Man Arrested For Robbing Buddhist Temple In Bangkok After Chanting Invisibility Spell That Failed to Work

Security guard's 'magic spell' fails to conceal Wat Pho donation theft

A security guard has been arrested for allegedly stealing cash from donation boxes at Bangkok's renowned Wat Pho temple, despite attempting to conceal his identity by reciting what he claimed were incantations to avoid detection.

Man Arrested For Robbing Buddhist Temple In Bangkok After Chanting Invisibility Spell That Failed to Work

Wat Pho Buddhist temple in Bangkok Thailand There are plenty of strategies criminals can deploy to decrease the risk of having their identity revealed while they’re committing an illegal act. One man in Thailand was hoping to check that box by chanting a spell to make himself invisible before robbing a Buddhist temple, but he was arrested after it failed to have the intended effect. Buddhism is overwhelmingly the most popular religion in Thailan…

A thief targeted a historic royal temple's donation boxes, but his special invisibility spell did absolutely nothing to hide him from police

A 43-year-old security guard was arrested after his attempt to use a supposed invisibility spell to rob a historic temple in Bangkok failed to hide him from security cameras. The suspect, identified as Ratchathan, targeted the famous Wat Pho temple complex to steal money from donation boxes, but the technology of modern surveillance proved far more effective than his mystical efforts. According to BroBible, Wat Pho is an iconic site that dates b…

Bangkok temple thief caught on CCTV despite chanting concealment spell

BANGKOK — 4 June 2026, police in Bangkok have arrested a security guard accused of stealing cash from donation boxes at Wat Pho after he allegedly climbed over the temple wall, covered his head with a cloth and recited what he described as a spell to conceal himself before carrying out the theft. Lt. Gen. Siam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, together with Maj. Gen. Pallop Aemla, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Po…