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I was born in Jefferson City,Mo and lived in St.Louis until 1974 when my Mum moved us to Oakland,California where I am still living. The house in the Bel-Nor District in St.Louis was up for sale in 2005 and my mom and I drove by to see it. We didn’t go in but we drove by because the house was up for sale because the previous owner had “disappeared”. I am thinking of moving to St.Louis to this retirement community that is across the street from St.Louis University the place also where the 1949 exorcism of Robbie took place.
I witnessed a possession during a prayer meeting at the church. The person was okay but started cutting up when the priest pulled up in the church parking lot and started getting louder and louder as the priest entered. The rest of us didn’t know what was going on but the priest did. He exorcised that demon from the possessed person but people who are possessed do have quick movements and can scale church pews like it’s nobody’s business. I guess I kind of suppressed that memory because I was never quite sure whether demons actually exist or not. The memory of the exorcism is something I try to put out of my mind cause I’m still can’t believe I witnessed it. It was too weird for words.
Father Bowdern I did witness a case of possession in 1994 at the Catholic Church. The person possessed was nowhere near as dramatic as the changes that the demon wrought in Regan but the person did display some characteristics of demonic possession that Regan did. I bury the memories in my subconscious cause I still can’t believe what I saw although there were other witnesses in the church who saw the same thing that I did. To this day I still try to shove the memories out of my mind although my rational mind tells me that demons don’t exist.
Father Bowdern Happy Easter to you. I have a question for you off the record. Is it possible that demons can cause physical illness in the body? I am a Catholic though not practicing but have been baptized by Father Ignatius in Columbus,Georgia in 1960,confirmed in 1969 at Blessed Sacrament in St.Louis. I knew the priests who performed the exorcism of the 14 year old boy in St.Louis Father Halloran being the last one who died in 2005. My Mom and I even drove by the house where the possession took place in the Bel-Nor District in St.Louis in 2005 when the house went up for sale. The previous owner simply disappeared and an investor eventually ended up buying the house and putting it on the market. There was a lengthy article in the St.Louis Post Dispatch about the house and the exorcism that took place that I should have kept. The investor didn’t really want the history of the house to be disclosed to the public because he was afraid nobody would buy the house if they knew it was the site of an exorcism. Of course old nosey me just had to see what the house looked like and I must say the house is in a beautiful suburb of tree-lined streets in St.Louis built in the 1940’s and is a two story brick house. I started to buy it in move in it myself. Of course I would probably have to sleep with a baseball bat next to the bed and a vial of holy water to keep Pazuzu out of the room.
I know I remember that part in the book when Detective Kinderman was in his car outside of Regan’s window and he thought that he saw a slim,lithe figure dart into his view and then out of sight. I wonder what she was up to. He also noticed that her bedroom window was wide open after Chris told him that her bedroom window was locked. Oh Regan possessed by Pazuzzi was a few steps ahead of them all of the time. She was desecrating the church and doing God knows what else and nobody not even Chris had a clue.
Nice to meet you too Sofia a fellow Exorcist book lover. I don’t have a MYSPACE account but I’ll check out yours. The Exorcist is a book that I never tire of reading but you brought out a point in the book that I never considered about Father Karras stating that he always tries to make it to the platform every evening about 7 p.m. to watch the sunset. Now as for the desecrations Father Karras was attending his mother’s funeral when one of the desecrations occurred according to the elderly sacristan of the church. I know this is a weird question but I was thinking about the desecrations to the statues in the church and was wondering when Regan found the time to sculpt phalluses and breasts to stick on the statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. I know she spent a lot of time alone in the playroom working on sculptures but I was wondering how she could sculpt phallus and breasts and where did she hide them until it was time for her to sneak out at night and stick them on the statues of Mary and Jesus. I remember when Chris was stating that the servant Willie told her that she heard Regan in the kitchen in the wee morning hours and Chris was feeling glad because that meant that Regan was getting her appetite back. I think Regan was either on her way to or coming back from a church desecration. What are your thoughts on that?
I remember watching a comedy show some years back and a comedian was talking about the movie “The Exorcist”. He was saying that he don’t see why people living in the McNeil household kept trying to hold an intellection discussion with the demon Pazuzu because once he came into that bedroom and found someone with their head on backwards they can have the house. Father Bowdern are you a Jesuit priest like Father Karras and do you believe in demonic possession. I am Catholic and have witnessed a couple of instances of demonic possession in the Church but nowhere near dramatic as in the Exorcist.
Regan must have been in really bad shape if she had to see eighty-eight doctors at the Barringer Clinic. I bet she gave those doctors a run for their money too. If I were a doctor and had to treat a patient like Regan I would immediately retire not to mention that a doctor puts his life in danger if she gets out of those restraining straps and kills him/her like she killed Burke Dennings. Personally I don’t see how Chris and the staff stayed in the house with her cursing and raging all of the time. I bet none of them got a good night’s sleep.
You know what Father Bowdern I finally realized the significance of Regan’s head turning backward. Regan’s head turning backward is to emulate Burke Denning’s after he died especially since she was speaking in Burke Denning’s voice at the end of the masturbation scene. I guess Chris knew eventually that Detective Kinderman would discover that Regan was Burke Denning’s murderer. Also Father Bowdern when Regan was admitted to the clinic in Ohio after seeing the condition she was in what were the recommendations the doctors at the clinic gave to Chris as to what Regan’s prognosis was and what could be done for her? I remember reading in the book that Chris was screaming that she wasn’t going to put Regan in a goddamn asylum.
Thanks for the link to the thread explaining who killed director Burke Dennings. The Exorcist is one of my favorite books and it’s a book I never get tired of reading. So the demon Pazzuzi acting through Regan’s body jumped out of that bed and put the snatch on Burke Dennings before he could even say “boo”? I remember in the book how Detective Kinderman had linked Burke Denning’s death to someone in the McNeil household. His first suspect was Karl Engstrom who had had some heated run-ins with Dennings but after Karl didn’t pan out Detective Kinderman focused his attention on Regan and especially when he found out that she had been admitted to the Beringer Clinic a known psychiatric facility in Ohio. The clinic told Detective Kinderman that Regan was indeed a patient at the clinic and even though the clinic couldn’t give Kinderman details on Regan’s illness the detective concluded that it was a serious mental disorder. Beforehand when Chris mentioned that Regan was sick Detective Kinderman thought that Regan had a physical illness but after he called the Beringer which was a psychiatric facility he started putting the pieces together. Also Regan was the only one in the house he hadn’t seen and the second set of fingerprints on the desecrated altar card were small like those of a child’s. I think Father Karras’ death got Regan off the hook because Detective Kinderman was thinking of going to Chris’ house and pound on the door demanding to see Regan. Father Karras’ death closed the case for Kinderman but Father Dyer still had his doubts about the murderer of Burke Dennings beingFather Karras.
