WEBVTT - Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.2 of 2) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.240 Hello, it's Richard McClain smith here, host of Unexplained. I'm 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.320 very excited to announce it's going to be a triple 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.000 whammy of crime Con appearances this year, as I can 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.479 now confirm I will also be attending crime Con in 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.600 the US as well as crime Con UK. Crime Con 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.280 is the world's number one event for true crime and mystery. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.560 It's going to be such a fun and fascinating event 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.279 and I really can't wait to see you all there. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.239 Crime Con twenty twenty six will be in Las Vegas 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.400 May twenty ninth to the thirty first. 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You're listening 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.480 to the second and final part of Unexplained, Season nine, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:22.880 Episode nine, The Uninvited These days, most people know of 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.199 Lorraine and Ed Warrant because of the hugely successful horror 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.920 franchise The Conjuring and its numerous spinofs. In those movies, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.360 the Warrens are portrayed as superheroes of Christ, a source 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.120 of impeccable and photogenic morality, pitched in a battle against 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.679 a demonic threat forever on the cusp of corrupting domestic America. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.480 Their claims were always larger than life. Ed Warrant was 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.480 a self professed self taught demonologist, while Lorraine declared herself 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:59.240 a medium and clairvoyant. Together they founded the New England 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.800 Society for Psychic Research and claimed to have worked on 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.560 over ten thousand cases. It's a hard number to swallow, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.200 and critics of the couple have pointed to fabrications and 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:15.120 possible fraudulents in the Warrens investigations over the years. Yet 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.440 the Warrens were present at many of the most high 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.320 profile supposed hauntings of the nineteen seventies and eighties, some 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.200 of which we've covered on this podcast. These include the 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.680 torment of the Poran family in Rhode Island, the focus 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:35.320 of Season four, episode fourteen, Negative Space, and the infamous 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.880 Enfield poltergeist, as detailed in Season six, episode four, The 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.480 Widening Gyre. They were also the first investigators on site 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.919 at one hundred and twelve Ocean Drive during the renowned 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:53.200 Amitaval Haunting a future episode. Perhaps in arguably, then, the 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.600 Warrens are key figures in the mid twentieth century fascination 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:01.640 with the paranormal and the diabolical. They almost single handedly 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.840 reorientated the culture to pose the home, and by extension, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.400 the American family, as the front line of a war 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.519 between good and evil. Regardless of what we might think 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.560 about their motives or methods, few of their peers have 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.160 any doubt that the Warrens at least had complete and 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.200 genuine belief in their spiritual mission. So when they answered 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.760 a call on a cold morning in January nineteen eighty 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:31.680 six to hear a distraught Janet smile begging for their help, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.400 they felt compelled to answer. Thus began the next and 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.960 most terrifying chapter in the Extraordinary Haunting of an Average 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:51.200 American Family. In the months prior to the Warren's involvement, 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.560 life at three twenty eight to three thirty Chay Street 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.560 in West Pittston Pennsylvania had reached a very dark point 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.080 for the Smells after Janet's nighttime assault, when she was 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.960 supposedly pulled roughly from her bed by an invisible assailant. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.760 Every one was living under a cloud of unseen threat. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.040 Jack and Janet were scared for themselves, but even more 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.919 so for their children. After six year old Shannon was 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.120 seemingly thrown down the stairs by something in the night, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.520 there was no longer any doubt among the children that 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:30.800 something was deeply wrong in their home. The Smell's oldest Dawn, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:35.960 along with her sisters Heather, Karen, and Shannon herself, had 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:41.120 each begun reporting strange disturbances in their bedrooms, fluttering rushing 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.919 sounds like the wings of an enormous bird beating in 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.080 the dark. As the family would later tell author Robert Curran, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.559 who wrote the foremost book on the haunting, only prayer 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.520 had kept them calm during this period. Meanwhile, just a 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.800 wall away on the other side of the duplex, jack parents, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.800 Mary and John also claimed to be suffering from some 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.600 kind of supernatural harassment. However, since they felt their experience 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.880 had been fairly minimal in comparison, they were more anxious 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.719 about how it was affecting their family next door. In 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.800 June nineteen eighty four, Janet was still fragile after the 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.560 strange event in her and Jack's bedroom, and now in 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.479 her mind at least, there was no doubt that some 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.920 kind of demonic entity was stalking their home. The one 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:35.160 constant the family's quiet source of comfort had been their 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:40.159 loyal German shepherd, Simon. Simon had always been gentle with 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.320 the children, as steady presence in a house that no 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.719 longer felt safe. One afternoon, Janet was alone with him 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.839 in the kitchen. She sat at the table, taking a 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:55.279 moment for herself, while Simon laid sprawled at her feet. Then, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.000 without warning, the dog was wrenched violently into the air. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.520 Janet later said it happened so suddenly she barely had 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.800 time to react. Simon was supposedly lifted off the floor 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.159 and held there suspend it as if caught in invisible hands. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.839 A second later, he was hurled across the room, crashing 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.760 into the door frame with a sickening thud. Janet screamed 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.560 as Simon fell limply to the floor. He stayed there, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.640 whimpering while Janet did her best to comfort him. The 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.480 next day, the pair were alone again in the kitchen 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.359 when out of nowhere, Simon began to yelp and cringe. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.920 His legs began to shake and buckle. Then from out 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.359 of his mouth came a hideous wail of pain like 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.200 nothing that Janet had ever heard from him before. She 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.400 later said it was as though he were being invisibly 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.640 flayed right in front of her. Janet crouched down and 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:59.280 held him tenderly until the pain abated. Later that night, 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:10.400 Janet and Jack resolved to finally seek help. As head 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.120 of the local Catholic church, father Raymond Carsiak, had known 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.560 the family for years. When Janet and Jack reached out 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.480 to him for help, he was only too happy to assist. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.320 Over dinner at the Smells Home, Carsiak listened with concern 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.440 as the family detailed the litany of unnerving events that 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:34.080 had taken place over the last few years. Carsiak didn't 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.920 want to jump to any conclusions, but felt at the 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.200 very least that blessing the house might offer the family 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:45.040 some comfort. They should begin upstairs, he suggested, since so 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.400 much of the activity seemed to be focused on the bedrooms. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.720 Taking the small black Bible that he always traveled with 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.360 out of his back, along with a small vial of 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.320 holy water. Father Carsiak asked Janet to lead the way 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.880 as they slowly made their way up the stairs and 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.400 stepped on to the landing. Father Carssiak at the sudden 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:10.840 sense that something in the air had shifted. As Janet 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.200 showed him toward her and Jack's bedroom. She couldn't help 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.600 but notice how the priest's brow had begun to sweat, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.040 how nervous he seemed. Taking a spot at the end 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.920 of the couple's bed, he called out into the air, 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.720 in the name of Jesus Christ. I asked that any 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.120 evil spirit or influence leave this home. May this dwelling 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.600 be filled with the peace and protection of God, the Father, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.880 the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Then he shook the 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.000 vial of holy water and sprinkled it liberally around the room. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.760 And so it went broom after room, until the whole 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:53.560 house had been treated. With each blessing. Father Carsiak became 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.880 more and more pale and nervous. By the time they 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.320 returned to the kitchen. He was sweating profusely and barely 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.600 able to keep upright. He slumped down at the table. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.120 Jack rushed around to help ease him into a chair 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.320 as Janet made up a fresh batch of coffee and 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:15.280 quickly brought him a cup. Mercifully, the father's strength steadily 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.600 returned as he sipped his drink. It was a great 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.920 relief to see him feeling better, but seeing what effect 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.560 the house had on him did little to ease the 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:30.360 family's increasingly troubled minds. Carsiak couldn't explain exactly what it 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.000 was that had set him off, but he hoped his 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.080 blessing would do the trick, and for a short time 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:50.200 it did, until it didn't. In the first few days 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:56.120 after Father Carsiak's visit, all appeared still in the Smiles Duplex. Then, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.640 according to Jack's mother Mary, it was a few nights later, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.520 alone in the house that she awoke suddenly in the night. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.200 At first, she didn't notice anything strange in the dim light, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.920 only the vague sense that the dynamics of the room 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.680 had somehow changed. Then she realized what it was. She 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.320 and her mattress were floating several feet in the air. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.760 In terror, she quickly shuffled off it and carefully lowered 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:29.240 herself to the ground. Moments later, as she told it, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.920 the mattress crashed down onto the bed frame. Meanwhile, next door, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.000 Janet and Jack's home was once again pummeled with all 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:44.400 manner of bizarre occurrences, from creepy, inexplicable knockings to closet 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.400 doors being furiously whipped open and shut seemingly on their 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:53.400 own accord. In desperation, the family called Father Carsiak again. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.439 He returned with his more senior colleague, Monsignor Francis Kane, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.160 in the hope of lending further support and guidance. This 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.760 time he told the family flatly that he was also 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.680 now certain that a malignant entity was menacing them and 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:15.679 their home. He and Monsigneur Kine reiterated the original blessings, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:21.080 and once again things appeared to quiet and down. Over 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.640 the years, the family sought refuge in the countryside at 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.000 the weekends, using their campavan to get away from it all. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.840 It was during these times that the Smell's extraordinary claims 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:37.480 gained the most credibility, because, as many neighbours are said 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.240 to have attested, the apparent haunting didn't stop when the 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:46.640 house was supposedly empty. Though no one saw anything untoward, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.320 it was said that horrific screams were frequently heard emanating 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.800 from inside the property despite no one being inside. On 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:00.000 one occasion, the screams were so intense residents called the police, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.960 concerned that someone was being murdered inside the Smell's home, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.320 but when police arrived to investigate, they found nobody there 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:13.200 and no sign of a disturbance. Before long, the news 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.400 spread throughout the neighborhood that something very disturbing was occurring 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.400 at three twenty eight and three point thirty Jay Street. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.040 For the most part, the community rallied around the family. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.160 This is how you find out who your friends are, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.280 Jack explained, and though there were a few people who 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.360 wanted us to move, the neighbors talked to us and 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.960 tried to come to some sort of peace with it. Indeed, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.560 it was a neighbour who finally offered a lifeline. Carla 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.800 Davis was a friend of Janet's who lived locally and 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.600 was well aware of the family's situation. She and Janet 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.559 had been friends for a long time, and more crucially, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.160 she believed Janet when she told her about everything that 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.960 had been going on. It was Carla who informed Janet 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.600 about an article she'd read regarding a pair of psychic 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:08.000 researchers Lorraine and Ed Warren, who specialized in what the 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:14.520 article described as demonic infestation. The article concerned an apparent 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.240 haunting at West Point Military Academy that the Warrens had 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.920 been investigating. Perhaps Carla thought since they'd worked with the 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.360 US military, they might be credible enough for Janet to 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.680 get in touch with them. At first, however, Janet was skeptical. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.360 She and Jack had always considered occultists to be at 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:40.200 best misguided and at worst out and out Charlatan's. But 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.400 they were also desperate, so she gave them a call. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.520 It was a dark, overcast day when the Warrens pulled 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:58.120 up to the Smells duplex on Chay Street, accompanied by 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:03.680 Rosemary Freutsch, a regular member of their team. Thunder rumbled 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:08.720 overhead as Ed regarded the property with unease. He sensed 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.960 a sinister energy even from inside the car. However, both 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.679 the Rain and Rosemary, who Ed considered more attuned than him, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.880 felt little as they got out and made their way 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.680 to the front door. After being welcomed warmly by Janet 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.360 and Jack, the three of them were invited to take 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.200 a seat in the kitchen as the Smells filled them 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.440 in on everything. Then the Warrens asked them some quick questions. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.920 Had they engaged in any kind of ritual in the 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.400 house or played with a wigi aboard perhaps? Janet and 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.280 Jack looked to each other and shook their heads. The 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.160 Warrens then asked if anyone in the property had been 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:55.840 reading books on witchcraft and satanism. Janet was confused. Both 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.520 she and Jack had read widely on the topic since 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.440 the strange occurrences had been gone. But why would that matter, 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.840 she asked. Ed explained solemnly that in the past they'd 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.640 helped people who they believed had unwittingly drawn demonic attention 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.280 to themselves precisely because they downed too deep into the literature. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.760 Janet was horrified had they made things even worse for 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.360 themselves and their family. Jack reached for Janet's hand and 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.920 gave it a squeeze. He promised that everything would be okay. Then, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:34.840 as ed continued the interview, Lorraine and Rosemary went upstairs 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:40.240 to explore. When they returned, Janet could see the unmistakable 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:45.600 look of concern on Lorraine's face. What is it? She asked? 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.560 There are four spirits in your home, replied Lorraine without pause. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:56.360 Oh God, said Janet, leaning into Jack as Lorraine went 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.040 on to explain. One of them was an old and 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:04.800 senile woman. She wasn't violent, just confused, she assured them, 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:09.480 There was also a younger woman. This spirit was potentially dangerous, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:14.480 she said, insane and violent, but according to Lorraine, probably 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:19.400 placatable by prayer. The third spirit, she continued, was much 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.840 harder to discern. All she could tell was that he 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.840 was a man with a mustache and blonde hair who 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:32.960 was enveloped in sorrow. The fourth was something else, According 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.440 to Ed's account of this conversation in Robert Curran's book, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.720 the Smiles looked at them with weary understanding. You think 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:47.240 it's a demon, don't you, yes, replied Lorraine, sternly, A dangerous, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:58.800 malicious one that was hell bent on causing the family harm. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.120 Jack Smell felt an angry frustration rising up inside him. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.560 Like most people who fell victim to random, nefarious incidents, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.480 he just needed to understand why why was this happening 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:18.680 to them, an ordinary, faithful American family. Ed explained that, 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.000 in his opinion, the demon had likely been present at 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:27.280 Chay Street for a long time, lying dormant. Such things 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.560 tended to latch onto turbulence or emotional energy, he believed, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.240 especially that of children going through puberty. As if all 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.960 that wasn't disturbing enough, he also suggested that, in all likelihood, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.600 Janet and Jack's oldest daughters, Dawn and Heather, may well 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:50.320 have been the catalyst. With the warrant's assessment over, they 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.919 proceeded to perform a number of experiments and interventions in 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.320 the Smell home. They sprinkled holy water and said prayers. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.879 They played liturgic music loudly into each corner of the home. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.760 They set up infrared cameras in Jack and Janet's bedroom 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.119 and ran tape recorders to trace any visual or voice phenomena. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.879 But these interventions only seemed to provoke the entity further. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.879 Over the coming days and weeks, the Smiles were apparently 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.240 beset by more supernatural events than ever before. Those random 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.960 knocking sounds that had been occurring throughout the house now 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.520 became deep, pounding thuds that seemed to shake the very 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.840 foundations of the building. The family also claimed to be 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.000 repeatedly woken from sleep by what they took to be 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:46.600 invisible fingers pouring at their faces. On one occasion, Janet 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.359 also claimed to have woken suddenly with the unmistakable sensation 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.600 that she'd just been slapped across the face. Another time, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.600 Jack was woken in terror by the sound of his 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.480 wife flashing about in bed beside her him unable to 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.320 calm her down, he could only watch in horror as 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.240 she appeared to wrestle with an invisible assailant. When it 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.440 was finally over, he switched on the bedside lamp and gasped. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:18.600 Her skin was covered in inexplicable red marks. By mid 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.119 February in nineteen eighty six, the Warrens agreed it was 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.920 time to bring their wider team to bear on the case. 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.160 Charles Cravitas, a nurse, was the most skeptical of the group. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.080 After arriving at the Smells home, he took the family 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.639 aside and explained his position to them. Having assisted on 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.240 numerous cases with the warrants more often than not, he 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.119 found that most supposed hauntings were in fact just the 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:52.480 result of overactive imaginations or psychological distress. Having heard everything 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.679 about the Smell's case so far, he wasn't shy in 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.240 letting them know that, despite what the Warrens had told them, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.960 he was almost certain that there was no paranormal phenomena 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.600 occurring in the property. Charles spent twenty four hours at 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.280 three twenty eight Chase Street, mostly rushing from room to room, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.159 trying desperately to capture the host of bizarre sounds that 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:20.280 seemed to emanate from the property's walls. Draws rattled and rustled, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:25.480 and on several occasions the lights went out entirely, periods 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:29.679 of darkness in which loud, strange, tearing noises could be 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:34.760 heard from inside the walls. It was an experience, he 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:39.359 later said, that went far beyond anything he'd previously encountered 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:49.600 in all his years of working with the Warrants. Another 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.159 member of the warrants team, Al Vogel, was tasked with 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:58.680 videoing anything untoward that happened in the Smile's home. One time, 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.919 while following Jack around the house with a video camera, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.320 Owl later claimed he suddenly felt an electric charge fill 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.480 the room that made his teeth and sinuses tingle. A 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.679 second later, it felt a rough grip on his shoulders 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:18.000 that jerked him back and forth. Later, when the Warrens 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:22.440 reviewed recordings taken from inside the property, it's claimed they 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.520 saw footage of a mirror that seemed to bend and 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.800 flex within its frame. In another segment, it was said 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.399 the couple noticed something peculiar about a TV set in 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.800 the background. On its screen, despite the power being off, 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.600 an image of a human figure appeared. The Smiles were 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.600 beginning to wonder if they'd ever be rid of the 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:50.000 supposed demonic menace, and the worst was still yet to come. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.920 One morning, Charles Cravitas was in the kitchen when he 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:59.480 heard Jack scream out from upstairs. Moments later, he came 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.000 rushing down down the stairs, still soaking wet, having come 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.320 straight from the shower. Cravitas quickly grabbed a camera and 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.840 began taking photos of Jack's earlobe that seemed to have 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:15.760 become suddenly inflamed. As Jack explained, he just stepped into 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.720 the shower when he felt something prickle on his skin, 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.120 as though he'd just been stung by a bee. As 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.800 he looked about for any sign of the culprit, he 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:29.520 felt something clamp down on his earlobe. As Cravitas took 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:33.920 the pictures, he reeled back in amazement. A third mark 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:37.160 had just appeared on Jack's skin that looked for all 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:41.919 the world like the markings of teeth. For Lorraine, it 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.440 was all in keeping with their initial assessment. The demon 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.639 wanted to hurt them, and its presence in the material 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:53.280 world was getting stronger. By this point. She claimed to 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.960 have already seen it herself, the very same thing that 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.960 both Janet and her mother in law Mary had also 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:05.280 so apparently seen. Lorraine described it as a hunched figure that, 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:10.080 although it rarely stood upright, was immensely powerful, both psychically 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:14.520 and physically. In June, during a rare lull in the chaos, 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.840 the Smiles took the opportunity to enjoy a quiet dinner together, 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:23.160 followed by a movie. Later that night, they all retired 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.960 to bed a little calmer than usual, except for Janet, 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:29.639 who decided to sleep on the couch due to the 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.879 hot weather. As he later told it to author Robert Curran, 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.720 Jack knew something was wrong the moment he woke up. 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:40.800 He didn't know what had roused him, but from the 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.520 moment he opened his eyes he was instantly alert on 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:48.640 the verge of panic. There was a figure standing by 0:23:48.680 --> 0:24:02.080 his bed. As Jack's eyes adjusted in the dark, he 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:06.119 took the figure to be a woman, almost albino like, 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:12.159 with pale white skin mixed with reptilian scales. Jack recoiled 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:14.639 at the sight of her body, which seemed to be 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.199 covered in rupture wounds. Running with puss, the figure that 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.800 he described as looking about sixty to seventy years old, 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:26.880 leered over him, opening its mouth to reveal a set 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:32.480 of gums gone putrescent with sores. The woman creature, or 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:36.359 whatever it was, jumped forward, pinning the naked Jack to 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:40.840 the bed, then proceeded to mount him. Jack could only 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:45.560 lie transfixed as the apparent succubus arched violently back and 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:50.959 forth above him until appearing to climax. Jack later claimed 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:55.280 he felt no pleasure during the whole encounter, only a bright, 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:59.399 complete panic, and then it vanished as suddenly as it 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:04.520 had appeared. After a quick shower to wash himself, Jack 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:08.360 raced downstairs to tell Janet, but before he could explain 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:11.280 what had happened, they were joined by their seventeen year 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:15.919 old daughter, Dawn, who looked deeply troubled. She couldn't sleep, 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:19.440 she said, after having a terrible dream, but she didn't 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:23.200 want to talk about it. According to Janet and Jack, 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:27.639 after some gentle cajoling from them, she finally divulged what 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:31.520 it was. She had found herself standing in the doorway 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:35.359 to her parents' bedroom, forced to watch as some kind 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:39.760 of hideous monster with saws all over its skin had 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:45.800 sex with her father. Devastated by the apparent assault, Janet 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:49.679 knew they had to try something even more drastic. For 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:53.160 a good year, The family had tried repeatedly to convince 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:57.560 the local diocese to take their haunting seriously, without success. 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:01.320 This time, the phone was picked up by a friendly 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:06.320 voice who introduced himself as Father O'Leary. Having gone over 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:09.960 everything again for what seemed like the millionth time, to 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:14.480 Janet's great relief, Father O'Leary was keen to help. More 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.000 than that. He criticized the church for its reticence to 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:21.119 get involved in what was clearly a very serious matter. 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:24.840 He even offered to go directly to the chancellor of 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:28.080 the diocese to plead the case on the family's behalf. 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:32.920 It shouldn't be a problem, he told Janet, call me tomorrow, dear. 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:37.639 The next morning, Janet called for O'Leary again, but this 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:42.040 time someone else answered the phone. This person was confused 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:45.680 by her request to speak to a Father O'Leary, because 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:48.239 no one by that name had ever worked in the 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:58.639 diocese office in the second half of nineteen eighty six. 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:02.440 Believing they too had to do more, the Warrens brought 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:06.040 in a priest named Father Robert McKenna, who worked in 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:10.280 the Diocese of Monroe, Connecticut, close to where the Warrens lived. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:15.120 McKenna was a fifty nine year old staunch traditionalist who 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:18.560 held to the older rights of exorcism. He claimed to 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:22.840 have officiated over fifty of them, but worryingly admitted that 0:27:22.920 --> 0:27:27.000 only twenty had been successful. On his first visit to 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:30.000 the house, he was apparently greeted with a number of 0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:34.879 bizarre occurrencies, from the usual cupboard doors rattling and slamming shut, 0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:38.280 to a noxious odor that seemed to hang in every 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:43.000 room while he was there, everyone present also heard the 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:47.440 sound of a young child screaming coming from some unreachable 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:51.680 place high up in the property. Though the visit did 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:55.840 seem to dampen things somewhat, McKenna was disheartened that he 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:59.840 hadn't been able to fully cleanse the house. To that end, 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:03.040 he returned a few weeks later, where he felt he'd 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:08.240 done enough to finally banish the apparent demonic entity. After 0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:12.200 a cautiously celebratory dinner with the family, he drove away, 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:16.359 leaving the Smiles with hopeful optimism, but it took less 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:21.120 than six hours for the farrau to begin again. That night, 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:24.520 Jack and Janet's mattress were said to have shaken so 0:28:24.680 --> 0:28:28.800 violently they were thrown to the floor, all while that infernal, 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:34.080 ceaseless banging reverberated through the walls. At some point in 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:37.160