Imagine you going to the church in your town without knowing that several years ago there was an exorcism there, well there are some people who did not know about the exorcism that happened in Earling, Iowa.
Anna Ecklund known to others as Emma Schmidt was a religious German woman, some of her acquiaintances said that she was a very respectful, kind and very sweet woman with other people. Instead her dad Jakob Ecklund was a difficult father at best, he was a drunk and not only against Anna's practising of religion but openly mocking towards the church and its ministers.
Returning to Anna , at the dawning 20th century, around the age of 14 that Anna started to act a little differently.She began missing church and when questioned, told of how she was unable to attend, of how she felt revulsion in the presence of religious symbolism and a physical resistance that was creating a literal barrier, stopping her from entering any religious buildings. She had also begin uttering sexualised thoughts of " unspeakable acts". This behaviour was deemed as a form of possesion and in 1908, Father Theophilus Riesigner was called in to perform an exorcism, which he undertook, apparently successfully, on June 18th, 1908.
Though this ordeal sees scant few mentions in any written history of the case, all seemingly went well, as again Anna's life falls into obscurity. One can assume that she lived a relatively normal life, if somewhat troubled. At some point, her father passed away and once again. Anna was finding it more and more difficult to practice her religion.
She was gaining compulsives urges to destroy her religious symbols and was hearing inner voices that were driving her to despair.
To make everything shorter, there were three exorcisms that were performed to free her from those voices ( demons ) that were possessing her, the father after he thought that everything was going to be fine after the first exorcism and it wasn't like that, he was more attentive to her case. After the third and last exorcism you could really see the difference in Anna's physical appearance and obviously also her behavior.
Finally, She started to look happier and felt much better, she got rid of all that hell she lived through and after a few years she died in July 23, 1941.
Questions:
Did you already know about this exorcism case?
What other case of exorcism have you heard?
Would you go to Earling Catholic Church at night?
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I did not know about this case and haven't heard any other cases on exorcism, other than this one. However, this topic sounds very interesting and it freaks me out that something like this could've happened so close to Harlan. I do not think that I would go to the Earling Church.
I did know that there was an exorcism that happened but I didn't know all the details about it. I have not heard of any other exorcisms. I don't think I would go at night just because there's no reason too but also because I think it would be weird going late at night.
I have heard about this case before but I didn't know that much about it. I have not heard of another exercism. I don't think I would if I didn't have a good reason because it seems pretty useless to do.
I've heard about this however it did happen a long time ago. Ive never only heard of this case before no others.
I heard about this Exorcism from my grandpa and grandma, my grandparents live in defiance right next to learning, and they told me about the exorcism. I've only ever seen exorcisms in movies and it's very very scary, the scenes make me nervous and nauseous. I wouldn't go to the Earling Church at night, not because of the exorcism, but because it's just scary in general being in a church when its dark out.
I have no heard about this before. I am not from Earling so I am not very familiar with this. I am from Harlan. I would never want to go to the Earling Catholic Church at night if there was an exorisim. I have been at my church at night before, it was kinda scary.
Yes, I have heard of this from my grandpa his dad used to tell him stories of what happened by the church. I have really never heard of another real case of exorcism in real life I've just seen them on movies and TV shows. Yes, I have been to the Earling church many times at night.
I had heard about this case prior to reading this forum. This is a very interesting topic. I have not heard of any other exorcism cases in local areas or in the state for that matter. Of course I would go to the church. If something like that actually happened it would be cool to see the place that it took place.
I have heard about the exorcism in Earling. I live in Earling so many stories have been told about this incident. It is scary thinking that this happened in a town so close to all but it was so long ago and this is an infrequent occurring situation. I have been to the Earling church at night and it really is not scary if you don't sit there and only put your mind to the incident.
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