The Exorcist author tells of communication with dead son

Tuesday, May 12th, 2015

The author of “The Exorcist” has told an audience of signs he believes indicate his deceased teenaged son is alive beyond the grave.

William P. Blatty is promoting his book titled “Finding Peter; The True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life After Death”.

Aleteia reported Mr Blatty told a Washington, DC audience that he believed his son was in a righteous state when he died in 2006, having recently been to Confession, at his mother’s urging.

“I’m good with God,” his son told him.

Peter, a former heroin user, died of heart failure after eating pizza and drinking beer one night.

Two months later, Mr Blatty noticed something unusual about a favourite tree of Peter’s in the family backyard in Maryland.

It had grown buds in the middle of winter, but lost them the next day.

Later, a broken halogen light stayed on for half a minute.

Mr Blatty does not discount the possibility that each incident was an unexplained natural event; the subtitle of his book uses the word “evidence” rather than “proof” to show that life extends beyond the grave.

In his latest book, Mr Blatty wrote that during the seven years since his son’s death, “he has given Julie, his mother, and me unremitting strong evidence that his death, like all human death, is a lie”.

Mr Blatty said his latest book is the culmination of a writing career which he views as an apostolic act.

If there are demons, there must be God, he concluded.

Mr Blatty wrote his best-selling novel “The Exorcist”, later made into a famous movie, after hearing about successful and previous failed attempts by priests to exorcise a Maryland boy.

In 2013, Mr Blatty petitioned the Vatican to revoke the Catholic status of his alma mater Georgetown University, unless the institution implemented Ex Corde Ecclesia, the apostolic constitution that defines the mission of Catholic colleges.

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