Re post of "The story behind the exorcist."

             The boy was 13 years old laying in a hospital  bed in the Georgetown University Hospital. The local priest Father E. Albert Hughes was conducting the first exorcism the boy underwent. The final exorcism was done at the Alexian Brothers Hospital in St.Louis, Missouri in the spring of 1949.
This story first came to the public eye when an unnamed minister gave a speech to the Society of parapsychology at the mount pleasant library in Washington DC. The minister talked about the strange events that took place in the families Maryland home beginning Jan. 18Th ; Scratching noises coming from the house walls, the bed that the boy slept in would shake violently, objects would move in the boys presence. The minister being skeptical at first arranged for the boy to sleep in his home on the night of Feb 17Th. The minister reported, In the dark the bed would shake and scratching noises seemed to vibrate off the walls. The rest of the night was no joke either, a heavy armchair that the boy sat in would tilt on its own and stay suspended as if someone or something was holding it.
The boy was finally freed of the demon when he was 14 after 30 exorcism attempts.