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Speaker 1: to the second and final part of Unexplained, Season nine,

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Speaker 1: Episode nine, The Uninvited These days, most people know of

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Speaker 1: Lorraine and Ed Warrant because of the hugely successful horror

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Speaker 1: franchise The Conjuring and its numerous spinofs. In those movies,

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Speaker 1: the Warrens are portrayed as superheroes of Christ, a source

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Speaker 1: of impeccable and photogenic morality, pitched in a battle against

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Speaker 1: a demonic threat forever on the cusp of corrupting domestic America.

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Speaker 1: Their claims were always larger than life. Ed Warrant was

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Speaker 1: a self professed self taught demonologist, while Lorraine declared herself

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Speaker 1: a medium and clairvoyant. Together they founded the New England

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Speaker 1: Society for Psychic Research and claimed to have worked on

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Speaker 1: over ten thousand cases. It's a hard number to swallow,

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Speaker 1: and critics of the couple have pointed to fabrications and

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Speaker 1: possible fraudulents in the Warrens investigations over the years. Yet

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Speaker 1: the Warrens were present at many of the most high

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Speaker 1: profile supposed hauntings of the nineteen seventies and eighties, some

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Speaker 1: of which we've covered on this podcast. These include the

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Speaker 1: torment of the Poran family in Rhode Island, the focus

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Speaker 1: of Season four, episode fourteen, Negative Space, and the infamous

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Speaker 1: Widening Gyre. They were also the first investigators on site

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Speaker 1: at one hundred and twelve Ocean Drive during the renowned

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Speaker 1: Amitaval Haunting a future episode. Perhaps in arguably, then, the

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Speaker 1: Warrens are key figures in the mid twentieth century fascination

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Speaker 1: with the paranormal and the diabolical. They almost single handedly

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Speaker 1: reorientated the culture to pose the home, and by extension,

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Speaker 1: genuine belief in their spiritual mission. So when they answered

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Speaker 1: they felt compelled to answer. Thus began the next and

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Speaker 1: most terrifying chapter in the Extraordinary Haunting of an Average

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Speaker 1: American Family. In the months prior to the Warren's involvement,

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Speaker 1: for the Smells after Janet's nighttime assault, when she was

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Speaker 1: along with her sisters Heather, Karen, and Shannon herself, had

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Speaker 1: It was a dark, overcast day when the Warrens pulled

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Speaker 1: There are four spirits in your home, replied Lorraine without pause.

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Speaker 1: This time, he left no stone unturned and blessed each

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Speaker 1: Smiles had the intense feeling that something had changed. Jack

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Speaker 1: that had become an ever present since the father's last visit.

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Speaker 1: On October twenty eighth, the Smiles released a statement to

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Speaker 1: the press, who had been following the story closely, eagerly

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Speaker 1: that our problem has been resolved. Thanksgiving was more meaningful

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Speaker 1: It appeared to be beckoning him, he said. By now

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Speaker 1: theories about how the process moved in stages, first infestation,

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Speaker 1: then oppression, then finally possession, and now it was here

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Speaker 1: for him. Jack watched in stunned silence as the figure

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Speaker 1: Then it took one step up, and then another. Jack

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Speaker 1: When he gathered the courage to open his eyes again,

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Speaker 1: new found hope. Instead, as he lay that night, sleepless

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Speaker 1: Whatever it was that inhabited three twenty eight to three

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Speaker 1: its claim to ownership. If it wouldn't leave, they would

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Speaker 1: have to. In January nineteen eighty seven, the small family

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Speaker 1: put their house up for sale. They asked the press

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Speaker 1: to leave them alone to regather the threads of their lives,

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Speaker 1: but tales persisted for years. Some said that the haunting

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Speaker 1: followed the family to the Pennsylvania suburbs. There a story

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Speaker 1: their new home, and that they were only truly freed

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Speaker 1: once the church agreed to conduct a secretive final exorcism

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Speaker 1: for them. But none of this is verified or traceable

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Speaker 1: beyond the supernatural rumor mill endlessly turning on Reddit and

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Speaker 1: ghost hunting websites. What is known is that three twenty

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Speaker 1: eight to three thirty Jay Street was purchased by a

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Speaker 1: rental landlord named Richard Bridle. He claimed that the property

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Speaker 1: Deborah Owens bravely moved in. She lived there for twenty years,

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Speaker 1: and in two thousand and eight told the local West

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Speaker 1: Pitston newspaper, The Times Leader, that she never encountered anything supernatural.

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Speaker 1: Janet's Smile still lives in the West Pittston area with

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Speaker 1: her youngest daughter, Carrien. Today, Karen offers her services as

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Speaker 1: a paranormal consultant. Jack Smell, who sadly died in twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen at the age of seventy five, never once changed

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Speaker 1: his account regarding everything that had apparently happened to him

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Speaker 1: and his family during those strange, unsettling years on Chay Street.

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Speaker 1: The true depth and grain of that shadow will remain

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Speaker 1: forever Unexplained. This episode was written by Neil McRobert and

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Speaker 1: produced by Richard McLain Smith. Thank you as ever for

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