Bill Scott - The Day Satan Called: A True Encounter with Demon Possession and Exorcism

We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12

I never plannedor even wantedto write this book.

Its been years since this event happenedan event that covered eighteen excruciating months of my life. Ive shared it with only a few trusted individuals over the years. Frankly, I have been concerned that if people who dont know me well heard me tell this story, they would think I was crazy or mentally unstable. But my reluctance to share what happened to me was based on more than a fear that I wouldnt be believed.

During this event there were death threats that both the police and I took seriously. For eighteen months my home was no longer a sanctuary. I lived in constant fear but especially dreaded nightfall each and every day. Human and inhuman voices. Noises. Threats. Cursing. Blasphemies. Objects moving. Doors opening and closing. Strange calls and visitors at work and home. The experience was simply too surreal and too painful to want to relive. For two decades I have felt it was best not to talk about my experiences to anyone outside a small circle of friends.

You would have to be crazy to try to tell others about something this bizarreand Im not crazy.

I understand if you are skeptical already. You might be thinking its convenient that I shared my story with only a few select individualsand then waited more than twenty years to put it in book form. True, I cant prove the details of my ordeal other than through the testimony of other people involved in the events at the time, but what Im about to share with you really happened. It is my personal testimony, not an apologetic to prove the existence of the spiritual world, including demons.

For any doubters, I think I understand where you are coming from. As I relived those tumultuous moments through writing this book I, too, found it very hard to believe that these things really happenedand I was there.

A lot has to do with my upbringing. I grew up in a small, very conservative, Bible-believing and Bible-teaching church. I was taught to know and love Gods Word. But there were two things we really didnt talk about much: the power of the Holy Spirit and demons. In other words, we didnt talk about the spirit world; at least not in the modern-day world. The only time I remember hearing about demons from the pulpit was when a missionary from Africa came to speak at our small church. Its not that my pastor and Sunday school teachers didnt believe in demons, it just wasnt their teaching emphasis. What the missionary shared was fine with them, but probably because the demons were in a far-off and exotic land and not the USA; certainly not the town I grew up in. The spirit world was simply not part of our world. So I never met anyone who had encountered demons. I never heard anyone speak of spiritual warfare. Your upbringing might be quite different from mine, but there is a good chance you were raised the same way on this point of ignoring the spirit world.

Even though I grew up hearing Ephesians 6:12 quoted many timesWe do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly placesI just hadnt given much thought to demons. I wasnt looking for them. I didnt believeand still dont believethey are under every rock and hiding in every nook and cranny. I was an average guy who was just living a normal life.

Again, the story I am about to share is true and has not been embellished in any way to make it more scintillating and strange than it actually was. I dont believe Im crazy, and the people around me today seem to concur. This is not a vision or a product of my imagination. It actually happened to me.

I will never forget the day Satan called