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A container of holy water placed near him smashed to the ground. Nine priests and thirty-nine other witnesses signed the final ecclesiastical papers documenting Roland's experience. The frightened family turned to their Lutheran pastor, the Rev.

Luther Miles Schulze, for help. Schulze arranged for the boy to spend the night of February 17 in his home in order to observe him. The boy slept near the minister in a twin bed and the minister reported that in the dark he heard vibrating sounds from the bed and scratching sounds on the wall.

During the rest of the night he allegedly witnessed some strange events, a heavy armchair in which the boy sat seemingly tilted on its own and tipped over and a pallet of blankets on which the sleeping boy lay inexplicably moved around the room and slapped people in the face. Schulze concluded that there was evil at work in Roland, and a Lutheran rite of exorcism would be performed on Roland.

According to the traditional story, the boy then underwent an exorcism under auspices of the Episcopal Church. After this, the case was referred to the Rev.

Edward Hughes, a Roman Catholic priest, who, after examining the boy at St. During the exorcism, the boy inflicted a wound upon the pastor that required stitches. As a result, the exorcism ritual was stopped and the boy went home to be with his family, where strange welts on the boy's body led to desperation. The family then proceeded to take the train to St. While they were in the city, Roland's cousin contacted one of his professors at St. Louis University, the Rev. Raymond J.

Bishop, SJ, who in turn spoke to the Rev. William S. Bowdern, an associate of College Church. Together, both priests visited Roland in his relatives' home, where they noticed his aversion to anything sacred, a shaking bed, flying objects, and Roland speaking in a guttural voice. Bowdern sought permission from the archbishop to have the plaguing demons cast out from the boy. Permission for Bowdern to perform the exorcism was granted by the archbishop, with the requirement that a detailed diary be kept.

Before the exorcism ritual began, Fr. Walter Halloran was called to the psychiatric wing of the hospital, where he was asked to assist Fr. The Rev. William Van Roo, a third Jesuit priest, was also there to assist. Halloran stated that during this scene words such as "evil" and "hell", along with other various marks, appeared on the teenager's body.

Moreover, Roland broke Fr. Halloran's nose during the process. The exorcism ritual was performed thirty times over several weeks. When the final exorcism was complete witnesses reported loud noise going off throughout the hospital. After the exorcism was over, the family was no longer troubled, and moved back to their home. The boy went on to become a successful, happily married man, a father and grandfather.

NOTE: This house is a private residence, so please do all your best pea-soup vomiting recreations from the sidewalk.

Please do not try to enter the property without the express permission of the landowner. This listing is only for informational purposes. This is the house that inspired the book upon which the film was based.

Located in the St. Luis suburbs, it's quite unassuming, but in the s it was host to a slew of paranormal activity. William was initially inspired to pen the novel while attending Georgetown University in , when a professor mentioned the supposed real life exorcism of a year-old Maryland boy that had recently taken place.

The case of the possessed youngster, which was chronicled in countless newspapers, was shrouded in mystery and the story largely twisted by various reporters. The tale, which detailed violently shaking beds, rashes that spelled out demonic messages, and outbursts of profanity laced with Latin, stuck with Blatty for two decades and he finally began to put pen to paper in The book became an immediate sensation when it hit shelves in and drew renewed attention to the real life exorcism.

The actual story, which was thoroughly investigated by historian Mark Opsasnick and finally revealed in a five-part article in , is much less paranormal.

You can read it here. You can see a photograph of a teen Hunkeler here. And you can read another in-depth recap of the case, which further debunks many of the rumors, here. Bowdern told him of a diary that was written by Father Bishop, an attending priest, which chronicled the entire process. The novelist, of course, asked to see the diary, but Bowdern refused to hand it over. He did eventually get his hands on the diary and much of what he read figured into the book.

The movie closely follows the story of the book and centers around famous actress Chris MacNeil Ellen Burstyn and her year-old daughter, Regan Linda Blair , who are temporarily living in a handsome brick-clad pad in Georgetown while Chris shoots a movie nearby. Though their surroundings are gorgeous, it is not long before things take a sinister turn and Regan begins to show signs of demonic possession.

Looking below, you may notice that the actual residence differs quite a bit from what appeared onscreen. For the shoot, an entire fake wing was built on the eastern side of the house.

A fake mansard roof was also added to the structure to give the appearance that the home had an attic — something else that was necessary to the plotline. A fence has also since been added to the perimeter of the property, obscuring most of the ground floor from view.

And, oh yeah: Satan slept here. By Chad Garrison Chad. Garrison riverfronttimes. Exorcist house See more images here. For the residents of this tidy, tree-lined Bel-Nor neighborhood, the haunting story that surrounds the home at Roanoke Drive may be their worst-kept secret.

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