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Darkness is said to be solely negative.

They say that Satan is the evil one,

when, in actuality, Satan is the creator.

[ominous music playing]

Now listen to me.

I need you to bring me something.

Ask for anything you want.

[Aníbal] We live in the world of Satan.

Your own god tells you this world belongs to Satan.

You live here, you eat here.

You use Satan's money, Satan's Internet. You're all ungrateful.

You don't appreciate it.

You're waiting for another god, a cruel god, to come and set things right.

[tense music playing]

On your knees.

[sinister music playing]

My name is Aníbal José Fajardo Romero.

I am a Theistic Satanist.

[eerie opening theme music plays]

MY ENCOUNTER WITH EVIL

[woman] Holy spirit...

[eerie music playing]

[Sully] I have always said that things find their way.

JESSICA'S MOTHER

Everything happens for a reason. I understand that now.

When I was in direct contact with Asmodeus,

he revealed to me that Jessica was chosen by them ever since she was very young.

[eerie music playing]

[Jessica] Let me go! No!

I am Asmodeus.

That they would always protect her.

That I should understand this and realize that she would be okay.

[Jessica] On your knees.

[mysterious music playing]

Before he could fully enter and take care of Jessy,

as his mission commanded,

he had to expel many parasites

and also larvae that were there inside of Jessy's body,

in order for him to take care of her.

[mysterious music continues]

[dramatic sting]

[eerie music playing]

Coincidentally, I met a man, a new patient of mine,

who practices Satanism,

connected to Aníbal.

[clacks]

[mysterious music playing]

I will say that Christianity can be both good and bad.

Bad because people use Christianity to impose it on others.

Imposing one's own morals despite what others believe.

Jessy was being disturbed by entities, so I had to look into what was going on.

I had to check on both mother and daughter,

since they were living in the same house and being disturbed by the same entity.

Sully had altars in her house with the Virgin Mary and the archangels.

Throw that all away.

[eerie music playing]

[Sully] Aníbal Fajardo practices Theistic Satanism.

You can basically say that he was my guide

and he helped me follow the path of Theistic Satanism.

[eerie music continues]

Then comes the alliance, the pact. The alliance is a contract.

In order to get protection,

form an alliance with me, help me, so that way,

I don't have so many difficulties in the physical realm

and things get easier for me.

Aníbal was my guide for the pact ceremony.

He told us to open ourselves up.

This is a contract, an alliance.

The Devil is going to help you and make everything easier for you.

[eerie music playing]

[Sully sighs]

You make an invocation.

You ask him what you want, you write and seal it with blood.

Then, step inside the ring.

[eerie music continues]

[Sully breathing heavily]

- [dramatic sting] - [gasps]

[dramatic sting]

- [groaning] - [strikes thudding]

[sinister music playing]

I accept you.

[sobbing]

[sinister music building]

[man] Does Asmodeus want to share anything with us?

[chuckles softly]

Um...

He can.

Okay.

[mysterious music playing]

Someone here has a question.

You can answer and give your opinion.

[man] Should I be afraid?

No.

You should not be afraid.

Because people think

that we force them to do things that they don't want to do.

But, ultimately, you decide what you want to do.

We don't punish you, like your god does.

We're only here to bring balance.

If evil didn't exist

and good didn't exist, what would your world look like?

So, don't be afraid.

MY LIFE AS AN EXORCIST

The pact with a demon such as Asmodeus

brings only doom, destruction and vexation.

INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC CONGREGATION EXORCIST

He is very destructive.

He damages the mind, the body, the spirit and family relationships.

In my experience, it's devastating.

But if we trust in the power of the Lord,

if we seek a serious process of exorcism or deliverance from the Lord,

we can succeed.

[jarring music plays]

But he's one of the most difficult demons to expel.

He gets obsessed with his victim.

REAL FOOTAGE

[Sully] Respect the pact we made.

You can't touch her.

[Jessica sobbing]

[Sully] Let her go.

Let her go!

[Andrés] You're just his toy.

He satiates his happiness by overseeing the destruction

of the one who has made a pact with him.

[jarring music plays]

At first, they may see material benefits, but the retribution is terrible.

[Ruth] Who needs psychiatric help?

When someone in the family is showing symptoms of living possession,

both the family and the patient need help.

HYSTERIA

It's difficult to help someone without a good support network.

When do we begin treatment?

If there's a good support network,

we'll inform the family

so they can provide better care to the patient before we treat them.

[eerie piano music playing]

[girl] Turn it off!

[fire crackling]

It was a relief when we finally left.

The atmosphere was much lighter,

but I still don't think it fully left us.

- [slams] - [sinister music playing]

It was still linked to them.

We have to go back to the evil apartment with Mom.

There was something that still connected it to us.

[groaning]

[eerie music playing]

[music stops]

FLORENCIA'S MOTHER

The absolute worst episode that I experienced with my granddaughters...

I was going to give them a bath.

I was told to prepare a special bath

with white flowers, holy water, and a bunch of other different things.

And a prayer to Saint Michael, the archangel.

He is the one who defeats the Devil, according to the Catholic tradition.

Send Satan to hell.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

FLORENCIA'S EX-PARTNER

The girls were given a bath with certain types of leaves.

That bath was said to cleanse them of bad energy.

And, that way, they would be calmer.

What is this for?

It's Granny's recipe for sweet little girls just like you.

You're going to enjoy it. Come on.

[tense string music playing]

[man on recording] Fight, on this day, the battle of the Lord.

Take your bath. I'll bring your sister.

[man on recording] Just like you fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer,

and his apostate host,

who had no power to resist you.

And there was no longer room for them in heaven either.

That cruel ancient serpent called the Devil or Satan that seduces.

Emma, let's take a bath.

What are you listening to?

It's just a video.

[Emma] Turn it off! It's annoying.

Emma.

It's just for a little while. Now, let's go.

[Emma] No! Go away.

- Why are you talking to me like that? - Shut up!

Emma, honey.

[Emma] Go away.

Come. Emma.

Emma, let's go.

When I tried to give Emma a bath,

she got hysterical.

Very hysterical.

[man on recording] That cruel ancient serpent called the Devil or Satan

- that seduced the whole world. - Shut up.

Shut up.

He was cast down unto the Earth...

- [Emma] Shut up! - ...and his angels with him.

[Roxana] Emma!

[Emma] Shut up and leave!

I'm not leaving. I'm going to bathe you.

- Let's go. - Go away!

- Emma! - Go away!

Turn it off!

[man] Fight, on this day, the battle of the Lord.

Emma, please take a bath.

[Emma] Emma is not here!

- [screams] - [man] And on that day...

How did I react?

Well, I got hysterical as well.

- Leave her alone! Let her go! - [screams]

- [Emma growling] - Let her go!

Let her go!

[Emma growling]

- [screaming] - [man continues indistinctly on recording]

[Roxana] Let her go!

- [growling, screaming] - Listen to me!

[eerie music playing]

[Emma] Stop it!

- [music stops] - [both panting]

Grandma?

[Roxana] I got hysterical, but...

hysterical as...

It was related to what Antonio Zamudio had told me.

I didn't ask, I demanded that it leave my house

and leave my granddaughters alone.

I didn't want it in my house.

It was not allowed to stay there or touch my granddaughters.

[somber string music playing]

[man] Now have come the salvation and the power

and the kingdom of our God,

and the authority of his Messiah.

I got so hysterical that when everything finally calmed down,

Emma started comforting me.

Emma hugged me and said,

"Grandma, calm down. It's over."

"I promise to let you give me a bath."

[sad piano music playing]

[Florencia] Two days later, I went to get an ultrasound

to see if the baby was a boy or a girl.

They couldn't hear any heartbeats.

Nothing.

When I told Pablo...

he couldn't even speak.

She called me on the phone...

and told me she got an ultrasound.

And when they tried to listen to the heart, they...

They didn't hear anything.

My mom went with me to get the operation done,

because it can't stay inside you, obviously.

[inhales sharply]

I cried...

all the time.

Before, during, after.

And then, I realized there was something else I had to do.

I had to tell the girls that they were no longer going to have a new sibling.

That was something Pablo and I didn't know how to handle.

And we drifted apart.

That was when we asked Alejandrina for help.

She is my cousin.

[sinister choral music playing]

[Alejandrina] This is something I've been involved with for some time,

but I never thought it would affect my family.

I've been a Wiccan since 2012.

WICCA PRACTITIONER

We believe in duality, in a god and a goddess.

We don't believe in good versus evil. One cannot exist without the other.

In the apartment where they were living,

some strange things were happening.

The girls couldn't sleep, they woke up crying, they were distressed.

There was a very strange energy.

So I decided to intervene and do a little more

and use what I know to protect the girls.

[wood clattering]

I gave Florencia something so she could protect herself

and isolate whatever was lurking around that place.

[sinister percussive music playing]

[exhales]

I gave her some cleansing salt, some cleansing vinegar.

[sizzling]

I gave her these ingredients

because they were powerfully consecrated and made for one, specific purpose...

to eradicate the energy that did not belong in that place.

[music fades]

Just because I decided to do a little ritual to protect the girls,

that doesn't mean the girls have to become pagan

or have to start practicing pagan rituals.

It will never let us go.

Listen to me.

Your mom isn't going to let anything bad happen to you.

Neither am I.

What are you gonna do?

See?

You just smiled.

Don't you feel better?

[off-screen] We consecrated some quartz crystals for the girls.

So that they knew there was something else protecting them.

Don't ever take this off your neck, for no reason whatsoever.

As long as you have it, you'll feel like someone's protecting you.

Okay?

Those crystals, the girls still wear them today.

I think they'll continue to wear those collars forever.

[ominous music playing]

Think of every good thing you wish to happen

in this house and to your daughters.

We felt the strongest energy coming from places where I put sigils.

They were there for protection.

They're traced with a marker,

but I also traced them with my blood.

It's my way of offering something.

To show I'm willing to do anything to protect them.

[Florencia] That went on for a couple of days.

But it was completely comforting for me.

[gentle music playing]

The girls hugged me...

and stayed with me.

I think... I'm lucky.

[chuckles softly]

They are such wonderful girls.

[Alejandrina] It's a relief to know they're not being attacked.

And I hope it stays that way.

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST

The devil, in scientific terms,

is seen as a religious, cultural and social interpretation

of the evil that people have the capacity of expressing.

We consider evil to be a destructive instinct,

natural in all living beings.

Specifically, in human beings, we can't consider it as something natural,

but instead as an outside force.

[screams]

This is where the idea of the Devil comes from,

a being responsible for the emotions, fantasies and desires

that are considered to be negative,

depending on the education,

on the culture, and the religion each person is brought up with.

Evil is real, though it differs from point of view.

REAL FOOTAGE

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Across philosophy, anthropology, psychology,

there is an evil force in this world.

This general evil is all-encompassing.

Upon the holy cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Though there is also the oppression of the evil one.

But possessions are always caused,

not only by these evil forces,

but a decision of our own.

[eerie music playing]

[cackling]

MEXICO CITY, 2022

ON AIR

[man] Now tell us, Andrea.

What does it take to win the battle against the Devil?

What is that special power, that magic tool, needed to defeat him?

[Andrea] I want to clarify that neither crucifixes nor salt

have the power on their own.

You give them power through faith.

Your faith is what defeats him.

[unsettling music playing]

It was decided that the exorcism would be performed

in Father Basilio's church.

- [footsteps approaching] - [ominous music playing]

There was still no immediate permission from the bishop,

but they couldn't wait any longer.

[Concepción sobbing]

[groans loudly]

[men straining]

Let's go!

[Concepción continues groaning]

The Father was prepared

with what exorcist priests need to fight the Devil.

Exorcised oil, exorcised salt, exorcised holy water,

his stole, his habit.

As well as a small bell and an ancient relic of a saint.

- [Concepción growling] - [tense music playing]

[man groans]

[tires squealing]

[all grunting]

[Concepción] They told me I had amazing strength.

They couldn't restrain me.

- [Concepción growling] - [men grunting]

CONCEPCIÓN'S DAUGHTER

They just couldn't restrain her.

She was just so strong. Too strong.

[growling]

[tense music continues]

[Concepción breathing rapidly]

My uncle laid his hands on her.

And he told me that she was indeed possessed by a demon.

[suspenseful music playing]

[tires squealing]

[Basilio praying in Latin]

[praying in Latin]

[Concepción breathing rapidly]

[growling]

[guttural scream]

[Concepción breathing rapidly]

[guttural screaming]

[breathing rapidly]

[Concepción snarls loudly]

[eerie music playing]

[screams]

[breathing rapidly]

[sinister music playing]

[door closes]

Father Basilio... allowed my uncle to go inside.

Because he believed that love would help overcome the mental barriers.

[sinister music continues]

[breathing rapidly]

[growling]

Please, please don't.

Please. Don't.

Please don't. Don't do it.

Help me.

Take me to my children.

Get me out of here. Get me out of here.

Take me to my children.

They need their mother.

Please don't.

You took them away!

Do you want my children without a mother?

[shouting in Latin]

[Andrea] Suddenly, Mom started speaking Latin.

She was speaking it so fluently...

the priest was dumbfounded by what he was hearing.

[exhales]

So, the process began.

I'm sorry.

It's...

hard to think back to.

What I can remember is what I read directly from the Father's journal,

as well as what he told me.

I'm sorry.

I didn't even cry when I wrote the book.

It's complicated.

[dramatic sinister music playing]

- [growling] - [Basilio praying in Latin]

[music fades]

[Basilio continues praying]

INDEPENDENT LUTHERAN BISHOP

Liberation, or exorcism, is a spiritual ritual

called "sacramental,"

by which we seek to expel

a spiritual oppressor.

- [growling] - [Basilio praying in Latin]

[Cristian] A liberation is made when there is a spiritual influence.

An exorcism is done

when the negative spiritual influence is extreme.

When there's a possession,

the ritual involves different elements to make the liberation possible.

Prayers, sacraments, symbols,

they seek to expel the negative influence.

[priests chanting in Latin]

[speaking in Latin]

[priests chanting]

[tense music playing]

[grunts]

[gagging]

It wasn't vomited-up food or anything like that.

It was bile.

- [snarling] - [choking]

[speaking in Latin]

You are dead.

Your family and all your descendants.

[priest strains]

[Basilio speaks in Latin]

[gasps]

I'm Beelzebub.

Leader of the demons. We are coming.

[speaking in Latin]

[eerie music playing]

Halfway through the Latin prayer, she passed out

and completely lost consciousness.

[tense music playing]

You defeated this ancient enemy.

Santa María.

May she receive God's grace,

and free her from evil.

Father laid his hands on my mother, praying above her head.

The way to expel the Devil is through prayer, praying.

That's how he's weakened.

[breathing heavily]

[eerie string music playing]

[faint growling]

[dramatic sting]

[Andrea] The large crucifix fell.

My mom had begun showing a great deal of aversion to religious symbols.

[cackling]

[snarls]

[growling]

[sinister music playing]

[speaking in Latin]

[Andrea] The father continued praying

and giving the orders through the Roman liberation ritual,

giving commands for the demon to leave.

[eerie music playing]

[Basilio shouting in Latin]

[rope straining]

[Basilio continues shouting in Latin]

[sinister whooshing, growling]

The only consistent way to expel a demon is through its name.

Say your name.

[Andrea] And at that climactic moment, the demon was prepared to come out.

This had been my mother's strongest episode.

[tense music playing]

I command you to say your name!

Beelzebub!

Once the demon was weakened, he said his name.

When demons become weakened, they will say their names.

You have no power over this woman!

She does not want you inside of her anymore!

[groans]

[growling]

Concepción expels you!

- [gasps] - [music fades]

- [fire crackling] - [people screaming in distance]

[girl] Mama.

Are you okay?

[Óscar] Conce.

- [girl] What happened? - [Óscar] Conce.

- [shudders] - [girl] Mama. What happened?

- [Óscar] Concepción. Concepción. - [girl] Are you okay? What happened?

[retches]

Then, my mom began throwing up.

- [retching] - [dramatic choral music playing]

[metal rattling]

[gasps softly]

The vomit came out in the shape of a chain.

[ethereal choral music playing]

[Concepción shudders]

[sobbing]

God appeared before me in that moment.

Just like Father said.

My child.

"In the way Satan took possession of you, of your body."

"God does not need to possess you."

"With the simple fact that you saw Him,

your faith will grow much stronger and you will become a stronger person."

[music fades]

[melancholy string music playing]

[dialogue imperceptible]

Throughout the writing process for this book,

I've continued to experience paranormal activity.

I felt, heard, and saw the presence of the entity.

[eerie music playing]

I think this entity didn't want this book to come out

and bring its actions to light.

[suspenseful music playing]

[dramatic sting]

[music building]

[Ruth] Some things can be forces of good, others not so good.

PSYCHIATRIST

Nothing can be perfectly good.

Nor can anything be entirely evil.

[jarring music plays]

Not everything in life will be positive.

And it's our job as people to figure out a way...

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER

...to achieve the right balance between the good and the bad.

POSSESSION

How can we tolerate when things aren't right

and when things take a turn for the worst?

[jarring music plays]

So we can't always be on one side of the spectrum.

Otherwise, we can't function properly.

When it comes to possession,

anyone can be possessed,

as we are preyed on for our weaknesses by some outside force.

[on-screen] Most holy blessed Trinity, sovereign and eternal God,

deliver us from the prisons and sentences of hell.

These forces include rituals, shamans, witches.

[jarring music plays]

Those who toy with or summon spirits

using spiritism, the Ouija board, invocation,

or have experienced places that are not safe, spiritually.

An entity attaches itself to a person by whatever means necessary,

and a person becomes possessed.

[on-screen] Father, I call upon you to return this creature,

and you will bear all the evil that it was sent to conduct.

[off-screen] It's ultimately a personal decision.

"The forces of evil exist."

"We have to live together," as Jesus says.

But Jesus also gives us the tools and the strength to maintain balance.

I'm not afraid to say it.

I'm open to say that I'm afraid of being attacked.

We made a pact, my mom and I.

We agreed to be a part of them.

But it's still a feeling of peace.

After feeling so distant, after feeling so lost,

I finally found myself and realized who I was.

[Sully] We're very happy.

And, well, now we're in this situation, we are Theistic Satanists.

And we understand what that demon is, their mission, their view of us.

And now, it's up to us to get to know them and see the other side of the coin,

what Satanism truly is,

that we love Lucifer.

I'm married to a demon named Seth.

[dramatic sting]

[ominous music playing]

She made a pact, an alliance, and married a demon.

The demon will help her for the rest of her life.

Or for five to ten years, depending on the contract.

And she will prosper. Things will get better for her.

- [Emma] Ten. - You. One, two, three, four, five, six...

[off-screen] This situation made me feel weak.

And sad.

As if everything was dark.

And, soon after,

with everyone's help, we found the light.

[gentle music playing]

In the end, we won.

In the end, it didn't get us.

And it still can't because I know it's still trying.

[Concepción] This was a fight between the Devil and God.

And my decision was to follow God.

I will follow Him until it is my time to meet Him again.

And until then, I will never stop following Him.

[gentle music continues]

[Esther] What saved my mom? Her faith, her faith in God.

In fact, my mom is a catechist. She gives the Word of God to children.

She remembers how she could've lost or died,

and yet here she is, stronger than ever.

My mother is a warrior. But she wasn't always this way.

It wasn't easy for her to get to where she is now.

[dramatic music playing]

[Jessica] I don't have any intentions of hurting anyone. Not at all.

No one can do anything to me.

But, even the slightest bit of harm someone tries to inflict on me,

well, there'd be consequences. [chuckles]

[eerie closing theme music playing]