The Smurl Family Haunting

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Society & Culture, Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Smurl Family Haunting This week, we dive deep into one of the most documented cases of demonic oppression in modern history - the Smurl haunting. We explore how a working-class Catholic family's dream of stability turned into a 14-year nightmare when they moved into a duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania in 1973. What started as subtle oddities like an impossible-to-clean carpet stain and a mysteriously exploding television quickly escalated into violent physical attacks, levitation, and encounters with shadowy figures that would test the family's faith to its breaking point. We discuss the role of the infamous Ed and Lorraine Warren, who documented weeks of paranormal activity, including physical assaults, sexual encounters with demonic entities, and the presence of multiple spirits alongside a powerful demon. Patreon⁠⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: Smurl haunting, demonic possession, Ed and Lorraine Warren, West Pittston Pennsylvania, paranormal activity, haunted house, ghost stories, supernatural phenomena, poltergeist activity, Catholic exorcism, demonic oppression, paranormal investigation, true ghost stories, haunted duplex, demonic entities, spiritual warfare, paranormal podcast, horror stories, unexplained phenomena, paranormal encounters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if the truth about our reality has been hidden in plain sight?
0:04.0	What if aliens, consciousness, and ancient spiritual wisdom are all connected?
0:08.0	I'm Rob, and this is Unveiled, a podcast that dives headfirst into the biggest mysteries of our time.
0:14.0	Each episode, I sit down with thought leaders, insiders, experiencers, and visionaries to explore the unknown, from the UAP phenomenon
0:22.8	and government cover-ups to alien abductions, remote viewing, and the metaphysics of consciousness.
0:28.7	This is not your average UFO podcast. Unveiled is about peeling back the layers of reality,
0:34.7	of belief, of ourselves. So if you're ready to challenge the mainstream narrative,
0:39.5	expand your mind and discover what lies beyond the veil, hit follow and join me on this journey
0:44.4	into the unknown. How can you protect your family from your own home? Can the death of a town
0:53.9	cause evil to manifest?
0:56.9	What did a young family do to catch Dean's attention?
1:01.8	Today we test the believability of the Smurl haunting.
1:10.3	Music Welcome to Believing the Bazaar.
1:31.3	We're diving to the unknown and the unusual.
1:33.3	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
1:36.1	Oh boy, this is a tie-in episode.
1:38.5	This is a tying episode, if you will.
1:40.2	It's connected to something coming out right now called Conjuring, the last right.
1:45.5	But not the last movie, probably. Probably not. But I just wanted to do this. I wanted you to have
1:51.2	the information before the movie comes out. That's right. We're going to spoil the movie before the
1:55.5	movie comes out. I mean, in the sense, yeah, probably. So you can sit next to the person next to you
2:00.8	and be like, hey, you know what's going to happen?
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