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(#5) The Exorcism Of Morgan Freeman's Step-Granddaughter
Actor Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter, 33-year-old Edena Hines, was fatally stabbed 16 times by her boyfriend, 30-year-old Lamar Davenport in Manhattan in 2015. A witness told authorities that he had heard Davenport screaming, “Get out, devils! I cast you out, devils!” as he killed Hines. Davenport was an aspiring rapper who called himself Lyric.
When police arrived at the scene, they said they had to hold Davenport back as he was still trying to attack Hines's body.
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(#7) Eder Guzman-Rodriguez's Exorcism Of His Child
In 2011, Eder Guzman-Rodriguez, of Virginia, beat his 2-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, to death while attempting to exorcize a demon he believed had entered her body. She was found beaten and strangled on a bed, and several religious books had been placed around her body.
Before he murdered his daughter, he beat his wife to the point of blacking out so that she could not stop him. He was sentenced to 20 years and 11 months in prison.
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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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(#9) The Exorcism Of Jaqueline Sanchez
Jaqueline Sanchez was 22 when she suffered a fatal heart attack at her family’s church in Belize in 2015. Her parents said that she was struck with convulsions and refused to eat after using a Ouija board, and they believed she had been possessed.
Though Sanchez was reportedly held down during her exorcism, authorities also ruled that she had died of natural causes and that "the bruises and lacerations to her body [were] due to a trance that she was suffering."
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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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(#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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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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