---
title: "Witnesses to Exorcisms"
description: "That's the number of American adults who say they have experienced or witnessed an exorcism, when the devil or evil spirits are driven out of a person. "
date: "2007-11-12"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/11/12/witnesses-to-exorcisms/"
---

# Witnesses to Exorcisms

More than one-in-ten Americans (11%) say they have experienced or witnessed an exorcism, when the devil or evil spirits are driven out of a person. Over a third (34%) of pentecostals say they have had experience with exorcisms, compared with 7% of the general Christian population, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/254/pentecostal-power)