She was acting like a fool. I don't know 'what possessed her'. [=I don't know why she acted that way]
He pounded on the door 'like a man possessed', yelling for someone to let him in.
A terrible rage 'possessed' her at that moment. [=she became filled with rage]
(..) a completely different room. It was moving around by itself. Camilla got in touch with a medium. We learned from her... that the doll was possessed by a girl named Annabelle Higgins. She had lost her parents and had taken a liking to my doll. All she wanted was to be friends. (..)2014 Annabelle