Raymond J. Bishop
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Father Raymond J. Bishop a Roman Catholic priest. He became one of the several priests involved in the case of exorcizing a boy from Maryland who was possessed after using a Ouija board. The case would inspire author William Peter Blatty to write a novel about it which would be made into a movie called The Exorcist.
In 1949, Father Bishop taught at St. Louis University where one of his female students asked for help concerning her thirteen year old couisn from Maryland who had been experiencing supernatural attacks after playing with a Ouija board and had already gone through one aborted exorcism. He contacted a close friend Father William S. Bowdern and they eventually successfully exorcized the boy.
Internet links
- 'The Exorcist': The Story Behind the Movie (http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0137.html)
- The Haunted Boy of Cottage City by Mark Opsasnick (http://www.strangemag.com/exorcistpage1.html).