The number one box office hit in the USA in 2005 was The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Appealing to lovers of the paranormal, the movie portrayed a young girl possessed by demons and entailed her suffering and the many exorcism rites she’d endured to be freed.
The real Emily Rose, Anneliese Michel was a young, beautiful woman on her way to a career in elementary education. She was born on September 21, 1952, in a small village in Bavaria.
At the young age of 17, Anneliese’s life turned into a nightmare. She began having unusual 
seizures during the night, she’d described the symptoms as paralysis, a enormous weight on her chest, her body becoming rigid and she wouldn’t be able to speak.
Doctors at the Psychiatric Clinic in Wurzburg diagnosed Anneliese as suffering from Grand Mal epileptic seizures. After the occurrence of her third seizure, she spent close to a year in a psychiatric hospital in Mittleberg.
During her stay at the hospital, she started seeing demonic faces, especially during her daily prayers and voices telling her that she was damned.
Doctors there began to medicate her with some type of anticonvulsant. Anneliese’s frustrations grew when the medications didn’t provide any help, she continued to see the faces and became more depressed.
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it’s so sad
my sister didn’t want to see it but still, i saw the last pic and i’m not sure y did they punch her and y is her neck (or throat) so big?
that is wat i want to know.
i can ‘t belive that she is possested by those demons.
this is real and almost like any other cases.
a totally terrifuinghorrifing deathly scary unbelievable killing story that creeps me out each time i hear its’ name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as a catholic myself i can not imagen how it would feel to ahve demons living inside me i saw the film but the true account is breath taking and mind blowing my heart goes out to her family. but more importently herself for copeing with something that one eles can see
we all have seen what happen to emily..
we dont ever know what if one, it will happen to us…
so please, always remember.
dont loose your strong faith with God.
believe with Him.
thank you.
i absolutely hate this story, it has always taken a lot to scare the crap out of me, not one scary movie has even so much given me the chills, but i could NOT finish this movie when i watched it. Because this story is true, and all of the events in the movie is how it happened to this poor girl, i just cant bring myself to even THINK about it with almost peeing myself. People need to realize how true this story is, even if you are religious, it still happens, and its one of the scariest things i have ever heard of. ugh, now im all freaked out=(
things happen in this world and some are very weird and you never will know if it can happen to you it’s a scary world , but some times these ghost can not be what you think they are they mite be people who can’t just go away they need to finish something they stated before they left our world.
this is one weird story and i belive it to that girl was sweet and would never hurt anyone i bet . im glad she past in a good way god in looking after her now she is in good hands
thats sooooooo crazy and scary i also believe in that stuff and ive also been posessd before and whoever was in me made me cut my throat,cut myself, and almost made me STAB MYSELF
i should know she felt. i thought i was possessed too, plus my own grandma james is a witch and i was in the same house she did witch craft.
i believe this even tho its scary but im not scared cauz i have god and everything good on my side
and 4 all the ppl that said im srry god wasent there WELL HE WAS! hes always there he did thid for the good of us and he rewored her and shes resting now and thats all that matters
o and some advise 4 every1 who is scared u dont need 2 b god is with u soooooo its ok and minty is sooooooooo rite its faith in The lord, god is will always b with u even if u did do something rong and he will aways love u and hes all watching over u
My family have incoutered in some very super natural incidents. My little brother has been awaken by scares in the night..
One morning at 1:21 i found him crying and screaming. When i picked him up he was yelling at the window. i looked and found that there was nothing in the window. But he saw something and was crying and yelling at the window. i was freaking out but that was not the beginnning of the morning scares. the next night he was screaming but what was unormal was that it was at 1:21 AGAIN. oUR HOUSE WA new and wasnt haunted but the land is. My mother told me that before our home was built it was a store. i am scared of waht might come next but i am very nervouse of what will happen tonight at 1:21 .
I think that it is amazing what a normal teenage girl went through. She was very brave and very strong about what happened. I think its the most amaing story I’ve ever red or heard of.
um ok iluvhorror it was scarry. i bet u’ve never even SEEN something like that i and a lot of other people have. u don’t need 2 say that. i’ve seen WAY more thing then u could have ever seen and i’m still a teenager! so take it easy with ” i wouldn’t be scared” crap cause u would!
goos story
God WAS there for her!! He was there the WHOLE time!!! Want to know why, because he sent her to heaven. He wasn’t going to put up with all that demon stuff!
If you believe in the lord, you’ll know your always protected, even when it seems your not.
Thank-you, MNM
ii really believe daat diss storyy iss reall……….itt shows whatt really happenedd……
ii thinkk daat 90% of diss moviee wass BULL……all yuu peoplee havee twew remeberr iss daat ITTS HOLLYWOOD!! MOST OF ITT IS FAKE OR MADE UPP! speakingg off moviess yuu all havee twew watch A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT!
some people dont believe in paranormal things but they dont know what there talking
about til you have been with somebody who was or is posessed, or til they are! and
4 the people that do believe youprobly know what im talking about. but 4 the people the that think that god (no affence) is will protect if you do something bad,your crazy. he will protect you but if you something bad he will punish you. well, i should know because iv done a lot of things.
the story sounds like somthing ive heard before but it was about a lil girl who got possed by demonds and bit all of her family members ate 11 cats and dogs and she was only five
Why are people up there saying the Virgin Mary was saying for her to suffer?You guys obviously reading correctly because it said that she gave Anneliese a CHOICE: to go to heaven right there or to go back and give the message.She was an angel who wanted to let the world know what things are out there and that God is real.The story really is very sad and i wish that no one ever goes through what she went through, but it keeps happening.Every thing evil is because we have sinned… not because God makes it so.Think about it, would there be killers or crack addicts if we were all still living in the garden of eden and Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned?
Hi. Whats wrong with her high school photo? Her neck looks thick. Was the devil in her when they did the photo? Poor girl.
Why are both of Annaliese eyes bruised? no one can punch their own eyes like that, and why is their a man’s hand choking her? This is obviously a poor neive young woman who grew up with sacre religous weirdo parents like in the movie “Carrie”. With genetics and probably some form of abuse growing up added to her skitsophrenia. I can’t believe that the guilty had such a loose punishment. I heard the audio and have seen the before and after pics and I have a physic intution, and I feel that this girl was abused. and was mentally ill.
This story is so sad. The child should have lived. She should not have died in the dawn of life. The demonic forces took over her for reasons unknown. The question is: Why did it have to be her? I have done research on many hauntings and demonic possesions. This story by far had to be the most sad of them all. From the pictures, Annaliese was put through the ultamite torture. She was barley recognizable. Even though everyone knew that it was their same child, she was tortured and pssesed by tortured spirits. This story full told could bring tears to peoples eyes. She looked brutally murdered yet she had it in her to keep going. I would like to someday visit her grave. I also am going to continue with reasearch.
The most sad part is that she was only given two choices. Death or to keep going through this torture. She chose to stop the exorsisms and die. Annaliese predicted the day she would pass and it happened. She rested peacefully and is in a better place now. She was changed from a beautiful young girl do a possesed girl who looked battered and starved. Though the people were convicted of neglect, she was the one who ate no food when it was provided and Annaliese could not be there for them to testify that she did not want to eat. She passed and all her hell and her parents hell ended. The family should have been sad yet happy to know that Annaliese’s torture and the pain that was inflicted upon her has passed and now she is save and warm and she knows that she was loved and still is.
Emily that was very sweet, touching and caring
In mostly times people believe that ghost or demons and anything paranormal is just fictional.But I know that they are truly real. This story is a proof that it is true. No one will write this or tell the story of Anneliese’s life if it is not true. by now people should believe this. and i know that this story will come down until the near future.
I really do believe in this stuff. I feel sorry for Annaliese’s. I pray that god helped her. My mother had some mental problems and as a child I went to state mental institutions to visit her. It was really sad. I saw pure evil at some of these places. There were crazy people, child molesters, rapists, people possessed with demonic spirits. I believe that Annaliese was possessed but she also was mentally ill. The evil methods that the state institutions did to people in the 1970s like electric shock treatment is an injustice to humanity. I am forever affected by witnessing the state mental institutions as a child with my brother and sister. The barbaric methods that the mental institutions used in the 1960s and 1970s probably encouraged the evil atmosphere of these institutions.
I am sure Annaliese had visited a state mental ward.
Yes they can hurt/posses/mess with you.
Poltergiests , well I’m sure you know what those are.
Demons will posess you.
& Ghosts well their just ghosts?
i had an aunt who was possed my demons she said they touched her they talked to her they told her come with us and we will protect you we would hear her in her sleep screaming no no no than one day we walked in the hospital room dhe was sitting in a chair all silent mumbleling something then she screamed grabbed my dads shoulder saying theyer coming. after that we left the next day we got a call that she shre hung herself
this is like many the other cases but this is real
i didn’t know all of this excorcism were true.. what we should do about them
It may be true
This is an amazing story one of strength and devotion!!! She should be made a saint for suffering for her faith like that its like she was a martyr
I think what happened to her was unnessasary. Even though myself believe in God. If she was my daughter i would of got her into the hospital with restaints and get her nurse back to health and try the exorcisum another day to build her health up again. then sent a pentacostal preacher in there.make sure she recieved Jesus christ in heart. another words recieving the holy spirit in her life sence God is holy wont allow in thing evil in you he would be kicken those demons out on there ear, thats the differance between the catholic religion and the protestants. the catholics believe its the good deeds that get you into heaven not the spirit God
is this really true?well if it is that is so sad i cried also i reaal dont think the mother father or the priest should of got charged
beckyblues- dont you think doing good deeds is the spirit of God? Jmo
WOW…..I don’t know what to say ……creeps me out but if you trust in god then you will be good but “make sure you trust in god day and night where ever you are” :]
When I first saw the Exorcism of Emily Rose, as a lapsed Catholic, I was skeptical but curious. It drove me to go out and buy a book about Anneliese Michael, so that I could separate the facts from the fiction in the movie. The true story pained me more than the movie. What Ms. Michael suffered was touching and horrendous for certain; but I still wasn’t convinced, yet. I went on to do some rather extensive research on demonic possession and paid particular interest to what Catholic exorcists had to say on the topic… In the end, I came to the conclusion that demonic possession is quite real. Though rare, it can and does happen…and the victims often suffer needlessly because no one wants to believe they are possessed, the Catholic Church is very reluctant to provide exorcisms today (lest they be called “superstitious” and “archaic”). I think this is a horrible mistake, as Jesus clearly exorcised demons in the bible. Can we pick…should we chose which miracles of Jesus we believe in? Did He not tell His apostle’s to cast out demons in his name? The Church should be ashamed…
In addition, nothing can happen that God does not allow — but we should not assume he allows suffering without reason. We just may not understand His plan. St. Theresa, Padre Pio, John of the Cross…were all subjected to demonic attacks. Perhaps God allows this test to strengthen faith? Most do not die from possession… though Padre Pio prayed for death, so that he could join his Savior. Maybe God allowed Anneliese the greatest of all gifts, because her faith proved so strong — eternal life in His presence.
After many faithless years, years spent angry with God for my own personal reasons, one girl’s story wound up changing my life. My faith has been renewed…I feel a peace I haven’t in years…and it all began with Anneliese Micheal’s story. I feel I personally owe her a great debt.
Leaving this with my last comment…..Its sweet that she chose to take her own life to protect other spirits
This is CRAZY.. Crazy crazy crazy!!!
But i do believe it…
She was so beautiful… how could something like this happen to her… poor poor girl…
Such a tragic story
OMG
i have seen the movie but i never new it was real.
i belive in the supernatural all that UFO stuff monsters and everything else.
that poor poor girl. i feel sorry 4 her parents.
The movie wasn’t real, they changed the story so much when they did the movie that it was very different from what actually happened. Funny, “they” do that a lot. They say a movie is based upon true facts but in most cases it is very loosely based and has been changed A LOT just to make the movie more interesting or whatever.
thats crazy!! i never thoght there was really a girl who went through that…scary. but intresing. so many people believe that ghosts and other demonic creatures such as vampires and such are unreal unless seen with thier own eyes….but theyre wrong they exist…they survive around you…you just never know where they are.who they are. and if they right beside you………………watching.
so crazy i didn’t know it was true i’m frighted:(
i realy believe in demonic posesion but i can,t imagine what you can do to lose your soul.
omg. its like Arthur millers crucible. like mass hysteria. omg scary or what man. interesting though.
It is true, I lived in a haunted house for a long time, and when I told my mother about the ghosts I had seen and heard, she told me I was just dreaming it all up. When I tried to tell other people about it, they told my parents I was “hearing voices” and needed medication!! I took prozac for a year, and turned into a complete zombie. Finally at age 15, I left home, and 20 yrs later I still see and hear what others can’t. I know I’m not crazy, I used to think it was a curse, but its more of a blessing to be able to know that there is life after death, and that they still need living beings to take them to the afterlife. Or at least know their story if they don’t want to leave!
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