The Real “Exorcist” Priest Dies, Horror Cinema Is Born and a Terrorist Demands His $400 Deposit Back

A tent sliced open from the inside, the man who witnessed the real exorcism that inspired The Exorcist, the silent film that invented horror, a 13-year-old reported missing who was already gone — and a $400 security deposit claimed on a van that had just been a bomb. It all happened on a February 26th sometime in the past. | The Morning Weird Darkness

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