EP: 450 Canada's Worst Demonic Possession with Michael Anthony Gagliardi (Members Preview)

July 31, 2026

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In 1971, when Michael Anthony Gagliardi was three years old, his mother poured a pot of scalding soup over his shoulder and never nurtured him afterward. That was the first memory he has of something being wrong. He would spend the next 15 years living in a small house in Ontario, Canada, watching his mother transform from a soft-spoken, four-foot-eleven woman into what he now identifies as a full demonic possession—a case he calls the worst in Canadian history, documented in his book The Devil Takes the Hindmost.

The Opening and the Progression

The trouble did not begin in the house. Gagliardi explains that his mother and her sister had dabbled in séances after their father died, trying to contact him. That, he says, opened a door. The family moved from Toronto to a small town of 4,000 people, isolating them from relatives. The oppression started with his mother hearing voices and seeing "little people" running around the house—a phenomenon Gagliardi connects to a class of elementals within the kingdom of darkness. Over years, the oppression escalated into possession. By the time he was a teenager, his mother was morbidly obese, her teeth broken, her tongue serrated from biting it. She would sit in a chair and beat herself in the chest with a log until she was bloody, while singing, whistling, and speaking in guttural voices he could not understand. This happened every

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What you'll learn

1 (03:33) **Michael Gagliardi’s Bigfoot Theory** - Michael gives a prepared, scholarly answer on the origin of Bigfoot, tying it to the Nephilim and ancient mythology.
2 (18:18) **The First Sign of Trouble** - The story of the possession begins with a childhood memory of his mother’s violence.
3 (20:38) **The Occult Doorway and Early Manifestations** - Michael explains the spiritual origin of his mother’s condition and the first signs of demonic activity.
4 (27:19) **The Progression from Oppression to Possession** - The activity escalates over years, culminating in a violent attack and institutionalization.
5 (30:54) **Life as a Teenage Target** - Michael describes the daily terror of living alone with his possessed mother after his sister and father were effectively gone.
6 (36:37) **The System’s Failure** - Michael details how the medical and child protection systems failed to help him.
7 (44:06) **The Hacksaw and the Black Eyes** - The most traumatic encounter, where Michael sees the demonic entity face-to-face.

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Show Notes

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For twelve years, Michael Gagliardi lived in a house with something he could not name. It started with séances and voices in the walls, then scratching and knocking that the whole family heard, and slowly the oppression became something far worse. His mother, a soft-spoken four-foot-eleven woman with bright green eyes, became unrecognizable. She spoke in languages she never knew. She hit herself with a log until she bled. She chased his sister around the car with a butcher knife and was taken away in a straitjacket, only to sign herself out and come home three months later. And every single night, young Michael slept in a fetal position with a hockey stick, a dresser loaded with bricks shoved against his bedroom door, listening to her try to get in.

This is one of the most harrowing firsthand accounts of demonic possession we have ever heard. Michael walks Nate and Luke through the day he found his mother sawing the chain off the freezer, the moment her green eyes turned to solid black, and the strange final letter that warned him not to become a wild man. He also lays out the Nephilim and cosmic geography framework he has spent thirty years building to make sense of it all, the same research behind his book The Devil Takes the Hindmost. This episode originally aired for members only, and we are opening it up as a window into what lives behind the paywall every week.

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