Joel Kim Booster is used to getting laughs out of awkward situations, but his latest story lands in full haunted-house territory. During an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the comedian and actor said he had his home “exorcised” to deal with what he described as ongoing paranormal activity and the twist, he claimed, was that the spirit was allegedly “in love” with his fiancé and jealous of him.
Booster said the strange moments started as the kind of stuff you might try to rationalize, until things escalated into experiences he couldn’t shrug off. He described seeing what looked like a flannel-wearing man moving through the house, a moment that initially made him think an actual person had broken in, until the figure disappeared when he went to check. In another incident, he said he felt something grab his side in the kitchen, turned expecting it to be his fiancé, and realized his fiancé wasn’t even home yet.
His fiancé, John-Michael Sudsina, was skeptical at first, according to Booster, but Booster said there was a moment that unnerved them both: they heard what sounded like someone running across their living room floor when no one else was there. That shared experience, he suggested, made it harder to write everything off as imagination or nerves.
Instead of bringing someone into the house, Booster said he contacted a woman in Florida who performed an exorcism remotely, without visiting, and without even doing a live video walkthrough. Afterward, he said she sent what sounded like a “receipt” explaining what she’d done, including claims about closing multiple “dark portals” and detailing supposed paranormal issues connected to the home and its residents. Booster framed it as both ridiculous and oddly convincing in its specificity, adding that the activity stopped afterward.
Then came the part that made the story go viral: Booster said Sudsina later began having a recurring dream about a man outside the home trying to get in. Booster said he contacted the same woman again, and she allegedly told him the spirit was still lingering on the property because he was “in love” with Sudsina and jealous of Booster. According to Booster, she said she “talked to him” and told him to leave and Booster claimed the dreams stopped after that second intervention.
It’s worth stating plainly that none of this is independently verified, and Booster is recounting it as his personal experience and the claims of the person he hired. But the reason the clip is spreading is obvious: it has all the beats of a classic ghost story, except the spirit isn’t a faceless menace — it’s apparently a petty romantic rival.
