Chilling Encounters with the Islamic Jinn – Mahdi Jannatdoost
Invisible, ancient, and deeply unsettling, the jinn occupy a shadowy realm alongside humanity—watching, whispering, intervening. Neither angels nor demons, they are beings of smokeless fire: capable of belief or disbelief, kindness or cruelty, love or vengeance.
In this eerie lecture, we descend into the Islamic world of jinn as described in the Qur’an, Hadith, and centuries of folklore, theology, and lived experience. We explore chilling encounters recorded by scholars and storytellers alike: possession and obsession, jinn marriages, desert hauntings, whispers at night, and the dangerous consequences of crossing unseen boundaries.
What happens when humans accidentally insult a jinn? Why are ruins, crossroads, bathrooms, and wilderness places of fear? Can jinn fall in love with humans—or seek revenge? And how do exorcism, protection rituals, and Qur’anic recitation function in real Islamic practice today?
Blending theology, anthropology, folklore, and spine-tingling case stories, this talk reveals a spirit world that is not metaphorical—but real, moral, and terrifyingly close.
This is not a fantasy of demons and monsters.
This is a belief system lived by millions—where the unseen may already be listening.
Enter respectfully. Leave cautiously.
Speaker Bio:
Mahdi Jannatdoost is an Iranian-born engineer with a Master Degree in civil engineering currently based in Norway, where he works within the field of sustainable construction and engineering. With an academic background in civil engineering and green energy technologies, his professional training is rooted in material science, structural systems, and applied research- a background that should surely make him a true sceptic of anything paranormal.
However- Alongside his formal career, Mahdi has maintained a long-standing and deeply personal interest in Islamic folklore, occult sciences, and the study of non-human intelligences as understood within Islamic cosmology. In particular, he has spent years researching the nature of jinn—beings described in the Qur’an and classical Islamic literature as intelligent entities formed from smokeless fire, existing alongside humanity in an unseen realm. Drawing on traditional sources, folklore, and lived belief, Mahdi approaches the subject not as fantasy but as a meaningful and culturally embedded worldview held by millions across the Islamic world. His interest is further informed by personal experiences which he understands as encounters with jinn—experiences that have shaped his research questions and his desire to engage openly with the topic.
Through lectures and discussions, Mahdi seeks to present both scholarly perspectives and first-hand reflections, offering audiences a rare insight into how belief, experience, and tradition intersect in contemporary understandings of the jinn.
Curated & Hosted By:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
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