I never used to believe in the supernatural

I don't believe in the supernatural, but 3 years ago I had a roommate who found out about the elevator ritual, and being the type of guy who was into that sort of thing he planned on performing it when we were going to visit a mutual friend in San Francisco. He asked our buddy to find a building that met the conditions, and he came through. He found an old building that on its own looked pretty creepy. So the night we arrive the first thing my roommate wants to do before heading out to experience the nightlife, was to do the ritual. We wait in the small lobby of this building and my roommate performs the ritual.

He gets off the elevator about 15 minutes later and looks confused. I asked him what happened and he didn't respond, he just kept looking at me like he didn't know me. I thought he was just messing around with us. So we leave the building and my roommate says, "the buildings aren't glowing"...i responded with a, "what?" ...he then said he wasn't feeling well and he wanted to go back to our buddies place to go to sleep.

The next morning he continued to behave strangely, he was behaving like things were new to him...I knew something was wrong. I seriously asked him if he was ok, he told me his head hurt. We took him to the hospital, where he slept in the waiting room, and after he was eventually seen we later found out that he had a complete psychotic breakdown during his interview. He was in the hospital for almost 10 days in San Francisco where his parents had to eventually come and get him. Another week later I hear from his parents that I should probably start looking for a new roommate. I asked them what happened and they said the doctors told them he had a severe nervous breakdown. They asked me what to tell them what happened, was he on drugs?, was he acting strange before hand?, all to try and make sense of the whole thing. I couldn't give them an answer. 3 months later after not hearing a thing from his parents, other than what bills needed to be paid for their son...I found out he killed himself.

Like I said I don't believe in the supernatural but I will acknowledge the unknown. I can't say for certain whatever he did caused his breakdown but I can say what was a generally normal dude changed completely after doing the elevator ritual.

Credit to betteroffdead1986