Hollywood didn’t have to exaggerate this one. The facts are disturbing enough on their own.
Hollywood didn’t have to exaggerate this one. The facts are disturbing enough on their own.
In 1906, a teenage orphan at a Catholic mission claimed Satan himself had taken control of her body – and hundreds of people watched what happened next.
She was just 16 when she willingly sold her soul to the devil, but when Clara Germana Cele tried to back out of the deal, it took two priests, 170 witnesses, and a harrowing two-day exorcism to save her from the demonic forces that made her levitate, speak in tongues, and transform into something inhuman.
A Yale-trained psychiatrist’s encounter with a satanic priestess changed everything he believed about the intersection of science and the supernatural.
When a skeptical Yale-trained psychiatrist was called to evaluate a self-proclaimed satanic high priestess claiming demonic possession, he expected to find mental illness, not a woman who knew intimate secrets about people she’d never met. Dr. Richard Gallagher’s work with “Julia” would span eight exorcisms and challenge everything he believed about the line between psychiatry and the supernatural.