, the sergeant came and gave us some moral sup­port. There are some marks on the ground where they lit the fire. The mem­bers of the Uni­ver­sal Church al­so came and prayed with us,” Mathu­ra said, adding they have been play­ing the voice record­ings to prove some­thing evil was lurk­ing in their home.

“We don’t know what it is but many peo­ple know that we are suf­fer­ing and they feel sor­ry for us. They are say­ing it is a wicked spir­it that dis­guis­es.” Mathu­ra said the flow­ers which were stolen were re­turned to the house yes­ter­day but they burnt it at the back. Their re­mote con­trol is still miss­ing.

For those who think they are men­tal­ly de­ranged, Mathu­ra said this was not true.

“None of us ever was hos­pi­talised for a men­tal dis­or­der. We just want peace in our home,” he added.

Kow­lessar said she spoke to the fam­i­ly sep­a­rate­ly and was con­vinced that they were de­pressed out of fear. She said the house was “heavy.” How­ev­er, she said she has to think more about the sit­u­a­tion be­fore mak­ing a di­ag­no­sis.