The bizarre story of American Airlines Flight 618 just took another turn.
After revealing that he was the mystery passenger attacked during the now-viral flight, Jonathan Cahn is going deeper into what he believes was happening behind the scenes, and the details he has uncovered are difficult to ignore.
Cahn says the violent confrontation aboard the flight was not merely a strange midair incident. He believes it carried the fingerprints of spiritual warfare, particularly because of a series of eerie parallels between what happened to him and events he had already written into The Altar of Pergamon.
“What happened was demonic,” Cahn said.
He explained that the characters in The Altar of Pergamon travel around the world, uncovering spiritual mysteries. Along the way, they encounter people who initially appear friendly, only for those encounters to suddenly turn dark and threatening.
That bears an uncanny resemblance to what Cahn says happened aboard Flight 618.
According to Cahn, his interaction with the man began as a normal, friendly conversation. Then something shifted. The conversation turned dark, the man’s behavior became hostile, and eventually the encounter erupted into violence.
“What happened on the plane is a replaying of what I wrote in the book,” Cahn said.
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But there was another detail Cahn says even he initially missed.
While preparing his latest message about the incident, Cahn says he received an email from someone reading The Altar of Pergamon. The reader directed him to page 273, where one of the characters describes being attacked from behind and grabbed around the neck in a chokehold.
Cahn says that was startling because he experienced a strikingly similar attack aboard Flight 618 when the man grabbed him around the neck. Cahn said he had forgotten the passage was even in the book until the reader pointed it out.
Then there’s the laptop.
Cahn also described how the confrontation escalated around the computer on which he had written his books. He pointed out that the characters in The Altar of Pergamon similarly attempt to safeguard laptops containing information connected to the mystery they are uncovering. On the plane, Cahn says the tensions hit an enormous peak as the man sitting next to him lunged after the computer, which acted as another detail that eerily echoes the story he had already written.
Yet perhaps the strangest element Cahn revealed is an image captured aboard the plane.
Cahn showed viewers a reflection visible in the darkened airplane window beside the restrained passenger. He says the shape resembles a demonic face, with eyes, a nose, lips, a pointed chin and what could be a curved horn.
However, Cahn was careful not to declare the image supernatural.
“Make of it what you will,” he told viewers, acknowledging that the reflection could have been formed naturally. Nevertheless, he pointed to the bizarre timing and location of the image amid what he believes was a spiritual confrontation.
For Cahn, however, the ultimate story is not about a mysterious reflection, an attack or even Flight 618.
It is about what happened afterward.
The incident gave Cahn a platform to speak about God and spiritual warfare through mainstream media attention he otherwise might never have received. What appeared designed to silence the message, he argues, instead magnified it.
“In the end,” Cahn said, “the light will always overcome the darkness and the good will always overcome the evil.”
For believers watching the strange Flight 618 saga unfold, Cahn’s message is unmistakable: spiritual warfare may be real, but darkness does not have the final word.
Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the newly released book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
