10 Bizarre Real Life Exorcisms

along with turning water into wine jesus was also said to have the power to cast out demons that means exorcism has been around for at least 2 000 years surprisingly the catholic church didn't really establish any guidelines until 1614 but in the modern world and no doubt thanks to the influence of pop culture exorcisms are more popular than ever seems like everyone is getting possessed and that means a lot of exorcisms in today's video some of them 10. the home depot exorcism if you ever had to shop at home depot you might have assumed that the store was cursed that doesn't necessarily translate to being possessed though still your mileage may vary and to at least one group of people the idea that the store was beset by evil spirits was all too real in 2021 police had to be called to a home depot in pennsylvania when several people decided to perform an exorcism in the store's lumber they were responding to a call about disorderly people and discovered a pair of individuals performing an exorcism for the dead trees whether that meant they were exercising the trees themselves or they were doing it on behalf of the trees is not entirely clear so how does one exercise a lumbar the chief of police told the local newspaper two men in black were chanting and moaning sadly after the men were removed they didn't indicate why they thought the wood was possessed in the first place or if they'd managed to save its soul 9. hawaiian bible beating the modern world didn't corner the market on unusual exorcisms by any means though movies depict the real ritual as something somber and terrifying with strict guidelines when people have tried to do it in real life it hasn't always gone so smoothly or seriously take for instance the case of a hawaiian exorcism dating all the way back to 1903. according to a news report from the time a man they referred to as kahuna which the paper equated with a sorcerer although the true meaning is a little more diffuse was charged with manslaughter he was golden to treat a man who was suffering from malaria and was already receiving medical attention however the kahuna declared that the man was not sick so much as possessed by devils the solution a severe beating over the head with the bible until the man died when taken before the magistrate the kahuna apparently defended his actions pointing out that it was the right way to deal with someone who is possessed by devils 8. the snake possession one of the great tragedies of exorcism stories is that while they come across as goofy to people reading or watching them the truth is that there are often real victims who suffer serious injury and even death as a result it's all fine and good to say that katsumi nagaya was convinced his son was possessed by a snake back in 2013 and chuckled about it but when you find out that his 23 year old son died as a result of his father trying to cure him then you can see where these stories become truly dark according to reports given to police tayuko was visiting his parents and began acting strangely they claimed he was being erratic and even violent and saying i am a snake rather than perhaps taking their son to see a mental health professional the elder magaya began assaulting his son over the course of a full day he beat and even bit his son until he finally collapsed from his injuries some reports state that the beating and biting lasted more than an entire day and the father's only defense was that he was trying to drive out the snake 7. the texting demon in the movie poltergeist the relentless and evil spirits contact the little girl in the film through a tv evil it seems is tech savvy this point is bolstered by the opinions of monsignor steven rossetti a catholic priest prolific exorcist who has seen text messages sent from demons resetti is based out of washington dc where he performs up to 20 exorcisms every week he claims to have seen one victim's eyes turn yellow like a snake and another's turned pitch black but undoubtedly the most sinister expression of evil came in the form of demonic texting the father of a possessed young woman began receiving text messages described as snarky from the demon possessing his daughter how snarky well they said things like she belongs to us rossetti did some digging and the texts as you guessed came from the daughter's phone but there was no evidence of her having sent the messages according to rossetti so well a demon must have done it luckily rossetti and some others were able to dedicate six months to exercising that particular demon and freeing the victim's soul 6. kasem stadium a few people in the world are more superstitious than sports fans and athletes word is serena williams refuses to change her lucky socks before a match bill russell's lucky charm was throwing up so the idea that some people might believe their favorite team was cursed in some way isn't that hard to believe but oxford united did push the envelope a bit when they ended up on the receiving end of an exorcism in 2001 the team was having a spot of bad luck and underperforming in their new stadium naturally talk turned to curses rather than any problem with the team's performance word is that the land the new stadium was built and had been cursed several years before in an effort to get the team back on track to win the bishop of oxford performed an exorcism on the site the ritual was at the request of the team's chaplain who wanted the grounds blessed at the same time that way they could even perform weddings there without fear of evil creeping in so how did the land get cursed according to the chaplain it had once been a farm the farmer had hired gypsies as day laborers when the land was sold the gypsies lost their jobs so they cursed the place sounds totally reasonable 5. exorcism from above bueno ventura colombia has a serious problem with crime and violence it's one of the most dangerous cities in the world a drug dealer turf war in 2021 saw over 30 murders and 40 disappearances in a month the poverty level is double elsewhere in the country there's little medical care and even functional water and sewers are barely present and it's been that way for years in 2019 monsignor ruben daria yamio montoya decided that there was only one solution to purge the evil from the city an exorcism but how do you perform a city-wide exorcism if you're the bishop of bueno ventura you take to the skies the plan was to fly over the city in a helicopter and douse the land below with holy water the army was actually providing the helicopter for the ritual so there was some serious government backing to the plan on the downside since that was scheduled for 2019 and the issues in buena ventura are ongoing it does look like the plan didn't seem to work number four all of mexico if exercising a city doesn't seem extreme enough then don't worry things get bigger the entire country of mexico was on the receiving end of an exorcism in 2015. because of high crime rates which included violence and drug cartel activity and according to the catholic news agency a high abortion rate the church felt the need to take action across the entire nation the archbishop eberratas of guadalajara performed the ritual which had the very cool name of exorcismo magno and they only told people after it was done so it was a countrywide stealth exorcism well it's hard to say if the exodus hasn't changed much across mexico crime rates have actually dropped a bit with murder rates in 2019 and 2020 being the lowest they've been for over a decade totally worked number three the summer camp exorcism lots of kids go to camp over the summer and experience something between the best and worst times of their lives they make friends and learn new things but also probably endure terrible sports sub-human living conditions and bullying it's time-tested ritual that most people love and or hate depending on the day but what typically does not occur at camp is a full-on exorcism not even camp crystal lake did that and those kids had jason voorhees on the height over a thousand kids were attending a three-day religious camp in poland so they could learn more about god and their spirituality to this end the police conducting the camp decided to bring the students up on stage and perform hands-on exorcisms in evoking the holy spirit and causing the children to faint scream or otherwise freak out some of the kids described it as like being in a mental asylum and mentioned they didn't show up the following day out of fear of what might happen his part the priest claimed that no one complained about it 2. most of italy in recent years the vatican has had to up its exorcism game exorcisms are on the rise so presumably demons are very busy these days but just how busy according to italian priests upwards of 500 000 people per year were claiming to be possessed in italy alone that sounds pretty intense right and it's worse than you think italy has a population of just under 60 million that means about 1 in every 120 italians is possessed but that stats just for a single year so what happens on a 10-year timeline that's 5 million possessed italians or 1 in 12 people at some point in a relatively short period of time pretty much everyone in italy would have had to have been possessed by a demon based on those numbers or some people are getting possessed over and over again number one the case of latoya ammons when it comes to exorcism stories there are typically two responses people take most people will dismiss such a thing out of hand as nonsense and some people believe firmly that there are demons and possession and anything is possible in heaven and earth and the world typically doesn't debate this anymore people who believe in spiritual matters are for the most part for you to believe whatever they like without being harassed for it every so often though you find a story with so many baffling and troubling details that even if you're not a believer you start to wonder what if the story of latoya ammons is one of those tales over 800 pages of official records were obtained by the local paper to detail the story of ammons and a family's plight that genuine or fraudulent is still as disturbing a tale as any read hammonds moved to gary indiana in 2011. they claim awful things started happening right away the doors were swarmed by flies wet footprints were found in the house the kids were levitating a psychic would later tell them their house had demons 200 demons but it hasn't gotten all that weird yet ammons and her three children were possessed but her mother was fine because according to her she's immune to that sort of thing now so far this could be any possession movie but professionals got involved in this not ghostbusters but their family doctor the department of child services as well as psychiatrists and the police and it kept getting weirder an official dcs report says medical staff told them that ammons son flew across the room without being touched this was after speaking in tongues the staff called ambulances and the police later a nurse witnessed him walking backward up a wall again this is all apparently in a dcs report her children were removed from her custody and placed in emergency care they concluded that the youngest boy was being forced to participate in the delusions of his mother meanwhile the local police had already become convinced that there were evil spirits in the home after recording equipment failed and strange images showed up in photos the family and the home underwent exorcism some of which were attended by police and dcs officials at this point many of the attendees have become believers and claimed to have suffered their own ill health and accidents after the fact ammons eventually got custody of her children again and moved from the house apparently nothing happened again afterward either the landlord of the house claimed no one before or after it had any issues there he asked the local police to stop driving by so often because it was scaring his new tenants

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Published: Fri Jul 29 2022