William S. Bowdern

Father William S. Bowdern (died 1983) was a Jesuit Roman Catholic priest who was also the lead exorcist in St. Louis, Missouri in the exorcism of a the thirteen year old Lutheran boy who became possessed after using a ouija board. This was the case on which William Peter Blatty based his novel The Exorcist. He was assisted by fellow Jesuit priest Father Walter Halloran.

External links

• Movie 'Exorcist' Got It Right, Say Priests Who Cast Out Demons
• Famous Cases: The Exorcist
• The St.Louis Exorcism Case!The Story that Became the Exorcist!
• Interview in which Father Bowdern is mentioned.

Related Books

• Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, Thomas B. Allen, 1993, ISBN 0553471775