They say the devil hides in plain sight.

But for one man within the walls of the Vatican, evil wasn't a way to describe darkness.

It was a face with a voice, one that hissed and spat and screamed in languages that didn't exist

anymore.

A presence that would crack bones and levitate bodies, also darkening rooms with an unseen power.

I'm talking about Father Gabriel A Mort, who wasn't just a priest of soft words or rituals as you might know them.

He was the Vatican's chief exorcist, a man who claimed to have battled demons tens of thousands of times.

He described the devil as cunning, patient, and absolutely real, a presence that knew your secrets,

prayed on your fears, never knocked before entering. Father Amort didn't ask you to believe him. He simply told you

what he had seen and what he had fought. By the time he passed away in 2016, he had performed

more exorcisms than any other priest in recorded history. Over 70,000 by his own account,

although many of those were just blessings, not exactly a full-on exorcism.

But it was the true possessions, the rare, the chilling cases where something seemed to take hold,

the ones that haunted him, and also fascinated the world.

It's the same reason why you're here.

He kept meticulous records and wrote books,

and he also gave interviews, but many of his most disturbing stories were told in the kind of a whisper that you hear in a deathbed confession. Because what Father Amort faced wasn't just

a supernatural.

It was the deep, personal suffering of people caught in the crossfire right between ancient faith and modern doubt.

Does this actually exist?

In this episode, I'll tell you the story of the church's last great exorcist,

of a man who claimed the devil knew him

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