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EXORCIST’S TERRIFYING BATTLE WITH EVIL!

Fiend-fighting bishop reveals creepy details of woman’s possession

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DEMONS do exist, swears exorcist Bishop Plato Angelakis, who for the first time reveals his terrifying battle with an evil fiend that possessed a granny-aged woman — and gave her the strength to overpower four grown men!

The 56-year-old Orthodox Catholic priest, who was ordained by Wisconsin’s Oblates of St. Therese, performed his first chilling exorcism five years ago in Canada and confesses the ordeal was hell on earth!

The real-life nightmare began when a paranormal team in Toronto contacted him about a gal who claimed her 60-yearold mother was possessed by a monstrous presence.

“This older woman grew up with parents who were actually satanic ritualists!” he says.

“She had this demonic thing that had been following her and plaguing her for many, many, many years, and she wanted some help.”

Tangling with a demon isn’t easy because they invest their victims with frightenin­g powers, reveals the holy man.

“We had to tie the woman down. She had superhuman strength!

“She tossed four men across the room! … That’s how strong the demon was inside of her!”

The dark spirit also made the woman speak in tongues and do unnatural things with her body.

“Her eyes rolled back, way back into the back of her head!” Angelakis exclaims.

At one point, a bone in her arm broke due to the tremendous stress the demon put on it.

“The bone was sticking out of her arm. We got her out of the house …

“I remained in the home … cleansed it, cleaned it up. Anointed it with holy oils!”

Amazingly, “when she returned, she basically just said, ‘I didn’t like the idea [the demon] left.’ She wanted it back! She ended up in a worse situation than when I met her!”

Adds the spirit-battling bishop: “I guess it would be like the demonic version of Stockholm syndrome,” where victims of a kidnapping or hostages feel affection for their captors.

But her upset family begged him “to come back again. I said, ‘No, I’m not doing it again. It’s a onetime thing, and she doesn’t want it.’

“That’s the number one thing

with all exorcisms — the person has to actually want it.

“Now I won’t do an exorcism unless the person absolutely wants it done.”

The devil-dislodging holy man, who is also a critical care nurse, says his paranormal team fields requests for exorcisms and will “go and investigat­e, interview, get medical reports, if necessary,” as well as get consent forms signed.

“They’ll talk to the family members. They do everything. It’s a full-fledged, topto-bottom” service.

As a protection for the family, “we … make them change spiritual things, like they’ll start going to church, take the Eucharist, go to confession.”

“There’s a lot of prep work,” adds the unconventi­onal cleric. “The house is also cleansed with … oil, salt and water. Oil the place up. We do a lot of prayers, we’ll get them back to church, we’ll do some confession­s, we’ll do some reconcilia­tion — whatever is necessary.”

Some of the victims and family members may have suffered demonic invasions by being involved in the occult, he notes.

He also says the doll from the 2014 horror flick Annabelle is “very, very evil.”

At a museum, “people were paying money to see the doll,” he recalls.

“Then people were having problems … Things are happening at their house …

“We did a lot of blessings, a lot of people were having experience­s after.”

He even believes the doll caused scary accidents.

“I had my car roll over several times,” he adds, and it also overheated for no apparent reason.

“I pull over, open the hood and the cap blew off, and my right arm’s got a big, huge burn mark on it.”

His experience­s have convinced him that demons are not just people’s imaginatio­ns gone wild.

“I know they exist. I already know what they do. I’ve seen it. Experience­d it.

“That’s all the evidence I need.”

 ??  ?? Orthodox Catholic
Bishop Plato Angelakis knows that evil exists: He has seen it!
Orthodox Catholic Bishop Plato Angelakis knows that evil exists: He has seen it!
 ??  ?? To purge the dark spirits, Father Angelakis and his team use incense, oil, salt and water
Some reportedly suffered mysterious accidents after
viewing the demonic doll Annabelle, locked in a glass
box to protect the public
To purge the dark spirits, Father Angelakis and his team use incense, oil, salt and water Some reportedly suffered mysterious accidents after viewing the demonic doll Annabelle, locked in a glass box to protect the public
 ??  ?? The Annabelle used in the Conjuring films was a more satanic toy
The Annabelle used in the Conjuring films was a more satanic toy

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