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He was a demonologist...
I went into a religious resistance

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and I commanded it to leave
in the name of Jesus Christ.

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She was clairvoyant...

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When you challenge the demonic,

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It waits till you are the most
vulnerable.

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Together, they documented

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the most famous haunting cases

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ever recorded.

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The cases that Ed and Lorraine
Warren worked on

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were groundbreaking.

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Now, for the first time,

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never before released recordings...

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..document how this unassuming
couple devoted their lives

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to saving others from the demonic...

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In the name of Jesus Christ,
I command you to leave.

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..and proving to the world
that the devil exists.

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They thought there
is evil in the world,

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we need to fight it.

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You can't imagine what has taken
place in this home.

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They are the pioneers
of the paranormal,

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Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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In 2013, the film,
'The Conjuring'

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shocked the entertainment industry

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by earning more than $300 million
at the box office

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and spawning a blockbuster movie
franchise.

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The film and its sequels

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are based on real life hauntings

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investigated by famed demonologists,

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Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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Their pioneering investigations
are something

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their daughter Judy can attest to.

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Dad, Mum, they opened
the way for people

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of all these paranormal
groups to start,

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and most of them will say it.

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"If it wasn't for your parents,
I wouldn't be doing this today."

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During their extraordinary
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the Warrens investigated
thousands of reports

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involving poltergeists, demons,
and devils.

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But perhaps the most documented
case of evil

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is one that took place
in Ed Warren's hometown.

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On Sunday, November 24, 1974,

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Ed and Lorraine Warren

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receive a desperate call
from their friend,

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psychic, Mary Pascarella.

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Mary Pascarella was Director

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of the Psychic Research Institute

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in Hamden, Connecticut.

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She was a personal friend of ours
and she said,

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"Ed, you have got to meet me
at this house."

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By the early 1970s,

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Lorraine, a clairvoyant,
and Ed, a demonologist,

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have been investigating
the paranormal

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for over 20 years,

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but to most people, the idea
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is a new phenomenon.

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Mary Pascarella said,

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"We have a real poltergeist
case going on."

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"There's police cars,"

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"people are starting to form
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And that's when Ed said, "Oh, OK."

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"Well, this sounds like
the real deal. We'll be right over."

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The Warrens, along
with Father William Charbonneau,

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arrive at the home
of Jerry and Laura Goodin.

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I went in the house
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firemen, the Goodin family,

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neighbours, and it looked like

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somebody went through the house

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with a baseball bat,

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smashed things off of the walls,
knocked furniture over.

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Every one of these
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when myself and the priest
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they know and asked for the priest's
blessing.

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They were frightened.

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As part of his
investigative technique,

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Ed Warren tapes interviews
with witnesses.

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In these rare recordings,

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we hear Ed speaking with the first
police officers called to the scene.

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After talking
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Ed knows he must experience
the poltergeist himself

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to be certain it's real.

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Ed was really good at trying
to rule out

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the logical physical causes
and explanations.

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He would take a second look.

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He would not just take people's
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I was standing in the kitchen.

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I noticed that there was a movement
from my peripheral vision.

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A set of Melmac dishes
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and landed on the floor.

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A crucifix which was on a wall
was made of plastic, just burst.

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After confirming
the existence of a poltergeist,

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the Warrens gather more information
to help the Goodin family.

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In this unearthed recording,
Ed interviews the homeowners,

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Jerry and Laura, about
when the hauntings began.

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The Goodins tell
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that the previous evening
something attacked them.

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Jerry was bringing
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Laura's in the kitchen,

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and this table picks itself up,
throwing groceries everywhere...

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..and then these dishes come up
and go flying.

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The knives came out
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and were flown around the room.

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They didn't know what to do.

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The Goodins admit being
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but not overly concerned.

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So they straightened up the kitchen,

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hoping it's just an isolated
experience.

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But it's not.

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Jerry's ready to go
back in and say,

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"Laura, you're not gonna
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Meanwhile, she's coming out

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because other things are happening.

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They have these three heavy
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and they're opening
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all three of them in concert.

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It was horrifying.

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That's when the Goodins
say they reached out

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to their neighbour for help,

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off-duty police officer
John Holsworth.

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Several minutes later,
patrol officers arrive on scene.

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When they witness the unexplained,

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the officers contact
the Fire Department.

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Firemen, they don't know what to do

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because they start witnessing things

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and they saw the TVs moving,

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they saw the chairs going in
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It was pretty clear to them

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that this was not a job
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As the public statement went,

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"We're not very good at fighting
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City engineers are
also baffled by what is happening.

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Outside,
news of the strange happenings

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on Lindley street
attract huge crowds.

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Just a few months before the film,
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shocked audiences
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of the devil and the power of evil.

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So, when news reports surfaced
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what was once thought to be fiction

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suddenly seems frighteningly real.

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Naturally, the media got word
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and then it goes out on the AP wire,

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and now it's being reported
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and it even goes outside
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My friends had known
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because it was the news
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So they said, "Let's go down
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And here's this massive
crowd of people.

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I went to school with a policeman
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and he looked at me and he said,
"Judy, this is real."

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"This is real, what happened."

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Convinced they are dealing
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Ed asks Father Charbonneau
to perform a house blessing.

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The religious ritual
goes forward without a hitch

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until they move to the basement.

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Suddenly, as quickly
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the black mass vanishes.

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Father Charbonneau seminary
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21-year-old, Paul Eno,

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sees Lorraine coming under attack.

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Lorraine and I were
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All of a sudden, Lorraine
kind of let out a little yelp

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and a blister formed
right on her hand.

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Coming up, previously
unreleased recordings

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of the investigation
that made the Warrens famous.

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The extraordinary happenings

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began on Friday.

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Some furniture began to move

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and then a crucifix
fell off the wall.

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Ed and Lorraine Warren
had never investigated a case

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with so many eyewitnesses before,

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and by Sunday night,

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news of the Bridgeport poltergeist

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spreads far beyond the city limits.

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We had observed

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the movement of objects

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refrigerator, bureaus.

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No one could have possibly moved
this thing.

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The moment Lorraine crosses
the threshold,

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she feels the house acknowledge
her presence.

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Then it begins to wage war.

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Ed became quite concerned
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affect her being sensitive
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And he was worried about something
much bigger.

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Ed and Father Charbonneau
take Lorraine home for the night,

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but leave Paul Eno behind
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especially the Goodins'
ten-year-old, Marcia.

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Ed told me to keep an eye
on her, to stay with her,

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to make sure she wasn't doing
any of these things

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because there was a natural
assumption

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that the child who seemed to be
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would be the one perpetrating it.

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while playing a board game
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Paul senses something wrong.

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All of a sudden I felt
a surge of energy.

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There was like an ozone smell.

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I looked into the kitchen.

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The air had turn like this gauzy,
whitish colour.

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I picked up a Orthodox prayer book

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and I started reading
an Akathist or hymn

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to the glory of Christ.

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that's when the gauzy mist forms
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Just instinctively,
I pushed against it.

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It pushed back.

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It was a solid structure,
almost the skeletons of birds.

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That's what it felt like.

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There was a bone structure there.

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When the entity was standing
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I got angry and I was also fearful

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because I knew it
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I wanted to protect her.

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The energy was
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I decided to pull everybody
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because I didn't know what
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It felt like the place was gonna
explode.

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Convinced they are dealing
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the Warrens make plans to perform
an exorcism.

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Marcy hugged me, said,

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"Promise, promise me
you'll come back."

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And I did.

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Mrs Goodin hugged me and said,

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"Promise us you'll come back."

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The following morning,
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declares the haunting a hoax
perpetrated by Marcia Goodin.

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The exorcism would never take place.

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The girl admitted
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she's been banging on walls,
knocking pictures off.

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We have no ghost in Bridgeport.

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Chief Walsh made it his business

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to make sure that he was
going to call that a hoax.

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It's impossible
that this was a hoax.

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Apparently, right after we had left,

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Superintendent Walsh
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Said, "This ends here now."

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He not only made fools
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he made fools out of his own men.

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These police officers were
going into the media,

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which were all around the house,
in the house,

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telling them about the things
that they experienced.

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Ed was very frustrated
by it all.

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He thought with all of these
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all of these firefighters,
all of these media people,

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that the truth finally would
come out about poltergeist activity.

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Two months later,

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vindication comes
when the police department

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allows a parapsychology group

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to tape record interviews
with the police officers.

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Today, those tapes, most never
before shared with the public,

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offer a unique insight
into what many describe

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as the Roswell of haunted houses.

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Something happened.

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You can argue if you want,
whether it's a poltergeist,

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whether a poltergeist is a demon,
but something happened

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and nobody really could explain
what happened.

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That case stands out in my mind

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and the annals of psychic research

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as one of the most powerful,
most credible cases

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of poltergeist activity
ever recorded.

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And it was recorded.

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Despite a widespread belief

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that something paranormal
had occurred,

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the Bridgeport incident fails
to convince a sceptical public

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that demons do exist.

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Their mission in life
was to let people know

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that the devil existed,
that he was real.

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Understanding
the paranormal

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is something Ed's been obsessed
with since he was a young boy,

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growing up in Bridgeport,
Connecticut.

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I lived in a haunted house
when I was a boy.

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Many times I would hear the closet
door opening up.

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I'd look into that closet darkness,

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I start to see a light
starting to form,

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and I went into like a ball shape

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and then I'd see face in that ball.

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It was a face of an old lady.

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Next thing, the ball
came out into my bedroom.

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The room became icy cold
and I could hear footsteps.

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I could hear heavy breathing.

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I'm saying to myself,

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there's a logical reason
for all of this.

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He went to his father one day

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and he says, "Weird things
happen in this house."

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"I see shadows. This old lady."

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His father looked at Ed and said,

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"Ed, there's a logical reason

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for everything that happens
in this house."

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Then Ed laughed when he told me.

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He says, "My father never gave me
a logical reason."

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"He just said there's a logical
reason. Then he dropped it."

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Like Ed, Lorraine
is a child when she first discovers

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the supernatural
and her clairvoyant abilities.

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It started when I was
probably about nine years old,

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when I first had experiences

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where I could see lights
around people,

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but the lights that I could
see around people,

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I thought everybody could see that.

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When Lorraine
was nine years old,

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she went to an all girls
Catholic school,

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very prestigious.

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And there's two nuns overseeing
everybody outside the classroom,

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Mother Superior and Sister Joseph.

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Lorraine says, "Hey, look,
Sister Joseph's lights, look."

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"Her lights are brighter
than Mother Superior's lights."

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What she was seeing was the aura
around Mother Superior

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and around Sister Joseph.

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Anything that's alive
that god has created has an aura

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and a certain psychic
can see the aura,

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and when she said,
"Her lights are brighter",

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she meant the aura
was more spectacular,

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more colours emanating
from around her body.

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Mother Superior overhears this
conversation about the lights

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between the two girls,
she walks over to Lorraine.

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She says, "Lorraine, we don't
speak of things like that here."

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You couldn't share things like that
with the nuns.

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That was very much frowned upon,
and if I tried at home,

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it was fine as long as I could joke
and light-hearted,

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but it was never anything
to be discussed seriously.

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And Lorraine related
to me later,

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she said it many times,
"I never wanted to be different."

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"In fact, I never even told
my parents."

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Lorraine's life changes
when, as a teenager,

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she meets Ed at the local movie
theatre where he worked.

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I was an usher in a small theatre
called The Colonial.

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She used to come with her mother
every Wednesday night.

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We started talking
and became friends

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and I was 16 at the time,
she was 16.

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One night, I walked her home,
asked her for a date.

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That's how it started.

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Ed was always
impeccably dressed.

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He used to have tightly-creased
pants, nice hair.

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This is what Lorraine said.
She goes,

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"They introduced me to Ed
and I smiled because I said,"

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"'Boy, what a nice looking young man
that is.'"

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And then she says,
"He smelled like Noxzema."

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She swore he was a lifeguard
in the daytime

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and he used to get red.

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He would put this Noxzema cream
all over his face and body

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to cool down his body.

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That's what she remembered,
the first encounter.

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Then I went to the Navy
the day I was 17

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and while I was in the Navy,
we wrote back and forth.

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Most of our courtship, we were kids

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and it was through mail

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because Ed had entered the service
soon after we met.

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00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,000
While serving in the Navy
during World War II,

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a life threatening experience
proved to Ed once and for all

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that there was a greater spiritual
dimension to life.

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Coast Guard cutters
and fireboats battle flames

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in one of the worst shipping
disasters of the war.

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While serving
in the US Navy during World War II,

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a fiery collision
with an oil tanker

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00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,600
forces Ed Warren
and some 100 other sailors

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to fight for their lives
in the icy Atlantic.

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He goes into the water

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and sees one of his sailor buddies
in trouble.

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This guy named Salazar.

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00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,800
Ed swims over to Salazar,
puts his arm around him,

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and starts to pull him away.

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00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,080
And Ed says,
"I'm pulling the guy away."

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"But I don't know where I'm going.
All I see is a wall of flame."

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I said a prayer to the blessed
mother.

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00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,800
That gasoline opened up
and went around us.

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Then a Coast Guard picket boat
comes through the flames

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and pulls us out of the water.

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Is that miraculous?
Is that an angel?

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I was a survivor,
a lot of guys were killed that day

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and I came home on survivor's leave.

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I had a 30 day leave.

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Ed came home.

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He said, "Lorraine,
let's get married."

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He only had a few hours to do it
and get back, but he did it.

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He married Lorraine in May 22, 1945.

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She was 18 and he was going on 19.

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We got married in Bridgeport,

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had a great big honeymoon.

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One night, took a train
to New Haven,

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stayed at the Taft Hotel,

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and came back in the morning,
left for the Navy again.

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And we were married
while he was still in service

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and our daughter was born
while he was still on active duty.

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So, when he came home
from the service,

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I was at that time maybe about 20,
21 years old.

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After the war
and supports his family

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as an artist, selling paintings
of homes and landscapes

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to tourists visiting New England.

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00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,640
He was selling the paintings
for three dollars and five dollars.

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00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,400
Back then, it was a pretty good
haul.

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If he sold five or six paintings
in a day, he did pretty well.

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00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,360
But then they were always
interested in haunted places.

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00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,280
"Remember, back then,"
he goes,

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00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:34,200
"Lorraine and I used
to stay at a cabin up in Vermont"

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00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,000
"for a dollar a day."

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00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,200
"We used to buy a hot dog
for ten cents."

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00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,520
He says, "And I used to fill the car
up, 18 cents a gallon."

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00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,000
He said, "So, if I had $25
in my pocket, I was rich."

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00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,760
That's how they supported
themselves for a long time.

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He would sell these paintings

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and go into these tourist spots
and just sitting there

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00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,160
and talking to people, explaining
how he did the painting

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00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,320
and why he did it.

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00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,400
'Cause he'd find haunted houses
to paint too.

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00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,960
While traveling
through New England,

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00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,040
Ed and Lorraine visit
the Ocean-Born Mary House,

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00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:06,840
a legendary haunted residence

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00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,800
located in Henniker, New Hampshire.

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00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,840
Curious, Ed talks
with the homeowner, Louis Roy,

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00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,440
about his experiences
with the house.

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00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,760
While he's interviewing Mr Roy,

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00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,240
Lorraine is - she's over the back
of the chair like this,

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00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,880
listening to Ed
very, very diligently.

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00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,080
All of a sudden Ed asks Lorraine
a question like,

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00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,080
"Isn't that right, Lorraine?"
No answer.

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00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,440
He looks back and Lorraine
is staring like this

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00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:30,680
in a trance-like state.

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00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,560
Ed starts getting really nervous.

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00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,440
He's like, "Mr Roy, what's wrong?
My wife there. What's happening?"

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00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,520
Mr Roy very calmly says,

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00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,040
"That happens to a lot
of clairvoyants in the house."

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00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,320
Lorraine leaves her body
and looks down

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00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,760
and she can see Ed talking
to Mr Roy and she said,

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00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,760
"That was the first time
I knew not to fear death."

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00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,080
But all of a sudden,
she snapped back into her body

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00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,400
like somebody jolted
her back into her body.

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00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,520
Lorraine's clairvoyance

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00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,240
inspires Ed to seek out
other haunted houses.

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00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,240
Ed would read about these places.

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00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,800
Then he'd go up and find
the location

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00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,280
and he'd paint the house.

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00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,160
I'd do a real nice sketch
of the house,

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00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,320
ghosts coming out of it
and everything, you know,

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00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,880
and give it to Lorraine
and she'd go knock on the door

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00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,160
and with her Irish personality,

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00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,760
she'd say, "Oh, my husband loves
to sketch and paint haunted houses,"

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00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,280
"and he made this for you."

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00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,320
And that would pretty much
be their ticket in.

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00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,560
They would get to talk to
the homeowners about their ghosts,

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00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,840
and Ed would learn
that they've had experiences

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00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,440
that are pretty similar
to what he went through as a child.

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00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,240
And from there,
an entire career developed.

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00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,720
It progressed from just talking
about the ghosts

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00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,720
to people calling them
in on cases to come and observe

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00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,760
what's going on in the house
or to clear the house.

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00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,080
And they would talk with anybody
about cases

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00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,440
and their views of the paranormal.

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00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,880
That influenced me in the ways

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00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:02,280
of just understanding
that everybody's different.

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00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:04,040
Everybody has paranormal problems.

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00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:06,440
Typically, the people who would
contact the Warrens

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00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,640
would be families.

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00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,400
It doesn't matter, socioeconomic
background doesn't matter,

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00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,800
race, ethnicity, people of all ages.

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00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,680
Once the ball gets rolling
on something like that,

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00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,720
you know, once you start helping
somebody,

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00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,040
you don't stop and say,

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00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:24,080
"OK, I'm going to leave
those there."

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00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,720
They just kept going.
They just kept helping.

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00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,640
You know, because there was always
somebody else and everything,

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00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,040
and no matter what was happening,

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00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:35,240
if they could get help for them,
they were going to do it.

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00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,320
It's always been my experience

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00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,040
that the one thing we all have
in common

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00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,680
is that we are susceptible
to negative energy.

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00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,720
It gets to the point between
the 1950s into the 1960s,

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00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,520
if you lived, especially
in New England,

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00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,000
and you had a weird ghost story
in your house,

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00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,920
you would find them and ask them
to come to your home

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00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,200
and check it out because no one else
was doing it.

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00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,640
For Ed and Lorraine,
both devout Roman Catholics,

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00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,320
a belief in the supernatural
comes naturally.

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00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,800
Now, I was brought up a Catholic.

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00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,040
My father was a very strict
Catholic.

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00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,200
And I can remember one time,
Father Tomasco,

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00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,960
he said to my father,
"You know, Frank,"

477
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,320
"you won't believe what's happening
two blocks away from here."

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00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,920
"There's a man under possession."

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00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,440
He said, "This guy takes
on the appearance of a pig"

480
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,440
"and he makes noises like a pig."

481
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,840
"There's these foul smells."

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00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,520
"So, we are going to perform
the rite of exorcism over this man."

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00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,400
Now, I'm only eight years old,
but that was the very first time

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00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,200
I ever heard about anything
like that.

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00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,760
Our perspective plays
a lot into the paranormal phenomena

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00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,400
in general.

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00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,160
What we bring into the situation

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00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,320
is what we're going to get
out of it.

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00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,760
The Warrens, they were both
Roman Catholic,

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00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,040
so they had that belief system
framework on the phenomenon.

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00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,560
By the early 1970s,
Ed and Lorraine

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00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,920
have investigated hundreds
of hauntings

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00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,960
and are known as the seekers
of the supernatural

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00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,400
throughout New England.

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00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,840
But most of the general public
views demons and devils

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00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,120
as the stuff of a skewed
imagination.

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00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,720
Inspired by their unique childhood
experiences,

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00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,920
Ed and Lorraine are on a quest
to prove that demons, devils,

499
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,080
and the supernatural exist.

500
00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:32,680
The paranormal changes world views

501
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,240
in a way that nothing else
really does.

502
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,680
It's terrifying.

503
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,160
It's that line of not understanding,
I think,

504
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,520
that drives everyday ghost hunters

505
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,480
to want to find out what it is,

506
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,440
why they want to gather evidence.

507
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,360
There's that need to not just
prove to themselves

508
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:53,440
that it's real,

509
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:58,080
but to prove to everybody else,
this is real, this is happening.

510
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,640
A devout Catholic,

511
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,200
Ed views the paranormal
through his religious beliefs

512
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,920
to exorcise any demons, he must
invoke the power of the church.

513
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,320
Ed uses audio and video recordings

514
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,240
as proof to convince church
leaders to become involved.

515
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,560
More often than not,

516
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,440
it's an uphill battle.

517
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,680
Ed and Lorraine Warren
initially started

518
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,800
investigating homes throughout
New England

519
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,280
because a lot of paranormal activity
seems to reside here.

520
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,800
Ed wanted to find out

521
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,680
have other people lived in haunted
houses?

522
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,120
What was it like for them?

523
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,120
And he never stopped looking
from age five

524
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,320
until the day he died,
looking for more haunted houses,

525
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,080
wanting to talk to people about
their experience in those homes.

526
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,520
People would call and say,
this is happening,

527
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,280
that is happening,
what should we do?

528
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,520
At the drop of a hat,

529
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,960
they go if people needed them,
never asked for money

530
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,800
because these people were desperate.

531
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,840
There was no one else to call.

532
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:22,880
In 1971,

533
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,800
a young Rhode Island family

534
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,080
suffers a series of threatening
hauntings.

535
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,120
They desperately seek help from Ed
and Lorraine,

536
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,440
who are known for their paranormal
investigations

537
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,240
and doing battle with the demonic.

538
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,560
When I go into a home,
I'm not looking for devils.

539
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,000
I'm not looking for ghosts.

540
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,880
What I'm looking for is a natural
explanation

541
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,760
as to what's going on.

542
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,600
Only when I find that there is
something supernatural,

543
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,480
something paranormal,
do I accept it.

544
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,240
Ed Warren was passionate
about gathering evidence.

545
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,840
That's what he would say over
and over and over again.

546
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,800
"I want to show you the evidence."

547
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,960
"I don't want to just tell you
a ghost story."

548
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,240
"I want you to see the ghost,
hear the ghost."

549
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,720
"I want you to experience it
in some way."

550
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,160
And that's what he was really
all about.

551
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:15,840
Was, "How do I gather
that evidence?"

552
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,680
Ed also pioneers the use
of technology

553
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,000
and evidence gathering during
paranormal investigations.

554
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,080
Paranormal investigation today
hasn't really changed all that much

555
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,400
since when Ed and Lorraine
were doing it.

556
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,280
We're still using audio recorders,

557
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,400
we're still using video recorders,
we're still using EMF meters.

558
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,080
But is the same process.

559
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,200
We are trying to go
into an environment

560
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,600
and use gear to say,
"Is there something here?"

561
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,200
"Can I measure it?
Can I capture it in some way?"

562
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,640
Roger and Carolyn Perron

563
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,840
say the haunting started the day
they and their five daughters

564
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,320
moved into this 18th century
farmhouse

565
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,360
known today as The Conjuring House.

566
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,560
Andrea Perron's carrying
boxes from the truck

567
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,160
and setting it down in the kitchen.

568
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,440
And she sees this man.

569
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,680
That she thought was with the
previous owner,

570
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,240
then her sister sees the same man.

571
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,320
Her third sister comes
in with another box

572
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,600
and the man just kind of slowly
vanishes.

573
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,200
Over time, more and more strange
things are happening.

574
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,240
Carolyn Perron, the mother,

575
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,040
she seemed to be the focal point

576
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,720
of a lot of the negative energy.

577
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:35,040
I remember coming here once
with the Warrens and Carolyn said,

578
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,800
and this always stuck with me
and still does years later,

579
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,280
she went to cut open an orange

580
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,200
and blood spurted out.

581
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,000
Living in a haunted house

582
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,640
is something that's difficult
for people to understand.

583
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,320
Everyone in the family almost
feels like it's only affecting them.

584
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,880
You get afraid to tell someone else
because you think,

585
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,240
"Well, they'll think I'm crazy
or I don't want to scare anyone."

586
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,200
And so each sister is experiencing
different things.

587
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,280
But Carolyn Perron, she's seeing
an older woman in the house,

588
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,840
apparitions, objects are moving.

589
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,680
She's afraid. She's afraid
for herself.

590
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,840
She's afraid for her family.
And so she seeks help.

591
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,640
While Ed interviews
the parents about their experiences,

592
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,080
Lorraine attempts to pick up

593
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,720
the presence of paranormal energy
or entities,

594
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,080
Lorraine is walking
through the house

595
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,760
and seeing what she picks up,

596
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,720
trying not only to connect,
but to see where are the hot spots,

597
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,720
where is this entity or entities
located specifically?

598
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,640
Lorraine would put her hands out
when she would walk into a room,

599
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,880
and you usually knew
when she was getting something

600
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,240
because she'd have a certain
look on her face.

601
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,640
Sometimes she would even
interact with it.

602
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,680
She would ask a question
and listen for the response.

603
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,760
In the Perron farmhouse,
Lorraine picks up the presence

604
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,680
of what appears to be a female
spirit.

605
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,240
Ed depended on Lorraine a lot.

606
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,160
So, if Lorraine says,
"I'm not picking anything up",

607
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,720
that was good enough for Ed to say,
"Maybe this place isn't haunted."

608
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,920
So, because Lorraine was picking
something up in this house,

609
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,680
Ed is now focused, hyper focused.

610
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,040
He's thinking something is
going on here.

611
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,440
What it is he doesn't quite know yet

612
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,520
because this is just the very
early stages.

613
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,200
This is just the first
investigation.

614
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,640
They're gonna have to dive
in deeper.

615
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,040
They're gonna have to connect

616
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,400
with whatever is here to try
to identify it.

617
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,960
Is it just the spirit of a person
that lived here

618
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,040
or died here or is it
something more sinister?

619
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,760
Ed and Lorraine suggest
holding a seance

620
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,400
to contact who or what is haunting
the Perron family?

621
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,760
The seance will allow them
to maybe find a name,

622
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,560
maybe find a motive for why some
spirit might be stuck here.

623
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,600
Carolyn Perron is for it.
She's fine. She just wants answers.

624
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,960
Roger Perron is a little more
sceptical,

625
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,920
but he goes along with it anyway.

626
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,240
Two days later,
the Warrens,

627
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:09,960
along with Roger and Carolyn Perron,

628
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,200
gather to perform a seance.

629
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,960
And they're going to hold
the seance right here

630
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,320
in this room behind me.

631
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,440
They're sitting around a table.
Lorraine is a psychic medium.

632
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,880
She's gonna take some deep breaths,
close her eyes,

633
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,600
and she's gonna try to connect

634
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,680
with whatever might be there.

635
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,400
She'll start to ask who's around.

636
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,480
But then suddenly things take
a dangerous turn.

637
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,640
Something, some unseen force,
overpowers Carolyn,

638
00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:44,520
she is picked up from her chair,
thrown across the floor

639
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,920
to the ground.

640
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,840
Very, very unexpectedly,

641
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,560
Carolyn began speaking in strange
tongues.

642
00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:54,520
She became possessed.

643
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,280
Roger is petrified for his wife.

644
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,200
Something's happening to her

645
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,480
that he's never seen
anything like this.

646
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,400
So, he runs to her,
but Ed stops him.

647
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,040
Ed believes that she's under
demonic attack

648
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,080
and that if Roger intervenes
in any way,

649
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:10,880
he could put himself in danger.

650
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,840
At that point, Roger's furious,
and he punches Ed in the face

651
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,920
'cause he's hell bent
on helping his wife.

652
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,560
And then Roger kicks Ed and Lorraine
Warren out of this house,

653
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,560
and they're not allowed back again.

654
00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:29,680
The Warrens learn
a difficult lesson.

655
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,360
Even with the best of intentions,

656
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,640
investigating the paranormal
can be a dangerous undertaking.

657
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:43,200
In this case, I do not believe
that any exorcism,

658
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,880
any ritual of a religious nature

659
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,600
or anyone could ever clear that home

660
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,120
of the very negative human
and inhuman spirits

661
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,760
which are bringing about
these destructive acts.

662
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,720
As good as the Warrens might be,

663
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,600
they don't have 100% success rate.

664
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:08,840
Nobody does, and sometimes
unintended consequences ensued

665
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,960
when they did a seance or in
the course of the investigation.

666
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,880
While The Conjuring case
would not be the one

667
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,080
to convince the public
demons are real,

668
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,880
years later,
the Amityville Horror case

669
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,080
would open the eyes of the world.

670
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,520
Five years after
The Conjuring House,

671
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,400
the Warrens find themselves
in the middle

672
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,000
of what will become the world's most
infamous haunting,

673
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,920
this time in a sleepy village
on New York's Long Island.

674
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,120
A lot of people will look at a home

675
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,640
and think the place looks
like a haunted house,

676
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,400
but looking at the Amityville home,

677
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,200
you would have never thought
that anything was going on there,

678
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,880
any type of paranormal activity.

679
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,960
But you never truly know
until you look inside.

680
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,440
The three story
Dutch colonial

681
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,400
is where in November 1974,

682
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,840
Ronald DeFeo Jr shoots and kills
the six members of his family.

683
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,280
Ronald DeFeo Jr
walked into the house

684
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,480
with a rifle in the middle
of the night.

685
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,440
First he went
to his parents' bedroom

686
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,400
and he shot them both in their beds
where they slept.

687
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,520
Then he went down the hall
and systematically shot

688
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,560
each of his brothers,
each of his sisters.

689
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,400
Then a year later,
the new owners,

690
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:34,760
George and Kathy Lutz,

691
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,760
hold a press conference where
they announce

692
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,240
that they have abandoned the home

693
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,800
after just 28 days claiming
the house to be haunted.

694
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,080
The Choice is Channel 5!

695
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,000
Metromedia New York, 5!

696
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,840
I just happened to be
at Channel Five working on a series

697
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,600
on psychic phenomenon
and paranormal events,

698
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,040
so of course, we were going to do
the story.

699
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:00,600
Now, this was not

700
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:01,960
the Amityville Horror Case

701
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,040
at that time.

702
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,760
This was just another haunted house

703
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,160
and we didn't even realise

704
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:07,720
that six people had been murdered

705
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,800
in that house.

706
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:09,880
So we said, "Sure."

707
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,480
"We'd come down there." And we did.

708
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,480
And that was the beginning
of an adventure,

709
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,440
which we'll never forget,
a supernatural adventure.

710
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,120
Laura DiDio sets up
a meeting

711
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,080
between the Warrens and George Lutz.

712
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,000
George tells Ed and Lorraine
about some of the insane stuff

713
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:27,520
that happened.

714
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,600
Windows would open and close.

715
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,560
They would hear strange sounds,

716
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,200
they would hear voices.

717
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,320
They would see ghost lights
over their beds, in the rooms.

718
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,680
The beds are shaking.

719
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:43,680
They heard screams and they couldn't
get to the children.

720
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,360
This house, something dark
is going on.

721
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,360
Investigating hauntings are,

722
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,800
you know, you never know
what you're going to walk into.

723
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,040
Each one is individualised
and people experience things

724
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,240
in their own way,

725
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,000
they have different dynamics
in the family, certainly.

726
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,240
You don't know where it's going
to lead.

727
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,120
Sometimes it can get a little scary,

728
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,280
sometimes it can get a little
dangerous.

729
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,680
George Lutz was an ex-marine,

730
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:08,960
karate expert,

731
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,320
he ran around with motorcycle gangs.

732
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,720
We're talking about a rough,
tough guy

733
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,720
who after 28 days in that house,
fled, left everything behind,

734
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,440
took his wife and children
and went off to California.

735
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,480
After speaking
with George Lutz,

736
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,000
Ed and Lorraine inspect
the Amityville house.

737
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,040
It would be a visit
they would never forget.

738
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,440
The very first night
that Ed and I went to that home,

739
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,640
I was fearful, but I didn't know
what I was fearful of.

740
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:40,480
I took with me a relic

741
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,800
of a very pious priest,

742
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,040
and I asked many clergy

743
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,160
of different faiths to enter

744
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:51,680
that home with us in spirit
and prayers to protect us.

745
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:56,200
My mother was more affected
by these things,

746
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,120
but she's very religious
and she depended on that,

747
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,800
always, she relied on her
religion to get her through.

748
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,680
When the Lutzes said
they fled in terror,

749
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,400
they weren't kidding,
they left everything there.

750
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,320
It looked like you might have
just gone out to go to school,

751
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,640
work, run some errands.

752
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:21,760
Everything was just the way
they left it.

753
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:27,280
The media asked me
to go onto the second floor

754
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,560
to tell them what I felt.

755
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,760
And as I was going up the stairs,

756
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,720
I reached a point where it felt

757
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:41,960
as if a force of water
coming against my chest,

758
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,400
almost like a waterfall.

759
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,680
It was the worst feeling.

760
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,880
I stopped on the landing
and held tight to the relic

761
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,440
that was in my hand
and asked for strength and direction

762
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,960
in going forward.
It felt ominous to me.

763
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,120
There was something inhuman
or very, very negative.

764
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,720
She started to feel ill
there, nauseous,

765
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,280
and she could pick up the things
that had happened, the murders.

766
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,800
If somebody dies a violent
and sudden death,

767
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:24,600
many of those people,
especially kids,

768
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,240
were not prepared to cross over

769
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:31,160
and may be confused and deciding
were hanging around.

770
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,200
Lorraine was picking up
on all of that

771
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,080
and it was having a physical
effect on her.

772
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:45,040
That was not unusual again
in the world of the paranormal.

773
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,120
My mother, she would relive
things,

774
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,160
she could see these things
happening.

775
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:53,800
And she said herself that was
the closest to hell

776
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,880
that she'd ever want to go.

777
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,480
While Lorraine is upstairs,

778
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,520
Ed Warren searches
down in the basement,

779
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,880
hoping to provoke any demonic
spirits.

780
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,200
I felt as though I was
underneath a waterfall.

781
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,920
That's how terrific the pressure
was on my head and shoulders,

782
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,400
forcing me down to the floor.

783
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,920
Forced to the ground,
Ed fights back

784
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,600
the only way he knows how.

785
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,960
I went into a religious
resistance.

786
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,600
and I, again, commanded it
to leave the name of Jesus Christ.

787
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,800
It immediately lifted off.

788
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,560
I knew right at that point
what we were dealing with.

789
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,360
Ed survives the attack

790
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,000
and is now convinced a demon
infests the house.

791
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,560
Two weeks later, he and Lorraine
returned to Amityville,

792
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,160
this time to hold a seance.

793
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,880
Joining the Warrens
are several other psychics,

794
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,520
paranormal researchers,
and members of the media,

795
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,120
including Laura DiDio.

796
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,360
During the seance itself, what came
through for Lorraine Warren

797
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,720
was she felt a demonic presence.

798
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,360
Mary Pascarella,
one of the other psychics,

799
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,720
she felt there had been a warlock

800
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,680
living right where the house
was built in 1928.

801
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,880
She felt that this man

802
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,760
had brought a lot of dark
energy with him.

803
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,880
Although the seance
is intense,

804
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,880
the group does not make
contact with the other side.

805
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,760
But several people report
feeling ill.

806
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,520
Our cameraman walked up the stairs,

807
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:49,000
got to the second floor landing
where Lorraine had been ill,

808
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,920
and all of a sudden
he clutched his chest,

809
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,960
doubled over in pain,

810
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,280
and I could see the colour draining
out of his face.

811
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,000
Mary Pascarella,
who was the director

812
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,920
of the Psychic Research Institute
in Hamden, Connecticut,

813
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,640
never went into a haunted house
after that. She gave up the work.

814
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,240
They did not feel
so much that there were ghosts

815
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,240
of the murdered DeFeo family,

816
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,760
but they felt that there was
a demonic presence there.

817
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,520
And Lorraine said another priest,
an exorcist,

818
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,360
is gonna have to come here
and cleanse the house.

819
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,640
The Warrens hope
an exorcism,

820
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:27,120
especially one caught on film,

821
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,760
will prove once and for all
to the world that demons are real.

822
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,840
But just like
in the Bridgeport Poltergeist case,

823
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,480
the exorcism never takes place.

824
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,160
Instead, George and Kathy Lutz

825
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:43,160
let the bank foreclose on the house

826
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,000
and move their family to California.

827
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,000
The Warrens kept in touch with them

828
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,840
long after they had moved out
of New York and to California.

829
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,680
They were very concerned
at the impact

830
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,520
of those experiences
on the Lutz children.

831
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,680
And they did that with every case.

832
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,680
They didn't go in asking for money.

833
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:08,120
They had a sincere desire to help.

834
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,440
Today, the Amityville house
remains a curiosity.

835
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,400
But its succession of owners
have not admitted experiencing

836
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,240
any hauntings.

837
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,080
A hundred families could move
into an Amityville horror house.

838
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,160
Nothing would happen.

839
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,120
Evil spirits who haunt houses
do not like happy homes.

840
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,600
So, they leave.

841
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,760
They go where there's a lot
of antagonism,

842
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,120
a lot of arguments, violence.
This is what they thrive on.

843
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,800
In 1977, a best selling
book by Jay Anson

844
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,960
and subsequent film adaptation
turned the Amityville Horror

845
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,720
into the world's most famous
paranormal event.

846
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,280
Although not featured in either
the book or the movie,

847
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,120
through their connection to the case,

848
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,520
Ed and Lorraine Warren
become famous.

849
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,400
They were no longer
the "Warrens ghost hunters."

850
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,160
They're "America's ghost hunters,"

851
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:02,640
Lorraine and Ed Warren.

852
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,320
Would you welcome

853
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,920
Ed and Lorraine Warren?

854
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:12,440
The Amityville case made Ed and
Lorraine Warren's career explode.

855
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,720
It put them into the national
consciousness.

856
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,360
Last year,
over one million Ouija boards

857
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:19,920
were sold in America.

858
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,560
I'd like to know what it is
that's out there.

859
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,880
'The Exorcist' took it out
of the closet,

860
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,520
but now you have
real life demonologist,

861
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,160
paranormal investigators,
and exorcists

862
00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:32,520
who have a lot of credibility.

863
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,720
The way they worked with the media,

864
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,040
the way that they got the word out,

865
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,280
opened up the doors
for a lot of other investigators.

866
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,040
The Warrens find themselves

867
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,240
in high demand for interviews,
speaking engagements,

868
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,800
and especially college lecture
tours.

869
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:50,720
I remember attending
their lectures.

870
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:51,800
I had never seen a ghost.

871
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,560
I had friends who lived in haunted
houses.

872
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,160
But when you saw an Ed
and Lorraine Warren lecture,

873
00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:58,560
they played video clips,

874
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,720
they played audio clips,
they showed you pictures.

875
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,440
And I remember sitting there
thinking,

876
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,200
"Oh, my god, maybe now
I have seen a ghost."

877
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:09,320
College kids are drawn
into this like a moth to a flame.

878
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,680
But Ed didn't do it
just for entertainment purposes.

879
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,200
Ed would say to me,
"I'm here to also give a warning"

880
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,080
"not to dabble in occult practices,"

881
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,480
"that the devil exists,
that the devil is real,"

882
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,200
"and don't dabble
with Ouija boards."

883
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,680
"Don't go to a psychic reader,
don't do any of that stuff."

884
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,400
"You're opening doors."

885
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,880
"And once you open the door up,
very difficult,"

886
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,160
"if not impossible to close
that door."

887
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,640
He holds the unique title
of demonologist.

888
00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:37,280
She's a psychic. Would you welcome
Ed and Lorraine Warren.

889
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,920
We, we, uh...

890
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,520
We thought it'd be fun to have
a couple of demons on the show.

891
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,840
I think we'd better bless them
first.

892
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,520
There weren't paranormal
ghost hunting shows back then,

893
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,960
there were none.

894
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,680
It was just people like
Ed and Lorraine

895
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,280
willing to put themselves out there,
willing to talk about it,

896
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,360
put themselves up to ridicule,
get called hoaxers.

897
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,680
And that broke down a ton of walls.

898
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,440
Once we start talking
about something,

899
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,960
then it becomes out in the open.

900
00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,320
I don't mind sceptics.
That means they're open minded.

901
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:17,000
But show me a closed minded atheist
and I say,

902
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,920
put up your money or shut your mouth

903
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,320
because we can prove
that there is through our evidence.

904
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,440
Where haunting phenomena
is concerned,

905
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:32,880
we have never really met
a true atheist in a haunted home.

906
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,600
I was there. I saw it firsthand.

907
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,480
I know the work
that Ed and Lorraine did.

908
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,000
They were willing to take
that risk for other people,

909
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,640
for strangers,

910
00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:45,040
and to be the subject
of ridicule like that.

911
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:46,680
It was very difficult for them.

912
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,320
Lorraine attempts
to quiet critics

913
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,920
by undergoing scientific testing
by parapsychologists at UCLA.

914
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,680
The team of scientists led
by Dr Thelma Moss put Lorraine

915
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,800
through a battery of tests
that indicate

916
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,560
she is what they call
a light trance medium.

917
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:10,000
A deep trance medium will
have a spirit guide come through

918
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:13,120
and when that part is over,
they wake up

919
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,120
and they might not be aware
of what they said or did.

920
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:21,000
Lorraine was always aware
in this light trance state.

921
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,360
She's going to another plane.

922
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,120
But is still aware of all of her
surroundings.

923
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,880
She was found to be well above
average in psychic ability,

924
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,000
which kind of vindicated
her in her mind.

925
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,760
Now, she had real test results

926
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,720
that proved that she was
not just like making up stories.

927
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,200
In the 1980s,

928
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,960
the Warrens take on a number
of controversial cases.

929
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:55,080
One offers yet another chance
to prove that the devil exists,

930
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,600
this time in a court of law.

931
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,280
Not guilty of murder by reason
of demonic possession.

932
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:06,520
That's what an attorney

933
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,440
for a 19-year-old Connecticut
teenager will try to prove.

934
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,440
"We're going to take
the devil to court."

935
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,640
The words of Ed
and Lorraine Warren.

936
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,720
We can back up this case history

937
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:17,720
with numerous other case histories

938
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,520
and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt

939
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,120
that preternatural phenomena
was taking place here.

940
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,240
According to prosecutors,
19-year-old, Arne Johnson,

941
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,280
stabbed to death his landlord,
Alan Bono in a fit of rage.

942
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,320
But Johnson's lawyer claims Arne
was possessed by demons at the time,

943
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,480
demons that entered his body

944
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,320
during an exorcism of his fiancee's
younger brother.

945
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,600
This 11-year-old boy
would become extremely strong.

946
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,320
It would take five men
to hold him down.

947
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,720
Arne Johnson, who was engaged
to this boy's sister,

948
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,000
would help every night to control
the boy.

949
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:01,080
One night he screamed
at these devils.

950
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:02,400
"Take me on."

951
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,280
"Leave my little buddy alone."

952
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,280
When you challenge the demonic,

953
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,880
it doesn't act
at that particular time.

954
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,160
It waits until you are the most
vulnerable,

955
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:15,960
then it strikes.

956
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,720
We're gonna have to prove to a jury

957
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,640
that there's such a thing
as demonic possession.

958
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:25,960
The Warrens are out
to establish in the court of law

959
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,200
that demonic possession is possible.

960
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,840
And if it can be used successfully
in a legal defence,

961
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,440
then from Ed Warren's perspective,

962
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,520
we have legal precedent
of the existence of demons

963
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,720
and that it can affect
a person's actions

964
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,400
and activities.

965
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,480
Johnson's fiancee,
Deborah Glatzel,

966
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,080
backs up Arne's story of demonic
possession.

967
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,000
What did you see take place?

968
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:47,800
All hell broke loose.

969
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:48,880
What do you mean?

970
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,040
With the growling,

971
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:51,760
when he went under demonic attack.

972
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,560
What about the actual stabbing?
Did you see Mr Bono fall?

973
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,840
No, I never saw Mr Bono
get stabbed.

974
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,640
In November, nine months
after the stabbing of Alan Bono,

975
00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:05,840
the judge in Arne Johnson's case
makes his ruling.

976
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,320
The judge listened to precedents,
to arguments,

977
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,560
and then he said that demonic
possession

978
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,360
is not an acceptable defence.

979
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:13,880
It is irrelevant in this case

980
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,840
and unfortunately
in the United States,

981
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,360
it is not a science
and he will permit no evidence

982
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,640
on demonic possession and devils.

983
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:24,120
If the judge had let us
bring in our evidence

984
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,920
and the priests waiting
outside of the courthouse

985
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,800
to testify that what occurred
to this young boy, Arne Johnson,

986
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,960
was indeed a diabolical possession.

987
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,320
The judge didn't want to be
known as the judge

988
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,000
who allowed
"The devil made me do it" case

989
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,080
into his courtroom.

990
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,840
Ed and Lorraine's daughter
remembers the case well.

991
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,280
I know Debbie Glatzel personally
and Arne Johnson.

992
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,600
I believe that the paranormal
exists, absolutely.

993
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,080
Absolutely. Yes, I do.

994
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,400
You can't help but believe it

995
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,760
if you're around it
as much as I was.

996
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:07,040
We knew it was inevitable that there
was going to be a tragedy,

997
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,640
but never, ever did we think

998
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,240
it would be Arne Johnson.

999
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,840
Although Ed and Lorraine
lose their case in court,

1000
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,960
their battle with the devil
continues.

1001
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,120
Up next, the Warrens do battle

1002
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,960
with one of the most evil
demons to infest the Earth,

1003
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,480
the Succubus.

1004
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:35,920
In January 1986,

1005
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,600
Ed and Lorraine Warren receive
a desperate call

1006
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,640
from a married couple
in Pennsylvania.

1007
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:43,840
For years, they and their four
children have been plagued

1008
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,040
by a strange series of unexplained
events.

1009
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,880
Blood curdling screams,
rumblings in the night,

1010
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,640
a mysterious and foul
stench in the air.

1011
00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:55,680
Well, a family in
West Pittston, Pennsylvania,

1012
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,120
says this is a nightly horror
they endure.

1013
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,800
The strange happenings
at the home of the Smurl family

1014
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,880
began the day daughter Dawn
received her confirmation.

1015
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,280
My parents see it
and sometimes they hear a heartbeat

1016
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,320
in the middle of them
when they're sleeping

1017
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:09,920
and the closet doors open.

1018
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,560
And even the family's
German shepherd has provided

1019
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,400
little comfort against
these allegedly demonic forces.

1020
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,800
After enduring a series
of hauntings,

1021
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,920
Jack and Janet Smurl ask for help

1022
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,760
from their local Catholic diocese,
but to no avail.

1023
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:26,600
Cast doubt ye evil demons.

1024
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,520
New York's Cardinal John O'Connor

1025
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:30,560
revealed that a priest performed
exorcisms

1026
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,200
on people who were allegedly
possessed by the devil.

1027
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,840
Our guests are Janet and Jack Smurl.

1028
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,080
Who did you bring in to help you?
We went to our local priest,

1029
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,680
and said, "Father, there's something
very strange going on here."

1030
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,960
So he came over. He blessed the home
and said,

1031
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,280
"There's no one here who can
help you."

1032
00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:52,360
After the church diocese
fails to send help,

1033
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,320
the Smurls contact the Warrens.

1034
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:59,120
I'll never forget I was
driving up to West Pittston.

1035
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,120
It's in a coal mining area
and they thought,

1036
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,840
well, maybe something
was happening underneath

1037
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,560
because of the old mine shafts.

1038
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,560
When phenomena first began to occur
in this house,

1039
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,920
They tried everything.
They called people.

1040
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,480
They called the church.

1041
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,160
The priest came out and blessed it.

1042
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:22,240
But so much more was needed.

1043
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,080
The Smurls are lying in bed
one night

1044
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,720
and all of a sudden the bed
starts to rattle and shake.

1045
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,440
Then they start seeing black shadows

1046
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,560
moving across the bedroom

1047
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,320
and suddenly something grabs her
by the leg and yanks her

1048
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,400
right out of the bed onto the floor.

1049
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,720
Then there's the night
when the both of them

1050
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,480
were lying in bed and both of them

1051
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,160
rise up into the air as high
as the ceiling.

1052
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,720
Several nights later,

1053
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:56,160
a demonic creature known
as a succubus appears.

1054
00:55:56,240 --> 00:56:01,000
A succubus is a name
given to a demon or a devil.

1055
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,800
It attacks the male physically
and sexually.

1056
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,680
Jack is sitting down
in his living room.

1057
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,160
It's about 10:00 at night,
just about ready to go to bed.

1058
00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:13,200
And he sees this woman
coming down the stairs.

1059
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,000
Now, from a distance,
she looked very beautiful,

1060
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,800
but then as she came closer,
the face changed

1061
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,640
and what he'd seen
was a skeletal face

1062
00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:28,320
with rotting teeth
that attacked him.

1063
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,640
Why would a demon want to attack
somebody sexually?

1064
00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:34,600
Did it get pleasure out of it?
No, they don't.

1065
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:37,840
To save the Smurl family,

1066
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,200
Ed and Lorraine must do
everything in their power

1067
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,680
to exorcise the succubus,

1068
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,160
including religious provocation.

1069
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,760
Religious provocation is all
about using your belief system,

1070
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,960
your faith in this case,
Catholicism,

1071
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,120
to try to vanquish whatever evil
might be in the building.

1072
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,520
Ed would bring in holy water.

1073
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,360
He would hold up holy relics
like crosses,

1074
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:00,880
and he would tell

1075
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,040
whatever entities were around,
"In the name of Jesus, get out."

1076
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:07,000
He pictured himself a warrior
and these were his weapons.

1077
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,720
In the master bedroom,
Lorraine senses the presence of evil.

1078
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,760
We sat on the edge of the bed

1079
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,000
and Ed put out these different
things he had with him.

1080
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:24,320
I do carry a true piece
of the cross, relics of saints.

1081
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,800
Now, there is a television
set there.

1082
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:32,600
The TV, it's not even plugged in
and the whole screen lit up.

1083
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,920
And then objects
on the double dresser

1084
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,560
moved around like they were dancing.

1085
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,480
I had a police officer with me.

1086
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,520
We were walking down that hallway

1087
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,520
and I was using religious
provocation

1088
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:52,240
when I felt a pressure,
grab me right by the neck.

1089
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:56,320
Suddenly, Ed finds himself
under attack.

1090
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,520
This thing threw me
back about ten feet onto the bed.

1091
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,360
The police officer, he came in,
and he threw holy water

1092
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,040
at this thing finally, lessened up.

1093
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,840
The succubus proves
too powerful for Ed and Lorraine

1094
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,040
to battle by themselves.
They need reinforcements.

1095
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,440
But when the Warrens approach
the Catholic Church for help,

1096
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,560
they are turned away.

1097
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,920
During the time the Warrens
were really at the peak

1098
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,480
of their investigations,
they were having a hard time

1099
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,360
because the church was keeping
all these things a secret

1100
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,400
about performing these exorcisms.

1101
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,160
So they were shunning the Warrens.

1102
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,920
Nothing made Ed Warren
more angry than if you went

1103
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:34,280
to the local Catholic priest

1104
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,160
and said, "You've got a family
in your community in need."

1105
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,800
And if that priest said,
"No, no, I don't do that."

1106
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,720
"There's no such thing as ghosts."
That infuriated Ed.

1107
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:48,560
So he had no qualms whatsoever
about using his fame

1108
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,240
to escalate the situation,
to get the media involved.

1109
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,320
What do you want
the church to do?

1110
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,480
We would like him to bring in
two or three priests

1111
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,200
who are exorcists to clear
this house of what is here.

1112
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,520
Why doesn't the family just move?

1113
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,320
They have left here.
They have gone to a camp site.

1114
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:06,920
The same type of phenomena

1115
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,600
that had occurred to them
in their home

1116
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,360
also followed them to the camp site.

1117
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,400
None of you would be able
to go through

1118
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,280
what the Smurls are going through.

1119
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,800
You cannot even imagine
what has taken place in this home.

1120
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:23,480
In your expert opinion,

1121
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,520
how much longer do you feel
the family can go on living here?

1122
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,480
By the looks of the family,
today, dear,

1123
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,840
I think that they couldn't even
go through the rest of this day.

1124
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,280
The press conference works.

1125
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,720
When the Vatican hears
about the case,

1126
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,800
Cardinal Ratzinger, a future pope,
intervenes.

1127
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,680
Cardinal Ratzinger assigned
an exorcist

1128
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,040
from the Catholic Church
who went to the house

1129
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,680
and performed the ritual
of exorcism,

1130
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,840
the Ritual Romano in that house,
which is very unusual

1131
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,880
because they usually do that
only over a person.

1132
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,840
And to this day,
that house has been clear.

1133
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,520
People will say, "Well, why would
God allow the devil"

1134
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:05,200
"to attack a family like this?"

1135
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:09,000
Because God lets this happen
every now and then

1136
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:12,000
to prove that he is more powerful
than any devil.

1137
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,880
Do you, Father Lebar,
believe the Smurls?

1138
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:18,840
Absolutely, 100%.

1139
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,680
What does the church, guess or know,
that this is?

1140
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,720
They would call it,
as Lorraine mentioned,

1141
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,800
the diabolical infestation.

1142
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,520
This is where diabolical spirits

1143
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,720
are not actually possessing people,

1144
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:32,560
but rather they're inhabiting
the place.

1145
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:34,680
What happens during an exorcism?

1146
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:35,920
During an exorcism,

1147
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,240
the church calls upon the power
of Christ

1148
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,960
to remove the devil from the person
or the place.

1149
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:46,000
We're talking about a creature
of God who is a fallen angel,

1150
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,760
therefore has powers greater
than a human being.

1151
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:51,240
Would all Catholics believe this?

1152
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:52,840
All Catholics should believe this.

1153
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:54,840
The pope would believe this.
Absolutely.

1154
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,640
He's spoken on it several times.

1155
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,240
The Warrens prove
victorious this time,

1156
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,240
but their war against evil
is never over.

1157
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,480
Coming up, Ed and Lorraine
investigate a former funeral home

1158
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:11,480
where unspeakable horrors
took place in this world

1159
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:13,000
and beyond.

1160
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,160
I suspected necrophilia.

1161
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,280
By the mid 1980s,
the Warrens had helped

1162
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:24,160
over a thousand families overcome
demonic hauntings,

1163
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,520
but perhaps their most trying case
involved an attack

1164
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,280
so devious that it left
a residue of evil,

1165
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,520
the remains with the family
over three decades later.

1166
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,960
Carmen Snedeker desperately
needs a place to rent

1167
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:43,520
in Southington, Connecticut.

1168
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,280
Her son is undergoing cancer
treatments

1169
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,960
at a nearby hospital and the commute
from their home in upstate New York

1170
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,520
is wearing both of them down.

1171
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:56,240
And I drove by
this beautiful old colonial

1172
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,640
and there was a 'for rent' sign
out front

1173
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:00,440
and I just pulled over.

1174
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:04,680
I fell in love,
it was perfect for my family.

1175
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:07,440
Carmen doesn't realize it,

1176
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:11,000
but her perfect house is a former
funeral home.

1177
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,600
There's no way
we're gonna find another place.

1178
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,040
I've already scoured
the entire county

1179
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:20,800
for a place to live that will
support four children,

1180
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,040
so we're kind of locked in.

1181
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:24,920
We can't really go anywhere.

1182
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,400
On the day her family
moves in,

1183
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,840
Carmen notices something strange.

1184
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:32,360
I went to mop the floor,

1185
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,760
the mop water turned this thick red.

1186
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,680
Horrified, Carmen calls
the housekeeper into the room.

1187
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,040
She leaned down
and she smelled it.

1188
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:46,680
And she got up and walked out
the door,

1189
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:48,400
and I never saw her again.

1190
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,240
Carmen's son, Philip,
is the next family member

1191
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:53,720
to have a paranormal encounter.

1192
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,880
He said, "Mum, we have to leave
this place."

1193
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:57,560
And he was shaking, visibly shaking.

1194
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:02,400
And he said, "This place is evil,
it's evil."

1195
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,280
And I said, "Son, evil lives
in the hearts of man,"

1196
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:07,160
"not in a house."

1197
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,720
And that's what I truly
believed at the time.

1198
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,320
And he said, "You're gonna see."

1199
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,520
He started seeing this man.
The way he described this man

1200
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,320
is long black hair,
very narrow face.

1201
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,680
He had squinting dark eyes.

1202
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:27,680
There was no whites.

1203
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:33,560
And the man, would just stand
on the other side of the door

1204
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:35,280
and tell him to do bad things.

1205
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:39,600
But he would stand there and say,
"Philip."

1206
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:41,000
Philip.

1207
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:43,800
Philip.

1208
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,600
He said he knew his name.

1209
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,880
Carmen refuses
to believe her son

1210
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:52,160
and instead suspects his cancer
treatments

1211
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:54,080
are causing him to hallucinate.

1212
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:58,600
But then Carmen's niece suffers
a horrifying incident.

1213
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,200
My niece Tammy came in from a date

1214
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,200
and I was asleep in bed already.

1215
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:04,960
She knocked on the door
and she's like,

1216
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:07,200
"Aunt Carmen, Aunt Carmen.
It's happening again."

1217
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:12,160
The entity, would pull her
shirt down on her shoulder

1218
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,000
and start pulling her bra down.
She got very upset by this.

1219
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,360
Carmen grabs
her bedside Bible

1220
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,480
and heads to Tammy's room.

1221
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,800
I open the book and it
was Psalms 24 where it opened.

1222
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,240
And I started reading and she said,

1223
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:31,280
"Aunt Carmen, it's coming.
Can you feel it? It's coming."

1224
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:35,840
And I can feel this this heaviness
growing in the room.

1225
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,080
And I see under her light shirt

1226
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:44,400
a hand I could see the knuckles
go up under her shirt

1227
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,440
and it laughed a hideous...

1228
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,120
..and went through the back wall.

1229
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:52,600
I've got to protect these children.

1230
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,560
I'm the last line of defence.

1231
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,920
I reach for the rosary
and I grab the crucifix.

1232
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:02,040
And it shatters.

1233
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,680
I don't know what to think or to do.
I'm lost.

1234
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:10,880
Desperate, Carmen looks
up the number

1235
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:12,920
for the Warrens and calls.

1236
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,840
I took a phone call in the middle
of the night

1237
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,080
from a very hysterical woman
on the other end of the phone.

1238
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:23,400
Ed and Lorraine
arrive the next afternoon

1239
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,400
with a team of investigators.

1240
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,120
Mrs Snedeker was terribly
frightened.

1241
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,480
They were seeing ghosts.

1242
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:34,320
They were being physically hurt,
even attacked sexually.

1243
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:38,800
When she told me
that it was a funeral home,

1244
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,120
I suspected necrophilia,

1245
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,240
which would be an abuse
of a dead body.

1246
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:48,080
And we know that this can bring
about terrible phenomena

1247
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:49,520
and hauntings in such a house.

1248
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,440
They were kind to us
and they listened to our story

1249
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:56,400
and ask us a million questions.

1250
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,480
They ask us about our faith,
what had been going on.

1251
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,880
They ask us about deaths
in the family

1252
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:06,320
and then Ms Warren wanted
to tour the house.

1253
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,400
Lorraine makes her way
through the former funeral home,

1254
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,640
spending extra time
down in the basement

1255
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,920
where much of the mortuary equipment
still remains.

1256
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:21,200
She was very calm
and composed, just listening.

1257
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:22,640
And we went back upstairs,

1258
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:27,840
she told me that she felt that
there was a demonic in the house.

1259
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:32,200
My heart sank and my world crashed.

1260
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,240
The whole episode
was as if somebody had taken

1261
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,640
everything I had learned
in that 36 years,

1262
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:42,200
that was in a box that I had all
neatly stacked in there,

1263
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,520
and it was dumped out on the floor
and strewn around.

1264
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,960
What I believed, the physical realm,
the materialistic world,

1265
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,760
was not all there is, it's not.

1266
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:25,520
The Warrens arrange
for a priest to conduct

1267
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:28,760
a special mass to cleanse
the house of evil.

1268
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,680
The way that Ed and Lorraine
would try to cleanse a house

1269
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,440
would be a multifaceted attack,
actually.

1270
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:36,920
Ed would call in a priest,

1271
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,880
either Catholic
or of the family's faith,

1272
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:41,880
to do a blessing of the house.

1273
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:43,920
Sometimes a simple blessing
will work.

1274
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:48,640
It's a set of prayers casting
out evil spirits

1275
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,600
out of a home or a location
or out of a person

1276
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:53,320
where they are diabolical,
possessed.

1277
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:55,520
In this case, you have to have a man

1278
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:59,520
who realizes that when he leaves
there, even though he has commanded

1279
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,040
that these evil spirits to leave,

1280
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,600
they could attack him
in his own rectory and they did.

1281
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:18,400
The attack on the priest,

1282
01:08:18,480 --> 01:08:20,280
along with the Warrens' evidence,

1283
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:21,840
convinces church officials

1284
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:25,160
to grant permission for a formal
exorcism.

1285
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,640
When I first heard about exorcism,

1286
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:30,880
I had no idea what it would entail

1287
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:35,200
and they told me that anything
could happen during an exorcism.

1288
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,880
There have been even people
that died during exorcisms

1289
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,720
and they warned, "Are you
willing to take that risk?"

1290
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:45,600
Their warnings made me tougher,
stronger, more determined.

1291
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,000
Nine weeks after Carmen
called the Warrens for help,

1292
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,840
Catholic priests arrived
to perform the ancient rite

1293
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,200
of exorcism, the Rituale Romanum.

1294
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:59,600
First private confessions are made
by each person

1295
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,720
and the sacred rite of absolution
is given.

1296
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,120
Everyone is then given one last
warning.

1297
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,040
Once the exorcism starts,

1298
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:11,000
they must keep going
until it's finished.

1299
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,320
I had no idea
what to expect,

1300
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:16,280
but I have extreme trust in God

1301
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:18,600
and that's what I was trusting on.

1302
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,960
Shortly after the prayer
service begins,

1303
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,040
strange sounds rise
up from the basement.

1304
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:29,760
There were knocking sounds
all around the house,

1305
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:33,600
but you could feel what I would call
evil in that home.

1306
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:37,320
As the noise grows
in intensity,

1307
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,440
something grabs Carmen's niece.

1308
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,960
My niece was lifted up by her neck.

1309
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,760
And I could feel the growling
behind me.

1310
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:55,040
I reach my hand on her shoulder
and that calmed everything down

1311
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,600
it kind of like brought her
in my safe space.

1312
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,640
Minutes later, the attack
resumes, this time targeting Ed.

1313
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:06,040
He felt like it was the demon

1314
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,160
that was actually attacking
his heart,

1315
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:09,480
which was his weakest point.

1316
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,000
His chest pain got so bad

1317
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:15,040
he was removed from the exorcism
and taken into the living room.

1318
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,840
The priests continue
the ritual undeterred

1319
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,800
as the exorcism escalates
into a full scale war.

1320
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:26,800
Carmen ignores the chaos
unfolding around her.

1321
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:28,240
I'm focused on the priest.

1322
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,800
After hours of prayers
and blessings,

1323
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,840
the danger finally lifts for Carmen
and her niece.

1324
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:43,000
It was amazing.
Faith was overtaking me

1325
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:46,240
and I was feeling
that wondrous presence

1326
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:50,800
and knew she was gonna be fine.

1327
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:52,920
I just knew.

1328
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:56,200
When it was all over,
I went in to find Lorraine and Ed

1329
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,080
'cause I was concerned
about his heart.

1330
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,960
I asked if he was OK

1331
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:03,400
and he said now that the exorcism
was over, he was sure

1332
01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:06,400
that he would be fine
and everybody would be good.

1333
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,040
After the exorcism,
Carmen moves her family out

1334
01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:14,000
and has never looked back.

1335
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:17,440
30 years later,
she remains vigilant,

1336
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:21,720
fearing a return
by the demonic force.

1337
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,560
The way the priest explained
it to me,

1338
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,160
you're born into a room
with no doors.

1339
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:31,920
You can do something to create
a door.

1340
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:36,520
What they do is they come
in and they close the door,

1341
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,640
but the door remains there
and that door can be opened

1342
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,120
very, very easily.

1343
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:47,120
So, I have to walk a very tight
path to keep that door closed.

1344
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:49,480
Books about the Snedeker
haunting

1345
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,280
and other cases raised
widespread interest

1346
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:55,480
in awareness of the Warrens
and their paranormal work.

1347
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:59,000
Each week, dozens of callers reach
out for help.

1348
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,280
To handle this increasing caseload,

1349
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:04,760
Ed and Lorraine train a team
of investigators.

1350
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:08,160
Coming up, never before broadcast
video

1351
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,400
of the Warrens helping a young woman
possessed by a demon.

1352
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,280
In the name of Jesus Christ,
I command you to leave.

1353
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:19,160
By the 1990s,

1354
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,640
Ed and Lorraine Warren
had established themselves

1355
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,680
as the world's preeminent paranormal
investigators.

1356
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,920
The number of people asking
for their help grew beyond

1357
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,800
what they alone could handle.

1358
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:31,880
Not wanting to turn any cases away,

1359
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:34,480
Ed and Lorraine passed
down their knowledge

1360
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,480
to a new generation
of investigators.

1361
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,160
When I first started attending
classes,

1362
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:41,480
it was more instructional.

1363
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:43,720
They didn't just send you out
on a case immediately.

1364
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,520
You know, they might
go for a few months

1365
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:47,320
before you even went
on your first case.

1366
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:49,760
We'd usually go as a group,
like Ed and Lorraine,

1367
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,400
plus maybe four or five others.

1368
01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:54,640
Eventually, with more experience,

1369
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:55,920
she'd send us out on our own.

1370
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:00,800
I started going to their classes
and they would present cases.

1371
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:02,640
And it was just fascinating.

1372
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:04,920
All the knowledge that they were
trying to impart.

1373
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,760
Our job for Ed and Lorraine

1374
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:11,160
were to observe and report
and then get back to them.

1375
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:13,880
If Ed and Lorraine felt
it's an interesting case

1376
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:16,840
to investigate,
they would call on it themselves

1377
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:18,920
and they would start
from the beginning again,

1378
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,600
interviewing the people involved.

1379
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:22,880
One of Jimmy's
responsibilities

1380
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:24,960
while working with the Warrens
is to videotape

1381
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:26,920
their investigations.

1382
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,400
In this never before released
footage,

1383
01:13:29,480 --> 01:13:32,640
Ed and Lorraine help a family
who suspects their daughter

1384
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:35,080
may be under demonic possession.

1385
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:39,000
One time, Ed and Lorraine
were interviewing a couple

1386
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:41,320
and the daughter that was sitting
at the table with us

1387
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,400
all of a sudden started acting up.

1388
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:47,120
Like, she started coming
under possession.

1389
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:49,160
She's talking kind of in
a different voice.

1390
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:51,280
And Ed said, "Give her a pen."

1391
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:53,600
Are you a devil?

1392
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,160
And she started writing
on a notebook

1393
01:13:56,240 --> 01:14:00,280
without looking, she's writing,
"Get out, get out of my house."

1394
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,640
The girl ended up getting
an exorcism.

1395
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:06,840
In the name of Jesus Christ,
I command you to leave

1396
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,560
and go back to where you came from.
Who are you?

1397
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:15,640
What? You're okay.

1398
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,320
Ed was the bravest person
I have ever met in my life.

1399
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:24,240
He'd go into any situation

1400
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,400
and doesn't seem scared of anything.

1401
01:14:27,440 --> 01:14:28,680
But he would tell us later,

1402
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:30,680
"You know, I was still scared
myself,"

1403
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:32,520
"but I can't show that I'm scared."

1404
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,160
Over the years,

1405
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:36,400
Jimmy Petonito works alongside
the Warrens

1406
01:14:36,480 --> 01:14:40,080
on hundreds of hauntings
and dozens of exorcisms.

1407
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,440
Most are performed
by Bishop Robert McKenna.

1408
01:14:44,440 --> 01:14:46,120
Bishop McKenna was pretty high up

1409
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:50,200
in the rankings so he was able
to kind of bypass

1410
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:55,680
some of the long process
of granting someone an exorcism

1411
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:57,040
through the Catholic Church.

1412
01:14:57,120 --> 01:15:00,280
He had performed the rite
of exorcism

1413
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:07,080
so many times in his career
that the entities knew him.

1414
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,480
They knew him personally,

1415
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:13,360
they knew of him,
they were very fearful of him.

1416
01:15:13,440 --> 01:15:17,320
When it comes down to the
Warrens performing exorcisms,

1417
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,440
some of the priests that they used
were questionable,

1418
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,320
some weren't sanctioned
by the church,

1419
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,720
some were considered black sheep
by the church.

1420
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:28,000
But I think really when it comes
down to it, performing an exorcism,

1421
01:15:28,080 --> 01:15:30,160
I believe it just needs
to be somebody

1422
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:33,120
who has faith in what they're
preaching that gives them the power

1423
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:34,720
to try to push these things out.

1424
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:38,800
This is my home office where I keep
everything I've accumulated

1425
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:39,880
over the years.

1426
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:43,840
DVDs, tapes, audiocassettes
of my investigations.

1427
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:47,160
Objects taken from haunted houses.

1428
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:52,720
My favourite item is a first-class
relic given to me by Bishop McKenna

1429
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:55,000
for assisting on exorcisms.

1430
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:59,840
It's a relic of Elizabeth Ann
Seton, the first American saint.

1431
01:15:59,920 --> 01:16:02,040
It's actually a bone from her body.

1432
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:04,400
It's used during an exorcism
of a person.

1433
01:16:04,480 --> 01:16:07,160
What this does is it helps draw out
the evil from the individual

1434
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:09,840
when applied by the exorcist.

1435
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:13,080
When we're assisting on an exorcism

1436
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:15,240
we usually set the altar
up for the priest,

1437
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:17,720
we get the restraints out
in case they're needed,

1438
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,160
the person afflicted
will sit in the chair.

1439
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:22,760
The priest will start doing
the litany of the saints

1440
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:23,840
to start the prayers.

1441
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:27,880
The prayer service often
generates a violent reaction.

1442
01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:33,640
We had a 95 pound woman
rip out of hospital restraints,

1443
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:36,800
like the canvas unbuckles
on her legs and arms.

1444
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,360
She stood up like they were string
and just broke everything.

1445
01:16:41,440 --> 01:16:44,480
There was one time where the woman
being exorcised

1446
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:46,280
was trying to gouge
her own eyes out.

1447
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,880
We were trying to hold her arms
back. She bit me on my arm.

1448
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:54,800
Often physical restraint
is the least of their worries.

1449
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,240
During an exorcism,
it would not be unusual

1450
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:02,040
at all to experience different
types of manifestations.

1451
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:07,320
A lot of sounds in the room,
guttural types of noises

1452
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,960
and a lot of banging happening
all around us in the room.

1453
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:13,760
And all of a sudden,
the temperature would just plummet

1454
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:18,080
to, you know, you can almost
see your colleagues' breath.

1455
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:21,200
We had a police officer
in our group.

1456
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:23,560
While we were setting up,
the police officer told me,

1457
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:25,880
"I got into a terrible fight
with my mother last night"

1458
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,280
"on the phone. I said terrible
things. I feel bad."

1459
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:30,520
"I've got to apologise as soon
as I get home."

1460
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:32,040
So, when this woman got here,

1461
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,840
during the middle of the prayers,
she just turns all of a sudden

1462
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:37,520
and says, "And you, the way you
talked to your mother last night."

1463
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:39,800
"That's disgusting."
And just went back to the priest.

1464
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:41,800
And that scared me
more than getting bitten.

1465
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:43,600
That knowledge of the unknown.

1466
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:45,480
One of the things
that the Warrens

1467
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:49,640
cautioned people against doing
was don't play with Ouija boards,

1468
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:53,360
don't try and invoke spirits
on your own.

1469
01:17:54,440 --> 01:17:57,920
You don't know what door
you might open.

1470
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:01,240
There's always that chance
that you're sensitive to it

1471
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:07,280
or there is a confluence of events
and boom, something can happen.

1472
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:12,400
Of the thousands
of paranormal investigations

1473
01:18:12,480 --> 01:18:14,000
conducted by the Warrens,

1474
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:17,520
Ed considered perhaps his most
important case to be

1475
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:21,720
one involving a single mother
living in Hebron, Connecticut.

1476
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:30,280
There was a woman who believed the
house she was renting was haunted

1477
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:31,800
and she was freaked out
and she left.

1478
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:36,880
The realtor was suing her for $2,000

1479
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:39,400
to get back the money
that she still owed in rent,

1480
01:18:39,480 --> 01:18:41,000
so they called in the Warrens.

1481
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:46,440
She begged us to go into the house
and to find out or get some evidence

1482
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:49,800
that would prove
that there really were ghosts.

1483
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:52,400
Now you don't walk into a court
of law and say,

1484
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:54,160
"Well, judge, there was ghosts
there."

1485
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:55,840
"Well, that's fine, yes."

1486
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:57,360
You have to have evidence.

1487
01:18:57,440 --> 01:19:00,640
Any court of law,
they use photographs, recordings,

1488
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:03,280
credible witnesses as evidence.

1489
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:04,920
That's what we use. We won the case.

1490
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,840
We set a precedent here
in the United States.

1491
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:10,360
When you would talk to Ed
about his legacy

1492
01:19:10,440 --> 01:19:11,920
and about the work he did,

1493
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:13,800
it was one of the things
he was most proud of.

1494
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,040
He said, "We did it.
We proved in the court of law"

1495
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:18,320
"that there are such things
as ghosts."

1496
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:22,160
Now, scientists would say,
"Well, you didn't prove a thing"

1497
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,440
"because you didn't take that ghosty
and put him in a bottle"

1498
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:28,160
"so that we could open it up
and examine him."

1499
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:31,080
You know, they're saying
that scientifically you have

1500
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:33,640
to prove that God exists,
that ghosts exist.

1501
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:35,000
There is no such thing.

1502
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:38,080
You can't get scientific
in the supernatural world.

1503
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:41,560
So, if we can prove in a court
of law that ghosts exists

1504
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:42,720
in haunted houses,

1505
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:45,160
I think that's good enough
for anyone.

1506
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:50,080
In addition to their books
and media appearances,

1507
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,560
Ed and Lorraine expand their reach
by producing

1508
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:55,160
and starring in their own
television program.

1509
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:57,960
'Seekers of the Supernatural'.

1510
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,560
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome

1511
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:03,360
to 'Seekers of the Supernatural'.

1512
01:20:03,440 --> 01:20:04,680
My name is Tony Spera.

1513
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:06,160
I'll be your moderator tonight.

1514
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,880
It was Ed's idea.
He says, "What do we talk about?"

1515
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,480
He says, "We're gonna
talk about the demons,"

1516
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,040
"we're gonna talk about ghosts,"

1517
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,040
"we're gonna talk about the reality
of ghosts,"

1518
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:16,920
"about these certain cases
we've been on"

1519
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,320
"and what happened in these cases."

1520
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:24,960
He goes, we're gonna show the people
that these things are real.

1521
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:29,000
The Warrens also open
their own occult museum

1522
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:30,560
to the public.

1523
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:33,760
Here they display the many haunted
and demonic artifacts

1524
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:35,720
collected over the years.

1525
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:41,200
Perhaps the most infamous item
in their collection is Annabelle,

1526
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,120
the doll since featured
in several 'Conjuring' films,

1527
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:48,200
was given to the Warrens by a nurse
who feared its demonic power,

1528
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:51,880
a power Ed believes
it still possesses.

1529
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:53,960
The priest came here one day
and he said,

1530
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,920
"This doll, it's supposed
to be infested by devils."

1531
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,200
He picks the doll up
and he throws it across the room.

1532
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:01,440
On his way home,
the car went out of control,

1533
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,640
and was hit head on
into a tractor trailer truck.

1534
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,200
It was demolished
and the priest was almost killed.

1535
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:10,160
My mother told me not to look
Annabelle in the eye.

1536
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:11,600
When I go into the museum,

1537
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:14,360
whenever I've been in
and very, very few times,

1538
01:21:14,440 --> 01:21:15,920
I don't even look there.

1539
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:17,960
Horrible in there.

1540
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:21,840
It's oppressing, it's very heavy.

1541
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:25,160
Just get an awful heavy feeling.

1542
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:27,000
I went and I visited them

1543
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:31,400
at their house in Munro,
Connecticut, went into their museum.

1544
01:21:31,480 --> 01:21:33,360
I saw Annabelle, the doll.

1545
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:38,480
Annabelle at that point
was not consigned to the basement

1546
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,960
and locked in a cabinet.

1547
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:45,080
They had her in one of their rooms
in the back of the house

1548
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:48,840
and went out to lunch and we came
back from lunch

1549
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,120
and Annabelle the doll
was in a different spot

1550
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:52,960
from where we left her.

1551
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:58,720
Decades after their first
paranormal investigation,

1552
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:03,040
the Warrens finally receive
the star treatment.

1553
01:22:05,480 --> 01:22:08,680
In 2001, a documentary film
company invites

1554
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:11,280
Ed and Lorraine Warren to Japan

1555
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:14,320
in order to investigate
a haunted tunnel.

1556
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:18,160
After the filming completes,
Ed and Lorraine visit Nagoya,

1557
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:22,120
a city where Ed served for a time
after World War II.

1558
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:27,760
January 11, 1946,
Ed was in the Navy.

1559
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:30,120
He was standing on a dock in Nagoya

1560
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:34,360
when he gets word that his daughter
was just born.

1561
01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:38,280
Years and years later,
goes to the same dock

1562
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,360
and he looks at Lorraine
and he says,

1563
01:22:40,440 --> 01:22:42,480
"This is where I stood
all those years ago"

1564
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,640
"when I heard Judy was born."

1565
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:46,240
You're thinking about war time

1566
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:48,960
all the people you saw die,

1567
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:51,640
and then the birth of your daughter.

1568
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,560
He had this revelation
about his life

1569
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:55,880
that he had come full circle.

1570
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,280
Not long after returning
from Japan,

1571
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:01,000
Ed suffers a debilitating stroke.

1572
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:05,040
His heart stopped...

1573
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:10,720
..and the medics actually use
the paddles on him and got him back.

1574
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:14,680
But he was never the same.

1575
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:16,400
He was in a coma for 11 weeks

1576
01:23:16,480 --> 01:23:19,920
and never really regained
control of his functions.

1577
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:21,840
In other words, reasoning
and speech.

1578
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:24,920
Distraught but determined,

1579
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:28,160
Lorraine takes it
upon herself to care for Ed.

1580
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:33,360
She moved him around
so he wouldn't get bed sores,

1581
01:23:33,440 --> 01:23:35,040
she would change his catheter,

1582
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:37,640
she would do things that a nurse
would do.

1583
01:23:37,720 --> 01:23:42,840
On August 23, 2006,
five years after his stroke,

1584
01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:45,280
Ed Warren passed away.

1585
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:49,520
When my dad finally passed away,

1586
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:51,640
my feeling was that he was free.

1587
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:54,760
I even said that to him
as I was driving to the hospital.

1588
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:56,840
I said, "You're free, Dad."

1589
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:00,280
It hit me hard.
He was just a wonderful guy.

1590
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:02,640
Anytime I talked to him,
he was down to earth,

1591
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:05,120
was willing to express his beliefs

1592
01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:07,880
and his thoughts on different
types of hauntings.

1593
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:09,640
And I think when he passed,

1594
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:13,320
the field lost
an incredible person.

1595
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,320
After Ed's passing,
his son-in-law, Tony Spera,

1596
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:21,720
stepped into help Lorraine
carry on the Warren legacy.

1597
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,880
Lorraine and I continued
lecturing after 2006.

1598
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:26,880
Lorraine got satisfaction
out of doing it

1599
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,320
because she would talk about Ed
at these lectures.

1600
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:32,680
Then one day, we get a call
from an entertainment lawyer.

1601
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:36,320
Warner Brothers wanted to buy
her rights and Ed's rights

1602
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:38,200
to their life story,
rights and their cases.

1603
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:41,240
Lo and behold, all of a sudden,
there's a movie gonna be made

1604
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:42,680
on one of their cases.

1605
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:46,120
It was a haunted farmhouse
in Rhode Island.

1606
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:48,760
In 2013,
Warner Brothers releases

1607
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:52,120
'The Conjuring',
based on the Perron family case.

1608
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:54,680
The film shocks the entertainment
industry

1609
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:58,680
by earning more than $300 million
at the box office.

1610
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:00,840
I had chills down my back

1611
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:04,560
seeing actors portraying
Ed and Lorraine like that.

1612
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:07,520
You know, they couldn't have picked
two better people in my book.

1613
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:09,720
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.

1614
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:13,480
I'm proud of them
for what they've accomplished.

1615
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:16,920
Just seeing others portraying them,

1616
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:19,840
they've brought so much attention
to the field

1617
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:22,640
that it's only a positive thing.

1618
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:30,400
On April 18, 2019,
at the age of 92,

1619
01:25:30,480 --> 01:25:32,880
Lorraine Warren passes away.

1620
01:25:34,480 --> 01:25:38,160
When I heard that Lorraine Warren
had passed, I was in shock.

1621
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:39,800
It was the end of an era.

1622
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:42,040
Ed and Lorraine were some
of the original pioneers

1623
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:45,040
in this field
and they meant so much to so many.

1624
01:25:45,120 --> 01:25:46,560
They meant a lot to me.

1625
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:52,720
I've never seen a greater love
between two people

1626
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,800
than them because they did
everything together.

1627
01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:57,880
They were never apart.

1628
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:00,760
My mother, when she passed,

1629
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:04,800
one of the undertakers,
said they have security cameras,

1630
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:08,400
and there were orbs floating
around her coffin all night long,

1631
01:26:08,480 --> 01:26:10,040
which I thought was wonderful

1632
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:16,160
because it felt like there was
all good spirits around her.

1633
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,400
They were a regular couple

1634
01:26:20,480 --> 01:26:23,360
and they were very religious,

1635
01:26:23,440 --> 01:26:25,840
Lorraine especially,
and that was no act.

1636
01:26:28,560 --> 01:26:34,840
The Warrens blazed a trail
that is still being travelled today

1637
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:37,240
by so many different paranormal
investigative groups

1638
01:26:37,320 --> 01:26:39,040
and television shows saying,

1639
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:41,560
"I believe in ghosts,
I believe we can document them"

1640
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:43,760
"and I want to tell others
about it."

1641
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:45,880
They were doing it first.

1642
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,680
Now, it's out in the open
and it's out in the open

1643
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:50,680
because of people
like Ed and Lorraine Warren.

1644
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:53,880
I refer to them
as the grandparents

1645
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:55,760
of modern ghost hunting.

1646
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:59,560
The Warrens brought the idea
of the paranormal

1647
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:01,400
to the public consciousness

1648
01:27:01,480 --> 01:27:03,120
in a way that had not been
done before,

1649
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,240
and I don't think it could be
replicated or replaced.

1650
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,080
My mum and dad were
very sincere in what they did.

1651
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:11,640
They truly wanted to help people.

1652
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:17,400
They truly wanted people to know
that the devil existed,

1653
01:27:17,480 --> 01:27:18,840
that God exists.

1654
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:22,600
The legacy of Ed and Lorraine Warren

1655
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:24,560
is always do right,

1656
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,040
always try to help others.

1657
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:32,760
To prove that the devil is real,

1658
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:36,320
not just a mythological figure,

1659
01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:37,920
and that God is our protector.

1660
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:41,200
Their legacy is love

1661
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:42,840
and love for mankind.

1662
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:46,680
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1663
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:48,920