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(#6) South Korean Family's Exorcism Of Family Member
Five members of a South Korean family were arrested in Germany in 2015 when police discovered a 41-year-old woman who had been bound to a bed in a hotel room, gagged, and beaten to death over the course of what appeared to be an exorcism. Authorities determined she had died from suffocation as a result of force to her chest and stomach while her mouth was gagged with towels and a clothes hanger. Police found another injured woman, related to those arrested, who was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia. One of the arrested family members was the deceased woman's own son.
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(#13) The Exorcism Of Joan Vollmer
In 1993, Joan Vollmer perished during an exorcism in Victoria. Her husband told two exorcists that he believed his wife was possessed. The group imprisoned her in the couple’s house and tied her to a chair.
After many unsuccessful attempts to remove her supposed demons, they decided to manually squeeze the demon in her belly out her mouth. This caused Vollmer to suffer a heart attack and perish.
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(#14) The Exorcism Of Walter Zepeda
According to the Globe and Mail, 19-year-old Walter Zepeda’s father believed his son was possessed. In an effort to save him, he contacted a friend that attended the same church, the Missionary Church of Christ in Ontario. The process involved confining the teen for seven days, which the family did by binding him to a metal chair in their basement.
Ultimately, Zepeda died of dehydration, and Zepeda’s father and the father’s friend were convicted of manslaughter.
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(#4) The Exorcism Of Nun Irina Cornici
In 2005, Maricica Irina Cornici, a young Romanian nun, believed the devil was trying to communicate with her inside her mind. She was initially treated for schizophrenia, but her fellow nuns decided what she needed was an exorcism. The nuns and a monk tied the woman to a cross, shoved a towel in her mouth, and left her there for multiple days with no food. She died of suffocation and dehydration. The monk and nuns were charged with her murder, and they were sentenced to between five to 14 years in prison.
The 2012 Romanian film Beyond the Hills was inspired by this case.
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(#1) The Exorcism Of Anneliese Michel
In 1976, a 23-year-old German girl named Anneliese Michel died of dehydration and malnutrition after more than 60 exorcisms were performed on her throughout a period of 10 months. Her troubles started at 16 when she had a seizure. She was later diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy and depression. She was also reported to loathe religious icons, hear voices, and she became suicidal.
Her family was convinced she was possessed and eventually talked a pair of priests into exorcising her. Her parents and the priests were convicted of negligent homicide, and the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose is based on Anneliese’s case.
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(#3) The Exorcism Of Israa Zourob
A 17-year-old Palestinian girl named Israa Zourob died during an exorcism in 2014. Abu Khalil al-Zamili, the sheikh conducting the exorcism, forced her to drink a liter of water that had been mixed with salt in order to get the supposed demon to release her. Her mother, who watched her perish, said that he and the girl’s brother forced her to drink after she complained that the water was too salty.
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Nowadays, most contemporary historians, medical scientists attribute the supernatural phenomenon of "ghost possession" to human mental illness. The Catholic Church of the Vatican recognizes the legality of exorcism in accordance with the Bible and tradition and retains the exorcism ceremony. Larger parishes also have priests responsible for exorcism. Exorcism is an ancient tradition of many cultural and religious belief systems.
According to the spiritual beliefs of the exorcist, she can perform elaborate rituals or simply order and make ghosts leave the human body. Since the 18th century, exorcism has always existed in real life, and there are still many exorcism rituals around the world that have been recognized. The random tool introduced 15 creepy true stories about real exorcisms.
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