A Day in the Life of a Modern American Exorcist 

i like how vice conveniently left out how in the Catholic Church anybody who says they need an exorcism has to go through extensive medical and psychological examinations to make sure that what they are experiencing is definitely not a mental illness

Person: Do you even lift bro?? Priest: No, I exorcise...

Can we just get a Netflix film or series based on this priest’s experiences, so Colm Feore can portray him?

I have had first hand experience with a demon. It's nothing like in the movies. I did experience temperature change, felt like something was breathing in my face and there were growls and a sense of anger. I saw absolutely nothing, no hideous creature, it was invisible. When I spoke the name of Jesus it went ballistic but it never touched me. It ended up going down the hallway into a bedroom. The door slammed and you could see the door move like someone was punching the door from the other side. When my friends and I prayed it started crying out, like it was multiple voices. God can give you strength in these times and fear is gone. After it's over then your mind freaks out.

Father Vince was the priest at our church for many years, he actually baptized my son. He's a very interesting man. Very dry and matter of fact, but funny (as you can tell). My favorite thing he ever said about exorcism is that people get it in their head that he's gonna show up and swing dead chickens around by their necks and burn sage or something. People are surprised that exorcism is actually just prayer and faith in God. His stories are incredible, but told like it's just another day at work. He's wholly unaffected by the stunts of Satan, just another day at the office. If you meet him, you'd completely understand why he was chosen for the role. Amazing guy. One day he rang my doorbell and I thought, "oh shit... there's an exorcist on my porch. This can't be good." He was just returning my ID that I dropped at church. 😂 Normal everyday guy. My family and I are big fans.

I want Vice to give me more of these types of videos.

I appreciate vice giving an even take on a truly extraordinary phenomenon.... I understand they still benefit from pushing a certain position, but this felt as close to a journalistic approach as I have seen in a long time.

Many people downright mock & ridicule not believing in demonic possession however I experienced a horrific demonic possession of my very young daughter. She verbalized incidents she had no possible way of knowing including things that took place when I was little ... she had absolute knowledge at that time of horrific things and stating unsettling ugly statements. I was just a single mother of 3 children and gathered my other 2 children while we prayed over my daughter asking God to place his hand on this situation. We prayed 5 hours for her until she said "mommy, he's gone." Faith is soooo important.

Damnit now I have to rewatch the video because I was too busy reading comments and not paying attention to the video.

My professor in religion and ethics told us of his first time seeing an exorcism when he was in college he assisted a pastor with some deacons in casting the demon away through songs and prayers. The possessed man turned to their side and said in a demonic voice "You're praying to cast me out when you're cheating with your wife?" then one of the deacons got up and was too terrified he walked away.

I've experienced what is what people may refer to as the sleep paralysis demon various times. But the very first time I ever encountered the being was when I first actually got serious about reading the Bible. I had picked up the book and read from Genesis to Exodus in one sitting. Prior to that there would always be strange sounds in the several houses my family and I would move to at the point of bringing in a priest to bless hour house once. It's one thing for kids to perhaps experience something scary at night but it did eventually start getting more and more out of hand. My family was always catholic or at least during the time my mother was married to her ex husband. However the man was very sinful in terms of cheating, drinking, smoking, and God knows what else. All these years later I believe it was him that was carrying all these demons around with him because there was no way every house we went to seemed to have a haunting. Even other family members have spoken up whenever they'd visit that some weird things would happen at night. From strange sounds of footsteps when no one has gotten up to, the TVs turning on by themselves in different rooms, we'd have toys go off by themselves, my moms ex husband himself has heard someone say Jesus right after we went to bed after watching Passion of the Christ for the time (that night was the night our toys onthe first floor kept going on, both he and my mom were also awakened by the sound of sand being thrown at their window) Basically a lot of weird things have followed me which I thinks stems from that. But the ultimate evil act he committed was raping my sister was was just a child. Then things really start kicking up. Only we had not known he did that until years later and it made sense why thing began getting weirder. He was always abusive to me and even handed me my first drink of alcohol at a very very young age. I'm an alcoholic to this day now. I do believe the Lord looks out for me, I have felt his presence and can if I truly ask him for it. I played an Ouja board once when I was young and was told 3 demons follow me. I suppose one is the addiction to alcohol, the sleep paralysis, and a succubus. I have literally on only two occasions been wide awake and felt like something was having sex with me. And even if I tried to somehow use my brain to replicate that specific sensation I never could. However I was introduced to last at an age no child should've been introduced to. Demons are real, they're around us more often than we care to pay attention to for whatever the reason. Its not always acting out and speaking in tongues, sometimes it's really not being in control of yourself

I’ve seen the possessed, someone that has opened their mind to the demons. I dated one, claimed to be Christian and wasn’t. It hits different when the person you like blacks out then you literally talk to a demon. The thing is that I felt the change, and it was all over video call. I felt chills. After I got out of the relationship, I decided to devote my life to God, and I have no regrets. To everyone, He loves you. Just thinking about it now, I really see areas where she was possessed and the effects that it had. She gave herself to the evil one btw.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled off was convincing people he’s not real!!

Gotta love the humor "I jokingly like to refer to her as my Ex-or-sistant" Pure gold lmao

How anyone can look around at the world around them and still not believe in spiritual warfare is beyond me.

Now this is excellent journalism!! Compelling and relevant narrative. Displaying two different sides fairly from competent sources. And letting the public decide for themselves!! You don’t find this on cable news.

No one really talkin about the “exor-sisstant” joke? That one got me out of nowhere 🤣

I don't know, the father strikes me as a reasonable, genuine, open and tolerant person, which is completely the opposite of what religion haters depict catholic priests

I saw the movie The Exorcists on Dec. 26, 1973 on opening night. My mother and aunt wanted to see it, but couldn’t find a babysitter for my brother and I. They thought it was fine to take a 7 and 5 year olds to that movie. As a 5 years old, it scared the hell out of me. Had nightmares for years. I only saw it that one time and I remember it as if I just saw it yesterday. From that point on, I’ve never watched any horror movies. Oh and I became the best well behaved 5 year old in church.

"Once you start to believe in something the confirmation bias kicks in" for someone who is supposed to be smart he seems to not realize this goes both ways. He has a very clear bias, you could give him absolute 100% proof and he would deny exorcisms are real.

I grew up as a Catholic, got into Pentecostal churches, then went back to being a Catholic. The priests in the Catholic church are less concerned about converting people to their faith and more about helping people in the community, even if they are not Catholics. Catholic priests, especially the Jesuits, have no problem relying on science and psychology and believing experts in the field. In fact, in my university, our President back then was a priest with a doctorate in Physics. They are definitely more open-minded and temperate than Pentecostals based on my experience. Speaking of exorcisms, my Jesuit priest friend told me that exorcisms in the Catholic church are documented. They have videos of the sessions, though not publicly available I suppose. He told me that one of the cases involved a baby that could lift a fridge. It sounds funny when I type it here, but when he told me it was documented on video I got scared a little bit. Anyway, healthy skepticism is good. That's how we avoid accidents and injuries. The priest himself said it, most claims of demonic possession are fake and needs mental health support.

It is hard to believe in the paranormal until something paranormal happens to you. Never close your minds to the possibilities.

Back in the 70s in my dads village in Greece there was an lady who was in here 70s and was possessed. My father told me the story and can tell he was freaked out by it but basically he was one of 4 men restraining this little old lady in the church during the exorcism who was freakishly strong and happened to be speaking in Different tongue. so how does a little old lady from a remote part of the world who had no form education suddenly start speaking a different language. Yes this stuff is all fake guys until it you see it then it changes your perception real fast.

As a non religious person I can confirm spirits do exist. I was a non believer until experienced several events and im tell you it turned me into a believer

For the non believers. My sister is a licensed psychologist, and she herself admits that exorcism isn't performed randomly. You need to present medical and psychological information that proves that medicine can't help you, and the priest is not just any priest because you need to file a permission to the Vatican and they themselves will contact a exorcist priest near to your hometown.

if this man saw someone levitate then we need to strap a gopro on him

This guy is built different, I know gangster and cartel members that won’t step in a room with a demonic person screaming like that

These stories he told of his exorcisms sounded so familiar. I realized they did a story on him for one of the episodes of Paranormal Witness. It was one of the best episodes, imo.

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" Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; *blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed* " - John 20:29 - 30

The bottom line is, other people are more of a danger to us than spirits. I sit on the fence of all of this. I once went to a church, merely out of curiosity, to witness people being touched by a priest that does exorcisms and they freaked out a bit and fell down after he touched them, but I felt that this was just their own personal reaction over something imagined. I certainly didn't feel or sense anything in the church while this was going on. I also had a crazy indigenous lady living next door to me, who had heard a false rumour that I was mentally ill (I was not at all and was just a normal stable person working as a manager in the corporate sector). She then had her whole household convinced that in order to be mentally ill, that meant I was possessed by bad spirits or cursed (due to their cultural beliefs on mental illness). I can't tell you what a pain in the arse that was to live next door to and just plain mean. I thought they were idiots. On the other hand, twice now I've seen smarmy sceptic investigative journalists investigate the paranormal as part of a TV show and both times, in the end, they had a paranormal experience. One of them was Louis Theroux when he met with Ama the Hugging Saint from India, convinced it was a load of mumbo jumbo. Ama is said to have something powerfully spiritual within her that effects people when she hugs them, like she makes them high or something. When Louis hugged Ama, he almost fainted! He admitted that he did feel something happen. The other TV show, I've posted a link to below (read the part at the bottom, under episode 8). This host mocked the paranormal throughout his entire TV series, but in the final episode he had an exorcism and admitted that he couldn't remember what happened. He freaked out during the exorcism as though it was real and he was having evil spirits removed from him (ones he picked up during the making of his show, as he had been to see people doing voodoo, etc). He has said very little about what happened in that episode. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Safran_vs_God

I seen real possessions at my church as a child. When the pastor told Satan he had to leave and that he held no power over the possessed lady, I literally watched the door fly open with no force there was a strong wind that almost broke the hindges off the door, but funny thing is there was no trees or anything blowing outside, no air nothing, the door only opened when the pastor told Satan to leave after he fought with our pastor through the lady, he finally left and slammed the door behind him. I remember the pastor asking who Satan was he growled through that woman and green stuff was coming out of her mouth she yelled in a manly voice “YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!!!! “ LUCIFER IS MY NAME” I just just told my 27 year old daughter about this story the other day because we were discussing a text she got from a guy that likes her, the guy told my daughter he wanted her soul, I told her that wasn’t the guy that was Satan speaking directly through him. My daughter told the guy a few days later what he had said, he had no memory of it, I told her sure he didn’t remember what he said because Satan took over. I told my daughter demons are real and we come in contact with them every day they walk around in human form. The murderer, the child molestor, the abuser, the robbers, those are just a few examples of demons. These type of people are not themselves Satan has taken over their lives. That’s why we have to be careful of who we give our bodies to as well, you could be sleeping with a demon and not know it. When fluid is exchanged now the demon is in you through blood and semen, in the healing community we call it soul ties it’s real.

Pleasantly surprised by how fair the Catholic Church was treated in this video.

I'm skeptical about everything but I can say there's soo much we know little about in this world. Anything is possible

"there's just the normal, the natural, and the things we haven't explained yet" What a nice saying

I can tell you this possession is very real i had an encounter at 23 when i was a fresh baby christian and we had one of our member tell us he was messing with tarot reading and other demonic activities. Our young adult pastor had us cast put whatever was inside of him we had to fast for 3 days and pray up and i tell you this that was the most unreal experience ever. When we started praying on him he started acting strange and suddenly some dark blob looking thing shot out of him and circled the entire room we were in church and it vanished out the front entrance. Then after had a few days feeling so bad. It is very real

I am a church reader and I believe in the existence of demons and possession, made a video about it. However, I must say, I really like the skeptic in this video. He wasn't noxious, he was well argumented and very well spoken. I wish we could have more such honest dialogue.

I find it odd, that if non belief can leave you open to possession, then why is it only the followers that become possessed?

Thank you so much Father Lampert! God bless you all!

Father said there is not paranormal, only normal and things we have not explained yet.

vice is always so interesting

My cousin so poor that when she couldn't pay the catholic church for exorcism, they repossessed her.

This exorcist talked at my church. It was really interesting. Really cool dude.

My wife is Caribbean and she tell me stories about evil possession all the time. it is some wild stuff that I have ever heard before but where she is from I not surprised by the wild stuff that they have told me. especially when you go to their countries and you see things that don't make sense.

Where my buzzfeed unsolved watchers at who heard the intro music

He remembers a person who began to levitate. Aaaaalright.

I still remember this priest on paranormal witness when he was first starting out and I just clicked this video and realized it’s him Woww omggg I feel so old 😭

Demon: You have no power over me. Priest: Have you met my exorcistant.??

Something that crossed my mind was when Dr. Shermer brought up the point about confirmation bias and "only seeing what you want to see." I realized that the same thing could be said for skeptics. They choose not to believe and so they only see what confirms this bias. Unfortunately I have to give more credit to the priest than the skeptic because the priest does acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of cases are fake, however, the skeptic writes all cases off as fake without keeping an open mind to possibly being wrong. He also mentions things that we can't explain yet, for the sake of an argument, couldn't supernatural stuff fall into that category?

I’m pretty open minded because I have experienced the paranormal all throughout my life. I don’t identify with any religion in particular, but I believe there is more that we don’t see.

The Catholic Church teaches that exorcism is the act of driving out or expelling demons or evil spirits from a person, place, or thing, through the power of God. While the concept of exorcism may seem supernatural, the Catholic Church views it as a natural, spiritual practice that involves the use of prayer, sacraments, and the authority of the Church to combat spiritual afflictions. From a scientific standpoint, there is no empirical evidence to support the existence of demons or evil spirits. However, the psychological and physiological effects of exorcism can be explained by various scientific disciplines. For example, some experts suggest that the symptoms of possession or demonic influence, such as speaking in tongues, convulsions, and altered states of consciousness, may be related to psychological or neurological disorders. In addition, the use of ritual and prayer in exorcism may have a placebo effect on the individual undergoing the process. The power of suggestion and belief can have a profound effect on the human mind and body. Therefore, it is possible that the individual's belief in the efficacy of the exorcism may contribute to the alleviation of their symptoms.

Lifetime worth of exorcisms waiting for him on TikTok.

Me: This isn't gonna let me sleep also me: WATCHWATCHWATCHWATCH

1:12 look like he boutta drop the hottest album of 2017

I grew up originally from a Catholic family, and didn't go to church much. Some prayers at night and lead to believe the Bible was real. As I got older I started becoming a huge skeptic. I love science and reason. I explored eastern religion. And it really has been a huge part of my life. And now that I'm older I feel like Christianity is what makes me feel whole. If it's real or not I'm not gonna argue, but it just makes me feel complete. I guess the only truth is in the beholder. Everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Cant go wrong though if it works for you.

The priest's closing line sums it up pretty well. "If you're a person of faith, you begin with the premise that believing is seeing. People that may come from more of a scientific background may begin with the premise that 'I have to see in order to believe.'" Speaking as someone who was raised in a religious home, but who now has no faith, I don't see the idea of belief coming first (before evidence) as a virtue anymore. I don't need to literally "see" in order to believe--there's a lot we can't see--but I do need evidence before I have certainty. I need to be convinced in order to believe.

I love how certain he is that he's right "there's no such thing as..." And then says "...and the things we can't explain yet". Ummm yes, I think that's the point.

When Father Lampert said he had an assistant, I half expected to see a clip of Janine from Ghostbusters hanging up the phone and yelling, "WE GOT ONE!!!!"

Am aware of the “skeptic society” whom I call cynical society. Strong science background here, yet have experienced multiple what might be called paranormal events in life that I’d call angelic not demonic. It’s very interesting that the first presentation I experienced about acupuncture was about treating demonic possessions. The presenter was Dr. JR Worsley of England. Essentially there are certain points on the back that must be carefully located and the doctor must be prepared for the patient to tear up the “surgery” (what they call their office in England). This is as best I recall from 3 decades ago.

I love how the skeptic makes his point using concepts the Church doesn’t use as criteria…

"Faith in god will lead us in One Direction" So he is a 1D fan

I don't care who you are, or what your religion is, or isn't, evil is real.

Whooo wee I'm put my head sets for this

I've watched this basically every year.

Fr Lampert .. thank you for clarity & strenght

First video in a long time from vice that was genuinely interesting and caught my attention. more like this please

8:59 that Terraria sound effect killed me lmfao

I’m a part of a house church- which is just a group of young adults who are in full pursuit of God and have experienced His saving love that attend a church called Upperroom Dallas, and we cast out demons regularly. When we’re doing a street ministry outreach, people will begin to behave erratically and have supernatural strength, different voices, and say things only a spiritual being could know. But they get so scared and most easily cast out because we walk in the Authority of Jesus Christ. You don’t need holy water or certain chants or relics or have a weird ceremony to come against evil. For light penetrates the darkness and darkness cannot stand against it. Jesus has been given all authority and all power and all dominion, and exercises it through those who call on His name. It’s really simple. “I command every unclean spirit to go now in the name of Jesus. We bind you and break your power and command you to come all the way out in the name of Jesus”. demons are stronger than humans but feathers when compared to the power and omnipotence of God. also demons manifest all around us you just need eyes to see. we’re so accustomed to the world that we think certain things are normal but they’re actually forces of darkness and principalities taking hold.

That’s creepy as fuck when he said the evil voice went from deep to talking like a baby

There is so many things out there that could posses you, without you even knowing. Another evil I have experienced is that people can hide their true personalities for a long time, when you find out for a fact you believed something else or blamed someone else for many years, and that can brake you.

Where do I sign up

the background music is the music used in buzzfeed unsolved as well and it threw me so off

"ExorSsistant"! Good dad joke, for someone living in celibacy xD

I love how the "skeptic" tries to explain protestant nonsense such as 'speaking in tounges' as if thats connected with actual exorcisms at all. The exorcist would absolutely agree that these charismatic protestant practices are nonsense.

His exorcisstant pun was very Michael Scott/Colin Robinson in it's delivery lol.

I believe this is real, the supernatural, Hell, I opened a door to the demonic realm, I saw all kinds of Image's, spheres, I saw all kinds of demon's, in 2017 at this point I was being tormented for a whole year, Jesus gave me a vision of what I invited into my house and into my body, this vision lasted for hour's, it was beyond what our minds can comprehend, it was so bad, horrific from the fear, terror, I started to mumble couldn't form words, I was going insane, finally I screamed for Jesus and he showed up everything evil took off, seconds after seeing Jesus I started feeling queasy the demon's inside of me had to flee, I ran to the restroom and threw up, Jesus saved me, cured me, delivered me, like the priest and I say we don't have to argue with them and even when you have proof they say they are pretending, I pray that skeptic, man finds the truth. Satan's greatest lie is he doesn't exist, Hell isn't real. I want the people to know Jesus is the only way, everybody is gonna die I want him to find out the truth here because there it is to late, God bless, sold out for Jesus

My Mom started screaming throwing shit around, cursing I always made sure to clean my room after that😶

The Greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world, he doesn't exist.

My daughter has been possessed for 13 years. I didn't want to believe it. She has conversations with a demon all the time. I've tried taking her to deliverance ministers and none of them have been able to help. I'm a born-again Christian and I'm realizing that no one can help my daughter, except for Jesus. If we did find a REAL LIFE deliverance minister, I would be shocked. I've done my homework in searching. It just burns me up to listen to the conversation among these two men talking, but do they offer help to people watching? Like ME?

I’m not joking when I saw the title of this video I laughed 😂😂 gotta love these

Lol those crowd possession. I’m sure if they heard gunshots everyone there “possessed” will stand by running

"Things that we cant be explained yet": now thats opens whole new universe....intresting

may all good blessings come to you all, God bless & stay safe!

“No sooner did the drops of water hit the head of the lady that the manifestations began immediately.” An easy way to tell if the person is actually possessed is to use plain water disguised as holy water and see if the person will still react to it

Small and humble looking dude but willing to suffer in Christ. The real deal.

I'm not gonna say he's wrong cause I go by the theory if I see it I believe it. I can't say he's wrong or right till I experience something so i'm gonna stay on the tight rope. At least he recognizes some if not most of these cases are just severe mentally ill people needing help.

Exorcist : Good will lead us in one direction. My mind: Baby you light up my world like nobody else....

I mean, that guy just has to capture some of those convincing paranormal effects to really hurt the devil. He wants to convince people, but somehow he never tried to capture proof, which would be so much more powerful than just tell people, "just believe, that's it".

Have Faith in Harambe.

Not going to lie but that church is pretty

Yes one time we had a young lady in our church who was posessed. My parents took part in the prayers and helped casting out the demon. I wasnt supposed to be in the room they were in, but me and some other kids got curious so we took a sneak peak... The woman was growling and speaking in a deep voice... I didnt understand anything, but I felt the distress in the mens voices who were praying and trying to hold her down.. it seemed like they had to keep her from levitating. I couldnt sleep for weeks...

I was part of this catholic cult for years I went to catholic school from pre-k til 7th grade when I was asked not to return the following year because I made no bones about my disbelief so I left and funny enough I watched a debate with Christopher Hitchens (now one of my favorite authors) and Stephen Frye took on a catholic archbishop and Anne Widdecomb and the catholic bishop said that they “own over 1 billion souls” and a lady in the audience asked about excommunication being they way to completely detach from them and the following day I called the archdiocese and had myself excommunicated they didn’t want me to do it they wanted me to come in for a talk and I explained it probably wouldn’t be pleasant and the result would definitely be the same and they excommunicated me. It was actually a relief even though I’ve been out of the church for a couple of decades now I just wanted to be 100% disassociated with them. If you’re a lapsed catholic give it a try

Mermaid Man Voice: Eeevil!!

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus et in benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

I happened to witness it in my own family in year 2013 when my father fell from the staircase one day and his health started getting worst with each passing day. We all Lived next 10 days in hell as during manifestation per Hindu rituals we came to know he was possessed by 10 evil spirits.

Thank you Father Vincent for your message, unfortunately some people only accept the truth when it comes to their own views or when it impacts their own lives. Have a lovely day take care 🕊

7:45-7:55 He says the 'confirmation bias' is once you want to believe something you begin to ignore evidence that goes against, what you want to believe. His own theory can work on both sides if religion. because not believing is essentially having a belief. Whether you are Atheist, Darwinist, Muslim or Christian. At some you have to ignore evidence that goes against your belief system. He could be biting his own words.

So from what I gathered, my understanding is that excorcism is real, but that many excorcists are fake. This one seems genuine

I took a set of picture’s with my mom ( who was a devout southern babysit and my niece on her left leg) the first one was normal the second shot had an angel with wings u could see the feather details the angel also brought what I felt like was the child mom lost before me including a blonde haired little girl in the corner and some form of entntity that had a clear see through bubble around it like it was trying to break through too. Now I also made a mistake about 3 years ago I have been sick for years I dropped to my knee’s one night and angrily prayed to god to heal me or I would choose the fallen angel the room rumbled it got darker and beside appeared a dark shadow he answered my call . I knew I had screwed up so I instantly began praying and apologizing to god it went away but I had to sleep with the last Bible my mom got me for 3 months and ultimately cleansed my house with sage and prayers and then it was quiet . This house was like a 5 man band every night for a year . Do not use a ouija board ?? Unless you pray first and have like minded people with you , I rather say just don’t use one. Peace out from the gray area.🙏🌎✌️🦅

Everytime I try to find how to contact Vincent something stops me.. I got involved in dumb stuff as a kid can someone help me contact him