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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.
I would not call this a demonic possession but I just wanted you to share my paranormal story.
I was born and lived in Vegas until 2004. Well a year or so when I was pretty young I had to go up to Salt Lake City to have one of my heart surgeries done. We lived there for a few months before moving back to Vegas.
Anyways at one point we moved on this one house on Powell. I remember we had just finished putting new carpeting the house and to me everything would seem off. Almost like being watched or another entity in the room.
I didn’t really pay much attention to it as I grew up over the years. However, at one point we turned the garage into a back living room where we had a couch, tv, and my parents computer desk was back there. Anyways, for the life of me if I was at home alone at night I would NEVER venture back into that room (the garage we converted) unless I had to get some out of there. I felt major uneasy whenever I looked towards there.
During the day too I would see unexplained shadow figures in living room (the area where guests sat) and just hear odd noises. I would also feel a lot of explainable cold and hot spots through out the house, most notably in my room.
One night my parents had gone out for a while and I was home alone. I had a pair of Sony MDR-V600′s on (those big ones) and listening to music while my parents were away. However out no where this voice completely over-powers the music and says, “TRENT!” (btw that’s my name). Scarred as hell I quickly turn off the music and wait for a few moments. Something makes me turn my head to the door and I get a very cold feeling and then I shudder thinking there is something on the other side of my room in the hall way.
I removed my headphones and yelled, “Mom, is that you?”. When I got no answer I hesitated before getting, opening my bedroom door and looked through the hallway entry (which I could see from my room) and not seeing anyone or the fact the front door was locked.
That scared the crap out of me so I quickly shut my door and went back to listening to my music. Probably 30 minutes later my parents did actually come back from being out.
I sort of dismissed the incident that night and just went on like nothing happened. However, a few days later something happened again which scared the crap out of me.
My mom and I were in the TV (garage) room chatting about the events of that day, what was going on and such. I told her I was gonna go back in my room.
The way how the house is set up, the entrance to the TV (garage) room was through the Washroom / Pantry. That entrance was through the kitchen. There was the dining room just left of the kitchen, then the hall way entry to the right leading into the main hall way. On the other side of the kitchen wall was the living room.
Anyways most of the time I’d cut through the kitchen and head straight to my room since it was the quickest way. I had my bedroom door shut but the over head light in my room on. I knew my dad was in his bedroom with his door shut and I think his TV on. As I was walking through the kitchen and got to the point of seeing the light under my door, I slowly watched it go out as if someone had stepped in front of the door blocking the light. Or something was inside my bedroom and walked up to the door completely blocking the light out.
I did NOT blink this entire time so I knew it was not my imagination. Whatever this was blocked the light out for almost a good minute before allowing it to slowly come back on. Seeing that scared the holy hell out of me. I went and checked to make sure dad was still in his room and he was. Needless to say I slept with my lamp light on that night.
Also the incident with someone calling my name and I know no one was there would happen more than one occasion. Each time it scared me and I just hated it.
My parents and I moved from Vegas in 2002 and since moving I have NOT felt anything like that at all. Perhaps whatever was in that house, stayed there.
I personally felt the one calling my name might have been my biological mother. My current parents are actually my grandparents. My father let them adopt me when I was still young as my biological mother died in a car accident in Germany. I was then sealed as their own son by my grandparents since we’re Mormon (LDS).
Anyways this is not a religion type story…but the reason why I think it was my real mom calling my name was because I was told she was not a very good mother. When she was pregnant with me she was on all sorts of drugs. Even after she gave birth to me she tried to kill me with medication. I think had she not been on drugs I could have turned out to be a normal healthy 30 year old.
Because of that I’ve got heart condition and have had 5 heart surgeries since birth.
Anyways….as I said I think it was her. Every time I felt the voice I just got real uncomfortable and got pretty cold fast. Most of the time I felt comfortable so I think there was also another presence in the house to try and keep the evil one at bay. Sometimes though the evil one just would not be kept at bay.
We would also have a motion sensor in the backyard that would go off at night once a while. All though I would dismiss it as a cat since our particular neighbor hood hat lots of them. Still there would be times I question if it was something more than a cat.
It sounds very much like you are able to sense spiritual presences. You probably see them plain as day. However. the people who do not share your gift refuse to acknowledge that anything is there. That is a tough spot to be in. I went through it as a youngster. I would suggest praying and asking God to guide you in the use of this gift.
Don’t get discouraged by other people’s lack of perception. You can pray in response to the entity in your house. If you need more specific advice please post your response here and I will try to be more specific.
Thanks D13 …anyone wanting advice have a great source here! And someone who is willing to help
Trent, great story. There are a lot of moving parts to it. Sometimes its seems that we are under the control of spirits that haunt places. Other times I think spirits follow people who had near-death experiences. Two different girl friends swore they were confronted by the ghost of my first love, who died in my presence. If you felt your mother’s troubled presence, it probably was her spirit, perhaps taking advantage of the weird energies of that house to get one more look at you. Do not be surprised that you may never see a ghostly presence the rest of your days…but then again, you might!
I would recommend going to the “true ghost tales’ page on this site and read my “Haunting of Muirfield House” tale.. Be sure to read part one first.
a daemon is the residual remains of what was once a human, becoming inhuman. they cannot exist without a host, often someone who is weak willed or vulnerable (they “change”). though they remain physically the same their strength and speed increase tenfold, their voice becomes more projected and can often sound very different. their pupils become enlarged and the individual becomes aggressive and very protective of themselves. its imperative to keep your distance from the “possessed”. what is a daemon? put it this way. if you ever felt so angry that you did something you now regret, imagine losing any faith in your beliefs, not necessarily in religion, then being pushed into a rage you never thought possible, you are no longer yourself, you become open to suggestion and you break in to your inner hatred. anyone is capable of “changing”. if you’ve been possessed (you will know for certain) then seek help, and not just a holy mans superficial prayers, you need mental help it is as much an illness as a curse.
This might sound crazy but I am NOT joking, has anyone had their own experience or have known someone who had a possessed animal?
I ask because my cat only goes after ME. I am the one who feeds her, loves on her, plays with her and changes her little box. She follows me all around the house so I thought she just loved me since she goes everywhere with me! BUT she bites me out of nowhere, she bites me so hard she makes me bleed. There are two other people living in this house and she doesn’t do that to them. They have seen her in action on me though. I’ve tried multiple things to try to teach her that it is bad but she just is NOT learning. Maybe I am taking it to an extreme thinking that this could possibly be something evil?I don’t know but I need answers…I am ready to get rid of her but the though makes me so sad. My husband bought her for me and we’ve raised her from a kitten and she is now 2 going on 3 years old….
Can anyone help? =[
Having had a number of cats lope in and out of my life, they have sharply contrasting personalities. A precious few are very loving, though most are odd, do not like being held, and even hostile. Some have good and bad days, like people. I do not see possession, just a bad cat. Take it to a shelter, and try again with a very young kitten.
I have to agree with JHC, my daughter’s friend’s cat is horrible to my daughter’s friend (Isabelle), but great with the rest of her family. Isabelle is the one who feeds the cat too, but the cat hisses and scratches only her.
Like us humans, we like some and not others, even when there’s no real reason to others. Try re-homing your cat and get another.
I’m lucky with my cat, she’s very loving.
Thanks for the comments, I have found her a new home.
I hope you find another cat which you bond with. They’re great animals when you have a loving one. Mine is always jumping on my knee and would stay there all day if she could.
Good luck Danielle!
Dogs and cats read humans well. They either like you or don’t. It is your scent, your confidence with them, or some other quirk that makes them react one way or another. I have had a lot of sray drop by, everything from super-loving cats to feral. I have seen great cats and terrible ones come from the same litter. Animals are not pure instinct. They are intelligent, have personalities and quirks.
You’re right JHC. I’ve always been surrounded by animals and have observed all their different little quirks over the years. At the moment we have a German Shepherd pup, a female cat, a Jack Russel and 8 hens and believe it or not, even the hens have different personalities….amazing birds, they are very protective of each other too. When the cat used to single one out and stalk it (when we first got the hens), the other hens would run from all directions and dive bomb the cat….needless to say she stopped stalking. A bit of karma for her now, as my GS pup now stalks her and dive bombs her at every opportunity
I am posting this after reading some of the similar stories on here. When I was around 7 we moved into a new 2 bedroom house that sat up kinda high from the street. When we first moved in we found spell books and incantations, which we disposed of. Over the years many strange and unexplainable things occured in that house, such as things disappearing for hours even days that would show back up in the place where they were supposed to be when they went missing. Also I had a sense of fear when I had to go into my mothers room. We later found out that the tenant that lived there before us was a medium and palm reader. Being as my moms room had its own entry way door from the front porch, we speculated that’s where the medium would conduct her business. The room had a presence to it, kinda spooky feeling and it always seemed gloomy even in the daytime when the sun was shining thru the windows. I never liked going in the room alone. In fact when my mom would send me into the room to get something for her, I would have my brother hold the door open while I would run in there do a ninja roll across the bed and quickly turn on the light! The light switch was on the other side of the room. The door wouldn’t stay open by itself. As I mentioned numerous things would come up missing around there. It got to a point that when something would come up missing my mom would just speak out to the spirit or whatever it was and ask it to bring it back. Which would usually work. We lived in that house from when I was 7 till I was 16. We finally moved when my mom remarried and my stepdad reported seeing a ghostly figure in a dress on a couple different occasions. He was pretty freaked out and was the main factor in us moving. That and the fact that we needed more space. The house has since been demolished and a new one built in its place. I often wonder if the presence that occupied that old house is still around there in the new house. There was definitely something there and we all knew it and accepted it. Whatever it was it wasn’t violent towards us. It accepted us and we accepted it. It was a lil annoying when we tore up the house looking for something only to find it back in the place it was supposed to have been in all along!!
There is a pattern with hauntings and the presence of spirits recounted many times in different locations on this site. I might have told this tale before here; it is one of 3-4 direct experiences I personally had with the spirit world. A friend had a U-shaped house on a courtyard. You could clearly see the front door from his room. We were, uh, smoking pot and I kept hearing loud knocking on the front door. I would turn around-no one there. When I brought it up to the friend, he said “it’s just the ghost, man”. He said it was a young woman-he once saw her walk THROUGH a closed door! This is interesting- his family was the first occupiers of the new house. It was built on the foundation of a house that burned down in the huge Bel-Air Fire in 1963 that swept the hills above Hollywood. No, nobody died in the fire, though it destroyed about 150 homes.
i actually have a question but im sure everyone who is reading this will think im nuts. its been happening since i was 13 i would see shadows behind me out of the corner of my eye and when i would turn around there was nothing there, when i would be alone i always felt something right behind me but once again there was nothing. i had moved into my grandmas house shortly after a very christian woman and it was still happening. my room was upstairs and i always ran up the stairs because i felt like something was chasing me, even when i was alone i knew i just wasnt alone. it stopped for awhile and when i was 18 i was living in an apartment with my friend, i was outside one night and i seen a little girl very solemn looking and cold wathcing over a little boy on a bike with traing wheels and they just stared at me. i know it was real because one of my friends had seen it too and described them to me before i even got a chance to describe them. then it stopped again. then when i was 19 i walking at night and i seen a very dark shadow like staring at me but it was cloaked and idk if it had a face or not but the longer i looked at it it would move towards me little by little and then i ran to my house and locked the doors and turned on all the lights. now i am 21 and married and me n my husband were sleeping in our room and i was startled awake by something looking at me like standing over me breathing. nobody believes me they say im crazy but im truly scared because when i feel it or see a shadow its not like a friendly its ok feeling its like i get the chills and am truly terrified. 13,16,18,19,21 are years it has been happening. it will just stop and then start again. what should i do?? do you think i need help????? i want it to go away
Krista, if you spend some time reading all the posts on this site you can see patterns in haunting and posession. Usually there was some catalyst in your life that attracted spirits to you. Something happened around your 13th birthday. Spirits are known to be attracted to children reaching puberty. Usually it is some cathartic event. It can be a near death experience. It can be the traumatic loss of someone close to you. Perhaps you saw someone die or killed. Try to remember what has happened to you, or what you were told happened to you. It is interesting that spirits will stalk the young. Perhaps young minds are still developing.
The best way to chase off dark spirits is to confront them directly. The next time you are bothered by one, shout “you are dead, you need to go to the other side, now LEAVE ME ALONE!”. One friend chased off a ghost simply by telling it he was getting annoyed and the spirit needed to leave. That has worked for many. If you are out of bed, run at them! Spirits flee from voiced annoyance or anger and feed on fear or misery. If spirits remain a persistent part of your life, then you can solicit an exorcist. Since they are not usually listed in the phone book (though some can be found in big-city directories), it will take some looking. Be careful of being scammed! If it takes more than one visit, it is not working.