Episode 40: Halloween Special: The Exorcist

This week, Tayler uncovers the real story behind The Exorcist — the chilling 1949 case of a boy whose terrifying possession and church-documented exorcism shocked the nation and inspired one of the most infamous horror films of all time.

Then Colleen dives into the chaos that followed when Hollywood tried to bring that story to life — from mysterious fires and on-set injuries to unexplained deaths and a so-called curse that still haunts the film fifty years later.

It’s faith, fear, and filmmaking gone wrong — the true story that became a legend, and the movie that may have taken the word “possession” a little too literally.