EXORCISMS
MODERN DAY DEMONIC POSSESSION DOCUMENTED – TRUE STORY OF AN EXORCISM
In February of 2008, the New Oxford Review contained a documented case of demonic possession. The young woman, referred to as Julia, had at one time been a prominent Satanist, appeared to have some powers in the occult and psychic abilities. She agreed to have her story published as long as her real name wasn’t revealed and all the details weren’t mentioned.
One of the things that makes this particular case unique, is the qualifications of the researcher. Richard E. Gallagher, M.D., is a board certified psychiatrist, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the New York Medical College and a graduate of Princeton University. And, these are just a few of his credentials.
Julia, a middle aged, Caucasian woman living in the United States had first consulted with local clergy and was referred to a priest for help. Right from the beginning, Julia was convinced that she was being attacked by a demon or Satan himself. Gallagher was brought in to offer a psychiatric and medical opinion.
Raised a Catholic, Julia no longer practiced her faith, but had stated that she felt she might need the Catholic Rite of Exorcism. She was a highly intelligent woman and was consistently logical throughout her ordeal. Gallagher had determined that she was “in no way psychotic”.
In the presence of witnesses, she would go into a trance which was almost always accompanied by some type of phenomenon. She would spout threats, obscenities, taunts and even phrases such as, “Leave, you imbecile priest”, “She’s ours” and “Leave her alone”.
The voice varied from high pitched to masculine, but most of the comments Julia made displayed a deep contempt for anything that was sacred or religious. When she would snap out of the trance, she would claim to have no recollection of saying anything.
Because the case was so complex, a team was assembled to assist. During phone calls to arrange for the group to gather, the same voices that she had spoken with during the trances would interrupt the telephone lines. Again, these voices would be telling them to “Leave her alone”, “She’s ours” and “Get away from her.”
Even when she wasn’t in a trance, objects would fall off shelves and she knew facts that she couldn’t have known. Often, she would reveal details about relatives, deaths, illnesses and other personal details about team members, some of whom she’d never even met before. She had even described the decor of some of the team members homes.
Although the exorcism started on a warm day, the room quickly became cold. As Julia began to make strange noises and talk, some of the members began to sweat profusely. Then an unbearable heat inside the room was felt by all of the participants.
At first, she went into a quiet trance, but after the invocations and prayers had been continuing for a while, several voices and sounds began to come out of Julia. She made animal noises, loud growls and spoke in several foreign languages, including Latin and Spanish.
She also exhibited tremendous strength. At one point five people were struggling to hold her down. For around half an hour, Julia levitated about six inches in the air. During the two ceremonies conducted, she also revealed even more alarming information about members of the team and their families.
The entity, or entities that possessed her could also discern the the difference between regular, unblessed water and holy water. When regular water was sprinkled upon her, she showed no reaction. But, when holy water was used, Julia would scream in pain.
One of the most disturbing facts about this case is that although the exorcism rites seemed to help Julia, the demonic possession remained unresolved at the time the documentation was released. The only comfort is that when Julia wasn’t under the trance like states, she was completely normal and did not suffer from any mental illness. She never even retained memories from the exorcism ceremonies.
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I don’t think I have any others apart from what I told on this I’ve had small experiences but I can’t explain it. Basically when I was about 12 and my brother was 9 we kept seeing these shadows moving but only in the room we shared for abit. But we were fearful of it cause it didn’t feel like normal shadows and they moved around alot and one night only one night it took the image of a man and just looked like it was jogging on the spot. We moved from this house a few months after and never experienced it again but I know it wasn’t my imagination cause my little brother could see them too.
Thanks Luke, a friend of mine called Scott will be interested in what you just shared. He too has seen similar shadows and so did another friend of mine, who said it looked like the shadow had a hat on. Did yours?
No prob my ma never believed us though lol. No I don’t think it did I don’t recall that. This is the last thing I can write about that happened to me. I don’t remember it but my mother does she tells me and my friends stories bout me and my siblings growin up but this one is weird to me. My older brother (my oldest sibling) and me were both born on the same day but obviously different years. But my mother says that when he was a toddler and I was a toddler we both saw things, but much different. She said I used to look at the wall and laugh and talk to something for ages everyday and when she asked what I saw I said someone with a warm light and wings (an angel) and I would stay there and just talk for hours with it. But my brother used to see something in his room, only his made him scream and cry for my mother and he always pointed in one direction only, as if it always stayed in this part of his room. She said she used to get pretty scared when he described it and how he reacted every time when he went to his room. I don’t remember this but my mother does. Its been many years but she remembers those things as clear as day. And she swears its true, she says my other brothers and sisters used to speak to people but they were just imaginary friends from what they said they looked like, but with us it was different for some reason. And I’m not making out I’m gifted or anything cause trust me I’m not, I’m quite artistic and musical that’s bout it lol.
I have a story to tell about my daughter which is similar Luke, but don’t have time now, it’s 2am now. Tomorrow and until Friday have BF coming over…will tell you at weekend though…thanks for sharing
For real your gonna say that and then make me wait to hear it!? That’s proper cold man lol na cool no prob.
I know, i’m mean lol. My daughter, when she was about 2 or 3 yrs old used to walk with her hand up as though she were holding someone’s hand. The first time this happened, i was out and my eldest daughter was babysitting with her bf who was called Ille (he was Greek). My youngest daughter came into the room with her hand up and Ille said, why do you have your hand up like that? She said, i’m holding his hand. Ille freaked out and said, wth who’s hand? She said the man’s. Brb a bird just crashed into the window…
Sorry about that, i couldn’t find the bird, so it must have been ok.
Back to the story of my daughter. Ille was very freaked out by this and couldn’t wait to tell me when i walked in. He had also asked my 2/3 yr old daughter what the man looked like. She said he had on a white dress. I think it was her guardian angel. She has no recollection of this. She’s nearly 15 now
Oh my days that is weird then you really understand what im talkin about since it happened to your daughter and she doesn’t remember it too i hate how once we start to get older we forget how to se these things and dismiss things that can’t be explained by us,gotta love the human mind!
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Whoa… that’s crazy.
Hmm sorta freaky. But i do believe it. Considering ive had issues like that happen
My son is 23 now and still gets the creeps when he thinks of the shadow people (thats what he calls them) He says that if he speaks of them until this day they will appear around the house peeking into a room he is in. Thus he will not even talk of them. My son is a college grad, wks as a job engineer and is waiting to get into the police deptmnt. He is not a story teller nor is he nuts, on drugs etc. . He just never understood what they were , what they wanted or why he could see them and we did not . He does not want any part of them or whatever they stand for. He does kind of know things, even prior to them happening so I think that is why he see’s them. He has that gift (although he hates it) He says its a curse not a gift. The shadow people exist and I for one NEVER doubted my son.
Rose, you’re doing the right thing by believing your son, that must be a great comfort for him. I have a couple of cyber friends, who i’ve got to know well over the years and they are very decent and credible people. No nonsense sorts, and they have seen shadow people all their lives…your son is not alone in this. His attitude is admirable and hopefully these visitations will wane over the years. I ignored a certain period in my life when i seemed to be becoming more open to the paranormal. I shut it out and got rid of all my books on the paranormal. I prayed to God for nothing more to happen and it’s been 10 or more yrs now since anything has happened. Good Luck to him and continue being there for him and believe him when he needs you.
The only thing that has happined to me is that when i was younger, i once saw a lady, with short red hair and she looked thin (almost anorexic thin (sorry if u r)) and she just watched us (my family.) Thats all i remember because i was young. When my father was a kid he saw a lady in the barn and she glowed, and the only reason he knows this is because the light didnt work and it was early in the morning, before sunrise. And my grandma owned (and still does sorta) the Counterfeit House. She says she had a lot of ghosts there. Creepy.
My older sister…she’s the best thing in my life. Growing up we did everything together. She sorta raised me. She was like a bubble of sunshine, but as the years went on she changed dramtically, yet not spontaneously. She’s abusive, violent, things in those nature. I’d hate to jump to conclusions, but maybe there’s an entity attached to her, a demon.
Many unexplainable things have occurred, missing money &clothing, weird growling noises, shadows of some sort, knocking noises, but no source of the noise is found. I’m not saying there is or is not an entity attached to my sister,but who knows. She’s been in a mental hospital and what was known as demonic possession is now covered up by some kind of mental illness. My sister, is the only thing i have, if i lose her i’ll be lost. She’s not herself, so its as if i already lost her.
When I was 7 years old I experienced some sort of paranormal incident.
First just a little back ground. I had four brothers and my Mom had remarried and we moved quite a bit, five different cities and .12 different schools by the 9th grade. Not complaining but it’s relevant to my story.
So, 2nd grade Janesville WI. we lived in an old house in an old area, nondescript except for a Barn shaped roof.
This house out of all the houses we lived in (12 in all that we lived in as a family), was the only house that any of us had any thing happen or had any weird feelings in. We didn’t talk to each other about this for years either so I didn’t know that others in the family had experiences.
There were places in the house that I was terrified to go, a small out of use bath upstairs. My brother couldn’t go near a closet upstairs. For My Mom it was a closet downstairs that was directly beneath the bath that I was afraid of.
One winter evening after taking the dog out I was coming in the back door, the rest of the family was in the front of the house watching TV. The stairs were by the back foyer and it was dark upstairs. For what ever reason I looked up at the darkness at the top of the stairs, not sure why because I was afraid of the dark. Something began to pull me up the stairs, I had to grab the bannister to keep from being drawn upstairs. It released me, couldn’t have been more than a few seconds and I ran into the front where everybody else was and sat down. My mom asked me what was wrong, and being scared and not understanding what was going on, I just said nothing.
As adults, one day I told my brother what happened and he told me a story of his own.
He was sent to bed one day as a punishment, He was lying there in bed and something sat on his chest and was pushing him down into his bed. This was daylight mind you. He said this happened to him on three different occasions. Never before or since has anything like this to any of us. My Mom has also told stories of having some strange terrifying feelings in that house.
There’s my story, It was not a dream, I remember too many details and I remember dreams as dreams from when I was a child.
It is just one of those things. You can live in 1-2 dozen homes (28 for me), and there will be one, maybe two that have that dark mojo. There is no explanation. it is face vale-what it is.
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I’ve had experiences myself also. I was about 11 years old and i lived in a small, old house in the city. I lived right across the street from my school I went too. That house I lived in wasn’t so bad when we first moved in. Later on as the months passed I started feeling a presence in my mothers bedroom ( which was located downstaires beside mine) . I would watch t.v downstaires in her room while she was upstairs with the rest of the family. I would feel someone watching me and sometimes i’d feel somthing touch me lighty. I dont know if it was demonic or a ghost, I just rememeber being really terrified going down the stairs. The light also downstairs would flicker on and off alot and my mother would say it was just like that. But I always thought something. Something scary was down there, waiting for me to come. One night, my family was all sleeping and we heard something glide across the floor upstaires… My step-dad went to see what it was and the dining room chair was in the middle of the floor. Now friends and family members don’t believe me. They say im hallucentating but I know im not, Im 13 years old and Im not lying. I know what happened and i just never really told anyone… My mother also told me when I was a baby, id always say.. ” Mommy, the man in the black is here.” Annd ive been told i have a gift of feeling and seeing things… I just dont know if thats true.