A Curious Case of Anneliese Michel
Anneliese Michel or Anna Elisabeth Michel is not a new name on the web. Anna was a German girl born in 1952 in the Straubing Bogen district in Bavaria, Germany known for being under the possession of inhuman entities. She was just like any other normal girl until her mid-teenage, but soon after she crossed sixteen, her life totally changed for the worst. She had no idea what resided there in her coming future. Initially, she was just hallucinating things, and shortly she started to sense an abnormality in her mental health. She displayed symptoms like loss of realization, unrestrained shaking movements, depression and sometimes she lost control of urine defecate.
Her parents started her treatment in a psychiatric hospital as soon as they got the gist of her abnormal behavior. She was diagnosed with several mental disorders for which her treatment went on until her late teen years. However, her health was growing worse and worse as time passed. There wasn’t any major improvement even with medication in her condition.
She started to get allergic to religious things and objects. She was hallucinating demonic things and claimed to her whispers and voices. Anneliese Michel had become detrimental and displayed several unnatural nameless symptoms and began growling, throwing things, and depressed all the time.
After taking five years of psychiatric diagnosis and medication which brought no positive result, Anna and her family became convinced that she had demonic possession and there is no cure for her in hospitals. So, her family requests a catholic church for the exorcism of her daughter but in the beginning, the church didn’t approve their request for an exorcism but after several recommendations by her family. The catholic church sent Priest Ernst Alt to inquest the situation personally.
After examined Anneliese Michel’s condition, the priest declared in his report to the church that her conditions were so critical and not seems like an epileptic or any other medical problem. Priest Alt believed that she was possessed by some dark evil and he urged the local authority of the Catholic Church to allow him to help her.
Finally, in September 1975, Father Arnold Renz was granted by the local bishop of the Catholic Church to perform an exorcism but also ordered to maintain the secrecy of exorcism at a high level, and Father Renz performed the first session of exorcism in the same month. From one to two exorcism sessions which were up to 4 hours performed in a week.
During sessions, Michel’s acts were horrible, she became so weak, underweight, and refused to eat when meals were offered to her but eat stones, walls, and insects in her room. Anneliese Michel badly hurt her nails and mouth by scratching walls, eating stones, and bashing her head on the wall. Michel underwent nearly 67 exorcism sessions in the course of ten months (from 1975 to 1976). She died in July 1976 at her home.
Resting Place of Anneliese Michel
Anneliese Michel became a folk figure after her death. She is resting peacefully in Klingen cemetery in Bavaria. Her grave became a pilgrim site. Which is also accessible through the ‘Find A Grave’ web portal.
According to the Father
According to Father Arnold and the audiotapes of exorcism, Father encountered an extraordinary heavy demonic possession by multiple unclean nasty spirits/demons in Anneliese Michel. Demons also identified themselves in tapes and they are Cain, Nero, Judas Iscariot, Lucifer, and Hitler. Father also stated that there was one more demon of Priest Fleischmann. Father claimed that the girl was freed from the possession due to exorcism just before her death.
According to Doctors
The autopsy reports of Anneliese Michel states that she died due to being in the conditions of semi-starvation for a year and other causes are lack of nutrition, dehydration, pneumonia, and broken knees due to genuflexion during an exorcism. Doctors believed that Anneliese Michel wasn’t possessed but suffering from psychological disorder and epilepsy. Her state of mind was the effect of her upbringing in a religious atmosphere.
Real audiotapes of exorcism of Anneliese Michel
Who were those Demons?
Cain: He was the firstborn son of Adam and Eve and the first murderer as well. Cain has killed his own brother Abel. He was the first human, who originated violence, greed, and evil. God punished Cain to spend a wandering life and rot in hell at last.
Nero: He was the last royal leader of the Roman emperor in 60 AD. He was also the first emperor of Rome who committed suicide. He was ordered to kill his mother. Nero committed suicide just before he realized that he was to receive sentenced to death as an enemy of the community. It was the belief of his failed rebellions till the starting of the first century that Nero would return. They used to present themselves as “Nero reborn” and portrayed Nero as a legend.
Judas Iscariot: He was one of the disciples of Jesus Christ who betrayed Jesus for 30 silver pieces offered by the Caiaphas. Judas made a deal with Caiaphas to give information about Jesus and also identifying him in the crowd by kissing him so they could arrest Jesus. Some of the testaments suggested that Judas was possessed by Satan and after the realization of Jesus’ crucifixion, he attempted to return his reward and committed suicide by hanging.
Lucifer was a servant of God, an overvalued angel. It is said to be that he was the most beautiful in all angels and they used to call him “The Morning Star”. But Lucifer has the ambition to establish his own monarchy that’s why he cast to the underworld from the uppermost chair of heaven. He became the devil by betrayed God. He created purgatory and trapped human souls. Jesus incarnated to earth to release those souls. Jesus was the younger brother of Lucifer. So, the devil was once an angel.
Hitler: There is confusion about the demon of Hitler here. Some folks believe it was the demon of Adolf Hitler. But it is also said to be that, the demon wasn’t Hitler, but he manifested in the shape of evil personified, probably to damage humanity like Hitler.
Priest Fleischmann: It was also just a belief that Fleischmann’s demon was also one of the demons who possessed A. Michel. Well, His name was Valentin Fleischmann also lived in Bavaria (Michel’s town) in the 16th century. He was a Frankish priest for around 2 or 3 years. He was unfrocked by the church due to his drunken habits and horrible behavior. He was charged with assault and assassination.
Relevance to movies
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a supernatural horror movie directed by Scott Derrickson. The movie was released in 2005. It is loosely related to the story of Anneliese Michel. In the film, Jennifer Carpenter portrayed Emily Rose.
Hello,
My workplace experienced an infectious disease outbreak from a common airborne pathogen, and during the outbreak, I noticed that the effect of the pathogen on the CNS (and elsewhere) is a plausible explanation for what people experience during demonic possession and hauntings. This infection can cause people to become either super-Satanic or super-religious and it also causes (among other things) seizures, various sleep disturbances and movement problems, delusions, hallucinations, a guttural voice, phantom odors that smell like feces/old semen/death/etc., feelings of being pinched/poked with a pin/tripped/etc., “auras” and the feeling of a “presence,” auditory disturbances, various visual disturbances like seeing vapors that would appear to be an entity, urinary/fecal incontinence, etc.
But first, do you know the following information about Anneliese Michel?:
1) She smelled awful. Was it a fishy odor (like in trimethylaminuria) or an odor of rotting putrid things and/or feces (from putrescent amines like putrescine/cadaverine/skatole)? Outgassing of the amines would explain her smelling “burning feces or rotting flesh,”
2) Was the statue of Mary that she couldn’t walk past one of the versions where Mary is trampling snake(s)? It would explain a lot of it was one with snakes. and
3) Any idea which churches she couldn’t enter? Because the source of the infection is often found in churches.
4) What times of day did she see a demon’s face?
Thank you for your time,
Susan McIntyre