Then too, her whole body became so horribly disfigured that the regular contour of her body vanished.

Her pale death-like and emaciated head, often assuming the size of an inverted water pitcher, became as red as glowing embers.

Her eyes protruded out of their sockets.

Her lips swelled up to proportions equaling the size of hands and her thin emaciated body was bloated to such enormous size that the

pastor and some of the sisters drew back out of fright thinking that the woman will be torn to pieces and burst asunder.

At times her abdominal region extremities became as hard as iron and stone.

In such instances the weight of her body pressed into the iron bedstead so that the iron rods of the bed bent to the floor.

These were the words chronicled in begone Satan, a pamphlet written by Carl Vogel which documented

a prolonged exorcism carried out on a young girl named Anna Eklund in 1928, heavily documented at the time and later in Time magazine, it was alleged that she had been possessed

by several demons, including Beelzebub, Judas Iskaryat and Lucifer himself.

This is dark histories where the facts are worth some fiction. Hello and welcome season 2 episode 3 I'm Ben's Dark Histories. I'm pretty hyped about the episode we got coming out today. I haven't done a

paranormal or kind of spiritual out there episode in a while. So I really enjoyed writing this one this is the story of

the exorcism of Anna Eklund is not one for the faint of heart. At the time of its publication in 1935 it would have been quite a

terrifying and eye-opening education into the life and practices of one of

the Catholic Church's more extreme solutions to the troubles of demonic possession.

It is however also a tale that willfully obfuscates the history of its subject.

There are precious few facts that detail Anna Eklund's early life.

In fact, even now her name is not a 100% certainty. She has been named as Anna Eklund, Anna Schmidt, and many contemporary reports simply

called her a certain 40-year-old woman. Dramatic as her story was, her name was just one of the details repressed following the incidents of

1928 as a means of protection from the public who may very well not have taken kindly to being around

a person with such a strange and potentially

threatening past.

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