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[Shatner] Powerful demons
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the souls of the living,

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evil energies

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drawn to the carnage
of history's

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bloodiest battlefields,

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and deals with the Devil,

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whose price
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Throughout history, people
have believed in demonic forces

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hell-bent on tempting
the vulnerable,

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influencing events, and even
possessing the human soul.

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And many think that
the prince of demons,

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Satan himself,

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has created an army
of evildoers

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responsible for waging
an unholy spiritual war

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against all of humanity.

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Could there really be
supernatural entities

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whose mission
is to bring hell to Earth?

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Well, that is what
we'll try and find out.

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? ?

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[Shatner] The Bible
is recognized

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as the most popular book
in history.

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It has not only shaped
the spiritual identity

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of billions of people,

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but it also revealed an evil
being of incomprehensible power.

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He introduced sin
to the Garden of Eden

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and even offered Jesus Christ
all the kingdoms of the world

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in exchange
for casting God aside.

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He was once the mightiest angel
in the kingdom of Heaven,

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but now he's better known
as Satan.

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[Joseph Laycock]
In the Christian tradition,

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the beginning of time,
there's a civil war in Heaven.

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Lucifer, also known as Satan,
is the greatest

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and most powerful of the angels,

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and he decides
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at ruling the universe than God.

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So he launches a civil war,

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and a third of the angels
join him in this rebellion.

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And they're eventually defeated
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led by the archangel Michael,
and cast down into Hell,

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where they become demons.

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Satan is the head of Hell.

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Uh, he rules over other
fallen angels like himself.

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He's the worst nightmare
you could possibly have,

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and he's bound
to endlessly try and tempt us

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so that we sell our souls
or we lose our souls to him

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and eventually join him
and his legions in Hell.

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The Devil spends eternity
proving God was wrong.

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And he does so
by trying to seduce

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that which God loves,
human beings.

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He spends his eternity trying

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to rip those souls
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He will seduce,

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lie, cheat,

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steal, abuse,

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do anything he can
in order to get human beings

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to choose his plan
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[Shatner] Many believe
this unholy war

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being waged by the Devil

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may not simply
cost humanity our lives,

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but our very souls.

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But does Satan's
demonic army really exist?

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While those that belong

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to other religious traditions
may disagree,

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many Christians
guided by scripture believe

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it has been foretold.

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We have been warned that a dark
force is coming towards us.

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There is a forbidden book,
the Book of Enoch,

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that was not included
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that tells us that God

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imprisoned Satan and his fellow
demons, but they will be back.

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And the Book of Revelation
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that Satan will return,
and he will recruit an army

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that will be more numerous
than the grains of sand.

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And it will come from
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[Laycock] There's a paradox
in demonology,

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which is that demons are
supposed to be these very nasty,

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defiant, chaotic entities.

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And yet, so often,
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highly organized, akin to
an army with specialized units,

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where each demon
has a boss and a mission.

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And that may be because
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demons are fallen angels

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who have been cast out of Heaven
and sent into Hell, they are

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a force of evil in the universe

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that are preparing
for a final battle.

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[Shatner] The reality
of Satan's army remains

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a matter of prophecy and belief,

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but throughout history,
many have wondered

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has Satan,
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already entered the battlefield?

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A lot of people believe
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are waging spiritual warfare.

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Both against God and Heaven,
but also against people.

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He could, um,
wage war against you.

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He could cause you harm,
usually, in times of turmoil.

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[David Clarke] People have
these experiences

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with what have been
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People see winged figures.
They see

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all kinds of mysterious,
unexplained creatures.

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There's been lots of surveys
that have been done on this.

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You tend to find that,
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of the population,
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or not religious, say
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entities, and that's what
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What are the cause of these
things? No one really knows.

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[Shatner] While skeptics
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of alleged demonic encounters,

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perhaps seeing is believing.

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Such is the case
for those whose mission

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is to face the Devil head-on,

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like an exorcist with
about 20 years of experience,

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Father Carlos Martins.

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We're in a war, and in that war,
there's invisible beings

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that are mightily powerful,
and they're coming for us.

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[Shatner] Remarkably,
in recent years,

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Catholic priests
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have seen a staggering rise
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for demonic exorcisms.

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In Italy alone-
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reports claim
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exorcism requests per year.

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This surge is also happening in
the United States and elsewhere,

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but there's simply
not enough trained priests

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to investigate all these
alleged possessions.

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And it begs a chilling question.

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Is humanity being targeted
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like never before?

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[Martins] We presume
that what people think

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are demonic manifestations
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We begin with that presumption.

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We employ medical professionals
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in helping diagnose
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which, more often than not,

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is a medical condition.

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But not always.

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So how do you isolate
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Through signs. Signs that

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the-the natural sciences
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Superhuman strength.

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Knowledge of hidden things.

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To know and speak with facility

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languages that the individual
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Extreme aversion to holy things.

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Visceral reaction to holy water,

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to blessed objects,
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[Shatner] Every priest trained
in the rites of exorcism-

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the series of prayers
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meant to cast out
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must determine if the alleged
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And over the course of decades,

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Father Martins believes
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creatures from Hell.

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I was called to-to one case.

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This woman, um, was

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a quite pleasant woman
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in a state of possession,
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uh, she was easily, to this
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that I've ever encountered.

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When I do a session, I want
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I want a holder on each arm.
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from getting hit
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One of the holders there
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uh, with lots of muscle.

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And as we were getting
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threw him across the room.

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So, he went through the air
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And then, she went and pointed
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and one of the screws
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came through the air
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and she drove it
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We never saw that screw again.

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So, we're facing evil now.
The battle is on.

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In the course of that session,

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she hit me in the face so hard
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and what I didn't realize
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I needed two surgeries to repair
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It is a battle.

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The battle
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and has been happening every day

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since mankind was created.

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[Shatner] While many faithful
believe that demonic possessions

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are the result of inviting sin
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others have wondered,
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unknowingly walk into
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and find that the Devil

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is already there?

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[Shatner reads on-screen text]

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In this ordinary American
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is about to happen in the small
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Because, for the new residents,

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it becomes abundantly clear

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this house is already occupied

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by demons.

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[Picknett] Latoya Ammons
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into a modest, rented house

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in Gary, Indiana,

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and very quickly after that,

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extraordinary things
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There was a huge swarm of flies,
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You don't get flies in winter.

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There was vile smells
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The Ammons children
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thrown from their beds
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and the children began
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which is, of course, terrifying.

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[Shatner] This strange activity
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to contact
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but without evidence of a crime,
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Desperate and terrified,

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the Ammons turned to
a local exorcist named

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Reverend Michael Maginot.

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I have done
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but probably
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deliverance and other house
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And they wanted me to come in
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because a boy
just walked up the wall

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backwards at the hospital.

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Latoya's mother, Rosa,
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by the hands when that happened.

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He flipped over her head
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and looked at them
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and eyes that were white.

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This was in a hospital
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three other professionals:
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a psychiatric doctor,
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the child protective service
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They all ran out
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they came back with policemen,

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and at that time,
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back into his normal senses,

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and they were saying,
"How'd you do that?"

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And he had no idea
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[Shatner] Based on the veracity
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Reverend Michael Maginot decided
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And upon entering,
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unnatural events
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I went to the home
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Latoya and her mother, uh, Rosa.

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And it started with
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Later, the rods
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rocking back and forth.

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And then, I saw this big, huge
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And then, all of a sudden,
she said, "I'm freezing."

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And then, I asked her,

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"Do you mind if I put
my crucifix on your forehead?"

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And so, I did,
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That whole place
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[Shatner] The stories
surrounding this house of demons

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are still well known
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But why would this home
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infested with dark forces?

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When we're doing
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we were actually thinking
someone might be buried there.

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We discovered that there is,
underneath the stairs,

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it's a cement basement,

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but there was
a cutout with dirt in it.

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So we had the policeman dig

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in case it did turn
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And so, we got about
two and a half feet deep,

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and we find a fingernail
of a woman,

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a painted fingernail.

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Then we kind of saw something,

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looked like
a-a cotton undergarment.

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We dug a little deeper,
and then,

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we started to find more items.

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And we started thinking
it's possible

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that there were rituals
that were done in this house.

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If a house, um, is usually
said to be infested,

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it's usually done by
practicing occult arts in it.

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So, if you put a pentagram
in your basement

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or if you perform
rituals and things,

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you're creating a portal

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that will open the door
to demonic activity.

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And eventually,
it could take possession of you.

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[shrieking]

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[Shatner] Do the
unsettling objects

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found buried inside the house

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suggest a dark ritual
was once practiced here?

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Father Maginot performed
several sessions to banish

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what he still believes
was a demonic presence.

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And for good measure,
the most recent property owner

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tore the house down
to its foundation.

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But were the chilling events
in the house really the work

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of the Devil's minions?

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It can be difficult for us
to try to tell the difference

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between a haunted house
and a possessed house.

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Often, this is a matter
of declaration,

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and a few of the people
that were declaring houses

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to be possessed
in the '70s and '80s

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were Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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The Snedeker house
is one such declaration.

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In 1986,
the Snedeker family moved

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into a spacious home
in Southington, Connecticut.

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They quickly discovered
that the house

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was once a funeral home.

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We get manifestations of blood,

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of deathly stenches like rotting
meat and things like that,

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and even the claim
that members of the family

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were assaulted
by an invisible force.

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So, Ed and Lorraine Warren said

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that the house was being
attacked by demons.

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I think that,
in as much as demons

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are forces of evil,

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we tend to imagine that
they are drawn to places

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that we consider
evil or corrupt.

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Is there a necessary connection
between the two?

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Not necessarily, but I think
that the Ammons' narrative

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is a strong reminder for us that

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demons are very alive and well

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in the contemporary
United States.

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[Laycock] Demons are fallen
angels who have been cast out

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of Heaven and sent into Hell,
and yet,

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for reasons that
we don't fully understand,

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God has allowed demons
some limited ability

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to roam the Earth
and interact with humans.

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And most theologians have said,

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if the demons were allowed
to do whatever they want,

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every human being on Earth
would already be dead.

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So, God has limited
their power substantially,

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but they still have some ability
to interact with the world.

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I know there's a lot
of skeptics, and mainly,

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if it has never happened to you,
it's easy to be a skeptic.

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And when it does happen to you,
it's very real.

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So, you are pretty desperate
and you want to get rid of it.

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It's terrifying to think that
where we should feel safe

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and sound could become home
to a living nightmare.

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But there are other places
where some believe the minions

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of Satan's army
are more commonly confronted,

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like on the battlefield,

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where the expression
"war is hell"

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is given a whole new meaning.

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[Shatner reads on-screen text]

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British and German troops clash

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in one of the first major
battles of World War I.

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This bloody conflict
not only results

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in 6,600 people
lying dead in its wake,

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but also gives rise
to nightmarish tales

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of a demonic creature

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terrorizing the battlefield.

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The Battle of Mons was literally
hand-to-hand fighting.

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Machine guns, bayonets, cavalry
charges, and trench warfare.

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But the rumors were
something had happened.

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Something strange.

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And after the end
of the First World War,

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there was a story published
in a newspaper in Oklahoma

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that there'd been this rumor
that was going around

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the trenches
about a demonic hound

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that had been seen and heard
in no-man's-land.

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Stories were soon
circulating about

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a kind of, um,
supernaturally large,

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dark hound

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that was stalking the trenches,

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preying on soldiers.

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There were tales of bodies
of soldiers being mutilated,

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ripped apart in very mysterious
circumstances.

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And it became known
as the Hound of Mons.

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[Shatner] Doglike
servants of Satan

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similar to the Hound of Mons

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can be found in many folkloric
tales throughout Europe.

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But they are far
from the only foul creatures

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reported on
an earthly battlefield.

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During the Vietnam War,

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it is said there was
something evil

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hiding in the darkness
of the jungle.

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In Vietnam,
the U.S. Airborne troops

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were issued
with night vision goggles,

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and these allowed troops
to literally see in the dark.

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And there were stories
that emerged in later years

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about them seeing
all kinds of weird figures

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that were flying towards
their helicopters or

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winged demon-like creatures.

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And they reported it
to, um, their superiors

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who just thought, "Have you
been on drugs or something?"

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You know. Wh-What are you
talking about?

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[Shatner] Are these alleged
demons simply misidentified

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animals or hallucinations?

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Or are they proof
of Satan's presence on Earth?

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While there's no hard evidence

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for these unnerving legends,
you have to wonder,

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if Satan has been
mustering an army,

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what purpose might they serve

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on the battlefields of man?

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[McMahon] Throughout history,

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were these hellish sentinels

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attracted to
the bloodshed of battle?

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And is it that, during wartime,

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demonic forces kind of hone in

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on what human beings
are doing to each other?

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That they're attracted
by the bloodshed, by the horror

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that we're inflicting
on each other.

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I think about
the Christian theologian

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Tertullian
in the second century,

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who said that the reason demons
like pagan sacrifices

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is because their food
is smoke and blood.

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Well, in the 20th century,
there aren't a lot

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of pagan sacrifices going on.

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So, if you're a demon
and you're hungry

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for a lot of smoke and blood,

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where else could you possibly go
but onto the battlefield?

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[Shatner] The Bosnian War.

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From 1992 to 1995,

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this violent conflict
in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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results in over 100,000 deaths

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and sends 2.2 million
local people fleeing

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from their homes.

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And near the end of the war,

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investigative journalist
Randall Sullivan

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witnesses something
that he will never forget.

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Officially,
I was a correspondent

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for Rolling Stone magazine
who was there to cover the war,

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but also, I was
really interested in

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seeing what was happening
in this village

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in western Herzegovina

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called Medjugorje, where
apparitions of the Virgin Mary

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had started happening in 1981.

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And I was interested
in the claimed miracles.

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But a lot of
the local people all said

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this place attracts evil, too.

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After about nine weeks

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being based in Medjugorje,
I was getting ready to leave.

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It just happened
to coincide with

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this event that happened every
year called the Youth Festival.

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This year, the climax of the war

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happened at the same time the
Youth Festival was scheduled.

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This massive wave of
religious tourism had poured in.

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One priest there
was going through the crowd

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swinging this monstrance, which
contains a consecrated host.

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And as he would pass
through the crowd,

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I'd hear all of these
strange noises erupt. I mean,

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these grunts
and squeals and curses.

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And I started hearing this young
woman who started coughing,

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and it sounded like she was
trying to bring up a lung.

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And the next thing I know,
she's surrounded by these people

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praying over her, and they're
praying an exorcism prayer.

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She just suddenly raises herself
into this position

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that did not look possible.

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She literally had
all her weight on her heels

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and the crown of her head,
and then,

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I see this foam
start to come out of her mouth.

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And she was making these sounds
in this deep, guttural voice

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that didn't seem like
it could come out of that body.

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Then, all of a sudden,
there was this giant exhalation.

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[exhales forcefully]

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And the smell was like

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you distilled rotted flesh.

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I mean, I gagged. I was-

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But I was just,
I was so stunned.

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Then, all of a sudden,
she relaxed and she was okay.

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I played it over and over
and over, and

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I eventually started to think-

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believe that this- I was seeing
an actual possession

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and an actual exorcism.

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But everyone was acting
as if this is familiar.

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And this was in a country
among people who had experienced

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the greatest horrors
I've ever witnessed.

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The people who lived
through it understand that

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this is a war between the forces

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of light and the forces
of darkness.

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This is good versus evil.
This is God versus the Devil.

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And I know it was real.

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Do the horrors of war
somehow conjure

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Satan's forces
and bring them to Earth?

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For those who claim to have
witnessed it firsthand,

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it remains
a nightmarish reality.

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But just how
do these evil entities

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get here in the first place?

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Well, some believe
there are locations

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on our planet that act

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as portals to Hell.

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[Shatner reads on-screen text]

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These remote highlands
have long been known for

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their massive sandstone
formations and sunken canyons.

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But rising above miles of forest
is an eerie stone fortress

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steeped in folklore
and legend named

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Houska Castle.

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Houska Castle
is a fascinating place,

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so mysterious.

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It's a 13th-century castle

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that is on top of a cliff

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in what's now known
as the Czech Republic.

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And it's really
interesting because

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we don't really know
why it was built.

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[Laycock] There is always
some strategic purpose

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to building a castle, whether
that's defending a border,

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guarding some important assets,

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putting them on a trade route
where you can charge tolls.

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Houska Castle does not fit
any of these criteria.

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There is no water supply
where this castle is.

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And it takes a lot of time
and effort to build a castle

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in the 13th century,

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so what is it doing here?

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[Shatner] There are few
surviving records

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00:26:08,792 --> 00:26:11,000
of Houska Castle's
construction, so

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its true purpose has become
a matter of speculation.

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00:26:14,917 --> 00:26:18,167
But there are many
unnerving local legends,

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and they all center around

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a strange hole
in the middle of its courtyard.

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[Clarke] Houska Castle
is built directly above

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a chasm in the limestone rocks,

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and the walls are sort of
facing into that chasm.

501
00:26:34,042 --> 00:26:37,172
And it's interesting because
most castles were built to keep

502
00:26:37,333 --> 00:26:41,167
people out, the enemy at
the gates, whereas this castle

503
00:26:41,168 --> 00:26:43,624
seems to have
a completely different function.

504
00:26:43,625 --> 00:26:45,750
This was built
to keep something in.

505
00:26:45,751 --> 00:26:49,041
[Houlbrook] There are tales
about how,

506
00:26:49,042 --> 00:26:52,292
before the castle was built,
there was this great big pit,

507
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,083
this bottomless pit

508
00:26:54,250 --> 00:26:56,240
and local villagers
tried to fill it up.

509
00:26:56,241 --> 00:26:58,749
They would drop rocks down it,
and they would never hear them

510
00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:00,833
reach the bottom.

511
00:27:00,834 --> 00:27:02,707
There are lots
and lots of stories.

512
00:27:02,708 --> 00:27:05,118
They would take prisoners
who were condemned,

513
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,791
and they would say that
they would be pardoned

514
00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:08,374
of their crimes
if they consented

515
00:27:08,375 --> 00:27:10,625
to be lowered down
into the pit by a rope,

516
00:27:10,626 --> 00:27:12,374
and then to come back up
and tell them

517
00:27:12,375 --> 00:27:14,167
exactly what they'd seen.

518
00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:17,208
And apparently,
the first man to do this

519
00:27:17,333 --> 00:27:20,403
only lasted a couple of seconds
before he started screaming

520
00:27:20,542 --> 00:27:21,958
to please be brought back up.

521
00:27:22,125 --> 00:27:24,792
And when he came up,
only seconds later,

522
00:27:24,958 --> 00:27:27,292
the only details
they could get out of him

523
00:27:27,293 --> 00:27:28,791
were that there were
claws reaching

524
00:27:28,792 --> 00:27:30,750
for him in the darkness,

525
00:27:30,751 --> 00:27:33,624
um, and any kind of subsequent
prisoners who were lowered

526
00:27:33,625 --> 00:27:36,208
came back absolutely insane.

527
00:27:37,250 --> 00:27:40,500
[Picknett] Over the years,
locals have claimed

528
00:27:40,667 --> 00:27:43,917
to witness strange
half-human, half-winged

529
00:27:44,083 --> 00:27:47,000
creatures flying out
of this castle.

530
00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:51,542
Strange characters roaming
the corridors of the castle.

531
00:27:51,667 --> 00:27:54,625
And it's claimed that,
under the castle,

532
00:27:54,792 --> 00:27:56,625
there is a portal to Hell.

533
00:27:57,792 --> 00:28:00,502
[Shatner] Was Houska Castle
constructed to conceal

534
00:28:00,583 --> 00:28:02,792
an actual portal to Hell?

535
00:28:03,917 --> 00:28:06,542
While the legend endures,
there is no proof.

536
00:28:06,750 --> 00:28:10,000
But the notion that
underground chasms

537
00:28:10,125 --> 00:28:13,000
were connected
to a vast underworld

538
00:28:13,083 --> 00:28:15,667
was once widespread
throughout the world.

539
00:28:15,792 --> 00:28:18,000
[Laycock] In Greek
and Roman mythology,

540
00:28:18,167 --> 00:28:20,750
we have stories
of heroes like Odysseus

541
00:28:20,875 --> 00:28:23,083
and Orpheus and Aeneas

542
00:28:23,292 --> 00:28:25,583
who have to go on quests
into the underworld.

543
00:28:25,750 --> 00:28:27,740
And when they do,
they go to real places

544
00:28:27,833 --> 00:28:29,375
in the Mediterranean.

545
00:28:29,376 --> 00:28:31,291
And there's usually
some ritual that the hero

546
00:28:31,292 --> 00:28:33,750
has to perform
to open up the gateway.

547
00:28:33,917 --> 00:28:35,500
The idea was there are places

548
00:28:35,667 --> 00:28:38,792
in the world that connect
directly into the underworld.

549
00:28:38,958 --> 00:28:42,167
And you can go there and
you can access the underworld.

550
00:28:43,208 --> 00:28:46,417
[Clarke] In medieval times,
people believed underground,

551
00:28:46,542 --> 00:28:49,792
deep in caverns and caves,
that's where you would find

552
00:28:49,958 --> 00:28:52,958
the Devil or Satan's army
and his demons.

553
00:28:53,125 --> 00:28:56,958
Interestingly, a chapel
was built in Houska Castle

554
00:28:57,083 --> 00:28:59,083
dedicated to Saint Michael.

555
00:28:59,250 --> 00:29:02,020
That's very, very interesting
because Saint Michael

556
00:29:02,042 --> 00:29:04,917
is the saint
that destroys demons,

557
00:29:05,083 --> 00:29:06,958
that takes on Satan
on behalf of God.

558
00:29:07,083 --> 00:29:09,625
He's the chief archangel.

559
00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:12,667
So, I think the fact
that the chapel within

560
00:29:12,792 --> 00:29:15,458
Houska Castle is dedicated
to Saint Michael

561
00:29:15,583 --> 00:29:18,833
does suggest that there was
some kind of ancient belief

562
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,292
that that hole in the ground
was a gateway to Hell.

563
00:29:24,375 --> 00:29:27,833
[Shatner] Does the presence of
Saint Michael's chapel suggest

564
00:29:28,042 --> 00:29:30,667
that Houska Castle's
true purpose

565
00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:33,458
was to prevent demons
from entering our world?

566
00:29:33,583 --> 00:29:35,167
It's certainly intriguing.

567
00:29:35,375 --> 00:29:38,292
Whatever the case,
many have wondered

568
00:29:38,458 --> 00:29:41,468
whether the castle's sinister,
supernatural reputation

569
00:29:41,542 --> 00:29:43,583
lured another force

570
00:29:43,708 --> 00:29:45,458
that committed unspeakable evil

571
00:29:45,625 --> 00:29:48,542
during World War II.

572
00:29:48,543 --> 00:29:51,207
[Paul Springer] During
World War II, Nazi forces

573
00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:53,957
seized control over what was
then called Czechoslovakia,

574
00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:57,333
and they actually
occupied Houska Castle.

575
00:29:57,334 --> 00:29:59,874
There were a lot of
individuals within the Nazi

576
00:29:59,875 --> 00:30:02,292
high command
that were absolutely obsessed

577
00:30:02,375 --> 00:30:05,000
with the supernatural
and occult forces.

578
00:30:05,167 --> 00:30:07,833
In particular, Heinrich Himmler,

579
00:30:08,042 --> 00:30:10,752
who was effectively
Hitler's greatest bureaucrat,

580
00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:13,083
thought that it might
be possible to tap

581
00:30:13,208 --> 00:30:15,208
into supernatural sources

582
00:30:15,375 --> 00:30:19,292
to create super soldiers
on behalf of the German Reich.

583
00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:23,333
But in terms of any scientific
investigation of the pit

584
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:24,792
beneath the castle,

585
00:30:24,958 --> 00:30:27,308
we don't really know
what they might've found.

586
00:30:27,309 --> 00:30:31,041
[McMahon] During the time that
the Nazis were in Houska Castle,

587
00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:32,958
local people reported seeing

588
00:30:33,083 --> 00:30:35,458
flickering lights at windows

589
00:30:35,583 --> 00:30:40,125
and screams and all kinds
of strange activity going on.

590
00:30:40,292 --> 00:30:42,833
To this day, nobody really knows

591
00:30:43,042 --> 00:30:46,417
what the Nazis were
searching for at Houska Castle,

592
00:30:46,583 --> 00:30:48,333
what they may have found,

593
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:52,042
what connections they may
have made to satanic forces.

594
00:30:52,043 --> 00:30:55,624
[Laycock] Could there
actually be a portal to Hell

595
00:30:55,625 --> 00:30:57,125
underneath the chapel?

596
00:30:57,126 --> 00:30:59,374
The only way to know for sure
would be to crack open

597
00:30:59,375 --> 00:31:01,083
the floor of the chapel.

598
00:31:01,250 --> 00:31:04,333
But that might not be worth
finding out the answer.

599
00:31:05,583 --> 00:31:10,958
The possibility that a portal
to Hell may have been the source

600
00:31:11,125 --> 00:31:14,875
for evildoings at Houska Castle
is a disturbing thought.

601
00:31:15,042 --> 00:31:17,833
But perhaps
even more disconcerting

602
00:31:17,958 --> 00:31:20,208
is the legend
of an extraordinary feat

603
00:31:20,375 --> 00:31:22,833
of human accomplishment
that some say

604
00:31:23,042 --> 00:31:24,667
was the result of a deal

605
00:31:24,875 --> 00:31:26,625
with the Devil.

606
00:31:31,208 --> 00:31:34,000
[Shatner] Satan is believed
to be the great deceiver,

607
00:31:34,167 --> 00:31:37,875
a diabolical con artist
said to offer power,

608
00:31:38,042 --> 00:31:40,667
wealth, and forbidden knowledge.

609
00:31:40,875 --> 00:31:44,250
But according to both
scripture and legend,

610
00:31:44,375 --> 00:31:48,000
the tempting bargains
made by Satan come

611
00:31:48,125 --> 00:31:50,042
at a terrible cost.

612
00:31:50,043 --> 00:31:51,874
[Laycock] In the
Christian tradition,

613
00:31:51,875 --> 00:31:55,375
the goal for demons
is to try to get us

614
00:31:55,542 --> 00:31:58,500
to trade away something we have
that's very precious

615
00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:00,333
for the wonders of this world.

616
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:02,958
We see this very clearly
in the gospels,

617
00:32:03,125 --> 00:32:05,333
where Satan
makes Jesus an offer.

618
00:32:05,334 --> 00:32:07,207
He shows him a whole world
and says,

619
00:32:07,208 --> 00:32:09,000
"All of this can be yours

620
00:32:09,208 --> 00:32:11,750
if only you will bow down
and worship me."

621
00:32:12,708 --> 00:32:16,208
People may have heard
of the phrase "Faustian pact."

622
00:32:16,375 --> 00:32:18,125
That's from Doctor Faustus.

623
00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:20,375
It's a very famous
medieval story

624
00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:23,000
of a German scientist

625
00:32:23,208 --> 00:32:26,292
who meets the Devil
in the form of Mephistopheles,

626
00:32:26,417 --> 00:32:31,792
and Dr. Faustus basically makes
a contract in his own blood

627
00:32:31,917 --> 00:32:34,000
that he will have access
to knowledge

628
00:32:34,125 --> 00:32:37,083
that ordinary human beings
don't have for 24 years,

629
00:32:37,250 --> 00:32:38,958
and at the end of that time,

630
00:32:39,125 --> 00:32:42,000
he will then forfeit
his soul to the Devil.

631
00:32:42,208 --> 00:32:45,333
[Shatner] It is said that
even men of the cloth

632
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,542
have been seduced by the Devil.

633
00:32:48,542 --> 00:32:51,292
In the 17th century,
a French priest named

634
00:32:51,458 --> 00:32:53,292
Urbain Grandier

635
00:32:53,417 --> 00:32:56,333
was put on trial
after allegedly signing

636
00:32:56,458 --> 00:32:59,333
a satanic contract
inked in blood.

637
00:32:59,542 --> 00:33:03,000
In fact, he was found guilty
and burned at the stake.

638
00:33:03,167 --> 00:33:04,667
[screaming]

639
00:33:05,667 --> 00:33:09,500
And it's believed
that dark covenants such as this

640
00:33:09,708 --> 00:33:13,125
have been made by the most
powerful servants of God.

641
00:33:13,292 --> 00:33:17,000
There is a story of a pope

642
00:33:17,125 --> 00:33:20,208
in the 11th century,
Pope Sylvester II,

643
00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:22,667
and people said this pope

644
00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:27,833
was actually in league with
a female demon called Meridiana,

645
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,250
and she managed to get him
elected pope.

646
00:33:31,417 --> 00:33:32,833
And as pope,

647
00:33:33,042 --> 00:33:38,167
he also built a mechanical head,
which was demonically possessed,

648
00:33:38,375 --> 00:33:40,917
and it used to give him
instructions

649
00:33:41,083 --> 00:33:43,417
on what to do.

650
00:33:43,418 --> 00:33:47,416
[Shatner] Are pacts with Satan
and his underlings nothing more

651
00:33:47,417 --> 00:33:49,667
than superstitious tales?

652
00:33:49,833 --> 00:33:54,667
Perhaps the answer lies with
a mysterious 13th-century book

653
00:33:54,833 --> 00:33:58,167
from Bohemia- what's
now the Czech Republic.

654
00:33:58,333 --> 00:34:01,750
It's the largest surviving
medieval manuscript

655
00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:05,125
in the world, the Codex Gigas.

656
00:34:05,333 --> 00:34:09,417
The Codex Gigas is 600 pages

657
00:34:09,542 --> 00:34:11,292
of biblical text,

658
00:34:11,417 --> 00:34:14,542
so you have both the Old
and the New Testament included.

659
00:34:14,708 --> 00:34:17,458
You've got some
works of history,

660
00:34:17,583 --> 00:34:22,000
you've got medical texts,
and you've got an encyclopedia.

661
00:34:22,167 --> 00:34:25,083
So, before the printing press,

662
00:34:25,250 --> 00:34:27,300
this would've been
a huge amount of work.

663
00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:31,042
The legend says that
it was a Benedictine monk

664
00:34:31,208 --> 00:34:33,042
named Herman the Recluse

665
00:34:33,167 --> 00:34:36,583
who was responsible
for this beautiful manuscript.

666
00:34:36,708 --> 00:34:40,250
He is said
to have broken his vows

667
00:34:40,375 --> 00:34:45,208
and was threatened with being
sealed up inside a wall alive.

668
00:34:46,125 --> 00:34:48,083
So, to get out
of this punishment,

669
00:34:48,292 --> 00:34:51,125
he promised
to create a manuscript

670
00:34:51,333 --> 00:34:54,500
that would bring honor
and glory to the monastery.

671
00:34:54,667 --> 00:34:57,208
The best manuscript
ever produced.

672
00:34:57,209 --> 00:35:01,582
[Laycock] Historians think
to simply write the text alone

673
00:35:01,583 --> 00:35:04,292
would take 20 years
of constant writing,

674
00:35:04,458 --> 00:35:06,125
and that's just for the text.

675
00:35:06,126 --> 00:35:08,541
That doesn't include
all of the illustrations,

676
00:35:08,542 --> 00:35:11,542
because this is the largest
illustrated manuscript

677
00:35:11,750 --> 00:35:14,042
that's ever been created.

678
00:35:14,043 --> 00:35:16,707
[Shatner] While scholars
believe the Codex Gigas

679
00:35:16,708 --> 00:35:19,125
would've taken decades
to produce,

680
00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:21,500
according to the legend,

681
00:35:21,667 --> 00:35:23,750
Herman the Recluse

682
00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:27,708
had to complete this giant
manuscript in a single night

683
00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,375
to save himself
from a torturous death.

684
00:35:30,542 --> 00:35:32,583
[owl hooting]

685
00:35:32,708 --> 00:35:36,042
That sounds utterly ridiculous,
but there are some anomalies

686
00:35:36,208 --> 00:35:38,333
which make you wonder.

687
00:35:38,542 --> 00:35:43,625
For a start, modern experts
have analyzed the handwriting,

688
00:35:43,792 --> 00:35:47,500
and throughout this book,
which would've taken normally

689
00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:50,417
decades to write,

690
00:35:50,583 --> 00:35:53,042
the writing
does not change at all.

691
00:35:53,208 --> 00:35:55,558
Now, as we get older,
our handwriting changes.

692
00:35:55,625 --> 00:35:58,750
This did not change.
It was the same quality,

693
00:35:58,875 --> 00:36:01,417
the same pressure
on the paper, everything.

694
00:36:01,583 --> 00:36:04,917
It was written by Herman
in very quick order

695
00:36:05,042 --> 00:36:07,542
because the writing
didn't change.

696
00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:12,000
[McMahon] Herman the Recluse
was about to be punished

697
00:36:12,208 --> 00:36:13,917
for breaking his vows.

698
00:36:14,958 --> 00:36:17,333
The punishment was that
he was going to be

699
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,667
bricked up alive into the walls

700
00:36:19,833 --> 00:36:22,667
of his own monastery
and forgotten about,

701
00:36:22,875 --> 00:36:25,625
so he would die of starvation
behind the walls.

702
00:36:25,833 --> 00:36:28,292
Now, he was desperate
and terrified.

703
00:36:29,625 --> 00:36:32,833
So, he called upon
the assistance of a demon

704
00:36:33,042 --> 00:36:34,167
to help him.

705
00:36:34,333 --> 00:36:36,167
He sold his soul

706
00:36:36,292 --> 00:36:40,417
in order to create
this bible in a day.

707
00:36:42,042 --> 00:36:44,083
[Shatner] Did Herman
the Recluse

708
00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:46,458
sell his soul
to save his own life?

709
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:49,375
Well, according to some,

710
00:36:49,542 --> 00:36:52,833
proof of his unholy bargain
can be found

711
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,458
in an unmistakable image
buried within the pages

712
00:36:56,583 --> 00:37:00,292
of this enigmatic tome.

713
00:37:00,458 --> 00:37:02,167
So, as well as the Codex Gigas,

714
00:37:02,333 --> 00:37:05,208
the name for this manuscript
is the Devil's Bible.

715
00:37:06,417 --> 00:37:08,667
On one of the pages
of the manuscript

716
00:37:08,875 --> 00:37:12,750
is a very, very
interesting picture of Satan

717
00:37:12,917 --> 00:37:16,708
who's kind of staring out
of the page at the viewer.

718
00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:19,000
A kind of leering face.

719
00:37:19,125 --> 00:37:22,083
It's quite a disturbing image.

720
00:37:22,208 --> 00:37:24,792
[Laycock] The Devil
is shown smiling

721
00:37:24,958 --> 00:37:26,500
and holding out his claws,

722
00:37:26,501 --> 00:37:28,999
and some people think
that that illustration

723
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,750
is essentially an autograph.

724
00:37:30,751 --> 00:37:33,582
That the real person who wrote
this book was the Devil

725
00:37:33,583 --> 00:37:35,750
in exchange
for this monk's soul.

726
00:37:35,917 --> 00:37:38,583
[Shatner] But accusations
of deals with the Devil

727
00:37:38,750 --> 00:37:41,958
don't stop
with members of the clergy.

728
00:37:42,083 --> 00:37:46,833
In fact, they've been leveled
at the most famous army

729
00:37:46,958 --> 00:37:49,542
of holy warriors in history.

730
00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:56,750
[Shatner reads on-screen text]

731
00:37:56,917 --> 00:38:00,250
An organization known
as the Satanic Temple

732
00:38:00,375 --> 00:38:02,958
unveils a nine-foot
bronze statue

733
00:38:03,042 --> 00:38:07,167
of a demonic effigy outside
the state capitol building.

734
00:38:07,375 --> 00:38:10,708
The display inspires
heated protest

735
00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:13,417
among Christian activists
and politicians.

736
00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:16,208
This devilish creature,

737
00:38:16,417 --> 00:38:18,792
whose name was first uttered
in the year 1098,

738
00:38:18,958 --> 00:38:23,667
is known as Baphomet.

739
00:38:23,875 --> 00:38:28,333
To most people, Baphomet
is pure and simply a demon.

740
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:30,792
It looks terrifying.

741
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,667
The image that we have today
is of a half-man, half-goat

742
00:38:36,875 --> 00:38:39,345
with various occult symbols
scattered around,

743
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:43,167
and it certainly looks
terrifyingly occult,

744
00:38:43,375 --> 00:38:45,845
and that's indeed how
most people see Baphomet,

745
00:38:45,875 --> 00:38:49,833
as being the epitome
of evil, of satanic evil.

746
00:38:51,042 --> 00:38:54,167
[Shatner] The presence
of this unsettling statue

747
00:38:54,292 --> 00:38:55,625
was met with outrage,

748
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:58,125
but during the Middle Ages,

749
00:38:58,292 --> 00:39:01,042
the fear of Baphomet
became legendary.

750
00:39:01,250 --> 00:39:05,458
This unholy being was the focus
of rumors and accusations

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against the warriors sworn to
protect Christianity itself...

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...the Knights Templar.

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The Knights Templar
were an order of knights

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whose job was to guard
Christian pilgrims

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on the way to Jerusalem.

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Now, it turned out, a lot
of these pilgrims had money,

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and they wanted
to put it somewhere safe,

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so the Templars became bankers.

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And after about
100 years of this,

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the Templar Order
became quite wealthy.

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King Philip IV of France

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borrowed heavily
from the Templars.

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And rather than
paying that money back,

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he listened to rumors
that the Templars

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had actually begun
to perform demonic rituals,

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worshipping an idol
called Baphomet.

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And so, on Friday the 13th,

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King Philip had all the Templars
in France arrested.

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They were tortured
until they confessed.

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And they said,
"Yes, we performed rituals,

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and we committed sins
in the name of Baphomet."

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And then,
they were burned at the stake.

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Was any of this true
or was this simply

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brought about through torture
and perhaps jealousy

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of the Templars' wealth?

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We'll probably
never know with certainty.

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[Shatner] While
the demonic claims

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against the Knights Templar
are dubious at best,

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even today,
there are those who believe

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the Devil's treachery could very
well corrupt an entire army.

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And millions of people
around the world are convinced

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that many of the horrors
in human history

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are part of a coordinated strike

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by the legions of Hell.

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It is not the case
that the Devil

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made his rebellion in the past.

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He's making his rebellion now.

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You know, the old phrase
that misery loves company.

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Nowhere is that more true

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than in the battle
between good and darkness,

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insofar as the Devil
is concerned.

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It's important we understand
that evil exists,

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that it's all around us.

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It's tempting us, swaying us,

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working against us constantly.

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If people understood
they had a common enemy,

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one who's against us all,

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they would be far less
concerned about their

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contentions with each other.

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So what do you think?

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Is there a league
of evil entities influencing

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our thoughts and actions
in an attempt to

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possess our very souls?

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Well, the only thing
we can say for sure

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is that stories of devilish
deeds and destruction

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have been reported
throughout history

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and continue to this day.

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Could Satan's army really exist?

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Or is it merely a product
of our fears and imagination?

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It's an unsettling question
that may forever remain...

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unexplained.

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