What started as a routine weekend getaway for seminarians from the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in 2024 took a hard turn into the surreal. The archdiocese of Denver confirmed that an exorcist was called in after a bizarre series of events involving a ceremonial dagger, a mysterious blood oath, and a man in a yeti costume.
As first reported in an extensive investigation by The Pillar, a publication covering the Catholic church, the incident is causing controversy and raising questions about the seminary’s response, and why it took an exorcist to set things right.
The whole thing began in January 2024, deep in the Elk Mountains, when 15 Denver seminarians — students studying to be Catholic priests — were awoken in the middle of the night and told to sit silently and wait for their turn to take part in a “sacred tradition.” Some of the students may have had their mouths gagged with tape, the Pillar reports…