S5 Ep22: Jewish Exorcisms? Oy Vey!

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ever notice how almost every exorcism movie involves the Catholic church? Why should Jesus get all the credit? Turns out Jews have demons and exorcisms, too! In fact, we ALL have demons. The call may be coming from inside the house!

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1:19.3	What makes a demon? Is it a trapped soul doomed to wander the earth possessing any poor sucker it comes across?
1:26.9	Is it our own psyches trying to break free? Or are demons living inside our bodies all along, just waiting for one thing to go awry on a cellular level in order to unleash a kind of devilish living hell?
1:34.9	Is the call coming from inside the house?
1:41.0	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
1:45.2	Back in season one, I believe, of this show, I covered some famous exorcism.
1:50.1	It might have been Roland Doe, but honestly, season one was a million years ago, and who can remember that far back?
1:56.6	And I wondered aloud if demonic possession and exorcisms were a uniquely Christian phenomenon.
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