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With The Exorcist: Believer hitting theaters this weekend, we take a look at the science behind the fiction with a brief history and the modern reality of exorcisms.
When he made his 1973 classic, The Exorcist, WILLIAM FRIEDKIN had never seen an exorcism, and for decades he wondered how close his film had come to reality. Last May, in Rome, the director was allowed to film as Father Amorth—a 91-year-old Vatican legend who would die just four months later—fought to expel Satan from an Italian woman. It began a chilling investigation into the phenomenon of possession
The boy whose case inspired the portrayal of a demon-possessed child in the 1973 classic horror movie The Exorcist has been named.
US magazine the Skeptical Inquirer identified the then-14-year-old, previously known as Roland Doe, who underwent exorcisms in Cottage City, Maryland, and St Louis, Missouri, in 1949, as Ronald Hunkeler, who died last year, a month before his 86th birthday, after suffering a stroke at home in Marriottsville, Maryland.
In adult life, Hunkeler was a NASA engineer whose work contributed to the Apollo space missions of the 1960s and who patented a technology that helped space shuttle panels withstand extreme heat.
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