{"id":343,"date":"2009-04-11T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-05-11T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:13:10","slug":"exorcist-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Exorcist To-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/halloran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344 alignleft\" title=\"halloran\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/halloran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn one of the chapters in Unbelievable, I talk about the actual case that inspired the book and movie <em>The Exorcist<\/em>.  I had intended to try to track down Dr. Mabel Ross, the child psychiatrist who examined the boy at the center of this case. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ross had two interviews with the child, and there was supposed to have been a third, but the family never brought him back. Dr. Ross, if still alive, would be in her eighties now, at least. \u00a0I see that she is depicted in a 1997 movie about this called <em>In the Grip of Evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Luther Schulze, the clergyman\u00a0who contacted the Parapsychology Laboratory, didn&#8217;t think this was a case of possession and neither did J. B. Rhine, the head of the lab. (This is a picture of Father Walter Halloran, by the way, who assisted at the exorcism. I don&#8217;t have a picture of Rev. Luther Schulze.) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rhine and Schulze were skeptical about the cause. \u00a0Schulze, for instance, wrote Rhine about the words that were purported to have appeared on the boy&#8217;s body. \u00a0\u201cMy physician and I saw no words,&#8221; Schulze wrote, &#8220;but we did see nerve reaction rashes which had the appearance of scratches.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schulze did witness some very bizarre events involving the boy, which he couldn&#8217;t explain, but he didn&#8217;t think the answer was possession. \u00a0They thought perhaps it might be psychokinesis or a poltergiest, but they also thought it was also just as likely that there would be a psychological explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the chapters in Unbelievable, I talk about the actual case that inspired the book and movie The Exorcist. I had intended to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-5x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}