{"id":69168,"date":"2023-10-31T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/?p=69168"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:37:37","slug":"curse-of-the-exorcist-exposed-nine-deaths-fire-on-set-and-freak-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/music\/curse-of-the-exorcist-exposed-nine-deaths-fire-on-set-and-freak-snowstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Curse of The Exorcist\u2019 exposed \u2013\u00a0nine deaths, fire on set and freak snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    The Exorcist is to this day one of the most talked-about horror films in history. At its debut, just after Christmas 1973, people queued around the block in freezing temperatures just to buy a ticket. <\/p>\n

    But the film\u2019s production was plagued with accidents and creepy coincidences that have led to many saying it was "cursed". The planned 85-day shoot actually took 200 days, sending the film some $2.5million (something like $17million in today\u2019s money) over budget.<\/p>\n

    Shooting was held up by a number of deaths connected to the cast and crew, a freak fire that destroyed much of the set, and a bizarre indoor snowstorm.<\/p>\n

    READ MORE: Possessed victim 'leaped into air hissing like cat' after touching exorcist's holy water<\/b><\/p>\n

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    The film\u2019s original story was drawn from real events in Cottage City, Maryland, in the late 1940s. A teenage boy, identified as Ronald Edwin Hunkeler, began exhibiting bizarre symptoms. He would sometimes start speaking, apparently in Latin, in an eerie guttural voice, and some observers claimed to have seen objects levitating in his room and words being scratched into his skin.<\/p>\n

    When a Catholic priest attempted an exorcism on the boy, Ronald \u2013 who had been strapped to the bed \u2013 somehow freed himself from the bonds and pulled a spring from the mattress which he used to make a deep slash in the exorcist\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n

    Finally, says podcaster Christina Randall, \u201ca miracle happened. On April 18th at 10.45pm the priest called on St Michael to expel Satan from the boy\u2019s body\u201d.<\/p>\n

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