Case: GG-2026-128
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: B
Location: Earling, Iowa
The exorcism of Anna Ecklund (the pseudonym for Emma Schmidt) is a celebrated 1928 case of alleged demonic possession that took place inside a Franciscan convent in Earling, Iowa. Suffering from decades of severe neurological, psychological, and spiritual distress—allegedly linked to familial occult practices and curses—Ecklund underwent a 23-day ritual overseen by Capuchin priest Father Theophilus Riesinger and local pastor Father Joseph Steiger. The sessions were characterized by reports of dramatic physical convulsions, levitation, glossolalia (speaking unlearned languages), extreme aversio…
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