Thread:Magma MK-II/@comment-25008763-20180803142525/@comment-25008763-20180803143938

yes, Martinez believes with certainity that the dog was a demon and that it had been draining his soul, causing his fall into drug addiction and his wife believed it to be "Satan" - the wife's claim is common for all demon cases and hyperbole because every demon ever encountered is claimed to be "Satan" by someone.

there is, of course, an argument it didn't do anything we can prove but neither can we prove Greys abduct people during the night or Bigfoot kidnaps campers.. Martinez truly believed the demon had been following him around and driving him to a state of despair / madness.. upon seeing the picture he sobered up and has kept the image ever since to remind himself never to go back on that road again.

is it a case of the drugs getting to him? maybe.. but with the image now in circulation there's the theory that a demon was involved.. like any camp-fire / ghost story it starts with some facts then a few mysteries so no one knows for sure.

TLDR version: the pair believe the demon in the photo was the reason Joe was becoming addicted to drugs and feeling ever more depressed etc - he claimed it was "destroying his soul" : after being exposed (via photograph) both claim to have much happier lives and attribute seeing the demon with being set free from its influence.. (so basically it's every "evil demon" story ever.)