Trained Catholic exorcists in the US

As the number of trained Catholic exorcists in the United States has grown, so has the hot sauce market, achieving a correlation of 0.995 that practically demands a supernatural explanation. The obvious conclusion—that demonic activity correlates with Sriracha consumption—is precisely the kind of inference this website exists to discourage, and precisely the kind that the data seems to encourage. The heat rises, the holy water flows, and the chart burns with unholy statistical precision. Is the sauce possessed? The coefficient suggests yes.

The number of trained Catholic exorcists in the US grew from about 12 in 2005 to over 175 by 2023, as the Vatican expanded exorcism training programs in response to what the Church describes as increased demand. The hot sauce market grew from about 1.5 billion to over 4 billion dollars, driven by immigration-fueled palate diversification and millennial spice culture. Both trends are smooth upward curves reflecting different cultural shifts: the exorcist increase reflects a conservative turn in Catholic practice and growing demand for spiritual remedies, while hot sauce growth reflects the globalization of American food culture. The shared variable is cultural change in a diversifying nation—religious practice and culinary practice both evolving in parallel.

A correlation of 0.995 between exorcists and hot sauce is the single most entertaining statistic on this entire website, and it is exactly as meaningless as it is amusing. The demons are expelled, the peppers are pressed, and the connection between them is nothing more than two cultural trends rising in the same diversifying nation. The holy water does not need a Scoville rating. The Tabasco does not need a blessing. But the chart would not know the difference.