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And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norie with you, Dr. Richard Gallagher.

Back with us, he's written a great article about how a scientist learned to work with

the exorcists and his upcoming book about demonic possession.

Dr. with these possessions, though rare, what do you think they are, the ones that are the real deal?

What do you think's happening?

Well Mr. Norie, my belief is the traditional one.

I believe that there are evil spirits.

I mean sometimes I put it this way.

I've met scores of people, in fact hundreds of people, who claim they're attacked by non-material forces.

Let's call them spirits.

If they're attacking people, and I'm not saying they're all spirits attack people,

but if they attack people, what are they? They're evil spirits.

And what has been the traditional Western view, not only of Christianity

but also of Islam, also of Judaism at least at certain points in its history,

they don't tend to emphasize that belief anymore, nor did the original Hebrew Bible

have all that much of a notion of evil spirits, but there are references to it.

So the mainstream, and it is the religious view admittedly,

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