Grab a beer and join us as we head to Taiwan and cover the Wu family exorcism case! In 2005 a horrifying series of events unfolded when a family became convinced that one of their own was possessed by an evil spirit. This spiraled into days of ritual abuse, beatings, and starvation, all carried out in the name of saving a soul. We'll go through the timeline step by step, explain the religious beliefs involved, including Taoist folk practices, written fú charms, and the sudden claim that Guanyin Bodhisattva had taken over. From there, we'll dig into how an entire household lost touch with reality at the same time. Then we'll wrap up the investigation, the arrests, and how the courts tried to make sense of this crime.

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