How old was the boy that William S. Bowdern performed an exorcism on?
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William S. Bowdern Father William S. Bowdern, S.J. (February 13, 1897 - April 25, 1983) was a Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He was the author of "The Problems of Courtship and Marriage" printed by "Our Sunday Visitor" in 1939. He was a graduate of and taught at St. Louis University High School; he also taught at St. Louis University. Bowdern participated in an exorcism of Roland Doe in 1949. The incident became the basis of William Peter Blatty's novel, "The Exorcist".
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Exorcism of Roland Doe In the late 1940s, in the United States, priests of the Roman Catholic Church performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy, documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or "Robbie Mannheim". The 14-year-old boy (born circa 1935), was the alleged victim of demonic possession, and the events were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond Bishop. Subsequent supernatural claims surrounding the events were used as elements along with the Loudun possessions in the 1971 novel "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty and the 1973 film adaptation.
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Gerald Ridsdale Gerald Francis Ridsdale (born 20 May 1934), an Australian laicised Catholic priest, was convicted between 1993 and 2013 of a large number of child sexual abuse and indecent assault charges against 54 children aged as young as four years. The offences occurred from the 1960s to the 1980s while Ridsdale worked as a school chaplain at St Alipius Boys' School in the Victorian regional city of Ballarat.
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Watseka Wonder Watseka Wonder is the name given to the alleged spiritual possession of fourteen-year-old Lurancy Vennum of Watseka, Illinois in the late 19th century.
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Brother Carlos Oliveira Carlos Oliveira is a Christian Exorcist and an Independent Full-Time Deliverance Minister. He was born again in July 1989, after accepting Jesus Christ as his personal savior. He is the founder of one of the largest Deliverance Ministries in North America. He was born in Brazil and has been living in the U.S. since 1997. Carlos Oliveira is accustomed and accomplished on the subject of curses, witchcraft, cursed sites and objects; also the negative effects they have on people and the world. He is also a Reality TV Personality, Author, Christian Motivational Speaker, and Singer. Carlos has been featured on: TV Series Documentary, "National Geographic Channel", "History Channel", "Biography Channel", "Telemundo", NBC News, "CBS Eye Witness", "Comedy Central", "Rock 100.5 FM Radio", "Omega Man Radio", "Vice Canada", "Atlanta GA", "The Drive Home 790 KABC", "& Los Angeles".
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James Hydrick James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer, self-described psychic and a convicted child molester. Hydrick claimed to be able to perform acts of telekinesis, such as his trademark trick of moving a pencil resting at the edge of a table. Following a nationally televised demonstration of his abilities on the American reality show "That's Incredible!", he was unable to prove his supernatural abilities on another show, "That's My Line", hosted by Bob Barker, and Hydrick subsequently confessed the fraud to an investigative reporter.
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Boy (dog) The dog Boy (died 2 July 1644 at the battle of Marston Moor), also Boye, was a celebrated and iconic white hunting poodle belonging to Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the 17th century. Puritan or Roundhead propagandists alleged that the dog was "endowed" with magical powers.
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William Severn William Severn (Los Angeles, 17 January 1938Ventura County, 26 March 1983) was an American child screen actor.
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Howard Unruh Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer (sometimes classified as a spree killer) who killed 13 people (including three children) during a 12-minute walk through his neighborhood on September 6, 1949, in Camden, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death". Unruh was found to be criminally insane, and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88, following 60 years of confinement.
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Billy the Kid Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty, and also known as WilliamH.Bonney; 1859July 14, 1881) was an American Old West gunfighter who participated in the New Mexico Territory's Lincoln County War of 1878. He is known to have killed eight men.
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Exorcism in Christianity Exorcism in Christianity is the practice of casting out demons from a person they are believed to have possessed. The person performing the exorcism, known as an exorcist, is often a member of the Christian Church, or an individual thought to be graced with special powers or skills. The exorcist may use prayers and religious material, such as set formulas, gestures, symbols, icons, amulets, etc. The exorcist often invokes God, Jesus and/or several different angels and archangels to intervene with the exorcism. A survey of Christian exorcists found that most exorcists believe that any mature Christian can perform an exorcism, not just members of clergy. Christian exorcists most commonly believe the authority given to them by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (the Trinity) is the source of their ability to cast out demons.
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Rodd Christensen Rodd Christensen (born 4 May 1967) is an American actor best known for his performance as Spencer the painter on the BBC children's television programme "Balamory". He was the only non-British actor on the show.
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Ted Bundy Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s, and possibly earlier. Shortly before his execution—after more than a decade of denials—he confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher.
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Murder of June Anne Devaney The Murder of June Anne Devaney was the murder of a girl aged aged 3 years 11 months which occurred on 15 May 1948 in which June Anne Devaney was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn, Lancashire. She was removed to the grounds of the hospital, where she was raped, before suffering extensive blunt force trauma to her skull by enduring her head being repeatedly swung into a sandstone wall. This assault caused the child to suffer extensive internal injuries and multiple skull fractures, causing June Anne to develop a fatal state of shock. Her murderer, 22-year-old Peter Griffiths, was arrested three months after the crime. He was subsequently tried and convicted of June Anne's murder and was hanged on 19 November 1948.
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David Vetter David Phillip Vetter (September 21, 1971 – February 22, 1984) was a prominent sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a hereditary disease which dramatically weakens the immune system. Individuals born with SCID are abnormally susceptible to infections, and exposure to typically innocuous pathogens can be fatal. Vetter was referred to as "David, the bubble boy" by the media. Vetter's surname (last name) was not revealed to the general public until 10 years after his death in order to preserve his family's privacy.
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Charles Andrew Williams Charles Andrew "Andy" Williams (born February 8, 1986) is a convicted murderer who, as a 15-year-old, perpetrated the shooting at Santana High School on March 5, 2001. In the shooting, two students were killed and 13 others were wounded. Williams is currently serving life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years.
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John Patrick Amedori John Patrick Amedori (born April 20, 1987) is an American actor and musician. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the thirteen-year-old Evan Treborn in "The Butterfly Effect".
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Murder of Adam Walsh Adam John Walsh (November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981) was an American boy who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in a drainage canal alongside Florida's Turnpike in rural St. Lucie County, Florida. His death earned national publicity. His story was made into the 1983 television film "Adam", seen by 38 million people in its original airing. His father, John Walsh, became an advocate for victims of violent crimes and was the host of the television program "America's Most Wanted".
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William Smith (Latter Day Saints) William Smith (also found as William B. Smith) (March 13, 1811 – November 13, 1893) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Smith was the eighth child of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith and was a younger brother of Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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Dean Paul Martin Dean Paul Martin Jr. (November 17, 1951 – March 21, 1987) was the son of American entertainer Dean Martin, and a singer and actor.
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Fedor Jeftichew Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew (Russian: Фёдор Адрианович Евтищев, "Fyodor Yevtishchev", 1868 - January 31, 1904), better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (later "Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Man"), was a famous Russian sideshow performer who was brought to the United States of America by P.T. Barnum.
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Howard Dully Howard Dully (born November 30, 1948) is one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old. Dully received international attention in 2005, following the broadcasting of his story on National Public Radio. Subsequently, in 2007, he published a New York Times Best Seller memoir, "My Lobotomy", a story of the hardships of his lobotomy, co-authored by Charles Fleming.