"The Exorcism of Emily Rose"

"The Exorcism of Emily Rose" ..The movie name had such a horrifying ring to it. Being a fan of horror, my first thought was, "Man I should see this movie.." and I did. I went and I really did enjoy the movie. It was nothing like the normal horror or exorcism movies, where the so called possessed girl walks backwards or flies around in her bed.

This is a "true story" of a girl, of Emily rose(Her real name is Anneliese Michel..u can type that in google to find her story). She considered herself to be possessed because she had these experiences where she felt she was being controlled by something inside her and she started seeing demonic faces everywhere. But when taken to a psychiatrist, she was diagnosed with Psycho neurosis, which may lead to some kind of epilepsy and hallucination too. But the girl and her family firmly believed she was being possessed and rejected medical treatment and tried to exorcize the demon out of her, by taking a priest's help. Though most churches dont allow it, the priest agrees becoz he sees all signs of the girl being possessed.

The girl dies during one such exorcism session. The priest and the parents were tried in court for the murder of Emily Rose by negligence to provide her medical treatment because of which she died. But they were released with very minimal punishment.

This story moved me a lot, and made me go back and read about the Real Emily Rose, or Anneliese Michel. I am not exactly a believer of supernatural beings like ghosts, but this story caught my attention. Until something happened, that kinda shook the foundation of my beliefs and made me question them.

I did write earlier, the story of the girl who lived in the house right behind mine and who committed suicide. My mom who was away on a vacation, went to this girl's house when she returned to deliver her condolences to the girl's mother and came back with the weirdest story. This is how it is..as told by her own parents.

This girl was a really stubborn girl even as a kid. She had a small fight with her father when she was three..and had never spoken to him ever since( She was almost 20 when she died..can u believe it? 17 years !!!). She experienced some kind of epileptic fits when she was 17 and her parents rushed her to the nearest doctor. The doctor analysed her situation and came up with the diagnosis that the girl was perfectly alright healthwise. This maybe a mental problem and thus suggested the parents to take her to a psychiatrist who thought it might be psychoneurosis( Do u see a pattern here?? !) and ran various tests on the girl. The tests cost the parents close to 40K and the psychiatrist again came up with the answer that, there was nothing wrong with the girl. Everything was perfectly fine. But the girl kept experiencing these fits and everytime before it happened, the girl knew and kept hugging her mother and asked her never to let her go. The mother suspecting something supernatural, took her to a medium and the person confirmed that the girl is being possessed and could even become a medium like him. This startled the parents who just wanted her to be normal and the medium said he could help. He performed some rites and gave them a talisman that they could hang at their doors to keep away the ghost and also said he would perform the same rites for one year because thats how long it took for the effects to vanish. But unfortunately the man died before he could complete one year and the same happened to his student who tried to continue the rites. The girl wished to learn how to speak to ghosts and contacted another person who taught people to do this. But this person instructed her to contact him exactly one year later on No Moon day( According to the lunar phases) and she did call him. But he asked her to come see him a week later. She died the next morning. The night before she died, her elder sister felt a burning sensation inside her and had the irresistable urge to strangle the girl. But she somehow stopped herself and went to the extent of almost killing herself. She was praying the whole night and dint sleep a wink. The very next morning the girl hung herself with the exact same piece of clothing that the elder sister picked up to kill herself.

I decided to tell this story to justify her death. For having said wrong things about her before. Maybe she was possessed, or maybe just mentally affected. But this freaky coincidence has really got me questioning my beliefs..

What about you ??!!