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Him is true. Having faith means believing in his teachings, which have been passed down through many generations. And people believe in different gods. Christianity, Judaism, Islam—these are all belief systems, and they are different for everyone. But an exorcism that involves supernatural events that defy the laws of physics and scientific explanation…I believe something godlike is connected to this event. At the very least, there’s a force at work that we don’t understand, but should strive to. To me, this is the crux of being a paranormal investigator. A lot of people don’t believe in anything they can’t see or feel, so a possession is a way we can see God and the devil and justify our religious beliefs. Many find it scary and want to get away from it or deny it. But I want to be there to document it and learn from it, like a storm-chaser rushing to the next killer tornado. I want to find proof that there’s something more than a living physical body that can also exist on the other side. It would give us answers to so many things we don’t understand yet about life, the afterlife, God, you name it.
    There’s a big risk that goes along with all this: We don’t understand what we’re messing with. The highest members of the clergy can’t tell us exactly who God is or how He came to exist. There are theories and scriptures, but to actually witness God defeating the devil in an exorcism…I think that’s the most powerful material event in the living world that lets us witness the power of God. It’s more powerful than prayer. In prayer, you wait for a response. There’s no beam of light while you’re praying (that I know of) that shoots down and enables you to talk face-to-face with God. People who want to feel God go to church and raise their hands to get a closer connection to Him. Sometimes they think they feel him (and some people might), but there are more mysteries surrounding God than anything. But in an exorcism, you can actually do that: feel the power of God.
    It’s what I think combat must be like when an enemy soldier gets shot. When the bullets hit the enemy, you see the effect it has on him. In an exorcism, when a priest says the words of God, it’s like bullets hitting the demon and terminating it. It’s proof to me that the power of God is real. Seeing exorcisms work has made me more religious. And I’m intrigued by holy water burning the skin and a cross debilitating a demon. It goes much deeper than ghost hunting for me. We’re getting at the source of spirits and the afterlife.
    So I owned the house and was doing a bunch of interviews. In a way it was good to have my name in the media, because the family, the priest, the police officers, and everyone else who had witnessed these events saw that I was serious about getting to the bottom of what had happened. It kind of put them in shock, too, because the press associated them with me in a lot of articles. That should have made it easy for me to get a hold of them and learn their stories, right?
    Nope. I did everything I could think of to contact them and got nowhere. Only Father Michael, the priest who had performed the exorcism, would talk to me. He even thought it was great that I had bought the house. So I sent him an exclusive agreement to make a documentary film, which he signed. Owning the rights to his story was a huge coup, so I decided not to wait and to make the film immediately.
    I hired Matt Mourgides to be my production manager, some camera crewmen from LA, and Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley for electronics. While we were in pre-production, my main focus was to interview everyone who had been involved as quickly as possible, before any sharks could lock them up and steal them away from me.
    Right away I had an issue. (The obstacles to this project never stop popping up.) I was contacted by a producer who said that he had worked on a paranormal movie. Our conversation was very vague at first. I didn’t want to play my