In 1953, 17-year-old Clarita Villanueva was incarcerated in the Philippines. Only a few days into her stay, she began suffering vicious attacks from unseen entities, including bite marks that appeared on her skin out of nowhere. An American pastor led her exorcism, making Clarita’s case global news. And to this day, many people believe her story holds more supernatural evidence than any other demonic possession case in history.
Episode Source Material
Books:
- The Life Story of Lester Sumrall by Lester Sumrall. Kindle Edition. New Leaf Press via Amazon Kindle.
- Exorcism: The reality of evil and your power over it! By Lester Sumrall. LeSEA Publishing.
PRINT:
- Oklahoma Weekly Leader (Guthrie, Oklahoma).
- The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada).
- Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York).
WEBSITES:
- Hubpages: The Exorcism of Clarita Villanueva: Demonic possession or evangelical propaganda. By Ian Spike.
- Wattpad: Crime Stories: The chilling exorcism of Clarita Villanueva by Sheree Mi Amour.
- Wiley Online Library: Psychiatric Journal: Prevalence of depression and its associated factors among orphan children in orphanages in Ilu Abba Bor Zone, South West Ethiopia. By Gemechu Shiferaw. Lemi Bacha, Dereje Tsegaye.
- John15Rocks: The exorcism of Clarita Villanueva by Staff Writer.
- How Stuff Works: How exorcism works by Julia Layton.
- Anomalies “1953, May 9-19 (ca.): The Invisible Fangs by Garth Haslam.
- Kodao.org: The old and new Bilibid prisons in the time of pandemics by Aie Balagtas See.
- Philippine Internment: World War II in the Philippine Islands: Old Bilibid prison.
- Our Faith Walk: A blog by Nordboe Ministries: A pioneer of faith – Dr. Lester Sumrall.
- Cathedral of Praise: About the Cathedral of Praise.
- The Guardian: Vatican to hold exorcist training course after ‘rise in possessions’ by Harriet Sherood.
- ABC News 10: Exorcism: Increasingly frequent, including after US protests by David Crary.