TSFU Ep. 185- SPOOKY: The Smurl Haunting, The True Story Behind "The Conjuring: Last Rites"

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ash tells a story (besides her own - "TSFU Ep. 180- MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE: The Ashley Love Richards Story (Parts I-III) available now on Patreon) for the first time in 6-8 months, digging back into her obsession with the Warrens and The Conjuring franchise! She unearths a lot of very unsavory facts about the previously beloved Warrens... and tells the true story behind the fourth and "final" Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: Last Rites, about The Smurl family, who was viciously haunted and attacked in their home in West Pittston, Pennsylvania for over a decade.

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Audio editing by Tina Lukic.

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0:00.0	Before we get into the episode, call it continued haunting or maybe just continued issues of recording in Indonesia.
0:10.1	I don't know, still figuring it out.
0:11.8	Even though Kristen and I did do a test record that went great and the episode seemed fine the whole time we were recording,
0:19.5	we did find during the editing process that there
0:22.5	were quite a few parts on my end where the sound was distorted. So if you hear anything a little bit
0:29.5	weird during some of the words or sentences, I just wanted to let you know that that was on my
0:35.4	recording. It's nothing wrong with your speaker or your device
0:39.1	that you're listening on. Hope you guys are having a lovely day. This was my first time storytelling
0:44.4	in quite a while. And Kristen and I had a ton of fun. Hope you do too.
0:49.7	That is so fucked up. It's fucked up.
0:55.6	So fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up.
1:04.5	That's fucked up.
1:07.8	Hello, everybody.
1:10.2	Welcome back to the podcast. This is That's So Fucked Up, a podcast about
1:14.5	Colts murder. No. What? Kind of. I don't know. What are we doing here? It's about things that
1:24.6	make you say, ugh. That's so fucked up.
1:27.9	That's so fucked up.
1:29.5	Yeah.
1:30.3	Mostly about that.
1:31.6	Also cults and murder.
1:32.8	And hauntings.
1:34.6	Crazy shit.
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