Destination America Tries to Scare Up Viewers With a Live Exorcism

Using a house familiar to horror fans

Discovery may have gotten out of the outlandish-TV-stunts business, but its sister networks didn't get that memo.

Destination America will televise what it's calling the first live exorcism in U.S. history, airing Exorcism: Live! on Oct. 30.

A house, not a person, will be the subject of the exorcism, which will take place at the same suburban St. Louis home where an exorcism was performed on Roland Doe in 1949. That event inspired William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel The Exorcist and its iconic 1973 film adaptation, which starred Linda Blair.

During the telecast, paranormal investigators the Tennessee Wraith Chasers from the network's Ghost Asylum, along with psychic medium Chip Coffey, "will explore each crevice of this terrifying home, from the attic to the basement, to find whatever or whomever has scared Americans to death for decades," said Destination America in a release.

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