S20 Ep149: The Smurl Haunting: When Ed and Lorraine Came To Town w/Maxim W. Furek

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Darkness Radio Presents: The Smurl Haunting: When Ed and Lorraine Came To Town w/ Researcher/Journalist/Author, Maxim W. Furek!

Called Pennsylvania’s “Amityville Horror,” the Smurl family’s nightmare of demonic possession is the subject of both the current motion picture, Conjuring: Last Rites, and this book. Venturing far beyond the West Pittston coal region, author Maxim W. Furek’s narrative explores the dark crawlspaces of High Hopes, the Hinsdale House, the damned Welles House, and good and evil, as seen through the eyes of history’s foremost exorcists and psychics, such as the mysterious Fr. Alphonsus Trabold O.F.M and Alexander Tanous.

There was something of the supernatural channeling through Furek that inspired him to write this book. The 92-year-old West Pittston Smurl duplex was a half-hour drive from his home, and, during their 15-city book tour promoting The Haunted, the author befriended Ed and Lorraine Warren. And sadly, Furek met Annabelle handler Dan Rivera, the day before he died during the 2025 “Devils on the Run” Tour in Gettysburg.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States Welcome in to the best in paranormal podcasting. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. Got a great show today, folks. We are going to delve into some classic cases today. I know some cases that you guys are familiar with, but we're going to look at it from a different side, someone who's been right in the think of it.
0:44.4	Some of the most famous cases that you've heard of, maybe even gone to the movie theater and seen, but I'll tell you this much, what you see in the screen is not exactly the way it happened.
0:54.8	So we're going to delve into one of the most famous cases. In fact, one of the most famous cases that
0:58.8	hit your screen this past summer. But I guarantee you it is not the way you saw it on that
1:05.4	silver screen this past summer. Maxim Furik is my guest. And he has a brand new book out there,
1:10.7	and it's a good one at
1:11.6	that.
1:12.0	I got the privilege of reading it here this past week.
1:15.3	It's called The Smurl Haunting.
1:17.3	And, in fact, the full title of it is The Smurl Hunting when Ed and Lorain came to
1:24.1	town.
1:24.7	That's the full name of the book, And Maxim has put out a good book indeed.
1:29.2	It deals with not only just the, what's called the Pennsylvania's Amityville Horror,
1:35.3	which is the Smirl family's haunting there, but he's also got a few other things in there as well
1:39.7	that we'll talk about today.
1:41.6	He deals with the Hinsdale House, the Damned Wells House, some other hauntings in there as well that we'll talk about today. He deals with the Hinsdale House, the damned Wells House,
1:45.6	some other hauntings in there as well that we'll talk about today. Let me tell you a little bit
1:50.2	about our guest here today, as he is quite the esteemed guest and an avid student of the
1:57.8	paranormal as well. His eclectic background includes aspects of psychology, recovery from addictions, and rock journalism.
2:04.5	I wish we had a lot of time today because we'd get into that as well.
2:07.4	That's a passion of mine as well.
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