If you have read Confrontation with Evil about the case which inspired The Exorcist you will know what this is a picture of. Give you a hint it is a hallway described at the end of the book. What resided behind those double doors at the end of the hall has been one of the most kept secrets in paranormal history.
Read the book which was featured in The New York Post and The Sun. It has been called the definitive book on the 1949 possession case which inspired The Exorcist.
In Germany you will not find statues glorifying Hitler or the Nazi’s. They teach the history to their youth without glorifying it or paying homage to it with statues and the like. You will not find a Hitler street in Berlin. Now you might be saying to yourself this is not the same thing at all, but the truth is that it is. Both of these groups enslaved people. Both of these groups believed that their race was superior to others. And yes both of these groups committed violence against others in the name of race or belief.
The KKK and White Nationalist carry the confederate flag in their rallies because they know what it means. They fight against the removal of these statue’s because they know what it means. There is a difference in remembering and teaching mistakes in history to make sure they never happen again. There is a huge difference when those images, people, or flags are glorified.
There is not room for hate or the glorification of hate in this country. We need to correct these wrongs and put our history for better or worse in its proper place.
In 1949 a young boy came to St. Louis, Missouri experiencing unexplained behavior and disturbances. What followed was an event which went on to inspire the blockbuster book and film The Exorcist.
A lot has been shared through the years about what happened to the 13 year old boy known originally as Roland Doe. Much of what has been written and shared about his experience are the things nightmares and urban legends are made of. But what really happened to Roland Doe?
The most important thing I can tell you is to separate the true story from the fictional telling in William Peter Blatty’s book and film. This was not a monster. This was a boy who was going through something not only unexplainable but profound. He was not the head spinning demon which was so graphically depicted in the film The Exorcist. There is a very human side to this story which has been ignored and quite frankly exaggerated. For years this young boy has been demonized through book, film, and documentary.
My new book Confrontation with Evil tells a very different and complete telling of the events of 1949. This was a boy like any other boy who was going through extraordinary events. At times, it seemed everyone who should have been there to help him let him down in one way or another, including his own mother. This is not a horror story, but a very human story about a boy and the man who would sacrifice his own well being to save him. The best and the worst in humanity is the actual star of this true story and not the focus which has been placed upon the demonic or the devil.
After years of research into this case, I have told what Fox News calls, “The definitive book on the true story which inspired The Exorcist.” I wrote this book for Roland and those who struggled to help him. I also wrote the book for the city of St. Louis. Yes, St. Louis is where the devil played, but St. Louis was also where the devil was defeated.
Read, Confrontation with Evil today and see why people are raving about this book around the world. This book is dedicated to Roland Doe, wherever he may be today, this is for you because it is clear that you were a victim in many different ways. My thanks, my prayers, and my gratitude will always be with you—in this life and in the next.
Get your copy of Confrontation with Evil today.
What is hell and more importantly, how easy is it to end up spending your eternity there?
This was a question which kept going through my mind back in 2012. The idea of the fire and brimstone hell from the bible never sat well with me. What if hell were not an actual place at all? What if hell was the end result of our actions from the lives we are currently living? The idea of a self inflicted hell began haunting me in 2006 when I was called in to investigate a haunted truck stop and diner on old Route 66.
Crazy, A Prayer for the Dead, surrounds a group of misfits who find themselves stuck in their own version of Hell within an old truck stop on Route 66. Years later, paranormal investigators are brought to the location and end up uncovering the truth and horror of the souls damned within.
The book is based upon and inspired by this actual paranormal case which I led back in 2006. The book weaves the one night of horror and its aftermath using historical fact, police reports, urban legend, actual psychic impressions and findings from the real life paranormal investigation. When put together, these elements profile a story which will terrify and haunt you long after you put it down. This is one you don’t want to read in the dark alone. Sound crazy? Well maybe it is not that crazy after all.
This will always be one of the my favorite and scariest books I have written. In the end I learned what we do to others in this life does, and will, affect what happens to us in the afterlife. Hell is truly other people.
Read Crazy A Prayer for the Dead today.
Confrontation with Evil Book Trailer
Confrontation with Evil
The True Story which inspired, The Exorcist.
For Steven A. LaChance, the possession case that inspired The Exorcist has always felt . . . incomplete. In this book, he shows how the official account crumbles under scrutiny, revealing instead a story of familial horror and spiritual corruption that implicates the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
Known as the 1949 St. Louis Exorcism, the harrowing story of a possessed child and his terrified family was immortalized in The Exorcist. While theories and rumors about the case abound, none of them explain how a young child could have been possessed to the degree described in Father Raymond Bishop’s infamous diary.
Join Steven A. LaChance―author, investigator, and himself the survivor of a long-term demonic attack―as he shares shocking evidence for how seemingly benign events progressed into a full-blown demonic possession. While the conventional story is that the boy brought the infestation upon himself, this book presents an alternative interpretation and provides new insights into the nature of possession itself. As LaChance gains access to a secret location that plays a crucial role in the story, he sheds new light on how the exorcism’s bizarre aftermath continues to haunt the city of St. Louis and the Catholic Church to this day.
Book Trailer for Crazy A Prayer for the Dead
Based on his 2010 Truck Stop Hell short story, Steven LaChance delivers one of the scariest stories ever told with the frightening full-length version.
Crazy, A Prayer for the Dead, surrounds a group of misfits who find themselves stuck in their own version of Hell within an old truck stop on Route 66. Years later, paranormal investigators are brought to the location and end up uncovering the truth and horror of the souls damned within.
The book is based upon, and inspired by, an actual paranormal case led by Steven LaChance in 2006.
Steven LaChance weaves the one night of horror and its aftermath using historical fact, police reports, urban legend, actual psychic impressions and findings from the real life paranormal investigation. When put together, these elements profile a story which will terrify and haunt you long after you put it down. This is one you don’t want to read in the dark alone. Sound crazy? Well maybe it is not that crazy after all.
What we do to others in this life does, and will, effect what happens to us in the afterlife. Hell is truly other people. And that is Crazy.
Fox 2 News Interview on Confrontation with Evil
Watch the interview on Fox 2 News about the new book some are calling the definitive book on the St. Louis Exorcism which inspired The Exorcist.
Interview with Steven LaChance on his new book Confrontation with Evil the true story which inspired, The Exorcist.
I was a corporate trainer at the time which required me to travel quite a bit. One night before I left town I decided to play a game with the kids. You know some family quality time before I had to leave them for a week? We were sitting in the living room and the kids were getting the game ready to play on the coffee table in front of me. I looked up from where I was sitting. I could see the opening of the kitchen door in the family room and there in the doorway stood a smoky black figure of a man. I looked down immediately thinking it must be my imagination. When I looked back up I really expected it to not be there, but not only was it there but it moved into the family room in front of me and then dissipated away.
Confrontation with Evil, is available wherever books are sold or downloaded. Or by simply following the link to Amazon.
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
This is the country we use to know. We have forgotten who we are. We have forgotten we are all part of the fabric of immigration within this country. Lady Liberty has fallen. God help us all.
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