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Episode 254: The Exorcism of Roland Doe

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Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In 1949, 13-year-old 'Roland Doe' became the victim of alleged demonic possession which lead to a harrowing series of exorcisms by a team of catholic priests. Roland's exorcism became the chilling real-life inspiration for famous horror film, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Seth.

0:00.9

I'm Alex.

0:01.4

And this is not today.

0:20.4

And we're live.

0:21.8

Spooky.

0:24.9

We're here.

0:27.2

It's finally here.

0:29.9

Halloween?

0:30.8

It's time.

0:32.0

It's been time.

0:33.1

No, but this is the episode that comes out right before Halloween.

0:36.9

It's the spookiest one.

0:38.7

Who is getting possessed today? Roland Doe.

0:42.1

Roland Doe? Yeah. That's the name?

0:45.9

It's a pseudonym, but yeah. Okay.

0:49.0

Yeah, we're getting into an exorcism today, which you, I'm sure, no, because you clicked on this episode. But yeah. Okay. And it's not a, what's the famous one with the house? Bathsheba. No. Help me out here. No, we talked about that last time. We did that last year. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's the one everyone knows about. I don't know about Roland Doe. I'll tell you that. Well, Roland Doe's exorcism is'm saying that's the one everyone knows about i don't know about rolling doe i'll tell you

1:10.9

that well roland doe's exorcism is the one that inspired the movie the exorcist so it's also famous

1:17.9

oh power of christ will compel us is that is that the is that the movie it's the one where like the

1:24.5

girl's head like spins and she's she like vomits pee soup across the She like projectile vomits pee soup. You know what I'm talking about? No, I'm not into these movies. The only ones I've watched are the ones I watch with you. I guess. Yeah, we're not really into like the old scary movies so much. But maybe we should be. We could get into it. I'll try it. But anyway, we're talking

1:46.2

about The Exorcist today, or rather the story that inspired the Exorcist. But before we get

1:51.1

into that, I wanted to remind you that over on Patreon, we have over 40 full-length bonus episodes

1:56.1

that you can check out. They're really fun. Our patrons get to vote on them. Patreon.com

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