Designing Women’s own Julia Sugarbaker had a workout video (who didn’t?), in which she demonstrates “The Lion,” an absolutely terrifying “exercise” that we’re pretty sure channels the Antichrist.
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Dixie Carter's 'Exorcise' Video
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Vatican's Top Exorcist Says Yoga Is Satanic
According to the Vatican, Yoga can add a new exciting benefit: impressing Satan. Just like reading “Harry Potter”.
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11 Movie Exorcisms That Went Poorly
It never really goes well, does it? In honor of The Last Exorcism II, here are 11 other films with major exorcism-related casualties. (Warning: spoilers ahead.)
"The Rite"
The demon: Baal.
The victim: Rosaria.
What goes wrong: Rosaria miscarries before the exorcism can be completed. She then hemorrhages and dies of blood loss.
Warner Bros.
"The Exorcism of Emily Rose"
The demons: Six of them, actually. The demon who possessed Cain, the demon who possessed Nero, the demon who possessed Judas, Legion, Belial, and Lucifer.
The victim: Emily Rose.
What goes wrong: Emily Rose suffers from stigmata and dies. Her exorcist is charged in connection with her death.
Screen Gems
"The Devil Inside"
The demons: Unknown, but there are four of them.
The victims: Maria and Isabella Rossi.
What goes wrong: Maria murders three people during her exorcism. Later, Isabella is successfully exorcised, but she and her exorcists presumably die in a car crash at the end of the film.
Paramount Pictures
"The Possession"
The demon: A dybbuk.
The victim: Em Brenek.
What goes wrong: Immediately after completing the exorcism, the exorcist Tzadok's car is hit by a truck and he's instantly killed.
Lionsgate
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That Time The Pope Accidentally Exorcised Someone Leads The Daily Links
Plus Mindy Kaling’s revolutionary kissing invention, a 3D printer that makes pizza, and the definitive Ann Veal Arrested Development supercut.
Yup, just another day in the life of Pope Francis: Wake up, have some breakfast, perform an accidental exorcism. - [Daily Intelligencer]
Via fiz-x.com
Mindy Kaling has a revolutionary idea for how to kiss someone else without ruining your relationship: The Kiss Monitor™. - [The New Yorker]
Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Images
NASA is funding a 3D pizza printer. That's right, A 3D PIZZA PRINTER. - [The Week]
We've all seen a million sexy photos of Hollywood starlets. But in the 50s, the studios tended to make their actresses look a little bit ridiculous. - [LIFE]
Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images
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5 Films "The Conjuring" Borrows From That Are Better Than "The Conjuring"
The Conjuring topped the box office this weekend, delighting critics and audiences alike. But is there really anything here we haven’t seen before? Here are five horror films that did it first — and better. WARNING: Some spoilers.
Horror is often derivative — and that's not always a mark against it. When you're telling a story about a haunted house, you're bound to borrow (whether consciously or not) from your predecessors. But The Conjuring feels especially recycled, perhaps because it uses so many established horror tropes. While the film is well made and occasionally scary, it's not breathing new life into the genre. Here are some of the movies that set the stage for The Conjuring.
Warner Bros. Pictures
MGM
Warner Bros.
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The Guy Who Got 41 'Seinfeld' References Into A Sports Broadcast Leads The Daily Links
Plus a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Daenerys’ dragons on Game of Thrones, new research into the relationship between testicle size and parenting, and Justin Bieber’s unsettling creepstache.
Louisville sports anchor Adam Leftkoe is a big-time Seinfeld fan. So he managed to work 41 REFERENCES TO THE SHOW into a single broadcast. - [BroBible]
NBC / Via salon.com
There's no especially polite way to put this: According to new research, men with bigger balls care less about their children. - [Motherboard]
Flickr: alexromp / Via motherboard.vice.com
Today in "not making this up": Three teenaged exorcists are trying to save the world from the Harry Potter books. - [Daily Mail]
Warner Bros. / Via comicvine.com
How does Game of Thrones make Daenerys’ dragons? The totally fascinating answer involves tennis balls on sticks, geese, and other stuff. - [Wired]
HBO
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The Most WTF Facts About Your Favorite Pop Stars
There’s a college course on Miley Cyrus. WTF?
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15 People Are Actually Just Satan In Human Form
Satan is alive and well.
This woman who is so high she could be capable of anything:
@druglordbean
This caring friend:
Carl Quion / Via youtube.com
This totally innocent teen:
No cavities, bitches. You're welcome.
Everyone's favorite Aunt Jenny:
Mom: "Ugh, he's just so prone to nightmares." Aunt: "This'll be fun..."
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Dixie Carter's 'Exorcise' Video
Designing Women’s own Julia Sugarbaker had a workout video (who didn’t?), in which she demonstrates “The Lion,” an absolutely terrifying “exercise” that we’re pretty sure channels the Antichrist.
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11 Movie Exorcisms That Went Poorly
It never really goes well, does it? In honor of The Last Exorcism II, here are 11 other films with major exorcism-related casualties. (Warning: spoilers ahead.)
"The Rite"
The demon: Baal.
The victim: Rosaria.
What goes wrong: Rosaria miscarries before the exorcism can be completed. She then hemorrhages and dies of blood loss.
Warner Bros.
"The Exorcism of Emily Rose"
The demons: Six of them, actually. The demon who possessed Cain, the demon who possessed Nero, the demon who possessed Judas, Legion, Belial, and Lucifer.
The victim: Emily Rose.
What goes wrong: Emily Rose suffers from stigmata and dies. Her exorcist is charged in connection with her death.
Screen Gems
"The Devil Inside"
The demons: Unknown, but there are four of them.
The victims: Maria and Isabella Rossi.
What goes wrong: Maria murders three people during her exorcism. Later, Isabella is successfully exorcised, but she and her exorcists presumably die in a car crash at the end of the film.
Paramount Pictures
"The Possession"
The demon: A dybbuk.
The victim: Em Brenek.
What goes wrong: Immediately after completing the exorcism, the exorcist Tzadok's car is hit by a truck and he's instantly killed.
Lionsgate
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That Time The Pope Accidentally Exorcised Someone Leads The Daily Links
Plus Mindy Kaling’s revolutionary kissing invention, a 3D printer that makes pizza, and the definitive Ann Veal Arrested Development supercut.
Yup, just another day in the life of Pope Francis: Wake up, have some breakfast, perform an accidental exorcism. - [Daily Intelligencer]
Via fiz-x.com
Mindy Kaling has a revolutionary idea for how to kiss someone else without ruining your relationship: The Kiss Monitor™. - [The New Yorker]
Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Images
NASA is funding a 3D pizza printer. That's right, A 3D PIZZA PRINTER. - [The Week]
We've all seen a million sexy photos of Hollywood starlets. But in the 50s, the studios tended to make their actresses look a little bit ridiculous. - [LIFE]
Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images
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5 Films "The Conjuring" Borrows From That Are Better Than "The Conjuring"
The Conjuring topped the box office this weekend, delighting critics and audiences alike. But is there really anything here we haven’t seen before? Here are five horror films that did it first — and better. WARNING: Some spoilers.
Horror is often derivative — and that's not always a mark against it. When you're telling a story about a haunted house, you're bound to borrow (whether consciously or not) from your predecessors. But The Conjuring feels especially recycled, perhaps because it uses so many established horror tropes. While the film is well made and occasionally scary, it's not breathing new life into the genre. Here are some of the movies that set the stage for The Conjuring.
Warner Bros. Pictures
MGM
Warner Bros.
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The Guy Who Got 41 'Seinfeld' References Into A Sports Broadcast Leads The Daily Links
Plus a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Daenerys’ dragons on Game of Thrones, new research into the relationship between testicle size and parenting, and Justin Bieber’s unsettling creepstache.
Louisville sports anchor Adam Leftkoe is a big-time Seinfeld fan. So he managed to work 41 REFERENCES TO THE SHOW into a single broadcast. - [BroBible]
NBC / Via salon.com
There's no especially polite way to put this: According to new research, men with bigger balls care less about their children. - [Motherboard]
Flickr: alexromp / Via motherboard.vice.com
Today in "not making this up": Three teenaged exorcists are trying to save the world from the Harry Potter books. - [Daily Mail]
Warner Bros. / Via comicvine.com
How does Game of Thrones make Daenerys’ dragons? The totally fascinating answer involves tennis balls on sticks, geese, and other stuff. - [Wired]
HBO
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The Most WTF Facts About Your Favorite Pop Stars
There’s a college course on Miley Cyrus. WTF?
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15 People Are Actually Just Satan In Human Form
Satan is alive and well.
This woman who is so high she could be capable of anything:
@druglordbean
This caring friend:
Carl Quion / Via youtube.com
This totally innocent teen:
No cavities, bitches. You're welcome.
Everyone's favorite Aunt Jenny:
Mom: "Ugh, he's just so prone to nightmares." Aunt: "This'll be fun..."
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Illinois Bishop To Perform Exorcism Prayer "In Reparation" Of Marriage Equality Law
Proponents of civil same-sex marriage are culpable of serious sin, according to Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill.
Religious activists opposed to marriage equality demonstrated at the Illinois Capitol on Oct. 23.
Tony Merevick/BuzzFeed
An Illinois Catholic Bishop plans to perform prayers of "supplication and exorcism" in response to the state legislature's approval of marriage equality legislation last week and demands that lawmakers repeal the measure immediately.
"It is scandalous that so many Catholic politicians are responsible for enabling the passage of this legislation and even twisting the words of the pope to rationalize their actions despite the clear teaching of the church," said Rev. Thomas John Paprocki, Bishop of the Archdiocese of Springfield, Ill., in a statement.
"All politicians now have the moral obligation to work for the repeal of this sinful and objectionable legislation," said Paprocki, a longtime opponent of LGBT rights in the state. "We must pray for deliverance from this evil which has penetrated our state and our church."
The prayer service is scheduled for Nov. 20 — just as Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn plans to sign the bill, the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, into law. With his signature, same-sex couples will be eligible for marriage licenses beginning June 1, 2014.
The "exorcism" service is not what it may sound like, said Kathie Sass, director of communications at the diocese. "This is obviously not a major exorcism, it's a prayer service," she told BuzzFeed. According to the Appendices to the 2004 Latin edition of the Rite of Exorcism, passages from the text can be used for other purposes at the discretion of the bishop, she explained.
But even so, the service has raised some eyebrows.
"As a practicing Roman Catholic, I find it not only insane but embarrassing," said Rick Garcia, who has advocated for LGBT rights in Illinois for decades and serves as the policy director at The Civil Rights Agenda, a Chicago-based LGBT rights group.
"[Paprocki] is complicit in promoting the great sin of discrimination and intolerance of his brothers and sisters," Garcia told BuzzFeed. "There is blasphemy happening in our state and that blasphemy comes from Bishop Paprocki. When you demonize and disparage gay and lesbian people, you are demonizing the body of Christ and this is blasphemy."
In addition, Garcia found Paprocki's attacks at lawmakers who quoted Pope Francis laughable.
During the long debate over the bill in the Illinois House of Representatives on Nov. 5, some lawmakers cited recent remarks by Pope Francis in which the pontiff faulted the church for focusing too much on social issues like abortion, marriage equality and contraception.
Even the powerful democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, an Irish Catholic from the Southwest Side of Chicago, quoted Francis, closing the debate.
"My thoughts regarding this legislation were formulated before the quote that I am offering to all of us," Madigan said. "The quote that I offer is a quote from Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, who is quoted as saying, 'If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and he has good will, who am I to judge?' … My personal thought is for those who just happen to be gay, living in a very harmonious, productive relationship but are illegal, who am I to judge that they should illegal? Who is the government to judge that they should be illegal?"
Paprocki, however, points to Francis' — then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — 2010 comments opposing proposed marriage equality legislation in Argentina as evidence his quotes were misused.
"The Argentine people must face, in the next few weeks, a situation whose result may gravely harm the family. It is the bill on matrimony of persons of the same sex," Francis said at the time. "The identity of the family, and its survival, are in jeopardy here: father, mother, and children."
As bishop, Paprocki leads 130 parishes in 28 counties in central Illinois and has consistently condemned the marriage of same-sex couples. On Oct. 22, Paprocki warned banned LGBT proponents from visiting his Springfield, Ill., church to recite the rosary.
Praying the rosary for marriage equality is "blasphemous," Paprocki said at the time, according to The State-Journal Register.
However, Garcia was there and prayed without incident.
"The bottom line is that he lost," Garcia said. "He should get over it."
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13 DIY Hacks For Your Upcoming Exorcism
Evicting demons from human souls doesn’t have to be expensive. Follow these tips to perform your next exorcism on your own. Learn more from The Quiet Ones, now on Blu-ray™ and DVD.
Set up a "blasphemy" swear jar.
Blasphemy is a good indicator that your subject may be possessed. Try and get them to put a dollar in the swear jar whenever they take the Lord’s name in vain, then use that money to buy exorcism supplies!
Become a good public speaker.
If you find speaking in front of crowds to be tough, try commanding hordes of evil spirits to evacuate a host! Record yourself talking (maybe even take an improv class) to overcome any fear of public speaking.
Sew your own surplice and stole.
Did you know a good surplice can cost over 200 dollars? Who has time to make that kind of money when a demon is possessing your loved one?! If you can’t borrow the garments from a priest you know, try sewing your own to save a few bucks.
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13 Stories Of Demonic Possession That Are 100% True
If you’re into saying prayers, say one now. If you have the courage for more scary stories, check out The Quiet Ones, now on Blu-ray™ and DVD.
Anneliese Michel
In the mid-1970s, a German woman named Anneliese Michel underwent 67 rites of exorcism. The Washington Post reported that "under the influence of her demons, Michel ripped the clothes off her body, compulsively performed up to 400 squats a day, crawled under a table and barked like a dog for two days, ate spiders and coal, bit the head off a dead bird and licked her own urine from the floor." Her story was also the inspiration for The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Brother Hermes Versus 35,000 Evil Spirits
Hermes Cifuentes, who is called "Brother Hermes" in his home country of Colombia, claims to have exorcised 35,000 evil spirits over the past 25 years. His method of exorcism, covering the body in mud and surrounding it with fire, is very unorthodox. Pictured above is Gisela Marulanda in the process of an exorcism performed by Brother Hermes.
Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters
The International Association of Exorcists
The Vatican now has an official arm of the church dedicated to the fight against demonic spirits. As of July 1, the Vatican's International Association of Exorcists has 250 priests across the globe committed to the art of vanquishing evil from humans.
Bobby Jindal's College Exorcism
Before he was the governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal was just your average college student who tried to compel a demon out of his friend Susan. He wrote about the experience in an article titled "Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare."
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How A 20-Year-Old Exorcism Sent Me In Search Of Korea’s Cult Problem
Na Kim for BuzzFeed News
On Thursday, July 4, 1996, an LAPD patrol officer on the graveyard shift responded to a call from a Century City condominium; 46-year-old Choi Jin Hyun greeted him at the front door, speaking in — as the patrolman put it — excited, incomprehensible “Oriental." A Korean-American officer arrived shortly afterward to translate. A prayer session had gone awry. In addition to Choi, two other middle-aged Korean men — both Christian missionaries — waited in the living room, while paramedics attempted to revive an unconscious woman in the bedroom. She exhibited signs of assault: a sunken chest, and purple contusions smattered from knee to hip.
The woman, Chung Kyung Jae, a 53-year-old mother of two teenagers, was pronounced dead a few hours later. The official cause: multiple blunt force trauma. Specifically, her heart had been crushed against her backbone; along with 16 fractured ribs, she’d suffered deep bruising on her pancreas and the muscles of her abdominal wall.
Later that same afternoon, 30 miles northeast of Los Angeles in our periwinkle-painted home, my mother was assembling her American-flag pound cake. She stood at the kitchen counter, dotting one corner of the Cool Whip–covered cake with blueberries, striping the rest with ripe, red fruit. I sat nearby, parked in front of the TV, as BREAKING NEWS suddenly preempted my cartoons. A photo of a familiar-looking man flashed onto the screen. He resembled my father, who’d left earlier that morning for the driving range, his bank holiday ritual. I peered closer, and realized I'd seen this lean and sallow-cheeked man last Thanksgiving: It was my uncle. An odd pair of words — “Local Exorcism” — trimmed the bottom of his mugshot.
The only fact I could squeeze out of my family was this: Your uncle stepped on a woman, and she died.
“What’s an exorcism?” I asked. My mother dropped her berries. I watched her face blanch as the well-coiffed anchorman intoned our family name, Choi, over and over with incriminating flourish. She powered off the TV with trembling hands, then stepped outside, where meat charred on the backyard barbecue. I stared at her from the couch, still waiting for an answer.
My grandmother arrived shortly after; she wept quietly as she devoured a bowl of kimchi, three double cheeseburgers, and two slices of American-flag cake. No one spoke. Even in the years that followed, the only fact I could squeeze out of my family was this: Your uncle stepped on a woman, and she died.
I haven’t seen my uncle in over two decades. But out of curiosity, last winter, I decided to look up his case by googling what little I knew: “Choi Korean exorcism LA.” Soon, headline by headline, my uncle’s story began to take shape: "Exorcism on Trial"; "Korean Missionaries' Murder Case Pits Religion, Culture and Law"; "Exorcism: A Case of Death by Deliverance Poses Vexing Questions." The bizarre details — a Korean shamanistic healing ceremony, demon expulsion, a possibly cultish Korean Christian group — startled me and formed a disturbing portrait of a man I barely knew.
In the years that have passed since my uncle’s crime, I’ve noticed South Korean fringe religions surfacing time and again in the news. Even South Korea’s recently ousted president, Park Geun-hye, found herself in a "swirling scandal" involving a "shamanistic cult." Her troubling ties to the cult's leader and his "Rasputin-esque" daughter have led Park into political ruin, prompting the country’s first-ever impeachment. The more I uncovered, the more I began to think that my uncle’s scandal, along with Park’s, belonged to a larger phenomenon that has taken root in South Korea: a unique concentration of cults and fringe religious groups, whose influence has drifted overseas, to the US, and into my own family. What started as an idle curiosity about the events of that 4th of July in 1996 quickly gave way to a much bigger mystery: Why do so many cults exist in South Korea? And what has inspired so many Koreans to seek redemption through them?
A headline from the April 6, 1997, edition of the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
South Korea’s leading cult expert is Tark Ji-il, a professor of religion at Busan Presbyterian University. When I reached out to him, he said that as a person of Korean descent, this would be a “very meaningful study” for me. It has been for him as well, though for a different, darker reason: Tark’s father, who studied Korean cults for almost 30 years, was murdered by a cult member in 1994.
According to Tark, it’s nearly impossible to determine exactly how many Korean cults exist today, but he estimates the number is likely over 100. A solid statistic is difficult to wrangle, because many cults in South Korea consider themselves Christian entities. According to the 2015 census, 27.6% of South Koreans identify as Christian and 15.5% as Buddhist, while 56.9% of the population align themselves with no religious affiliation, with unregistered groups, or with Sindo (an indigenous folk religion also known as Korean shamanism). A 2012 Pew Research Center study offers similar statistics. Where cults may fit into those numbers, if at all, is unknowable.
But their presence is palpable in South Korea; I came across so many rumors and whispers about celebrities and politicians that I began to think you could link almost anyone or anything, within six degrees of separation, to cultish activity. Even one of the country’s most devastating tragedies in decades, the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry in 2014, could be traced back to a cult. Over 300 passengers drowned, sparking (among other indictments) a nationwide manhunt for Yoo Byung-eun, the chairman of the shipping company that operated the vessel. Yoo had also founded the Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea, known alternatively as the Salvation Sect, deemed a cult by the General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in South Korea.
I’d come across the phrase “new religious movement” — rather than “cult” — a number of times in my research, so I asked Tark for clarification. He said a variety of terms are used to describe groups that exist on the fringes of mainstream religion, whose intentions range from meditative and innocuous, like Falun Gong, to manipulative and destructive, like David Koresh’s Branch Davidians — more than 80 of whom died in an inferno during the 1993 compound siege in Waco, Texas. I’d also read that sociologists popularized the term “new religious movement” to veer away from the derogatory associations with the word “cult,” like the tactics of mind control and brainwashing.
Tark prefers using “cult” or the biblical term “heresy" when referring to any group in Korea that has diverged from mainline churches. Those groups, he told me, typically ascribe to four principles:
1. God, or the Second Coming of Christ, or the Holy Spirit, is Korean.
2. The new revelation or doctrine is written in Korean.
3. The chosen people who will be saved are mostly Korean.
4. The new kingdom will be established in Korea.
Most of these heresies originated during South Korea’s three main periods of political unrest and cultural oppression: Japanese imperialist rule (1910–1945), the Korean War (1950–1953), and postwar dictatorship during massive industrialization (1960–1986). Tark believes this is no coincidence. “Military dictatorship [in Korea] needed blind supporters because they didn't have any democratic basis, and cults needed an umbrella under which they could hide from mainline churches or surrounding society's criticism,” he said. New Korea-centric religions, which blend facets of Buddhism, Christianity, and shamanism, appealed to Koreans who were desperate for salvation in times of national despair.
The layers of Korean spirituality are not distinct, but easily blurred.
The founder of a Korean website called antisybi.org has dedicated years to writing about and speaking out against Korean cults. A.S., as I’ll call him, prefers to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of his work, and because, he says, his family has received death threats. A.S. told me over the phone that he has been trained in “traditional Korean spirituality,” and has made it his mission to protect “good Korean tradition” from harmful cult influence. Through antisybi.org, A.S. provides “inside information” on Korean cultic organizations, specifically “how they operate, how much they charge, how they coerce people … how they lie, how they deceive.” Victims of cults, and people seeking to help them, often contact A.S. for his guidance, which he offers on a volunteer basis.
A.S. goes one step further than Tark, positing that Korea’s sizable cult presence is a product of a century-long "spiritual inferiority crisis." Imported faiths dominated Korean history for over 1,500 years. “We never had our own Buddha, our own Confucius,” A.S. told me. “Then somebody comes out and says, I am the savior, I am the Messiah … to have our own deity, of course people would get excited.”
The most enterprising cult leaders in Korea, though, anoint themselves as messiahs by proffering shamanlike, divine clarity. Korean shamanism, which is also known as muism, is a prehistoric belief system native to Korea. Mudangs or baksus, Korean shamans, are mystics and healers, gifted intermediaries between the spirit world and the human plane. Their traditional gut rituals are still performed today, for events like business openings or groundbreaking ceremonies, to help clients establish peace and balance with surrounding energies. In a 1997 article I’d read recounting my uncle’s exorcism case, experts claimed that shamanism “continues to strongly influence Korean thinking ... a shaman, like a priest, is believed to possess special powers.”
As an American child, I didn’t grow up visiting shaman fortune-tellers, nor did I attend gut rituals. But my maternal grandmother, a Buddhist turned Christian, often did in Korea. She also claims she can predict the future. My grandmother is not a cult leader or a shaman, but like my uncle, her mixture of beliefs shows the ways in which the layers of Korean spirituality are not distinct, but easily blurred.
Headline clippings from LA-area newspapers circa 1997.
Los Angeles Times; Santa Cruz Sentinel
Articles unearthed from the Los Angeles Times captured a peculiar courtroom moment at my uncle’s trial: He sat before a Malibu jury 10 months after the death of Chung Kyung Jae, growling “in a fiendish voice,” mimicking the victim’s supposedly bedeviled state. He’d taken a plea deal in exchange for his testimony, which implicated the two Christian missionaries also found at the scene of the crime: the lead exorcist, Rev. Choi Sung Soo (visiting from Bangladesh; no relation to my family), and the deceased’s husband, Chung Jae Whoa — both in their forties.
The Glendale Presbyterian church where my uncle served as deacon happened to host Rev. Choi during his trip to the States. My uncle testified that a demon haunting Chung’s body had caused her to become “spiritually arrogant,” and “at times she refused to obey” her husband; Rev. Choi told the Chungs he was experienced in conducting exorcism rituals. So the couple agreed to participate in ansukido, a combination of prayer and the laying on of hands, led by Rev. Choi.
It’s unclear why my uncle agreed to join, or if he’d ever before performed ansu prayer. But through this practice, the men spent nearly two days trying to expel the demons from Chung’s body, stopping only for a church service in between the hours-long prayer sessions. Accounts vary on the actual number of demons Chung was supposedly harboring, but my uncle claimed they successfully ousted several. Using their hands, feet, and even a spoon, they poked and pressed on Chung until the object of their pursuit, a military spirit named Gundae, appeared near surrender. According to my uncle’s testimony, Rev. Choi stood on top of Chung to force Gundae up through her mouth. When Gundae promised to relocate to a dog’s body next door, the men seized the demon’s weakness and ground their heels into Chung, as if extinguishing a smoldering cigarette. “There was not even one time that she complained or screamed out,” my uncle had told police, as if he couldn’t believe she had perished. “I guess that’s what it takes to get the demons out.”
"I was so close to it, getting rid of the thing," Rev. Choi had said to an officer. "Maybe I shouldn't have used the foot."
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We Witnessed The Exorcism Of Bekki Magenheim
“The fire is on. The fire is on. The fire is burning you right now from head to toe!” Welcome to the latest installment of Shane and Ryan’s unsolved ghosthunter mystery tour.
Exorcisms have long been a topic of fascination for many. And like a lot of us, Shane and Ryan were familiar with what goes down before and after, but not during an actual exorcism.
Tbh, Shane's knowledge of this controversial ritual comes entirely from watching the movie The Exorcist and that's it.
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Our BuzzFeed Unsolved ghost hunters found themselves being purged of any evil spirits that may be lurking inside of them. Watch Ryan and Shane get exorcisms!
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So in order to learn more about this phenomenon, they decided to go to Brother Carlos Oliveira. He's a Christian exorcist who told them that when you have a spirit confronting you, it's going to be pure evil.
BuzzFeedBlue
As they casually chatted about extracting demons, Brother Carlos explained that by simply watching shows like Ghost Hunters on TV, you're potentially opening doors for evil spirits to come into your home and possibly possess you. Excuse me, whaaat?
That was not something Ryan was trying to hear.
BuzzFeed
In order to put all this talk into practice, Brother Carlos invited the guys to be his guest as he tried his mightiest to exorcise the demons out of Bekki Magenheim.
Bekki said she gets cluster headaches that last anywhere from 24 hours to over two whole weeks. On this day she was on day eight of her current headache when Brother Carlos performed his exorcism.
BuzzFeed
Then it was time to kick some demon ass! And when the actual exorcism process got started, Brother Carlos went from zero to 100 real quick.
Brother Carlos likes to confront the demon by engaging in some serious eye contact and addressing it directly, even commanding that it answer his questions. Now that takes balls.
BuzzFeed
"I command you now! Come out of my sister!"
After a lot of yelling, a little chuckling, and lots of eye contact, Brother Carlos came to the conclusion that he sensed resistance from Bekki, therefore he could not deliver her from evil at this time. Womp womp.
BuzzFeed
Which left him with some spare time to try and exorcise some demons out of our ghost hunters themselves! First up was Shane, whose eyes reportedly rolled into the back of his head as soon as Brother Carlos put his hand on him.
We can neither confirm nor deny this.
BuzzFeed
And then it was Ryan's turn, who was absolutely mortified and refused to make eye contact with Brother Carlos during most of the duration of his "exorcism."
He was also legit confused as to whether he should answer Brother Carlos' questions, or if they were meant for the demon inside of him. LOL
BuzzFeed
And although to our knowledge no demons were exorcised during this process, they all thoroughly enjoyed this experience. I mean, how could you not?
At the end of the day, Brother Carlos is on a mission to help people, spiritually. He said he wants to help as many people as he can by kicking demons' asses from today until the day he dies. Not exactly in those words. Amen, brother!
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