William Dorian - The Holy Water Incident: The True Story of a Daughter’s Possession and Exorcism

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

Copyright Information

The Holy Water Incident: The True Story of a Daughters Possession and Exorcism 2019 by William Dorian.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

As the purchaser of this e-book, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. The text may not be otherwise reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or recorded on any other storage device in any form or by any means.

Any unauthorized usage of the text without express written permission of the publisher is a violation of the authors copyright and is illegal and punishable by law.

First e-book edition 2019

E-book ISBN: 9780738761183

Cover design by Shira Atakpu

Editing by Brian R. Erdrich

Llewellyn Publications is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Pending)

ISBN: 978-0-7387-6087-2

Llewellyn Publications does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business arrangements between our authors and the public.

Any Internet references contained in this work are current at publication time, but the publisher cannot guarantee that a specific reference will continue or be maintained. Please refer to the publishers website for links to current author websites.

Llewellyn Publications

Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.

2143 Wooddale Drive

Woodbury, MN 55125

www.llewellyn.com

Manufactured in the United States of America

Dedication

To the memory of Eileen Curran, my early mentor in the paranormal fieldand to her muse, Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century storyteller published in the twentieth century whom I hope to meet some day.

To all the unfortunate and suffering individuals and their families who are going through any kind of demonic possession.

Contents

: Patience Worth

: Our First Haunted House

: Spiritual Underpinnings

: The Sance

: Prelude to the Nightmare

: The Holy Water Incident

: The Psych Ward

: The Exorcism

: Post Exorcism/Release

: The Hitchhiking Demon

: Its Not Over

: The Voodoo Exorcism

: Paranormal Incidents Through the Years

: Life Goes On

: The Return

: Spirit Box

: It Just Keeps Happening

: The Reboot

: Possible Explanation

Daddy, can you hear me? Its me, Brittany. Im in this deep, dark placelike a hole, but its not a hole. I can see you and hear you talking, and I hear them talking with my mouth. Theyre in my head. My body is moving by itself; I cant control it. I cant speak, but my mouth is talking. I want to talk to you, but they wont let me.

I have to focus on the light. Sometimes when they see the light, they recoilpull back. But why cant anyone hear me? Wait, I have to be quiet now and still. Theyre not looking at the light. Theyre looking at me. Theyre coming back. Theyre here. No! Please!

Introduction

T he purpose of this book is to recount an incident of demonic possession that afflicted my daughter when she was fifteen. As a result there were harsh, traumatic consequences for herleaving scars to this day, eighteen years later. Demonic possession, I learned the hard way, is very real. It isnt just mental illness. It happened to my own family, and we werent hallucinating. My daughter was possessed by demonic entities, period. The incident not only drastically altered her own life, but it also negatively affected the lives of everyone in the immediate family.

I have been a journalist for twenty-five years, so my immediate reaction to my daughters demonic possession was to keep a detailed journal of what was happening to us. Now, Im immensely glad that I wrote these bizarre occurrences down while they were going on. If I had waited until later, Im sure that my rational mind would have convinced me that we had somehow imagined the whole thing or that there was some kind of logical explanation for what was seriously plaguing my family for that initial year, e.g.: You know, it must have been the wind that moved those items around and rearranged them into neat little stacks; or maybe the floor settling caused all the drawers to open and close by themselvesand then keep banging. Yeah, thats it. Sure, thats all it was.

But luckily I wrote it down when it happened, so I could never be tempted by my rational mind to disregard what my lying eyes saw.

It seems curious to me how modern-day Christians base their belief in God, their spirituality, on a book about paranormal/supernatural events that happened thousands of years agoand yet they deny that paranormal events could possibly be happening today. While they readily accept the premise that Eve talked to Satan and her behavior was influenced by his charisma and abilities of persuasion, they scoff at the notion that Satan and his demons are at work corrupting human beings, stealing souls, and causing very real emotional and physical havoc in contemporary society.

No practicing Christian will deny that Jesus Christ had the divine power to cast out demons. The Gospels are full of incidents depicting him doing just that. But they roll their eyes at the possibility of demonic possession in the twenty-first century (or basically any other paranormal event). They treat anyone who claims to have had an up-close-and-personal experience with a demon as though that individual isnt dealing with a full deck. Jesus cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene and later sent them into a herd of swinebut that was just in the olden times, right?

With the advent of modern psychology, its more fashionable today to say that the disciples werent actually casting out literal demons; they were instead casting out mental illnesses. Really? Are we meant to pick and choose the passages we want to believe and disregard those that seem too fantastic? Sure, if that makes the naysayers sleep better at night

After our experiences with demonic possession, I read the Bible cover to cover, front to back, like one would a novelnot just passages plucked from here and there or selected ones referenced by ministers, priests, or rabbis. I wanted to see for myself, so I read it from start to finish, paying particular attention to passages related to demonic possession, angels, miracles, and other paranormal events. Nowhere in the New Testament does it say that once the original apostles, Paul and his disciples, had gone on to their final rewards, the dangers of demonic possession would come to a screeching halt.

The threat of possession by demonic entities is still very real in the modern world, just as it was in the days of Jesus and his apostles. The threat of demons working their evil and trying to influence our lives did not evaporate into thin air after the original Christians passed into the pages of history.