Crime & Justice
Former Secret Service Agent Reveals Bible Carriers Always Failed Polygraph Tests
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"Anytime somebody showed up with like a Bible in their hand for an interview. For an interview? Oh yeah. So if you bring a prop, this might be like a, here we go. You're eye rolling. No, this is the divine prop. We would call this. So anytime somebody, we'd see, we'd see someone do that right away is like, that guy's gonna fail. For sure."
Evie Pompurus, former Secret Service polygraph examiner, revealed an unscientific but consistent pattern: suspects who brought Bibles to interrogations or invoked God during questioning almost always failed. She explained that truth-tellers don't need props or religious oaths to prove innocence, making such displays immediate red flags for deception.
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