The Ten-Hour Exorcism: Sara Williams and the Violence of Faith (1586)
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The Ten-Hour Exorcism: Sara Williams and the Violence of Faith (1586)
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On New Year’s Day in 1586, while Elizabethan London stood frozen between one year and the next, a teenage servant girl was bound to a chair and subjected to a ten-hour exorcism.
Her name was Sara Williams.
What followed was not a miracle, but an ordeal. Forced prayers. Induced vomiting. Burning brimstone. A ritual carried out with absolute certainty that pain was proof, and suffering was deliverance.
In the Season Two premiere of True Haunting Files, we descend into one of the most disturbing and revealing exorcism cases in recorded history. Set against the religious paranoia of Elizabethan England, this episode explores a world where demons were expected, women’s bodies were suspect, and faith routinely overrode consent.
This is not just a story about possession.
It’s about power: who had it, who didn’t, and how belief turned a young servant’s body into a battlefield between Catholic and Protestant authority. It’s about how silence became evidence, how confession became survival, and how history preserved the spectacle while forgetting the girl.
Season Two begins not with screaming demons, but with certainty.
And the most unsettling truth of all is this: The demon never needed to speak.