Exorcism room at College of the Holy Cross continues to intrigue
Originally published in the FiftyPlus Advocate
Meanwhile, Massachusetts was no stranger to stories of exorcism, having a high concentration of Catholics living in the area. The College of the Holy Cross has a so-called exorcism room and the most frequently asked question by those touring the campus is, “Are you going to show us the exorcism room?” But will there be echoes of “The Exorcist” for these thrill seekers?
Stories abound regarding Holy Cross room
Currently, the room at the top of O’Kane Hall is used as storage space. Magician Harry Houdini visited the college in 1925 while on a nationwide tour lecturing on the “fraud of spiritualism.” Still, stories abound.
One tale involves how two Jesuit priests locked a young demon-possessed woman in a room in O’Kane Hall for two days for the purpose of performing an exorcism. As to what happened by the third day, the story varies. One version is that both priests were found dead. Another version has one priest dead after being thrown from a window with the other priest being missing. Both accounts have the young woman gone and never seen again.
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