Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

On the first day of July in 1976, in a small Bavarian town called Klingenberg am Main, a twenty-three-year-old university student named Anneliese Michel died in her own bed, in her parents' house, weighing sixty-eight pounds. Her knees were shattered from a year of kneeling and prostrating herself hundreds of times a day. Her tongue was bitten through. Her body bore the marks of restraints. The last words anyone recorded her saying were spoken to her mother: Mother, I'm afraid. In the ten months before she died she had undergone sixty-seven rites of exorcism, conducted by two Catholic priests with the written permission of their bishop. Everything that happened in that room was recorded on tape. More than forty hours of those recordings exist. You can hear them. That is what separates this case from every campfire story about possession you have ever been told, and it is why, half a century later, no one has been able to close the file. Four people went on trial for her death...