10 Disturbing Possessions And Exorcisms That Really Happened

Despite being a non-believer, Michael Taylor was subjected to the Christian Fellowship Group in an effort to resolve his episodic depression through spiritual intervention. Enamoured by the beauty of 21-year-old pastor Marie Robinson, Taylor quickly became an active member of the band and started engaging in secret, nightly rituals with his bewitching priest.

Having transformed from a cheerful and well-mannered father into an angry and resentful brute, his wife Christine interrupted one of the group’s ceremonies and openly accused her unrecognisable husband of being an unfaithful blockhead. This led to Michael screaming at his supposed mistress in tongues, and turning into an unidentifiable beast as he assaulted her.

With Michael’s inhumane disorder becoming more permanent, a local vicar decided that an exorcism quickly needed to be done. Father Peter Vincent and Reverend Raymond Smith conducted the rite on 5 October 1974, and found 40 demons representing monstrous traits like incest, bestiality, and masochism hiding inside Michael’s body.

The priests tied the growling and spitting dad to the floor, and removed the evil spirits by shoving crucifixes in his mouth and dousing him in holy water. However, due to exhaustion, the priests stopped and agreed to continue the exorcism another time. Unfortunately, rather than waiting to be expelled, the three remaining demons – anger, insanity, and murder – convinced Michael to strip his wife, strangle her, rip out her tongue, gouge her eyes, and tear her face to the bone with his fingers.

At 09:45a.m on 7 October, police found the deranged Michael stumbling around the streets of Ossett naked and slathered in his wife’s blood.