You're listening to Unexplained Season 7 Episode 6, look me in the eye, part 2 of 3.

Ever since meeting Peter, it seemed for a moment that the great cloud, which had been

following young Annalisa Mikkel for so long, had been lifted. Throughout the week, she

attended her classes and worked diligently, and whenever they could, she and Peter met

for walks or quiet conversation in the courtyard. In the meantime, she continued to attend

mass regularly, just as her mother requested, and also found time to visit Father Alt,

who seemed pleased with her progress. One morning in Würzburg, a few months into her

first term, Annalisa enters her local church to make confession. Perhaps it was the troubling

thought she'd been having about Peter, or maybe it was simply routine that led her there.

After making the sign of the cross at the back of the nave, she moved silently toward

the confession box and lets herself inside. But when she tries to talk, the words stick

in her mouth. Speak, my child, came a croaky voice from the other side of the booth. Annalisa

tried again, but still the words would not come out. She felt panic begin to rise up from

within, and something seemed to have her throat in its grip. In horror, she leaps from the

confession booth and bolts out the church. A few days later, she suffers a seizure, then

the headaches return, plaguing her day after day, and soon the voices and faces have returned

to. The devil it seemed was back. For the next year she struggles with her various ailments,

making visits to Father Alt whenever they threaten to completely overwhelm her. Each

time it's the same, an oddly distracted Annalisa would be brought to Alt's office, after

some gentle insistence. She would kneel on the ground and bow her head. Then Alt would hold

out his arms and begin the prayers. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make

his face shine on you. And each time when Alt finished, he would make the sign of the cross,

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