I always love watching horror movies and one of them was the Exorcism of Emily Rose but never knew that it was based on true events, so what is the actual story?
The movie that inspired the horror movie "The Exorcism Of Emily Rose" is the exorcism of Anneliese Michel that is famous for her fight with demons, so what is her story?
Anneliese was born in 1952 in Bavaria, West Germany, and she was raised as a strict Catholic when she became 16 years old she started to get dizzy and blackout lately as when her friends ask her about these situations she would not remember what happened but she said when she's in bed she felt like something on her chest or pinning her down.
After about 11 months, it started to happen again, the same blackouts and dizziness as she wakes up in a trance and wetting the bed. her body is going through stages of convulsions which can make her body start shaking violently and uncontrollably.
Anneliese and her mother went to two doctors, Dr. Vogt which was the family doctor,, and Dr. Luthy which was the neurologist, Dr. Luthy did a Brain scan and found nothing wrong with her was both doctors said that it can be a form of seizure experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations. Over the next three years, she felt the situation two times as she was described a medication which these two were a description against anticonvulsant and against seizure (Dilantin).
In 1973 it all turned into hell, Annaeleise was hearing knocks in her bedroom which her sister heard it two, but Annaeleise hearing whispers or voices her to go to hell, her mother also stated that Annaeleise was staring at the statue of the virgin mary a lot and her eyes turn black, Dr. Luthy visited her as she described that she sees a lot of demon face and said that she felt that the devil was inside of her, and also reported that she smelt something like a burning feces smell beside her, Dr. Luthy advised them to consult a Jesuit (religious official) but later on denied that he said this, the family searched for a priest and found Father Alt, but also meets with another Dr and diagnosed her with neurotic with possible epilepsy because she had the behavior pattern of epilepsy.
However, the drugs she was given failed to help her, and as the year progressed her condition began to deteriorate as she started eating spiders, fly and she lifted her own urine from the floor, she started to have these superpowers like she could squeeze an apple and make it explode through the room with only one hand.
Father Rodewyk was convinced that's he was possessed by a demon as it was approved to do an exorcism on Anna as it will be done by Father Renz, in 1975 the exorcism was performed as the father recorded parts of the exorcism as in total was 42 recordings, she has known things about people that she didn't know about or even related too as the father was surprised about this.
In 1976, she became worse of this condition, she started to bang her head against the wall, as her family had to tie her up to prevent her from hurting herself, she didn't want to but stated out loud to her family "not permitted to eat" as the weird thing that she was externally underweight, less than 80 pounds but had the very good strength, she refused a doctor visit although she had a high fever, in this year she had another exorcism after this one, the family woke up in the morning and found her dead, although she sought medical attention at first but then refused as she and her family put their faith into their religion, she died of starvation after 67 exorcisms ad done on her weighing less than 70 pounds.
After the girl died, the parents and the priest were accused of Neglecting homicide as they went to court in 1978, the position of the defendant that she denied medical treatment, eye witness, and recording of her as also one of her friends before she died to not suggest any medical attention for no one, reports stated that she had good healthy brain and no damage that cause any kind of epileptic seizure, as the weird thing that court dismissed all facts like the pupil in her eye expanding, the evidence of she was starving herself, let's see from the other side of the court, they saw that she had epilepsy and both of her parents and priest failed to seek to medical attention, as the medication that was given increased the epileptic seizure even more, which bring more fantasy and the delusional world that she lives in.
In the end, the court ruled in favor of the prosecution which made the priest and the parents sentenced 6 months in prison, 3 years of suspension for the priest, and pay all court cost, as the judge stated that Annaliese wasn't enabled to make decisions for herself and should have been forced to medical care.
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- Farah Kareem
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