You're listening to the third and final part of Unexplained Season 7 Episode 6. Look

me in the eye.

By early 1976, Annalisa McKell and her family remain convinced she's in the grip of a horrifying

demonic possession. She has her good and bad days, or as she sees it, the days when Lucifer

leaves her alone, and the days when he doesn't.

In spite of that, Annalisa somehow manages to continue her studies at the University

of Würzburg, but she is terrified at the thought of anyone there, other than Peter and her

best friend Anna, finding out the truth about what has been going on with her.

And though she continues to visit physicians on the order of Father Alt, she never once

mentions the voices that speak to her, or the hideous faces that reveal themselves at

night, and she never once mentions the exorcisms. What scares her most is the thought that the

doctors will simply judge her to be clinically insane, that they will cart her away, and

strip her of any right to speak for herself, that she will be poked and prodded by clueless

medics, intent on denying her the only thing that will bring her salvation, her faith.

And perhaps there is something else that haunts Annalisa, something lingering in the psyche

of a nation still struggling to come to terms with its past that her fears derive from.

In September 1939, Adolf Hitler signed the National Euthanasia Decree, effectively ordering

the death of any German citizen, not deemed able enough. It was members of the church

such as Catholic Bishop August von Gaelen, although less concerned when it came to the

persecution of Jews, it should be said, who most vehemently opposed it. While notable

medical professionals like Werner Hyde, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Annalisa's

own University of Thurtsburg, were some of its most ardent supporters.

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