The Exorcist Files

Adelaide never joined a lodge. She never took an oath. Her ancestor did — and something attached to that oath found her.
In this rewind episode, Father Carlos Martins and Ryan Bethea open the case file on a woman whose affliction traced directly to ancestral Freemasonry. Father Martins walks through what the Masonic initiation oath actually says, explains why those words can effects across generations, and describes what liberation looked like for Adelaide — and why it only took two sessions.

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Chapters:
0:00 | Intro + Light Summer Reading
1:54 | The Case of Adelaide
3:27 | Opening Clip: The Granddaughter
4:31 | Do Demons Leave Evidence on Purpose?
7:18 | Why Relics Work Against Them
9:06 | What the Masonic Oath Actually Says
11:18 | The Initiation Ritual
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16:53 | The Oath as an Occult Act
19:10 | Swearing on Behalf of Your Children
22:20 | Can Masonic Oaths Affect Gut Health?
23:47 | Adelaide’s Liberation
24:31 | Patterns in Freemason Descendants
25:35 | The Boy and His Father
27:46 | Should Everyone Pray a Renunciation?
29:15 | The Vatican’s Position on Freemasonry
30:23 | Adelaide’s Clip: The Granddaughter Is Touched
34:01 | Why the Manifestations Escalated
37:27 | The Demon Overplayed His Hand
38:30 | Adelaide: 10 Years Later
39:43 | What To Do If You Suspect This
41:24 | Father Martins’ Renunciation Prayer
41:47 | The Broader Test: What Organizations Qualify?
44:44 | What We Trade Truth For
45:05 | Closing Prayer
45:38 | Buy the Book
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What if the most dangerous move the enemy makes against you doesn't feel like an attack at all? Dan Burke — author, speaker, trainer of clergy, and former president of EWTN News sits down with Ryan Bethea and Father Martins to break down one of the most overlooked concepts in spiritual warfare: false peace. Dan draws on the discernment tradition of Saint Ignatius of Loyola to show how the enemy offers counterfeit comfort at two very different stages of the Christian life. For those struggling with habitual sin, he manufactures apparent pleasure that mimics peace. For those genuinely advancing in holiness, he engineers distractions that look like blessings- good things in the wrong priority.

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0:00 Intro + The Beard Theology
2:40 From Jewish Kid to Near Death to Jesus
7:00 How the Enemy Fakes Peace
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15:00 When Good Things Are a Trap
17:05 The Devil's Parody at the Transfiguration
29:50 The Primary Battlefield: Your Own Mind
35:50 The Survey: 8 in 10 Devout Catholics
40:30 Identity Is the Answer
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48:05 I've Been in 24 Full Rite Exorcisms
51:00 Dan's Childhood: When Something Came
57:00 Possession Is a Spectrum
58:40 Beat Up the Demon
59:40 Why a Baptist Pastor Freed Him
1:04:15 Affirming Protestant Believers in Alabama
1:07:20 Why Dan Doesn't Listen to This Show
1:10:50 What It Looks Like in the Room
1:16:30 Father Martins' Method: Start With Love
1:23:30 Does Denomination Matter in Spiritual Warfare?
1:28:25 The Eddie Vedder Close
1:31:20 Where to Find Dan Burke
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Fr. Mike Schmitz who has led millions of people through the Bible in a Year, and The Exorcist Files finally had their moment. We dove into the lies that so many of us are beholden to, and what we can do to overcome them.
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00:00:00 Solomon's trap | How exceptional performance can coexist with quiet soul loss.
00:00:33 Ryan's rap intro | The rhyming welcome for 'the friar of Fargo, the hermit of Herman Town.'
00:02:14 Obedience as freedom | Why Father Mike has never asked himself if he likes living in Duluth.
00:04:18 What Protestants get right | Matt Maher, Scripture in the room, and a Catholic priest's honest appreciation.
00:07:36 The right balance | Awareness without preoccupation. Why God winning is never in doubt.
00:09:26 Three weapons from the confessional | What years of hearing confessions reveal about how spiritual defeat happens.
00:11:11 Weapon 1: The flesh | Pornography's three A's and what this generation's battle requires.
00:13:13 Weapon 2: Discouragement | The flip side of pride and the move that keeps you from approaching God.
00:22:19 The 'I'll never' myth | A recovering alcoholic priest and the sleeping bag in his car.
00:24:45 Solomon's tragedy | Built the temple. Wrote Scripture. Lost his soul over the small things.
00:27:39 A priest at the judgment seat | A near-death account and 12 years lived for the wrong person.
00:30:53 The two lies the enemy runs | Identity lies and God's identity lies, and how they connect.
00:31:51 The wound of fatherlessness | John Paul II, the original sin, and why Jesus kept pointing to the Father.
00:37:25 The fermentation metaphor | Why spiritual maturity cannot be rushed, and what it means to be the reserve.
00:43:17 A mother's final question | A deathbed conversation about surrender and whether we have given everything.
00:49:31 Trade the news feed for the Bible | One Protestant pastor, one Lent, and a family that noticed the difference.
00:52:45 Closing invitation | If you still care, you have not drunk the poison.

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Father Martins finishes his reflection series on Christ's descent into Hell, from the Father's perspective.

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The Exorcist Files has dealt with Ouija boards in several cases, but perhaps none as wild and chilling as "Spiritual Roulette", where a group of friends open a portal to a demonic entity known as Stevie. They tried to quit playing the game, but Stevie was far from game over.
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CHAPTERS

01:00:04 | The Board That Came Back | Cold open: thrown away, back on the table
01:01:09 | The IRS or Old Scratch? | "Both are ancient enemies. Depends on who you owe."
01:02:01 | Season 3 Preview | New cases with "details far more interesting" than seasons 1 and 2
01:02:34 | The Obsession Episode | Two real cases behind the box office moment
01:04:22 | Obsession, Defined | Partial possession: the last step before the real thing
01:05:59 | The Case File | Faceless man, cockroaches, a flying planchette
01:09:13 | Meet Stevie | Why a demon introduces itself as a dead child
01:12:35 | Gowan vs. Stevie | How the room's one skeptic became the target
01:16:30 | "Kill Him" | The demon shows its cards and the game ends
01:23:43 | Child's Play | Teleportation vs. healing a broken board
01:26:13 | The Permission Framework | Job, Peter, and the limits on demonic power
01:33:34 | The Prioress's Protocol | Confession, conversion, burn the board
01:40:29 | The Faceless Man | A truck, a cornfield, and "you die"
01:43:21 | The Ouija Renaissance | A warning about sleepovers and store shelves
01:44:37 | Three Johns and a Book | The quiz, the summer reading rec, the sign-off
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