After 14-year-old Roland Doe’s aunt's death, the boy's family experienced strange noises, furniture moving of its own accord, and ordinary objects flying or levitating when the boy was nearby. Roland was allegedly exorcised by a priest, and the events surrounding the exorcism were used as elements in William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel The Exorcist.

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