You know you’re going for a slow ride on Hell boat down the Misery river when someone cracks open a devil-board ......
Interesting fact. Ouija board: Oui and Ja.
Just say ‘No’ to Satan! (But happy Halloween.)
I know the story well. Thanks for posting.
The boy later started Rush’s favorite Yuletide music group, Mannheim Steamroller.
Ghost Adventures had their 100th episode at the MO home of the exorcism 2 weeks ago. Good show, scary EVP’s. It would have been better if the show was done at the hospital room , but it has been sealed shut for decades including the wing.
“After his exorcism, according to Father Bishop’s diary, the boy became ‘a fine young man’
Roland apparently married, raised children and maintained a long and productive career with the US government before retiring, reportedly to suburban Maryland. He has never spoken publicly about the case.
Analysts of Roland Doe’s case in later years believe he likely suffered from a mental health issue such as schizophrenia or Tourette’s Syndrome that was far less understood in the 1940s.”
Tourette’s. Ya, right. That is all it was.
I was visiting the Catholic college I graduated from shortly after the movie came out. I was talking with one of the priests I knew and the topic of the movie came up. He told me that he knew the priest who did exorcism and that it was a real case of possession. This is not something I would have expected one of my former professors to say unless he really believed it. I later mentioned this to a colleague at work and he said he knew the younger priest involved in the case. Both said that while the movie had many sensational things happening, there was no rational explanation for what actually occurred during those weeks of exorcism.