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Alexian Brothers Hospital in south St. Louis, rumored to be where an exorcism took place in 1949. William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist was based on a real, month-long exorcism performed in 1949 on a 13-year-old boy, allegedly at a psychiatric ward in south St. Louis. ©Missouri History Museum
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Copper from the east wing of the Alexian Brothers Hospital. This Hospital is where the famous exorcism took place in the 1940's that inspired the movie The Exorcist.