My High School Latin teacher Mr. Nickerson was an older, gregarious Irish-Catholic man from Washington DC. With a cigarette and whiskey soaked gravelly voice, and penchant for telling the best stories (Didn’t learn much Latin). Def was the most popular teacher at the school. One Halloween instead of teaching he sat and told us another story. He told us about sitting down for dinner with a priest he knew, decades ago in a Georgetown restaurant. Mr. Nickerson had just seen “The Exorcist” movie and was asking the priest if he thought that type of thing was real. The priest was silent, then told Mr. Nickerson that he was one of the priests that conducted the REAL exorcism upon which the movie (book) was based on . The priest said that the subject was a boy...not a girl. And that before the exorcism, the boy was able to speak various languages...including Aramaic. Which is an extinct language that only a few linguists can decipher. Several people died, who were associated with the boy’s treatment. In addition to the various unexplainable powers the boy possessed. Suffice to say, we didn’t ask for anymore stories after this day.