Real-Life Child Who Inspired The Exorcist Unmasked After His Death
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perezhilton.comThe boy whose case inspired Linda Blair’s petrifying portrayal of a possessed child in the landmark horror film The Exorcist has been identified — and it turns out he lived quite the life afterward!
As fans know, the horror classic was based on a novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty. It shocked audiences at the time not just due to its revolting, head-spinning imagery, but because it was “based on a true story.” So the story goes, Blatty saw an August 1949 article in The Washington Post titled “Priest Frees Mt.
Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip” when he was a student at Georgetown University. The report was about an exorcism performed on a 14-year-old boy from Maryland who was then referred to only by the fake names Roland
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