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The accident, it turns out, was caused by a pigeon that flew into a light box. That chaotic scene was what was widely reported to have happened all over the world when “The Exorcist” hit theaters nearly 50 years ago in December 1973. Discovery via Getty ImagesThe stairs inside the St. Louis house once home to “Roland Doe” as seen in 2015. Ronald urinated all over his bed and began shouting and cursing at the priests. They took him to Alexian Brothers Hospital in St. Louis for more serious treatment. All of these details from the true story of The Exorcist made it into the film.

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The true story behind The Exorcist begins in the late 1940s in suburban Washington, D.C., with a German-American family. Public DomainRoland Doe, the pseudonym of Ronald Hunkeler, the boy whose harrowing exorcism in 1949 later inspired The Exorcist. Only the exterior of the property appeared in The Exorcist. Interiors were part of a vast set constructed at New York’s now defunct Camera Mart studios.

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What’s really essential, he says, is getting to the root of the problem, what he calls “the point of entry.” “They [the possessed] have to be engaged in some kind of activity, normally, that tells the evil one you’re willing to interact with him. Or at least one did in 1973 when the movie the Exorcist was filmed in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. For the sequence where Chris investigates the noise in the attic, they installed a mansard roof on top of the house. The famous “Exorcist steps” were actually called Hitchcock Steps.

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Later, Dyer consoles Karras, guilty at not having been with his mother when she died. In northern Iraq, priest Lankester Merrin takes part in an archaeological dig in the ancient ruins of Hatra. During the dig, he finds a stone talisman of a winged being that evokes a concerned look on his face. He then has a vision in which a giant version of the same being appears nearby, silently confronting him.

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Pope John Paul II asked every diocese to provide an exorcist. The son of another cast member, Jason Miller, was also hit by a motorcyclist on an empty beach and almost died. On set, Friedkin was both god and devil, fighting to get a very challenging shoot completed, but sometimes going to extremes. Regularly and without warning he would shoot off guns to produce startled reactions in the actors. When actress Ellen Burstyn complained that she was getting pulled across the room too hard by special effects supervisor Marcel Vercoutere, Friedkin said he would have it fixed, then instead encouraged Vercoutere to pull her harder.

There is a house in St. Louis that has some of the most famous history in regards to paranormal happenings. While it is a very real place, you really should not go there and I'll explain why. The incident freakily occurred during the period that they were filming the famous exorcism scene.

Inside The Harrowing Exorcism Of Roland Doe, The True Story Behind ‘The Exorcist’

The story takes place almost exclusively in Washington, DC, and consequentially, most of the filming also took place in the capital state. A property located at 3600 Prospect Street, in the historic neighborhood of Georgetown, in the southwestern part of the state, stood in for the exterior of the MacNeil residence. The team put up a false wing to make the windows of Regan’s room appear close to the stairs. However, we don’t know much about what it looks like on the inside, because The Exorcist only used the exterior of the house; interior scenes were shot in a massive production set in New York City. Nowadays, we think of The Exorcist as a horror classic, an unsettling masterpiece that aged incredibly well throughout the decades.

They shot in several places on the Georgetown campus, the place that not only strengthened Blatty's own faith and inspired him to become a writer, but also led to some aspects of "The Exorcist." As a frequent reader of our website, you know how important America’s voice is in the conversation about the church and the world. We can't do it without you—America Media relies on generous support from our readers.

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Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior. On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified. MacGowran played Burke Dennings, the film director who is killed by Regan. The Irish thespian died of influenza at age 54 during the London flu epidemic. During the shocking crucifix scene with Linda Blair in bed as the possessed Regan, the disturbed daughter whacks Chris in the face, forcing her backward.

Several international standard productions such as ‘Blade Runner‘ to ‘Dunkirk‘ were filmed in the city. A considerable chunk of filming was carried out on various interior locations in and around the Big Apple. Located at 462 First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, it is the oldest public hospital in the US. The MacNeil residence interior sequences were filmed in the CECO Studios. A temporary studio facility located at West 54th Street in Manhattan, the venue is no longer there.

For the shoot, an entire fake wing was built on the eastern side of the house. This was done so that Regan’s bedroom window would be close to the stairs situated next to the property, which accommodated for several scenes that were pertinent to the film (I don’t want to give away any spoilers, so I won’t say more). A fake mansard roof was also added to the structure to give the appearance that the home had an attic – something else that was necessary to the plotline. Blatty used a diary kept by one of the exorcists as the basis of his 1971 book, which rode atop best-seller lists for 54 weeks. When Blatty's seminal shocker hit theaters two years later, filmgoers across the nation threw up in the aisles and ran screaming from movie houses. There were also reports of people conducting their own gothic exorcisms, killing several "possessed" victims in the process.

Chris hosts a party with Karras's friend, Father Dyer, who explains Karras's role as counselor and notes his mother's recent death. Regan, seemingly unwell, appears and urinates before Chris comforts her. Regan's bed shakes violently after Chris returns her to it.

The pad sits on a 0.11-acre plot of land that overlooks the Potomac River and the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The real-life exorcism was performed in 1949 on a 13-year-old boy, known only as Roland Doe. His exorcism took three harrowing months to complete and those who took part were sworn to secrecy. By the way, probably the best dissection of the “exorcism” at the center of the film was by Greenbelt cultural and music historian Mark Opsasnick.

I’ve ventured down a deep, dark rabbit hole today, friends. Last night, the Grim Cheaper and I watched The Exorcist for the first time. I had come across images of the stately brick house and adjacent towering staircase featured in the iconic 1973 horror flick while researching filming locations in the D.C.-area prior to our September trip and found them to be particularly haunting. I felt I couldn’t very well write about them without a screening of the flick, though, so last night the GC and I sat down to watch. I was shocked at how much the movie withstood the test of time.

As the two priests read from the Roman Ritual, the demon curses them. The priests rest and Merrin, shaking, takes nitroglycerin. Karras enters the bedroom where the demon appears as his mother, perturbing Karras despite his denials. Merrin excuses Karras and continues the exorcism by himself. Karras assures Chris that Regan will not die and re-enters the room, finding Merrin dead from a heart attack while Regan watches by and laughs. An enraged Karras beats the possessed Regan and demands that the demon take him instead.

At night, Chris's assistant calls Karras to the house; he concludes that an exorcism is warranted. His superior grants permission on the condition that an experienced priest lead the ritual. The Exorcist was released in 24 theaters in the United States on December 26, 1973. Some viewers suffered adverse physical reactions, fainting or vomiting to shocking scenes such as a realistic cerebral angiography. Several cities attempted to ban it outright or prevent children from attending. At the end of its original theatrical run, the film grossed $193 million, and has a lifetime gross of $441 million with subsequent re-releases.