The Movie Story: A couple’s young daughter exhibits increasingly outrageous behavior, forcing them to consider the possibility that the soul of another young girl, Audrey Rose, has taken residence in her body.
The Real Story: Frank De Felitta was inspired to write the novel — and later the movie script — after he heard his six-year-old son, Raymond, who’d never taken piano lessons, playing music perfectly on the family piano. De Felitta consulted a Los Angeles occultist, who called Raymond’s talent as an “incarnation leak,” explaining that the boy had lived many lifetimes. The incident led to the author’s personal belief in reincarnation.
