The Possession That Shook Connecticut, Part One | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!
It began with a young boy and a new home in Connecticut. What should have been a fresh start in the early 1980s quickly spiraled into a terrifying series of alleged possessions, blessings, and exorcisms. When the entity tormenting the child refused to leave, Arne Johnson reportedly challenged it—inviting the spirit into himself.
Months later, a brutal killing shocked the state. Johnson’s legal team would argue something never before successfully used in American court: demonic possession.
Author and paranormal investigator Jeff Belanger breaks down the real case behind what many now know from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. He explores what truly happened inside that Connecticut home, the role of clergy and investigators, and the darker truths that never fully made it into headlines—or Hollywood.
Was it psychological breakdown? Suggestion? Or something far more sinister?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, the devil made me do it. |
| 0:05.0 | A conversation with Jeff Belanger. |
| 0:08.0 | In the early 1980s, a young boy in Connecticut was seemingly put under the spell or control of an unseen force shortly after moving into a new family home. |
| 0:27.7 | A power so strong that it took many months of blessings and exorcisms to try and rid the dark entity from the boy. |
| 0:34.9 | During one of these exorcisms, feeling pity for the boy, Arnie Johnson stepped |
| 0:38.8 | in and demanded the spirit take him rather than the boy. This would be the start of a second |
| 0:45.3 | chapter to a story that would end in murder, and one claiming the devil made him do it. Today, Jeff |
| 0:53.9 | Belanger discusses the events portrayed in the Conjuring Three, the devil made him do it. Today, Jeff Belanger discusses the events portrayed in the Conjuring Three. |
| 0:57.9 | The devil made me do it. |
| 0:59.2 | My first encounter with this story, I was probably 14 or 15 years old, |
| 1:05.6 | and I heard Ed and Lorraine talk about it at a library program in Newtown, Connecticut, |
| 1:12.0 | which is where this whole story began and the town I grew up in. |
| 1:15.8 | So I attended, and this was a big case. |
| 1:18.6 | They talked about it often. |
| 1:20.3 | And what was Yuri? |
| 1:21.3 | I mean, I'm assuming this isn't like in the children's section of the library. |
| 1:25.5 | No, this is like, it's October. |
| 1:27.4 | So they do these, you know, these speaking tours that they did |
| 1:30.8 | every year, you know, around Christmas you go to see the Rockettes. |
| 1:34.4 | And in October, you go to see Ed and Lorraine Warren. |
| 1:37.4 | That's, that's how it is. |
| 1:41.1 | And so, no, they would do these programs for teens. You know, I was an interested |
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