A Texas woman has gone viral after posting on Facebook begging parents not to let their children watch Hocus Pocus as it will apparently “unleash hell” on their kids.

The mother of three, named Jamie Gooch, urged in a recent Facebook that parents should protect their children as the movie could be “could be casting any type of spell [that]… could be coming through that TV screen into your home.”

“With the release of Hocus Pocus 2 coming up I would be wrong not to sound the alarm and warn you to protect your children,” Jamie Gooch wrote in a recent Facebook post that went viral. “After all the whole movie is based on harvesting the purity of children’s souls so that witches may live on.”

“Please hear me when I tell you the truth that the Witches and Warlocks in the satanic church abuse and sacrifice children in their ‘spiritual rituals’ to gain more power in the underworld,” the post continued.

“So before you hit play on the night of the premier of this movie please ask yourself if not only your mind but your children’s minds are strong enough to ward off the hypnotisation and bewitching trance that will be coming through the screen to aid in the desensitisation of the coming evil in this world. Don’t fall victim to the schemes of hell.”

“A worst case scenario is: you unleash hell on your kids and in your home,” Gooch told Texas’s KWTX.

“It grieves me, the thought of exposing our kids to darkness,” Gooch sobbed.

She added that her Christian family also refuse to celebrate Halloween, and she believes that evil spells can come through her TV screen.

“I believe whatever comes in our TV screens, there are things attached to that. I’ve seen for myself the things that I’ve watched with my eyes or heard over a TV screen, they become manifested in real life,” she says. “Everybody thinks it’s fake and innocent, but they could be casting any type of spell that they want to, anything could be coming through that TV screen into your home.”

The highly anticipated Hocus Pocus comes nearly three decades after the 1993 original starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, who played three cruel and sassy witches, the Sanderson sisters.

The trio confirmed the exciting news that they would be reprising their roles on social media last year.

“Sistaaaahs! It’s been 300 years … But we’re BACK!,” tweeted Midler.

“Yep. I’m ready. To run. Amok, amok, amok, amok,” Parker said on Instagram.

“The people have spoken: I smell children … again,” Najimy wrote, really getting back into character.

The sequel was released in Australia on 30th September 2022.

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