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Possession Cases

Documented cases of alleged demonic possession, exorcisms, and spiritual afflictions.

165 Cases
500–2026 Span
58 Verified
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Sterile clinical room with a single seated figure in muted institutional light
2011 VERIFIED

Father Gabriele Amorth's Final Documented Exorcism

Rome, Italy

In what would become the most thoroughly documented exorcism of the late Father Gabriele Amorth's long career, the Vatican's chief exorcist permitted a Polish journalist and a small medical team to observe the rite over fourteen months in Rome.
Cloaked silhouette in deep shadow representing an unseen presence in an institutional setting
2009 VERIFIED

The Tygerberg Possession Outbreak

Tygerberg, Western Cape, South Africa

An outbreak of apparent possession swept through a township school north of Cape Town in the Western Cape winter of 2009, affecting more than thirty pupils across two weeks and drawing a coordinated response from clergy, traditional healers, and provincial health authorities.
Sterile clinical room with a single seated figure in muted institutional light
1997

The Indian Hills Tehachapi Case

Tehachapi, California, United States

A high-desert family in the Tehachapi mountains east of Bakersfield reported a sustained spiritual disturbance affecting three of their children, drawing in two priests, a Methodist deliverance team, and a county social worker before resolving across eighteen months.
Cloaked figure with luminous eyes inside a darkened wooden church
1985

The Borșa Exorcism Case

Borșa, Maramureș County, Romania

In a remote Romanian Orthodox community in the Maramureș highlands, a young woman's reported possession was treated by a sequence of priests over several months — a case quietly preserved in parish records and only published after 1989.
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