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In the late 1940s, in the United States, priests of the Catholic Church performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy, documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or "Robbie Mannheim". The 14-year-old boy was said to be a victim of demonic possession , and the events were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond J. Bishop .
Walter H. Halloran SJ (September 21, 1921 – March 1, 2005) was a Catholic priest [1] of the Society of Jesus who, at the age of twenty-six, assisted in the exorcism of Roland Doe in Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Missouri. The anonymous Doe, a thirteen-year-old Lutheran boy from Cottage City, Maryland, was allegedly possessed.
The story stuck with Blatty. In the late 1960s, the author — then a comedy writer — took a break to pen a nonfiction book based on the story of “Roland Doe.”
The Exorcist is a 1971 supernatural horror novel by William Peter Blatty, based on the true story of Roland Doe, a 1949 case in which Catholic priests performed a series of exorcisms on a 14-year-old boy in Maryland. Bermingham taught Blatty Latin at Brooklyn Prep in the mid-1940s, and worked at Georgetown at the same time Blatty was attending.
1949 — Roland Doe was allegedly possessed and underwent an exorcism. The events later inspired the novel and film The Exorcist. 1975–1976 — Anneliese Michel was a woman from Germany who underwent 67 exorcisms, which inspired the films The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Requiem. In a conference several years later, German bishops retracted the ...
The Oscar-nominated director wanted to tackle the haunting true story of Latoya Ammons, who claimed her children had been victimized by demons, after finishing his 2009 breakthrough “Precious ...
Based loosely on the true story of former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, season 1 of the comedic thriller found CIA newcomer Owen in a series of life-or-death situations as he fell deeper into the case ...
Possessed is a 2000 American horror television film directed by Steven E. de Souza, written by de Souza and Michael Lazarou, and starring Timothy Dalton.The film is based on events appearing in the 1993 book Possessed by Thomas B. Allen, [1] [2] [3] which was inspired by the exorcism case of Roland Doe.