The Exorcist

Podcast: Disturbing History · Disturbing History-True Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

On August 20, 1949, the Washington Post put a story on its front page under the headline "Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip." It said a 14-year-old from the Maryland suburbs had been freed of demonic possession after a Jesuit read the rite of exorcism over him 20 to 30 times, and that the boy had screamed, cursed and spoken Latin he had never been taught. A Georgetown undergraduate named William Peter Blatty read it. In 1971 he published The Exorcist, and in 1973 the film opened on 30 screens and had theaters keeping ambulances on call. As spooky...