

Since The Exorcist is based on a true story, many of the events that Roland and his family experienced end up in the film. The Exorcist recreates many of these events in hidden details. After she passed away, the boy began to experience creepy and abnormal things around the house: rattlings on the walls, strange noises, and flying objects. After asking for an Ouija board for his birthday, his Aunt Harriet gifted him one. The boy, raised in a German Lutheran family, was no stranger to the paranormal things in life. In March 1949, newspapers reported that a 14-year-old boy known as “Robbie” or “Roland Doe” was possessed by something sinister and that The Exorcist's priests performed an exorcism on him. The Exorcist true story is based on the experience of Roland Doe.
