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"Anneliese Michel And The Shocking Story Behind The Exorcism Of The Real-Life Emily Rose

Anneliese Michel was subjected to 67 exorcisms that ultimately left her dead on July 1, 1976 at the age of just 23.

Though many may not know it, the horrifying events of the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose were not entirely fictional, but rather were based on the actual experiences of a young German woman named Anneliese Michel.
Anneliese Michel grew up devoutly Catholic in Bavaria, West Germany in the 1960s. When Michel was 16, she suddenly blacked out at school and began walking around in a daze. Though Michel herself had no memory of the event, her friends and family said she was in a trance-like state.

A year later, Anneliese Michel experienced a similar occurrence, where she woke up in a trance and wet her bed. Her body then went through a series of convulsions, causing her body to shake uncontrollably, leaving many of those closest to her certain that she was possessed by a demon.

But what happened next was even more disturbing, and the exorcisms that her family used to treat her symptoms eventually left her dead on July 1, 1976 at the age of just 23.

This is the haunting story of Anneliese Michel, the real-life Emily Rose."

https://allthatsinteresting.com/anneliese-michel-exorcism

Two linked stories

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m215npjp2o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnex2zy7qo

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-08) “The Christian Religion,” “Is All of the Bible Inspired?” ch. 3, North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 297

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