14 DAY TRIAL // We can all remember the things we used to do for fun when we were teens and, chances are, in the vast majority of cases, they didn't involve casting demons out of our friends. Not the same applies for Rev. Bob Larson's family.
The Reverend, who wrote over 30 books and claims to have performed successful exorcism on more than 15,000 people, brought his team of teen exorcists on Anderson Cooper's show.
Preview clips for the actual interview have been made available online, and you can see them below, embedded at the end of the article.
The first one is of the three girls, Brynne, Savannah and Tess, who explain how they've all been introduced into the art of performing an exorcism when they were very young, 13 or 14.
One of them, Tess, even says that she performed her first act of casting out a demon on a friend of hers, at the end of a girls' slumber party.
Asked by Cooper to elaborate on what are the tell-tale signs of demonic possession, Tess says the girl had strayed from her Christian beliefs and basically had an unexplainable headache and dilating pupils.
She also says she could “literally see evil in her eyes,” which, it would seem, was reason enough to perform the exorcism right then and there.
Brynne, on the other hand, performed her first exorcism at a church in Africa, in front of an audience of 3,000 people. She didn't have any stage fright because her dad was right there with her and could always intervene to help her out.
The Reverend, who belongs to Freedom Churches International, says his teams don't charge anything for casting out demons, but he does.
Pressed by Anderson for details, he reveals that he charges for transportation. He also says taking a simple “quizz” to see if you're possessed costs money.
In the third clip, Anderson basically rips into the foursome, telling them he believes the girls are feeding him learned lines.
They are, in fact, promoting or pitching their own reality show, as Cooper underlines.
Enjoy!
