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According to reports in ''[[Washington Star|The Evening Star]]'', a Washington D.C. newspaper, in light of the situation, the boy was examined by both medical and psychiatric doctors, who could offer no explanation for these disturbing events taking place.<ref name="Emissary - 48">{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q469xc7mbksC&pg=PA69&dq=Walter+Halloran+exorcism+ouija&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=Walter%20Halloran%20exorcism%20ouija&f=false| title = A Faraway Ancient Country|quote=Forty-eight witnesses would later come forward to substantiate this case and the unbelievable incidents that occurred.|publisher = [[Lulu (company)|Lulu]]|accessdate = 2010-03-27}}</ref>   

According to reports in ''[[Washington Star|The Evening Star]]'', a Washington D.C. newspaper, in light of the situation, the boy was examined by both medical and psychiatric doctors, who could offer no explanation for these disturbing events taking place.<ref name="Emissary - 48">{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q469xc7mbksC&pg=PA69&dq=Walter+Halloran+exorcism+ouija&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=Walter%20Halloran%20exorcism%20ouija&f=false| title = A Faraway Ancient Country|quote=Forty-eight witnesses would later come forward to substantiate this case and the unbelievable incidents that occurred.|publisher = [[Lulu (company)|Lulu]]|accessdate = 2010-03-27}}</ref>   

The frightened family turned to their Lutheran priest, Rev. Fr. Luther Miles Schulze, for help who arranged for the boy to spend the night of February 17 in his home in order to observe him. The boy slept nearby to the minister in a twin bed and the minister reported that in the dark he heard vibrating sounds from the bed and scratching sounds on the wall. During the rest of the night he witnessed some strange events—a heavy armchair in which the boy sat seemingly tilted on its own and tipped over and a pallet of blankets on which the sleeping boy lay inexplicably moved around the room. Shulze In light of his observations, Rev. Luther Miles Schulze concluded that there was [[evil]] at work in Ronald,<ref name="Emissary - Lutheran Conclusion">{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q469xc7mbksC&pg=PA69&dq=Walter+Halloran+exorcism+ouija&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=Walter%20Halloran%20exorcism%20ouija&f=false| title = A Faraway Ancient Country|quote= At a loss, their clergyman told them that there was nothing that he could do, that there was evil at work in the teen, and their best solution would be to seek the help of a Catholic priest.|publisher = [[Lulu (company)|Lulu]]|accessdate = 2010-03-27}}</ref> and therefore, he performed a [[Lutheran]] rite [[exorcism]] on Ronald Hunkeler. The Lutheran priest Fr. Schulze corresponded with the Parapsychology Laboratory at [[Duke University]] in March 1949 and explained how “chairs moved with [Hunkeler] and one threw him out [of it.] His bed shook whenever he was in it.”<ref name="Yang2021"/> Fr. Schulze noted the floors of the family's home were scarred from the "sliding of heavy furniture".<ref name="Yang2021"/> The Lutheran priest recorded that a portrait of Jesus Christ shook when Ronald Hunkeler approached it.<ref name="Yang2021"/>

The frightened family turned to their Lutheran priest, Rev. Fr. Luther Miles Schulze, for help who arranged for the boy to spend the night of February 17 in his home in order to observe him.<ref name="Mark Opsasnick - Rev. Schulze">{{cite web|url = http://www.strangemag.com/exorcistpage1.html|quote= The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) followed up the Post’s scoop with an uncredited article later that evening on August 10, 1949 titled “Minister Tells Parapsychologists Noisy ‘Ghost’ Plagued Family.” The Evening Star’s account differed from the Post’s in that the family was referred to as “Mr. and Mrs. John Doe” and their 13-year-old son “Roland.” It also describes their house as a “one-and-one-half story home in a Washington suburb” and refers to the events as “the strange story of Roland and his Poltergeist.” The article tells of the talk given by the minister before the Society of Parapsychology, and recounts his experiences with the boy. The minister told the reporter that Roland had made two trips to a mental hygiene clinic and that during an earlier trip to the Midwest the boy had been subjected to three different rites of exorcism by three different faiths—Episcopal, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic.|title= The Cold Hard Facts Behind the Story that Inspired "The Exorcist"|publisher = Strange Magazine|accessdate = 2007-08-01}}</ref> The boy slept nearby to the minister in a twin bed and the minister reported that in the dark he heard vibrating sounds from the bed and scratching sounds on the wall.<ref name="Mark Opsasnick - Rev. Schulze">{{cite web|url = http://www.strangemag.com/exorcistpage1.html|quote= he media first became involved in this case when The Washington Post ran an article on August 10, 1949 titled “Pastor Tells Eerie Tale of ‘Haunted’ Boy.” Written in an almost tongue-in-cheek style by reporter Bill Brinkley, the piece tells an “out-of-this-world” story of a local 13-year-old boy. The story came to light when an unnamed minister gave a speech before a local meeting of the Society of Parapsychology at the Mount Pleasant Library in Washington, D.C. According to the minister the family had experienced many strange events in their suburban Maryland home beginning January 18th: scratching noises emanated from the house’s walls; the bed in which the boy slept would shake violently; and objects such as fruit and pictures would jump to the floor in the boy’s presence. The minister, described as being intensely skeptical, arranged for the boy to spend the night of February 17th in his home. With the boy sleeping nearby in a twin bed the minister reported that in the dark he heard vibrating sounds from the bed and scratching sounds on the wall. During the rest of the night he allegedly witnessed some strange events—a heavy armchair in which the boy sat seemingly tilted on its own and tipped over and a pallet of blankets on which the sleeping boy lay inexplicably moved around the room.|title= The Cold Hard Facts Behind the Story that Inspired "The Exorcist"|publisher = Strange Magazine|accessdate = 2007-08-01}}</ref> During the rest of the night he witnessed some strange events—a heavy armchair in which the boy sat seemingly tilted on its own and tipped over and a pallet of blankets on which the sleeping boy lay inexplicably moved around the room.<ref name="Mark Opsasnick - Rev. Schulze"/> In light of his observations, Rev. Luther Miles Schulze concluded that there was [[evil]] at work in Ronald,<ref name="Emissary - Lutheran Conclusion">{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q469xc7mbksC&pg=PA69&dq=Walter+Halloran+exorcism+ouija&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=Walter%20Halloran%20exorcism%20ouija&f=false| title = A Faraway Ancient Country|quote= At a loss, their clergyman told them that there was nothing that he could do, that there was evil at work in the teen, and their best solution would be to seek the help of a Catholic priest.|publisher = [[Lulu (company)|Lulu]]|accessdate = 2010-03-27}}</ref> and therefore, he performed a [[Lutheran]] rite [[exorcism]] on Ronald Hunkeler. The Lutheran priest Fr. Schulze corresponded with the Parapsychology Laboratory at [[Duke University]] in March 1949 and explained how “chairs moved with [Hunkeler] and one threw him out [of it.] His bed shook whenever he was in it.”<ref name="Yang2021"/> Fr. Schulze noted the floors of the family's home were scarred from the "sliding of heavy furniture".<ref name="Yang2021"/> The Lutheran priest recorded that a portrait of Jesus Christ shook when Ronald Hunkeler approached it.<ref name="Yang2021"/>

== Exorcism ==

== Exorcism ==