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Long interested in parapsychology , Schulze arranged for the boy to spend a night in his home in order to observe him. Rhine learned that Schulze claimed he witnessed household objects and furniture seemingly moving by themselves, Rhine "wondered if Schulze 'unconsciously exaggerated' some of the facts. According to the traditional story, the boy then underwent a number of exorcisms. During the exorcism, the boy allegedly slipped one of his hands out of the restraints, broke a bedspring from under the mattress, and used it as an impromptu weapon, slashing the priest's arm and resulting in the exorcism ritual being halted.

The family traveled to St.

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Louis , where Roland's cousin contacted one of his professors at St. Louis University , Bishop, who in turn spoke to William S. Bowdern , an associate of College Church. Together, both priests visited Roland in his relatives' home, where they allegedly observed a shaking bed, flying objects, the boy speaking in a guttural voice, and exhibiting an aversion to anything sacred. Bowdern was granted permission from the archbishop to perform another exorcism. Before the next exorcism ritual began, another priest, Walter Halloran, was called to the psychiatric wing of the hospital, where he was asked to assist Bowdern.

Allen offered "the consensus of today's experts" that "Robbie was just a deeply disturbed boy, nothing supernatural about him". Author Mark Opsasnick [1] questioned many of the supernatural claims associated with the story, proposing that "Roland Doe" was simply a spoiled, disturbed bully who threw deliberate tantrums to get attention or to get out of school.

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Opsasnick reports that Halloran, who was present at the exorcism, never heard the boy's voice change, and he thought the boy merely mimicked Latin words he heard clergymen say, rather than gaining a sudden ability to speak Latin. Opsasnick reported that when marks were found on the boy's body, Halloran failed to check the boy's fingernails to see if he had made the marks himself.

Opsasnick also questioned the story of Hughes' attempts to exorcise the boy and his subsequent injury, saying he could find no evidence that such an episode had actually occurred. According to Opsasnick, individuals connected to the incident were influenced by their own specializations:.

To psychiatrists, Rob Doe suffered from mental illness. To priests this was a case of demonic possession. Those involved saw what they were trained to see. Each purported to look at the facts but just the opposite was true — in actuality they manipulated the facts and emphasized information that fit their own agendas. Opsasnik wrote that after he located and spoke with neighbors and childhood friends of the boy most of whom he only referenced by initials he concluded that "the boy had been a very clever trickster, who had pulled pranks to frighten his mother and to fool children in the neighborhood".

Skeptic Joe Nickell [9] wrote that there was "simply no credible evidence to suggest the boy was possessed by demons or evil spirits" and maintains that the symptoms of possession can be "childishly simple" to fake. Nickell dismissed suggestions that supernatural forces made scratches or markings or caused words to appear on the teenager's body in unreachable places, saying, "A determined youth, probably even without a wall mirror, could easily have managed such a feat - if it actually occurred.

Exorcism of Roland Doe

Although the scratched messages proliferated, they never again appeared on a difficult-to-reach portion of the boy's anatomy. Nothing that was reliably reported in the case was beyond the abilities of a teenager to produce. There was a man there in the synagogue with a spirit of an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice. Friends, this possessed man was in the synagogue.

He was there to gossip, disrupt and cause dissent among the brethren. The devil quoted Scripture to Jesus in the desert, though he twisted it. A head knowledge or mere belief in the existence in God is not enough. Some in the church today are there only to attack, seeking whom they may devour 1 Peter They look for attention so we will take our eyes off Christ. This is probably why he spoke out.

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Notice that he also affirmed who Jesus is, confirming that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of prophecy. As Jesus rebuked him, this demon came out.

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The Bible tells us that neither Satan nor any demon out of Hell can stand against Jesus. Jesus Christ is and will be the victor.

Unlike many other well-known cases of demonic possession, the Smurl family claimed it was not a person who was possessed. Instead, they claimed their West Pittston, Pennsylvania double-block home had been taken over by a poltergeist. In , after publishing a book about their experiences, the family claimed intense prayer had helped return things to normal—although the family matriarch said there were still odd occurrences in In many ways, Ecklund and Roland Doe also known by another alias, "Robbie Mannheim" had similar experiences with possession, including the fact that both were cataloged and published by priests.


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Doe's case became so notorious that it, too, was adapted into a film: His case was the inspiration for the horror classic The Exorcist. After the passing of his aunt, the year-old turned to a spirit board to commune with his beloved family member.


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Instead of inviting his aunt, Roland apparently invited something much more sinister. After the family became overwhelmed by weird occurrences, including odd noises, furniture moving by itself, and objects levitating when Roland was around, they reached out to their Lutheran pastor who, after monitoring Roland's behavior, declared that he should see a Catholic priest. The family then moved to St. Louis and saw three more priests, who — with the permission of an Archbishop — carried out around 30 exorcisms on Roland in the psychiatric wing of a city hospital.

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Berkowitz claimed in his prison diaries that the animal was possessed by a 6,year-old man named Sam, an alcoholic who consumed human blood. Berkowitz also claimed that the spirit locked him in the attic and commanded him to kill through the dog. Although Berkowitz has gone back and forth , sometimes sticking with the possession story, sometimes recanting it, he, to this day, believes that his crimes were part of an epic struggle between God and the Devil. After Christine Taylor accused her increasingly erratic and socially distant husband of adultery with their church group leader during a meeting, Taylor lashed out at both his wife and his alleged mistress.

In a short time, his terrifying behavior increased in frequency and intensity, and it was decided that Michael would be seen by priests. Following a full night of exhaustive exorcism sessions, the priests claimed they had pulled upwards of 40 demons from Taylor but that several remained inside him when they sent him home. Upon his return, he violently murdered his wife and strangled the family poodle to death.