The Devil and Anneliese Michel: Exorcism on Trial Part 1

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2017

⏱️ 126 minutes

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The legal systems of Western societies have no place for, nor consideration of, the offenses of the spiritual world. Neither does the spirit world have regard for the laws of men. These factors make the case of the death of Anneliese Michel so fascinating, so compelling, so confounding and ultimately so tragic, that it remains one of the benchmark legal cases for determining negligent culpability in purported cases demonic possession. Anneliese was a German girl who was known in life for being very intelligent, shy, kind, generous and pious, but will always be known in death as an unfortunate soul who experienced a deteriorating malady so mysterious and devastating she ultimately succumbed to starvation. But who, or what, is to blame? Was it the severe affliction of an extreme case of epilepsy or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder having gone untreated, or was it the detestable work of the Devil himself?

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0:00.0	This week's episode of The Stone Sheen Legends is brought to you by the great courses plus,
0:03.4	Blue Apron, and our contributors at patreon.com.
0:07.2	And we're back. Yes, with some extremely exciting news about one of our older episodes before
0:12.7	we get started tonight. Yes, while we recorded some of the show a few days ago, this morning the
0:18.0	today's show ran a segment promoting a documentary that's running on the history channel the Sunday
0:22.3	after the show drops and we just had to get it into the cold open. It claims new evidence
0:27.0	and Amelia Earhart's disappearance and while we generally say about all claims of new evidence
0:31.6	that they need to be taken with a grain of salt because frequently the evidence isn't really new at all.
0:36.2	It's just repurposed to our little suspect in its nature and it's being used to generate
0:40.0	interest in an old topic that they know will attract viewers, listeners or clicks and therefore revenue.
0:46.5	So you always have to look at this stuff with a critical eye but in this case they really have dug
0:51.2	up something new and for us it's pretty exciting. Earhart researcher and former Treasury Department
0:56.1	investigator Les Kinney found a recently declassified picture in the National Archives that appears
1:02.3	to show Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan on a dock in the Marshall Island, specifically
1:08.6	the Jaluit Atole. Now this island was off limits to Americans at the time this picture was taken
1:14.3	and you can see what looks like Earhart sitting on the dock with her back to the camera and then a man
1:20.0	who nearly exactly matches Fred Noonan standing off to her right or the left side of the picture as
1:24.8	you're looking at it. The today show played a segment from the forthcoming documentary where the
1:29.8	photos were forensically analyzed and the examiner concluded that the people in the photo were a very
1:35.2	likely match for Earhart Noonan. This strongly supports the idea that they survived ditching the
1:40.4	plane and that they ditched in the Marshall Islands just as we had reported. Now to take this a
1:45.4	step further you can also see a ship in the photo towing a barge with something on it that matches
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