Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Marquart, with a brand new episode for you guys.

My guest today is Troy Taylor. Troy Taylor is the author of more than 150 books on history, hauntings, true crime, the unexplained, and the supernatural in America.

All of my favorite topics. He is the founder of American

Hauntings Inc., which offers books, events, and ghost tours and is the owner of the American

Audities Museum in Alton, Illinois. He is also the writer and co-host of the American

Hauntings podcast. He has appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries, and his book

about the St. Louis exorcism of

1949 is currently under option to be turned into a film by a major production company.

That's so exciting. Let's chat with him.

Troy, thank you so much for doing the show today.

Oh, absolutely. You know, all you had to do was ask, and here I am.

That's how it works.

Well, first I wanted to say congratulations because I was just reading in your bio that the St. Louis exorcism is going to like major production possibly.

Well, fingers crossed. They've had it for a while, but I know that there is, and of course, I'm not allowed to say who it is, you know how that goes. But there is a director and there is a script. So it's getting closer. So we'll see what happens. Yeah. So I know the last time I had you on my podcast, we talked about that a little bit. But can you just tell listeners who may not have heard that or don't know about it, a little bit of the history of that? Oh, and before we get started, let me just say, my camera is being glitchy. It's not paranormal. I am ordering a new one today because I was trying to do, I was trying to determine if it was like our internet or my camera or my computer, like which element it was. And it's definitely my camera. So I'm going to get that a fix. So if I'm glitched, that's why. One other thing, I have two cats that decided right now is the time to be wild behind me. So if you see the ghosts move or the blinds move or something moving behind me, it's not paranormal either. It is my cats being jerks right now. Well, they always do. I mean, that's what they do. As soon as the cameras come on. You can't find them all day until you don't need them around. And here they are. So that's how it always is. Extra rambunctious right now. Of course they are. Of course they are. Besides that, tell us about the

state list oficism. The Exorcist, the film and the book that everybody knows about William

Peter Blattie did, was inspired by a couple of different cases from American history that were

believed to be genuine demonic possessions. The most famous one was one that

happened in 1949 in St. Louis. And that's kind of the one that the legend has kind of evolved from.

But it started with a young kid in a Washington, D.C. suburb right outside of the city and began having

what we'd probably think of today as poltergeist activity in his home. And that's how it started.

And it kept up and it kept increasing. There was a Lutheran minister who got involved, who witnessed a lot of their strange happenings,

but he also believed that it was just, could be something explained by, you know, this, this boy with maybe some energy, you know, poltergeist activity, and never really thought too much more about it.

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