title: Interview With an Exorcist: An Insider's Look at the Devil, Demonic Possession, and the Path to Deliverance
author: Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea
description: Fr. Jos Antonio Fortea is a priest of the Diocese of Alcal de Henares (Madrid), Spain, and an expert in the field of demonology.
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  #  Chapter 1
  
  
  This had to be our most insane idea yet.
  
  
  My friends and I had slain demon after countless demon in the last few months.
  We’d been all across the country, traveling to cool locations, investigating
  cases of the demonic, taking down Azazel and his Seventy-Two Servants, and
  having a fucking blast doing so.
  
  
  But this? This one was definitely not that.
  
  
  Before us, in a wheelchair, sat an elderly man with leathery, wrinkled skin.
  He was wearing a button-up red flannel shirt along with dollar-store
  sweatpants, and atop his head sat nothing but a horseshoe pattern of gray hair
  and some unhealthy-looking moles. What the man lacked in hair on his head, he
  made up for with a bushy peppered mustache on his upper lip that he kept
  twitching sporadically.
  
  
  This man was our imp.
  
  
  “Hurry up and get me to bingo,” Todd demanded as he rolled out into the
  hallway. “These Depends ain’t gonna hold up all day, sonny.”
  
  
  “Y