Its a couple of weeks before Halloween so we are taking a small break from true crime to focus on the really scary and what's more terifying then a story about a demon? Released in December 1973 the movie the Exorcist was the highest grossing movie of its time, the movie based loosely on the book by William Peter Platty follows the story of 12 year old Regan played by Linda Blair and her family as they deal and try to overcome some radically disturbing behavior.
 
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Below is a  list of resources  used during the research and telling of this story. (partial) 
Video of movie goers
You tube
https://www.youtube.com/user/behindtheexorcist
https://medium.com/@Rawwmatic/roland-doe-the-true-story-of-the-exorcist-f93c4b524b67
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism
http://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/exorcist-grave-milwaukee/
https://medium.com/@Rawwmatic/roland-doe-the-true-story-of-the-exorcist-f93c4b524b67
http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/the-exorcist-curse
https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-facts-about-the-exorcist/christopher-myers?ref=inline_nodesquared
https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home
https://members.huntakiller.com/blog-articles/2017/4/1/the-curse-of-the-exorcist
and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org
 
 
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