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In a bizarre story out of Spain, a man is on trial for allegedly convincing an elderly woman to give him over $300,000 by pretending that he was God. The strange case reportedly began back in 2013 when the unnamed suspect called the victim, identified as Esperanza, and informed her that she was speaking to the Supreme Being. While most people would simply hang up the phone, the woman actually thought that it was God on the line as she had previously had a profound experience wherein she believes that she had been made a saint by the Virgin Mary. Esperanza's tale was apparently so well-known in her community that it led to the call from the faux deity, who sought to take advantage of what Spanish media described as the woman's "religious mystical delusions."
More on this weird story at the Coast to Coast AM website.