The Girl Who Died During an Exorcism: Why Didn't Anyone Stop the Process That Was Killing Her?
Some stories become so familiar that we stop noticing the parts that don’t make sense.
Isa Grant
I document strange and unexplained cases. Some of them were never meant to be found.
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