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Father Joseph Steiger, a priest at St. Joseph’s in Earling, Iowa, was approached with an urgent concern. A 46-year-old woman ...
The new movie The Ritual is based on a 1928 exorcism in Iowa. Catholic priest Theophilus Riesinger performed the ritual on ...
But how much truth there is to the religiously-fueled aspects of the story is up for interpretation.The Ritual, now in theaters, purports to be based on the true story of Schmidt's exorcism, which ...
XYZ Films’ new release, The Ritual, proves that point: The supernatural horror story is a faithful report on the most infamous exorcism in U.S. history, the exorcism of Emma Schmidt. The Ritual will ...
Share this real exorcism story on Halloween ... Dittus claimed her house was haunted and soon began slipping in and out of what others described as “trance-like” states, but it was only ...
All of these events are reproduced in The Deliverance as reported by Ammons, although some small changes are made to the story. The location of the house is ... well-known exorcist who focuses ...
His true identity, Ronald Edwin Hunkeler, was revealed after his death at age 85 in 2020. The story stuck with Blatty ... later updated its guidelines for exorcism in 1999, listing the symptoms ...
A family at their wits end brought their son, given the pseudonym “Robbie Mannheim,” to Jesuit priests from St. Louis University for an exorcism in 1949. The story has been fodder for urban ...