{"id":2501,"slug":"saint-louis-university-exorcism-site-st-louis-missouri","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The site is the inspirer — the 'Robbie' that's the boy's pseudonym, the '1949' that's the rite's year. The 'Louis scratched' is the guided — the 'chest' that's the word's place, the 'St. Louis' that's the family's read. The 'four or five days' is the housed — the 'campus' that's the boy's stay, the 'rooms sealed' that's the legend's claim.","The 'Bishop's diary' is the kept — the 'credible source' that's the record's rank, the 'Halloran' that's the last witness's name. The 'Alexian Brothers' is the moved — the 'hospital' that's the rite's spot, the 'demolished' that's the wing's end. The site is the filmed — the 'Exorcist' that's the '73's movie, the 'Blatty' that's the novelist's name.","The file keeps the site: the inspired film, the scratched word, the housed days, and the moved rite.","The SLU exorcism site is the archive's Missouri file — where 'The Exorcist' began."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The SLU exorcism site is the archive's Missouri file — the real case behind the film.","A campus keeps its room — the file's suggestion being that the site's hold is the storied: the 'diary' that's the record's spine, the 'Robbie' that's the boy's mask, and the 'sealed' that's the legend's door."]}],"name":"Saint Louis University exorcism site","aliases":[],"type":"UNIVERSITY","type_label":"University","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","EDUCATIONAL"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions","legends"],"desc":"The 1949 exorcism that inspired The Exorcist.","full_desc":"A university in St. Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis University exorcism site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1949 exorcism that inspired The Exorcist. HauntHunt files it with haunted places, local folklore and education. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"St. Louis","county":null,"state":"Missouri","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.635699,"lon":-90.244582,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"University","research_notes":"Campus batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1973,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The exorcism is documented; the \"possession\" interpretation is contested. Saint Louis University exorcism site in St. Louis, Missouri spent its working years housing the desperate; the reports suggest some of that desperation stayed. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. Sources including 'Saint Louis University exorcism' keep the claim in circulation. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":"Explanations range from mental illness to the case’s own documentation.","source":{"name":"Saint Louis University exorcism","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_University","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1949 exorcism is documented in Jesuit records. An institution with this much documented suffering needs no embellishment; the record speaks. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Saint Louis University exorcism'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1949","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Saint Louis University exorcism","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_University","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Saint Louis University exorcism","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_University","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}