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The real story behind 'The exorcism of Emily Rose'
'The exorcism of Emily Rose' is quite a popular movie due to the fact that it was based on a true incident. But do you really know about the real Emily Rose??

Though many may not know it, the horrifying events of the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose were not entirely fictional but rather were based on the actual experiences of a German girl named Anneliese Michel. Anneliese Michel grew up devoutly Catholic in Bavaria, West Germany in the 1960s, where she attended Mass twice a week.She was quite bright and likeable girl. The first incident occurred When Anneliese was sixteen, she suddenly blacked out at school and began walking around dazed.Though Anneliese did not remember the event, her friends and family said she was in a trance-like state.And that night she felt something pressing down on her chest when she was in her bed.
A year later, Anneliese experienced a similar occurrence, where she woke up in a trance and wet her bed. Her body also went through a series of convulsions, causing her body to shake uncontrollably. After the second time, Anneliese visited a neurologist who diagnosed her with temporal lobe epilepsy, a disorder that causes seizures, loss of memory, and experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations. The drugs she was given failed to help her, and as the year progressed her condition began to deteriorate. Though she was still taking her medication, Anneliese began to believe that she was possessed by a demon and that she needed to find a solution outside of medicine.
Things took a turn in the spring of 1973, she started to hear knocking and random sounds. Even her sister could hear knocking which made it...