Curtis (Earthquake) Kelley Sees Hell and Heaven
Bishop Curtis ‘Earthquake’ Kelley, taken from Bound to Lose, Destined to Win , by Kelley, with Diana Stone, 2007. Early life of crime and voodoo Curtis’s grandparents pleaded with their daughter not to marry Robert Kelley, but he was a tall, charismatic, charming young man who wooed her in church, so she married him anyway. She was deeply committed to her faith and knew how to pray. Erma and Robert had 10 children, which they raised in Stamford, Connecticut, in a rough, gang-riddled part of the town. Curtis was the seventh child. In Stamford, that meant nothing. Children there did drugs, sold drugs, and got shot at every age. But in Haitian voodoo, the seventh child, being a son of a voodoo priest, meant everything. And Curtis’s father was just that. When Curtis was 5 years old, Robert brought a Haitian witch into the home to teach Curtis occult lore. The idea was that she would teach him all her dark arts, then transport him back to Haiti to work with Papa Doc Duvali...