(Doctor Ghost redirects here. For the serial of the same name, see Doctor Ghost (serial))
Reverend Jacob Macon is a character in Nathaniel J. Nelson's serial Seventh Circle, the titular antagonist of the sixth serial, Doctor Ghost.
Description[]
Macon is described as being overweight and pale, with thinning hair dyed black and slicked back across his scalp. He is overtly friendly, even to Seventh Circle as they try to prove him a fraud. Macon apparently has an intrinsic knowledge of the human psyche, as he is able to reduce Jessi Gibson and Sasha Belanger to tears by simply picking apart their backstories and emotional states, despite their tough exteriors.
History[]
Reverend Macon's backstory is currently unknown, up until October of 2016, when he began hosting revival meetings in a tent outside Stillwater, Oklahoma. He became an important member of the Stillwater community, though it is unknown if he lived there before his revival meetings. However, there were nonbelievers in Stillwater who considered him a fraud, and derisively referred to him as "Doctor Ghost." Macon healed a number of Stillwater residents of their physical ailments at his revivals, ostensibly through the power of God. This included Manny Ford, whose brain tumor was seen to recede after he participated in a revival. Despite his apparent sympathy for these disabled parishioners, Macon derisively refers to them as "crips" in his own mind.
As of May, 2017, Reverend Macon was the head pastor at Holy Church of Christ in Stillwater and held revival meetings every Friday.[1] When meeting privately with Vinny Howell, Macon admitted that his ten-year-old daughter, Judith Elizabeth Macon, is deathly ill in the hospital, and he has been unable to heal her with his God-given powers.[2] He has also made reference to having a son.[3]