It is said that Jesus not only turned water into wine, but also had the ability to cast outdemons . This means that exorcisms have been around for at least 2,000 years. Surprisingly, the Catholic Church has not set any rules. until 1614 But in today's world, and no doubt thanks to the influence of pop culture, exorcism is more popular than ever. It seems like everyone is possessed, which means there are a lot of exorcisms going on all the time, including a few new ones.
10. Home Depot Exorcism
If you've ever shopped at Home Depot, you might think the store is cursed. That doesn't necessarily mean you're possessed. However, your mileage may vary, and for at least one group of people, the idea that the store was haunted by evil spirits was all too real.
In 2021, police were called to a Home Depot in Pennsylvania when several people attempted to perform an exorcism on passage with lumber They were responding to a call for "disorderly people" and found a couple of people performing exorcisms on dead trees. Whether this meant they were exorcising the trees themselves or doing so on behalf of the trees is not entirely clear.
How to get firewood out of a passage? The police chief told a local newspaper that two men in black " sang and moaned " Unfortunately, after the men were removed, they did not indicate why they thought the tree was possessed in the first place, or whether they managed to save its soul.
9. Hawaiian Bible Smashing
The modern world has by no means limited the market for unusual exorcisms. Although the “real” ritual is portrayed in movies as something dark and terrifying with strict rules, when people tried to carry it out in real life, things did not always go so smoothly and seriously. Take, for example, the case of exorcism in Hawaii, which began as early as 1903.
According to a news report from the time, the man they call a kahuna, whom the newspaper equates to a sorcerer, although the true meaning somewhat vaguer word, was charged with manslaughter. He was called to treat a man who had malaria and was already receiving medical attention. But the kahuna claimed the man was not so much sick as possessed by demons. The solution? A strong beating Hit the man on the head with a Bible until he died.
When brought before the magistrate, the kahuna apparently defended his actions, pointing out that it was the proper way to deal with someone possessed by the devil.
8. Snake Possession
One of the great tragedies of exorcism stories is that, while they seem silly to the people reading them, the truth is that there are often real victims who end up seriously injured or even dying as a result. It’s all well and good that Katsumi Nagaya was convinced his son was possessed by a snake back in 2013 and laughed it off. But when you learn that his 23-year-old son Takuya Nagaya died as a result of his father trying to “cure” him, that’s where these stories get really dark.
According to reports given to the police, Takuya was visiting his parents and began to behave strangely. They claimed that he was unstable and even aggressive, saying, "I am a snake."
Instead of taking his son to a mental health specialist, the elder Nagaya began attack the son throughout the day. He beat and even bit his son until he finally collapsed from the injuries he had received.
Some reports say the beatings and biting continued more than a day , and the father's only defense was that he tried to drive out the snake.
7. Text Message Demon
In the film "Poltergeist" restless and evil spirits are contacting a little girl through television. The evil seems to be tech-savvy. This view is supported by the opinion of Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a Catholic priest and prolific exorcist who has seen text messages , sent by demons.
Rossetti lives in Washington, D.C., where he performs up to 20 exorcisms each week. He claims to have seen one victim's eyes turn yellow, like a snake, and another's turn pitch black. But by far the most sinister expression of evil came in the form of demonic text messages.
The father of a possessed young woman began receiving text messages that were described as “venomous” from the demon possessing his daughter. How vicious? They said things like “she belongs to us!” Rosetti did some digging, and the messages came from, you guessed it, the daughter’s phone. But according to Rosetti, there was no evidence that she had sent the messages. The demon had.
Fortunately, Rossetti and a few others were able to devote six months to exorcising this particular demon and freeing the victim's soul.
6. Kassam Stadium
There are few people more superstitious than sports fans and athletes. Rumor has it that Serena Williams refuses to change his lucky socks before a match. Bill Russell's mascot threw up . So the idea that some people might believe their favourite team was somehow cursed isn't that hard to believe. But Oxford United pushed the envelope a little when they found themselves on the receiving end of an exorcism.
In 2001, the team had some bad luck and performed poorly in their new stadium. Naturally, the conversation turned to name-calling rather than problems with the team's performance. Rumor has it that the land on which their new stadium was built was cursed years before it was built.
To get the team back on track, the Bishop of Oxford spent on the spot exorcism . The ritual was performed at the request of the crew's chaplain, who also wanted to bless the area so they could even hold weddings there without fear of evil creeping in.
So how did the land get cursed? According to the chaplain, it was once a farm. The farmer hired gypsies as day laborers. When the land was sold, the gypsies lost their jobs and cursed the place. Sounds reasonable.
5. Exorcism from Above
Buenaventura, Colombia, has a serious problem with crime and violence. It is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. In the 2021 drug turf war per month more than were committed 30 kills and 40 disappearances. In other countries, poverty levels are twice as high. Health care is scarce, and even functioning water and sewerage are virtually nonexistent. And it has been that way for years.
In 2019, Monsignor Ruben Darío Jaramillo Montoya decided there was only one solution to cleanse the city of evil: an exorcism. But how do you perform a citywide exorcism? If you're the Bishop of Buenaventura, you take to the skies. The plan was to fly over the city in a helicopter and spray the ground holy water .
The army actually provided a helicopter for the ritual, so the plan had strong government support. On the other hand, since it was planned for 2019 and the problems in Buenaventura continue, it seems the plan didn't work.
4. All of Mexico
If city exorcisms aren't extreme enough, don't worry, things get even bigger. In 2015, all of Mexico was subjected to exorcisms.
With high levels of crime, including violence and drug cartels, and, according to the Catholic News Agency, high abortion rates, the church felt the need to take action across the country.
The Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara performed a ritual with the very cool name " Exorcism Magno " and told people about it only after it had been done. So it was a stealth exorcism on a national scale. While it's hard to say how much exorcism has changed in Mexico, the crime rate has actually gone down a bit, and murder rate in 2019 and 2020 was the lowest in the last ten years.
3. Exorcism at Summer Camp
Many kids go to camp during the summer and have somewhere between the best and worst times of their lives. They make friends and learn new things, but they also likely endure horrible sports, inhumane living conditions, and bullying. It’s a time-honored ritual that most people love and/or hate depending on the day. But what doesn’t usually happen at camp is an exorcism. Not even Camp Crystal Lake had one, and these kids had Jason Voorhees.
More than 1,000 children attended a three-day religious camp in Poland to learn more about God and their spirituality. To that end, the police running the camp decided to bring the students up on stage and conductpractical exorcism , invoking the Holy Spirit and causing children to faint, scream, or otherwise go crazy.
Some children described it as " psychiatric hospital " and mentioned that they did not come the next day out of fear of what might happen. For his part, the priest stated that no one had complained about this.
2. Most of Italy
In recent years, the Vatican has had to step up its exorcism game. Exorcismson the rise , so it seems the demons are very busy these days. But how busy? According to an Italian priest, only in Italy are there more 500,000 people per year claimed to be possessed. Sounds like a lot, right? It's worse than you think. Italy has a population of just under 60 million people. That means about one in every 120 Italians is possessed. But that's just one year's worth of statistics.
So…what happens on a 10 year timeline?
That's five million possessed Italians, or one in every twelve people. At some point, within a relatively short period of time, almost everyone in Italy would have to be possessed by a demon, based on these numbers, or some people would be possessed more than once.
1. The Latoya Ammons Case
When it comes to stories of exorcism, people usually react in one of two ways. Most people will dismiss such a thing out of hand as nonsense. And some people firmly believe that demons and possession exist and that in Heaven and on Earth anything is possible. And the world usually doesn't discuss it anymore. People who believe in spiritual matters are, for the most part, free to believe whatever they want without being persecuted for it.
Every now and then, however, you'll come across a story with so many confusing and disturbing details that even if you're not a believer, you'll start to wonder "what if?" LaToya Ammons' story is one of those stories.
A local newspaper obtained more than 800 pages of official records detailing Ammons' story and her family's plight.
The Ammons moved to Gary, Indiana, in 2011. They claim that immediately, horrible things started happening. Doors were swarming with flies. Wet footprints were found in the house. Children were levitating. Later, a psychic told them there were demons in their house. 200 of them. It still wasn't that weird.
Ammons and her three children were possessed, but her mother was fine because she said she was immune to that kind of thing.
At this point, it could be any possession movie. But the professionals were involved. Not ghost hunters, but their family doctor, the Department of Child Services, and psychiatrists and the police. And it was becomingmore and more strange .
The official DCS report states that medical staff told them Ammons' son flew across the room without being touched. This was after speaking in tongues. Staff called an ambulance and the police. A nurse later witnessed him walking backwards along a wall. Again, all of this is apparently in the DCS report.
Her children were taken from her care and taken to the emergency room. They concluded that the youngest boy had been forced to participate in his mother's delusions. Meanwhile, local police were already convinced that the house was haunted after recording equipment malfunctioned and strange images appeared in photographs.
The family and home were subjected to exorcisms, some of which were attended by police and DCS officers. By this point, many of those present had become believers and claimed to have suffered after the fact from their own ill health and accidents.
Eventually, Ammons regained custody of her children and moved out of the house. Apparently, nothing happened after that either. The landlord claimed that no one had had any problems before or since. He asked the local police to stop driving by so often because it was scaring off new tenants.
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