5 Real-Life Exorcisms That Went Horribly Wrong

Anneliese Michel grew up Catholic. She did well in school. She lived as a happy, normal 16-year-old. Then, she grew withdrawn. She slowly started showing signs of epilepsy. Her family took her to a psychiatric hospital. They gave her anti-convulsion drugs. These drugs made things worse. She started seeing things, maybe from the drugs. She claimed she saw “demon faces.”

Anna Michel’s mental state worsened. The hallucinations got worse. She showed signs of schizophrenia and psychosis. She prayed hard. Soon, she feared holy objects. She believed she was “damned” and “would rot in hell.” She had violent outbursts. She ate insects. She drank her own urine. Her religious parents wanted a priest. They asked the Catholic Church for an exorcism. The Church denied them multiple times. It was 1973. She showed the same behavior as Regan in The Exorcistwhen the film was released.

Father Ernst Alt met the young girl. He felt demonic possession. He and priest Arnold Renz got permission for exorcism rites. Anneliese stopped all medical treatment. This action was very dangerous. She stopped all mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, and anti-seizure drugs. The two priests performed sixty-seven ritual exorcisms over Anneliese in ten months. Anneliese only got worse. Anneliese named demonic entities inside her as Nero, Hitler, Judas, Cain, and Lucifer.

Near the end, Anneliese refused food. She said she wanted to atone for her youth’s sins. On July 1, 1976, after two exorcisms a week for almost a year, Anneliese Michel died from starvation and severe dehydration at her parents' home. She weighed only 30 pounds. She had pneumonia. Both her knees were broken. Priests and Mr. and Mrs. Michel faced negligent homicide charges. These charges later dropped to manslaughter due to medical negligence. All parties were found guilty.

In 2010, 15-year-old Kristy Bamu traveled from London to Paris. He took two brothers and two sisters. They went to spend Christmas with his sister Magalie Bamu, 29, and her boyfriend Eric Bikubi, 28. The couple had an obsession with kindokiwitchcraft (a form of witchcraft practiced in the Democratic Republic of Congo). Bikubi accused Kristy and two sisters of practicing sorcery. They put black magic spells on the younger kids. Bamu did not defend his siblings. Bamu believed his boyfriend’s claims. They both refused to let the children eat or drink to starve the demons out.They beat the childrenThey used metal pipes. They ordered the children to pray and chant.

Other siblings helped beat Kristy or faced the same fate. One sister faked helping, so Bikubi put a lightbulb in her mouth and threatened her with a knife. Over four days, Kristy knelt, enduring floor tiles smashed over his head. They smashed his teeth with a hammer and made him drink urine. Dozens of calls went to their father Pierre. Kristy begged his father to come get him before he died, but his father did not believe him. He thought Bikubi was kind and gentle; his son was exaggerating. Kristy's injuries were severe. He begged to die, saying he could not handle more of their 'deliverance from evil,' but the violent exorcism kept going.

Noon on Christmas Day, Kristy and his siblings entered the bath for purification. The deranged couple flooded the entire apartment, ignoring their screams and neighbor banging. Kristy sustained 101 injuries and could not stay afloat. He drowned in the tub. Bikubi tried to revive him, but he died. Paramedics found a flooded, bloody apartment filled with weapons, metal bars, and blood-stained chisels, pliers, and knives.Magalie Bamu and Eric Bikubi were jailed for life for Kristy’s murder.

Blaine Keith Milam believed his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter Amora was possessed by demons. Jessica Carson, Amora’s mother, accepted his claims. The couple started saving money for an exorcism. Lacking funds quickly, they decided to perform the exorcism themselves in 2009.Milam's idea of an exorcism. was brutal, disgusting torture Milam inflicted on a helpless baby.

Milam and Carson blamed the death on everything. First, they claimed they left her home while going to the pawnshop for money. Then, they said a dog attacked her. A car accident was blamed for some injuries. In reality, Milam was a registered sex offender and a psychopath who murdered and sexually assaulted a 13-month-old baby. Jessica Carson received a life sentence without parole, and Milam, the real demon, got the death sentence.

Kyung Jae Chung co-ran a Christian school with her husband Jae Whoa Chung in Bangladesh. While traveling to Los Angeles in 1997, Kyung Jae acted 'spiritually arrogant' and 'disobedient' to her husband. Thus, he decided she was possessed. On July 4, 1997, Mr. Chung, exorcist Sung Soo Choi, and deacon Jin Hyun Choi of the Glendale Calvary Presbyterian Church began the exorcism.Kyung Jae Chung began the exorcism.Kyung Jae Chung was stomped to death by her husband for her 'spiritual arrogance'.

Three men pinned her to the bed. They prayed for two and a half hours. They demanded to know who "she" was. Kyung Jae growled, “Gundae, Gundae,” which means "Legion" (a Biblical demon from the New Testament). Men tried to cast the demon from Kyung Jae. The beast inside her said, “I’ll get out when she’s dead.” So, they spent four hours trying to squeeze it out.

They pressed hard on her stomach. They punched her. They began stomping her chest. They broke 16 ribs. Her chest collapsed. She suffered severe internal injuries. Blunt force trauma killed her. Exorcist Sung Soo Choi got four years in prison. Her husband got two years. The deacon got three years probation for his part in the tragedy.

In early 2016, Kenya saw Irene Mbithe suspect demons took her six-month-old son. She chose to cast them out of him herself. Neighbors recalled hearing herShe chanted and prayed all night.. The next day showed a gruesome sight no one expected.

To remove evil from her son, Irene also took out his intestines and cut out his tongue. At the scene, Irene appeared confused but sorry. She was photographed with her dead six-month-old wrapped in a sheet on her lap. She insisted she did not mean to hurt him: “God punish me if I have done anything wrong to my son who I love so much and have prayed for years to conceive and give birth to,” she said.