10 Disturbing Possessions And Exorcisms That Really Happened

Brought up in an orphanage following her father’s suicide, Maricia Irina Cornici was ill-advised to become a nun at the age of 23 by one of her gal pals. Three months after moving into the Tanacu monastery, she was troubled by Satan making her giggle during mass and whispering in her ears that she was a sinful person.

Dr. Gheorge Silvestrovici declared that she was suffering from schizophrenia, but the monastery’s priest Daniel Petre Corogeanu firmly believed she was possessed and that prescribed pills would not take out the Devil. After convincing four nuns that their fellow sister was Satan’s living host, the red-bearded monk bound Maricia’s hands and feet and locked her in a room while he celebrated the Ascension of Jesus.

Days later, the orchestrated nuns gave Maricia the Jesus treatment by chaining her to a cross with her arms stretched out. They anointed her wrists and forehead with holy water, and shoved a towel in her mouth to stop her from cursing as they prayed for the Devil to be cast out.

Left in a dank room for three days without any food or water, the tortured nun had already died of dehydration and lack of oxygen by the time Father Corogeanu removed the chains and exclaimed she was ‘cured’. Charged with murder and depriving a person of liberty, Corogeanu was sentenced in 2007 to 14 years in prison, and the Romanian Orthodox Church shut down his monastery.