It whispered in their ears, dragged them from their beds.

This isn't just a ghost story.

This was war. It's one of the most

bizarre, horrifying hauntings in American history. The Smurrow family thought they purchased a fixer

upper, a duplex, in a quaint town in Pennsylvania. What they got was something else. Over the next

15 years, they said the entities in the home tormented them,

watched them, hunted them, attacked them. That's when Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived,

the famous paranormal investigators behind the Amniville investigation. Armed with holy water and cassette

recorders, they walked straight into the Smurl's home on Chase Street and said

evil was already there. You're about to hear the story of the Smurl haunting, one of the most

disturbing paranormal cases ever recorded in the case behind the newest conjuring film, Last

writes. All right, you know I like to get right into it. Our story begins in West

Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A small quiet town, the kind of place where people leave their doors unlocked.

And nothing crazy ever really happens.

At the center of our story is the Smurl family, consisting of Jack and Janet Smurl and their daughters,

and an unassuming duplex on Chase Street. Jack's Merle was a quiet man,

who worked long shifts as a technician at the Topps Chewing Gum Plant. His wife, Janet, warm,

reserved, stayed home to raise their four daughters, Dawn, Heather, and the twins, Shannon and Karen.

Also at the center of our story is Jack's older parents,

John and Mary. The family was very close. They were devout Catholics. And the only reason they

moved into the duplex was because of the flood. Before this in 1972, Hurricane Agnes

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