Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism

by Thomas B Allen

Overview

For 40 years, the truth about the exorcism of 14-year-old Robbie Mannheim remained a mystery. Then a priest's diary, hidden in a locked room in the mental ward of a St. Louis hospital, came to light -- a diary written by one of the Jesuit priests who witnessed the bizarre and harrowing events firsthand.

Over the period of several terrifying months, the Mannheim family was caught in a titanic struggle while physicians, psychiatrists, and clergy fought for the soul of their child against a power that identified itself with Satan. In POSSESSED, acclaimed author and journalist Thomas B. Allen reveals what he found in the priest's diary as well as his interviews with witnesses to the exorcism of Robbie Mannheim. The evidence Allen uncovered in his investigations is so shocking, so chilling and so totally credible, it will challenge everything you believe -- or don't believe -- about the forces of good and evil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595132645
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2000
Edition description:	Updated ed.
Pages:	348
Sales rank:	532,847
Product dimensions:	4.94(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.85(d)

Table of Contents

	Prelude	viii
Chapter 1	"Is This You, Aunt Harriet?"	1
Chapter 2	Hunting a Poltergeist	14
Chapter 3	"But Deliver Us from Evil"	25
Chapter 4	The Scratches Said St. Louis	39
Chapter 5	A Priestly Blessing	48
Chapter 6	The Nights of the Priests	61
Chapter 7	The Archbishop Gets the Case	78
Chapter 8	"I Cast Thee Out"	91
Chapter 9	"He's going! He's going!"	116
Chapter 10	The Sign of the X	126
Chapter 11	Messages	149
Chapter 12	A Search for a Quiet Place	169
Chapter 13	The Demon on the Fifth Floor	184
Chapter 14	The Secret Unlocked	216
	The Exorcist Diary	243
	Case Study	245
	Author's Endnote	292
	Bibliography	297
	Sources	299
	Chapter Notes	305
	Index	329