Painting of Saint Francis Borgia performing an exorcism, as depicted by Goya — courtesy of Wikimedia

The Most Terrifying and Spectacular Exorcism in History

A woman possessed with Beelzebub, Judas Iscariot, her father, and her aunt

In 2016, the movie The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund was released. The movie is based on a true story that stretches back to the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

Between August and December in 1928, intense sessions of exorcism were performed on a heavily demon-possessed woman. During the exorcism, these things happened.

• The possessed woman hissed like a cat and howled “like a pack of wild beasts, suddenly letting loose.”
• The possessed woman floated in the air and landed above the door frame.
• The responsible priest experienced physical attacks that left him “trembling like a fluttering leaf in a whirl-wind.”
• When holy water touched the possessed woman’s skin, it burnt off.
• The possessed woman’s face twisted, her eyes and lips swelled to huge proportions, and her stomach became hard.
• The possessed woman vomited twenty to thirty times a day.
• The possessed woman started speaking and understanding Latin, Hebrew, Italian and Polish languages.