Destination America boasted this morning it will host the first live televised exorcism in this country’s history, which is something you’d think they would not acknowledge unless they knew it could be proved against them. Exorcism: Live! will debut on October 30, aka the night before Halloween. The live event will take place at “the original Exorcist House” in the suburbs of St. Louis where exorcisms were performed on Roland Doe. The made-for-TV events marks the 66th anniversary of one of them.
The network says the program is right in its wheelhouse because it is dedicated to “all-American entertainment.”
This is not the first time an exorcism has been seen on TV.
In ’91, ABC’s 20/20 televised 26 minutes of what was reported to be a six-hour exorcism of a teenaged Florida girl, Barbara Walters wondered, “Is the Devil real?” The segment’s producer was quoted boasting “People had exorcism parties all over the place,” but also defending the segment, journalistically, saying America is “absolutely fascinated with the idea that tangible evidence of the devil might be on television.”
