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The film is based upon the events surrounding what became known as the 'Watseka Wonder'. Using period photographs, dramatic recreations, and interviews with subject experts, it addresses what is allegedly the first well-documented and recorded spirit possession story in America of 1877, and the subsequent recorded "possessions" suffered by Lurancy.
The 1996 television movie Buried Secrets is an adaption of the story. A 2009 film, The Possessed , recounting the story of the Watseka case, was produced by the Booth Brothers, Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth , for the SyFy Channel's "Spooked Television". [ 8 ]
The Wizard of Oz's Glinda proclaimed there are good witches and bad witches, and Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury) falls decidedly in the good witch camp.In this delightful children's fantasy ...
Watseka or Watchekee (c. 1810–1878) was a Potawatomi Native American woman, born in Illinois, and named for the heroine of a Potawatomi legend. Her uncle was Tamin, the chief of the Kankakee Potawatomi Indians.
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When Steven Spielberg delivers a moment of wonder, it feels alchemic and infinite: a long-extinct Brachiosaurus lumbering into view, a gravity-defying bicycle, or the sun’s rays illuminating ...
The story of the Watseka Wonder, in which 13-year-old Mary Lurancy Vennum was supposedly spirit possessed by the ghost of 19-year-old Mary Roff in Watseka, Illinois, in 1878. 51 [ 53 ] "Within the Walls"
What I said, am saying, is that your article contains a very glib criticism of the Watseka incident by a fringe author whose central claim of criticism (witness incompetency), although not mentioned in the article, is offered without any evidence, and is refuted by a highly regarded (highly regarded even in the critic paragraph of this article ...