Case file · High strangeness
The Earling exorcism
In August–December 1928 the Capuchin priest Theophilus Riesinger performed exorcisms on a woman known as 'Anna Ecklund' at a Franciscan convent in Earling, Iowa, with the approval of Bishop Thomas Drumm.
1928 CE · 41.77, -95.42 · status: disputed
The account
The account was published in German in 1935 by Carl Vogl and in English as 'Begone Satan'. Historian Francis Young notes elements of it reappeared in the 1949 Jesuit account of the Roland Doe case.
The sceptical view
Details are reported only in devotional sources; even the woman's identity and origin are contradictory in the records.