However, he desired the energy of more souls which he could not obtain because they kept entering the Light, but when a house was built over his cavern in 1980s and the Freelings moved in, Kane immediately sensed the power of the Freeling's daughter Carol Anne's innocence, and realized that it shone like the Light. Kane/The Beast was able to gain his powers from his followers. He used his shaman abilities to reincarnate himself through lifetime after lifetime until he was reborn as Taylor, who helped the Freeling family defeat Kane.Īfter Kane died, his ghost absorbed the energy from his followers and this fused with the power-hungry evil in his heart, transforming Kane into a monstrous apparition that the psychic Tangina Barrons would go on to call 'The Beast'. Ben tried to find Kane to stop him, but could not find him. Kane's cult headed for the cavern and sealed themselves in. Ben was able to free himself from the possession, while Kane told his followers that had witnessed this event that Ben Lagou was evil. Ben Lagou was briefly possessed when he drank tequila, just as Steven Freeling later would be.

Lagou was a member of Kane's cult, but when he witnessed Kane's growing evil, he turned against him. The novelization for Poltergeist II: The Other Side states that Taylor is the reincarnation of a man named Ben Lagou. It is implied in Poltergeist II: The Other Side that Kane became enemies with a Native Shaman known as 'Medicine Man' ( Medicine Man, the spiritual figure, not the character) who is also known as Taylor. He led his 'flock' across a desert t southern California into an underground cavern under the premise that the world was about to end, but in truth Kane simply wanted to kill his disciples and himself and then harvest their souls in death. However, Kane simply wanted to harvest the energy of his followers' spirits in the Afterlife to gain supernatural power. Kane claims to be a Reverend, likely from the American South, who started and became leader of a utopian cult in the early 19th century.

Dead in a Bed by Henry Kane