Inhuman Spirits Devils or demons hate human beings sometime in the early 80s a 37-year-old housewife by the name of Janet SM was alone in her basement loading the machine with her family's dirty clothes her four children were all at school and her husband Jack was at work the only sound that could be heard in her home was the dim hum of the television playing upstairs punctuating the quiet Atmosphere with the sound of a game show audience having a great time Janet sniffed the laundry detergent just as she started to pour it it was a cold
crisp Winter's day a totally normal one at that that wasn't until everything changed in an instant lost in her thoughts as she loaded the washing machine and hit the start button Janet for a brief moment was convinced she had been called by Someone she paused the washing machine started to speed up Janet shook her head clearly mistaken and she grabbed the basket and turned to leave before she could she heard it again Janet froze on the spot there was no mistaking it this time she had heard someone calling her name a woman's voice soft but
Unsettling she glanced around the basement and all she saw was boxes of Christmas decorations the daylight seeping in through the small high up window was enough to illuminate the darkened corners of the room there was no no one else in there Janet The Voice whispered again this time it came from behind her Janet spun around her blood running Icy cold at this point she slowly backed towards the stairs and the voice called out once again a soft whispery voice that Janet would later describe as Eerie then it came a fourth time almost in a teasing
mocking tone Janet was sure she heard a slight giggle as it called her name whoever it was was clearly enjoying her fear Janet back to the stairs the voice would punctuate the air a couple more times before she could Reach the stairs but once she did Janet plucked up the courage to shout back what do you want she yelled there was silence just the gentle fudding of the washer and the laughter from the TV upstairs Janet backed onto the first step glancing around with a full clear view of the basement it was empty was she
imagining Things maybe she was spending too much time alone at home just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief The Voice called out to her in that same mocking tone Janet turned and ran up the stairs as quickly as she could slamming the door behind her the strange advents that had been plaguing her family home since they moved in had just moved up to a whole new [Music] Level welcome to the tape library in tonight's episode we're going to be delving into one of the most infamous hauntings in American history the M
family and the terrifying incidents that took place in their home on Chase Street this is one of the most vicious hauntings that has ever been reported and grabbed the attention of people all over the world as it took place we'll be getting into all the dark Details the controversial involvement of Eden rain Warren and try to figure out what really took place within those walls a quick trigger warning this does get pretty rough at times then there are some reports of sexualized violence within this encounter the timeline of the events that took place here is
a little confusing depending on what source you use I've tried to keep the events in Chronological order as much as possible if you enjoy tales of the Paranormal and The Unexplained I'd love it if you could join us here every fortnite as we uncover new cases hit the subscribe button now so you don't miss out and if you want to support us you can do that simply by clicking the like button now with all that out the way grab yourself a warm drink dim the Lights and get comfortable it's time to get into the haunting
tail of the smell family and their demonic infestation when people have a haunting that's going to occur a really bad one these are all the things that occur to those people doors opening and closing footsteps psychic ho spots hearing what we call Magic Whispering these are all the beginning stages Tony the first few years of marriage were Bliss for Janet And Jack SM Jack's job meant his new family were able to live comfortably and their first two daughters were born daor and Kim Janet gave up work to become a full-time mother and the couple were
especially close close with Jack's parents John and Mary SM who they shared a house with in wils bar Pennsylvania however tragedy struck in 1972 when Hurricane Agnes decimated the area the family's home was flooded Underneath 12 ft of water in an instant and although luckily no one in the family was hurt the house was ruined John and Mary did attempt to fix the place up but the house was taken over by the local Redevelopment Authority with a young family in tow and unsure where to turn next Jack's parents were the lifeline they needed they didn't
see this incident as A reason to split up their family and it just so happened they found a duplex for sale in the nearby town of West pittson John and Mary proposed that they would buy the entire duplex and then Jack and Janet could purchase the other side of the duplex at a discounted rate the home was old and was a bit of a fix upper but it gave both sets of the family a home to call their own at a very reasonable price However they didn't know that this particular property on Chase Street was
the focal point of a lot of local rumors locals said the police would make regular appearances over the years to investigate disturbances some said that odd noise could be heard from the property even when the place had been empty others said that residents that lived there previously had practiced witchcraft Others reported seeing odd faces peering at them through gaps in the curtains as they walked past but it was all just stories every town has their creepy house the kids dare each other to approach on how night West pittson itself was once a prosperous mining town
however the long closed mines are now filled with water even causing Decades of mine cavins that caused some homes to Collapse although since the 1940s the ground has become much more stable homes were still prone to making grumbles as the foundation settled beneath them in one of the stranger discoveries a number of these homes that caved in led to the apparent discovery of pig bones very deep within the mud surrounding the properties Jack Janet and the girls quickly settled into their new home and Jack and Janet both Became prominent members of the local community getting
involved in any way they could they were both seen as friendly helpful and well respected people within West Pittston and no one ever thought to bring up the silly childish stories about their house being a little strange the events like in so many of these cases started out pretty Minor the first reported odd occurrence from the home came in the mid 1970s when Mary SM purchased a new rug for their half of the duplex when they rolled it out across their living room however they were shocked to discover a large greasy stain in the middle
of it the stain was still wet so had clearly somehow appeared since the rolled up carpet was in their home Mary and John gave it a far clean and went to bed but 2 Days Later the stain Reappeared they kept cleaning but each time after only a few days it would come back this wasn't the only pain the families would experience while trying to fix the place up the renovations were quite big and took a number of years to complete during this time a number of pipes were replaced or repaired but even after being freshly
soldered they would unexpectedly spring a leak soak in Jack and Janet's home this was despite the work being Carried out by John and experienced welder tools would often go missing and then reappear in strange places this meant that small jobs that should take a few minutes were taking Jack and John hours to complete at one point Jack and Janet completely remodeled their bathroom when they walked in the following day their new sink and bathtub had been scratched Beyond Repair with large chunks ripped out of the porcelain then the fire started in 197 4 Jack was
sat alone one night watching a movie on his TV when all of a sudden the set burst into flames before his very eyes other appliances within the home would start to smoke or even catch fire this could maybe be choked up to electrical issues in the home but that wouldn't explain why the Same thing happened to Jack's Car one day in 1975 their daughter Dawn started making regular appearances in their bedroom late at night seemingly too scared to sleep in her own bed after a few incidents like this Jack asked his daughter what it was
that was scaring her so much to which she told him there were people floating around her room each night that dor would run in Screaming in floods of Tears Jack would go to investigate to find nothing a Miss while you would normally pass these off as the nightmares of a young child the fact that the strange things were continuing to happen throughout the home gave it a bit more weight to Jack and Janet radios would turn on all by themselves at full volume footsteps would be heard echoing throughout the upstairs even when no one was
up there The toilet would flush in the dead of night when everyone was tucked up asleep and most persistent of all banging could be heard coming from inside the walls 1977 rolled around and Janet gave birth to twins Shannon and Karen bringing the SM children up to four as the years continue to pass by the couple continued to notice odd phenomena in their home in the dawn hours of one morning Jack and Janet found themselves Awoken to a strange creaking sound they followed the sound downstairs to their front door they opened it to see their
lawn chairs rocking back and forth in the windless morning air as if someone was satting them Jack and Janet had almost come to terms with the fact that there was something in their home besides them it had been years at this point and despite the fact it could be a bit creepy it was mostly harmless they joked About sharing their house with a ghost but really they just brushed it off as all being explainable in some way the odd quirks of an old rundown house then one night Jack woke up to the feeling of his
shoulders being robbed in a sensual manner he came out of his Slumber to the pleasant surprise of his wife's touch only to glance over his shoulder and see janets fast asleep facing away from him jack didn't get much sleep that night by the time 1983 Arrived the family were met by a phenomena that would be consistently appearing throughout their remaining years in the home a foul smell would appear and spread through the house but they could never find the source for it around this time John and Mary were becoming concerned about their son and his
wife they began to hear arguments clear as day through the walls the sounds of Jack screaming shouting And swearing at Janet at Times building into such a fit of rage they began to genuinely worry for Janet's safety one day Jack Smur was fed up with hearing his son talked to Janet like this he stormed out of his front door to the other side of the duplex he opened the door and walk straight in only to find Jack and Janet and the small children sat having a relaxing evening in front Of the TV they had no
idea what Jack was talking about and that was when Janet had her encounter in the basement as I said they had already suggested the possibility their home could be haunted but this was the first time that Janet had witnessed something herself that she just couldn't explain the only possibility was that someone was playing a prank on her but upon leaving the basement Janet had searched The entire property opened every room wardrobe and looked under every bed she had been totally alone in the house the idea that this was somehow one of the girls playing a
cruel prank on their mother however was quickly dismissed just Weeks Later Janet once again found herself alone in the house she was ironing in the kitchen when she was was suddenly hit with a blast of cold air something that had happened a few times now in the house She glanced up half expecting to see that she had left a window open and that the cold February wind had whipped up Suddenly but that wasn't what she saw standing in her kitchen just a few feet away from her in broad daylight was a humanlike shape shape is
the only real way to describe bits you could see the vague outline of a person but its body was made up of an Almost smok like Black substance while Janet got the sense it was looking back at her its face was completely featureless whatever this thing was it stood looking at Janet and Janet stared back Frozen to the spot in shock then suddenly L it began to move towards her and that's when she noticed something fluttering behind it as it Walked almost like the outline of a cape but made of the same black moving Smoky
substance it only took a few steps before the creature was on top of Janet as she winced back in fear it simply passed through her and continued out of the kitchen door and into the living room Janet slowly crept out of the kitchen trembling in fear but the thing was gone the living room was empty in a panic Janet stormed out of her home and Ran next door to Mary and John's Place she entered and found Mary sat in a chair in the living room she barely even acknowledged Janet's presence while this was out of
character Mary had been unwell and was recovering from a recent heart attack so it didn't immediately strike Janet as anything to be concerned about before Janet could tell Mary what she had seen the old woman began to speak telling Janet she thinks she might Be losing her mind she then proceeds to tell Janet that just moments before she came in she saw a black smoke likee humanoid Shadow walk through a wall and out into their hallway before disappearing again however it seemed that the odd activity in the home had reached its peak the incident with
the shadow was followed by weeks of relative peace As Time created a distance for the Family and the incidents it became easier to just once again think their minds had been playing tricks on them the smells are often referred to as the traditional good Catholic Family one evening Janet is in the kitchen with her girls Kim's Holy Communion was coming up and Janet was ironing her white communion dress ready for the occasion Janet and Kim were lucky enough to duck as they heard the sudden creaking noise a 4T lighting fixture that was Above their heads
suddenly fell without warning young Shannon wasn't so lucky and caught a glancing Blow from the lights as it fell but was luckily not seriously injured when Jack inspected it afterwards it didn't look like the light had gotten loose the ceiling looked damaged to such an extent it appeared the light had been ripped from its place and we have a 4ot by twoot um ceiling Light and it came without no warning at all in a matter of a split second It Came Crashing Down onto the kitchen table that must have been very PR it was very
very frightening because we didn't know it was unexpected and it wasn't like a a light that had broken naturally it didn't tip it didn't sway it just came crashing down and it gouged Shannon on the forehead and it gouged a mark onto the refrigerator and that this was about a half an hour before we went to Church just Days Later Janet had taken the girls out early one evening to buy them new clothes for school Jack after a long day of work had laid down on his bed with a book but soon found himself nodding
off to sleep he began to wake a few hours later and instantly could tell something was off but couldn't quite figure out what it wasn't long before he realized he appeared to be floating two Feet in the air above his mattress he began to struggle and was instantly dropped back down onto the bed and left in the darkened room with complete silence as if nothing had ever happened the physical activity would take a vicious turn one summer evening in 1985 this is when the true horror of the small situation would begin just moments after Janet
and Jack had finished making love Janet found herself being pulled Violently from the bed by some invisible force Jack grabbed his wife's hand desperately trying to pull her back onto the bed eventually whatever was pulling Janet gave up and retreated almost instantly The Familiar banging on the wall started but louder than ever and the smell returned whatever I tried to take Janet in that moment was clearly angry that it hadn't been successful the family were at a loss for Who to turn to they were now living in day daily fear they had sunk so much
money into the home that moving again was not an option and regardless they had spent years rebuilding their lives here since relocating they didn't want to be chased out so easily but from this point on whatever had been hiding in the shadows of the small home these past few years had now Fully awoken and seemed more powerful than ever days later the family's pet J Shepherd Simon was laying in the kitchen next to Janet when he was suddenly lifted from the ground and thrown into the kitchen door the children began to report hearing the odd
sound of fluttering in their rooms as if a giant unseen bird was flying around one evening Jack and Janet had fallen Asleep when they suddenly heard a massive crash and sobbing they rushed to the stairs to discover their daughter Shannon lying at the bottom of of the stairs she had no idea how she had gotten there soon after this Janet was awoken to find a strange smoke filling their room she tried to wake Jack but he seemed to be stuck in an almost coma likee deep Slumber something that became A recurring theme whenever whatever was
in their home wanted to present itself to just one of the couple it appeared to be able to keep the other one unconscious the smoke appeared a few nights in a row at one point taking on the form of a person not unlike that of the shadow figure Mary and Janet had seen but this time it scurried off into the Small's bedroom wardrobe and Vanished but it wasn't just Jack and Janet who were suffering Mary and John were continuing to notice odd phenomena around their side of the duplex with Mary claiming one night old John
was out her entire mattress was levitated off the bed before she was dropped to the floor injuring her leg in the process Janet began researching as much as she could devouring book after book on the Paranormal to try and Understand what could be happening and how to deal with it on two separate occasions priests who were friends of the family came and blessed the house each time this happened it calmed the activity for a short while but much like the casee of H vanok that we covered before the energy would bounce back with a vengeance
Janet was introduced by a friend of hers to a university Professor who had an interest in the realm of the Paranormal Janet met with the man who said that his interest in the topic was purely academic and while he couldn't help her with a solution he had met two people who possibly could this is when he handed Janet the phone number for Eden Lorraine Warren I imagine that most people here will be familiar with the Warren we have already covered their cases a number of Times here on the tape library and their involvement in the
amville case as well as their most recent depictions in The Conjuring movies has made them basically household names at this point the Warren are Ed and Lorraine a married couple who just might be the most famous paranormal investigators to have ever lived er a self-proclaimed demonologist and Clair voyant have been involved in many of the largest paranormal cases of all time a number of Books and movies have been made about their encounters while they apparently never charged money for investigating and helping the families involved in these hauntings they certainly made a pretty penny on the
lecture circuit media appearances and books and movies made about them to call the Warren's controversial would be an understatement some viewed him as charlatans jumping on on any case that could help boost their Fame their involvement with the SMS did lead to some very odd choices from the family that will get into later it's also worth noting that the Warren come at everything involved in the Supernatural from a very Catholic Viewpoint they operate in the world of Good and Evil where demons are apparently just a part of everyday life which obviously aligns perfectly with the
smell's existing belief system while they may not have entertained the idea Of of possibly sharing their home with demons before they were certainly more open to the concept now at this point in time the Warren had claimed to have investigated over 3,000 paranormal cases across the world and were riding on new levels of Fame post the cultural Sensation that was the amville horror the Warren sat at the kitchen table with Janet and Jack drinking coffee and beginning their interview which to the smells felt more Like an inter interogation with Ed Warren asking to the point
questions about if the family had ever been involved in the occult if they had ever played with a Ouija board were they satanists the entire ordeal felt a bit intense for the smells but this was the first time someone was sitting in their home seriously willing to offer them help While Ed conducted the interview Lorraine and Diane Hayes another member of their team an apparent psychic started to walk around the house the pair described that they felt fear as they moved throughout the home they soon found themselves drawn to the smell's bedroom by a strange
sound as soon as they opened the door they were hit with the strange smell they had plagued the smells for years now they found themselves drawn specifically to the Wardrobe with a strong sense that something was hiding in there while they could see nothing physically both psychics were filled with an overwhelming sense of evil they returned downstairs to fill the family in Lorraine told the SMS that she had sensed four presences in their house she said one was an elderly woman who seemed very confused possibly suffering from dementia before she passed away while She may
seem scary she appeared at least to be harmless the second Spirit was of a younger woman this one was described by Lorraine as insane and violent the third was a man Lorraine knew he had a mustache and was capable of violence but not much beyond that the fourth however wasn't a spirit at all it was a demon and was seemingly capable of controlling the other Spirits it had likely been in the property for Decades but for some reason had been awoken by the small family this de demon would feed off the family as though they
were batteries Their Fear and confusion giving it energy the demon would keep the family in a constant state of edge never quite making sense in its actions being unpredictable and at times violent this was when Ed laid out the four stages of demonic activity Infestation depression possession and finally death and these four stages were already well underway the Warren's investigation began that very night and straight away they witnessed some of the phenomena the smells had been experiencing the mirrors in their bedroom began moving unexpectedly and a small portable black and white TV that had been
left Unplugged through fear of fire suddenly lit up in the static they swore they could see figures as if they were looking back at the family through the screen the Warren of course pushed that prayer was the answer to the smell troubles they should go out and purchase holy water to sprinkle around whenever something would happen and pray as hard as they could the Warren would investigate the house for months on end Apparently Gathering all sorts of photographic and recorded evidence however none of this was seeming ever made public the Warren's primary focus was to
try and get the local church involved and have an exorcism commissioned on the property something that will require the Scranton dases to get involved in the case that night after the Warren had left the children huddled in their room afraid that the gray thing they had Been seeing at night would return meanwhile in Jack and Janet's room as they lay their trying to sleep Janet was slapped repeatedly by an unseen Force banging on the walls grew in intensity throughout the night and once again the television glowed with those strange images hidden Within by 3:00 a.m.
the activity began to calm down but both Jack and Simon the dog patrolled the house throughout the evening in a vain hope of keeping Everyone safe Simon refusing to leave the hallway outside the uncle girl's bedroom the smalls purchased several items from the church shop and took them to a priest to have them blessed her e Warren's instructions the priest was hesitant to do so but still went ahead it was clear the church were not taking the Small's predicament too seriously and post amville the Involvement of the Warren likely made them even more hesitant to
get involved the last thing they wanted was to be involved in a media circus like that just Days Later Janet was taking a rare moment to relax in the bathtub as she sunk into the water she suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable like she wasn't alone like she was being watched suddenly becoming aware of how naked and vulnerable she felt in that Moment a place of relaxation was turned on its head but it got worse when and whistling started a whistle that Janet described as akin to that of a group of drunken men filled with inuendo and
fret Jack was awoken one night around 2:00 a.m. to the sounds of two female voices in his half asleep State he assumed it was the twins but he opened his eyes to see two women standing at the foot of his bed Wearing old-fashioned dresses B asking in the familiar glow of the TV in the blink of an eye they vanished the following night Jack awoke late into the evening yet again to the voices he could see the two women standing this time in the darkened corner of the bedroom he tried to nudge Janet awake but
to no luck as he sat there terrified staring at the women this time he could See one was around 40 and the other was younger possibly in her early 20s he could see them whispering to each other but couldn't make out what was being said this time they seemed aware of Jack's presence the younger woman slowly turned to face Jack her lips curling into an exaggerated smile Jack tried to scream but no noise Would come out the two women continued to look at Jack whispering to each other and grinning at him in a way that
sent chills down his entire body then they slowly stepped backwards and seemed to disappear into the darkness that surrounded the Wardrobe by this point the Warren Were In Touch daily with the SMS and were making regular visits to The house Ed was able to get another priest to come and bless the house shortly after this Ed decided to attempt something called religious provocation a ritual that he hoped would force the supposed demon to reveal himself and it appeared to work to some degree as halfway through the ritual Ed was choked to the point of near
unconsciousness by the Unseen Force then the bite marks and scratches began appearing first on Jack and then other members of the family began reporting similar there seemed to be no Source they would just appear overnight incidents were occurring on the other side of the duplex as well with Mary seeing the darken shadow in her doorway one night only this time she didn't know how But she got the overwhelming sense it was attempting to call her to convince her to follow it into the darkness at this point incidents were happening every single day but it took
on a whole darker level on the evening of June 21st Jack once again asleeping bed was jolted awake violently he looked around his room in a sense of panic but nothing seemed to be Wrong it wasn't until she was already climbing onto the bed that Jack became aware of the presence of the woman if you could call her that what Jack saw crawling up his bed was an old woman's face with the body of a much younger woman her hair was long white and messy her skin Pure White and what appeared to be scales covering
her body covered in open saws that oozed pus her eyes are vivid red the inside of her Mouth green with several missing teeth the few remaining teeth she did have were long and described by Jack as ampire like she climbed on top of Jack he had already realized at this point that he was completely paralyzed he was conscious but there was nothing he could do once again Janet slept next to him in a deep trance-like State Jack couldn't feel any Sensations below his neck but he realized this Creature had climbed on top and had started
to have sex with him the creature used Jack while staring at him him and smiling with her demented crooked smile when she was done she simply retreated back into the darkness of the corners of the bedroom and vanished soon after Jack was able to move he realized he was covered all over in a smelly sticky substance that appeared to be oozing off the woman's Skin Jack took himself off and scrubbed himself in the shower till his skin nearly bled he could have passed it off as some sort of nightmare or sleep paralysis hallucination if it
wasn't for the soreness that achd for his body the day after Jack told Janet everything his wife burst into tears terrified by this massive escalation the following morning at breakfast Dawn told her parents about a Nightmare she had she had seen exactly what happened to Jack in her dreams after this new attack Janet once again contacted the Scranton dicese to ask the church to help them once again her request was seemingly not taken seriously by the higher up members of the church soon after this Janet 2 was a victim of sexual attacks from whatever was
in their home well at this point it didn't go as Far as Jack's encounter she reported feeling like she had been sexually ass assaulted by an unseen person one of the Warren's team relayed this story to the Warren over the phone and then proceeded to play them a recording he had made there was the familiar bangings from inside the wall but in between the banging was the unmistakable sounds of pig squealing with the local Catholic Church being unwilling to help the warrant brought in Father Robert F McKenna from Connecticut to perform what would be the
first first of several exorcisms on the house an old school Catholic priest who the Warren had known for a number of years the night before he could arrive however Jack was once again visited by the two women in the night only this time they had a middle-aged man with them the man got Right up into Jack's face who was once again paralyzed in his bed and said you will pay for this he repeated this phrase Jack multiple times while the women continued to whisper and look at Jack even laughing at him in his Terror as
he lay there helpless before all three simply faded away before his eyes the exorcism was seemingly unsuccessful although the activity Lessened in severity for a while and was reduced more to the sort of behavior one would see in a pter case everyone involved in the house seemed to be falling ill repeatedly Ed Warren wasn't able to attend the first exorcism due to suddenly falling ill and then the smell's daughter Karen fell severely ill in the aftermath of it losing several pounds and scaring the life out of her parents before her fever finally Broke the sexual
nature of some of the attacks that Jack and Janet have began to encounter took on a whole new level of Terror when their 16-year-old daughter Dawn began to attract the attention of whatever was hiding inside their house dor was undressing to get into the shower when she heard the familiar banging from inside the walls at this point this barely raised a reaction in any of the family due to how common it Was she climbed in and began washing herself when she suddenly felt something grabed her arms forcefully and then begin to lightly stroke one of
them before beginning to squeeze her arms Tighter and Tighter whatever it was had daor backed against the wall in the shower she threw herself past whatever it was and fell to the floor outside the shower screaming for her parents to help the family on both sides of the Duplex continued to discover bite marks and slashes on their bodies apparitions continued to show up with Jack watching TV one night and seeing a 20-year-old male with long hair staring at him from across the room with a terrifying smile once again in the bathroom a seemingly favorite location
for the spirits Janet was in the bath when she claimed a 3-ft tall humanoid like creature began to materialize before her eyes coated in the same goo that the woman who Assaulted Jack was she didn't give it time to attack her however and fled from the bathroom instantly Mary smell was regularly haunted by the Black shadow figure a visiting relative claimed to see an old woman staring from the duplex's window that they didn't recognize and Jack found himself once again waking up while levitating before being thrown forcefully into a wall it was getting Too much
for the smells so they did what they often did when The Haunting grew too insane they packed up their belongings into their camper van and headed off for a nearby camping ground in Honesdale hoping the trip would offer them some much needed rest bite however they would be in for a shock at approximately 9:15 on the first evening Jack was starting up a fire Simon the dog was lying nearby to it enjoying its heat when he caught Sight of something and quickly jumped up the dog stiffened up staring forward and growling intensely Jack followed the
dog's line of sight to some nearby bushes and there staring back at them was a young girl no more than 14 she was looking at Jack directly in the eyes and smiling a disturbing fced familiar smile it was then that Jack noticed she was wearing what appear to be an old-fashioned Colonial dress she didn't move she didn't blink she just kept smiling slowly she vanished before his very eyes Jack crept closer to the bushes only for the girl to rematerialize and once again disappear in the span of just a few seconds later that night as
the family crowded around the Campfire the distant sounds of a young girl calling for help could be heard they searched everywhere but couldn't find anyone it didn't take them long to realize that whatever was happening in their home had the ability to follow them anywhere meanwhile back at the house neighbors were startled to hear repeated screams coming from the small residence in the middle of the night even though they knew the family Were away world's going on in there on other occasions when the family were out of town neighbors complained they could hear what sounded
like massive flocks of large birds flying around the house chillingly echoing something the smell children had encountered in their bedrooms previously one neighbor even attempted to phone the SMS to see if anyone was actually home she was very confused when the Voice of a young girl that she didn't recognize answered when she asked who she was speaking to the girl chillingly laughed repeatedly down the phone until the call disconnected no one answered again as soon as the family returned home from the trip the attacks began again with the irregular appearance of the black form on
both sides of the duplex and multiple members of the family waking up levitating in the Middle of the night even work didn't offer any rest bite for Jack his work colleagues who are now well aware of what was going on in his home started to report strange occurrences around the office when Jack was in the same foul smell that had permeated their home appeared phones would start making deafly loud buzzing noises out of nowhere and even what one colleague Referred to as the sound of someone banging from inside the radio it sounded strange but they
were convinced it sounded like someone was inside their radio trying to get out shortly after their camping trip Janet decided to have a lay down on their sofa due to a throbbing headache she awoke to the now familiar experience of an unseen Force touching her in a sexual manner these invisible hands seemed to move up her Body until they clasped around her throat its grip tightened to such a degree her vision started to turn black Simon the dog attempted to Lunge at the attacker but just passed straight through whatever was harming his owner Janet claimed
she used the religious visual ization techniques that Ed Warren had taught her and remarkably this seemed to send her attacker into a slow Retreat the following day father McKenna returned for the second exorcism on the Property as the priest drove home after the ritual he knew deep down that he still hadn't been able to help the family Janet continued to be attacked night after night either in her bed or whenever she was alone in in the bathroom whatever was doing this seemed to take great pleasure in attacking or appearing to the family when they felt
the most vulnerable one night after another sexually motivated attack Janet saw The Apparition of an old woman Looking at her from the foot of her bed but for the first time in years this was a rare moment that didn't feel threatening whoever this woman was Janet said felt peaceful and like she was simply trying to tell her something but her words made no noise the family finally decided to go public with their story approaching a television station and agreeing to take part in a studio interview orbe it in an Anonymous fashion they hoped that even
though the viewers at home wouldn't recognize them that the church would put two and two together and realized this was the SMS trying another way to force them to take action the Warren were repeatedly telling the SMS that while father McKenna was a respected practitioner of the exorcism rights having the church send in their priests from higher up would hopefully be more successful in driving back the Demonic Forces that were plaguing their home but the plan to go public seemingly angered the apparent demon on the way to the studio Janet and Jack were nearly forced
off the road by the Unseen Force when they did turn up at the studio they were arrest Nea had slept a wink all night on account of the fact that their bed had been violently shaking in the motel they chose to stay at while the interview went well their return home was met with Increasingly violent activity Janet once again found herself attacked in the night to such a vicious degree that she was convinced the spirit was trying to break her arms and legs but it was Jack who had witnessed a new level of apparition appearing
in their home Jack was awoken in the Night by a strange breathing sound when he opened his eyes he saw it staring down at him he described whatever this thing was as 8 ft tall Standing on two legs with a furry head red eyes and a pig snout on its face waving its rake-like fingers as it lumbered towards Jack in his bed Jack screamed as loud as he could for once actually managing to wake Janet but it was gone however she could see in the states her husband was in whatever he had seen had broken
him just Days Later Janet saw the figure of a mustached man with animal horns protruding from his head even after all This time the house was finding new ways to shock and scare the family they were long past the breaking point Janet and Jack rarely slept now and Jack's parents' Health was rapidly deteriorating the strange beast creature Jack saw would return just a short while later he was up one night and headed to the bathroom as he flicked on the bathroom lights it materialized in an instant the same half man half animal creature he had
seen in his Bed only this time it started charging at him squealing as it did Jack ran back to his bedroom and the creature cornered him right up against the wall jack closed his eyes praying that this wasn't going to be the end of him when he slowly opened his eyes the Beast was gone following this Janet was lying in bed late one morning when she felt something grabbed The back of her neck despite the fact she was laying on her back as she struggled to get free she could could see clear as day a
human hand poking up through her mattress after all these violent attacks it would ultimately be a rather harmless but all too haunting experience that would send the smes into a new level of desperation for help Janet raced upstairs one afternoon as she heard her Daughter Shannon screaming in Terror when she got there she found her daughter crying on the floor she said there was a man in her room taking things out of her toy box she said he's been there before and that he smells real bad Janet asked her daughter if the man had ever
hurt her to which Shannon luckily said no but she replied that he just stares at her and that he scares her he scares her a Lot a plan was constructed between the Warren and the SM family they had TR tried time after time to get the church to take their case seriously so it was time they started to make some serious noise and the family began to contact the Press yet again the move towards getting help led to a vicious retribution from the entities in the home once again jack was sexually assaulted by a woman
while he lay Paralyzed in bed this time it took on the form of a much more attractive Almost Human looking girl he said however the red eyes were the giveaway of what this thing actually was the SMS told their story to a reporter by the name of Sandy Underwood they could have had no idea what came next in the wake of the amville horror the country was desperate for its next big ghost story and in the smells it had it there was a media Frenzy worldwide newspapers started reporting on what was going on in the
home TV stations were turning up with cameras hundreds of members of the general public were showing up on the smell's property what they thought was their chance to get their story out there and get help actually added more pressure to the smells so many people were showing up that the police were forced to close the street their Neighbors understandably were angry with them about the chaos they had brought to their quiet community the children were startled to see people climbing the trees in the middle of the night staring in through their windows at one point
a coven of witches turned up and asked if they could perform rituals in their home and a number of people seemed to be lurking outside the property sinisterly carrying Weapons it was absolute chaos the One Shining Light Came in the form of a psychic who got in touch with the family by the name of bettyanne Moore who came and visited the home she not only identified the fact that there were three spirits in the home and one darker entity just like Lorraine had all those months earlier she was actually able to provide information that seemingly
filled in some of the gaps and explained some of The behavior of the apparitions they were seeing she spoke of a scile older woman named Abigail who appeared to be harmless upstairs in one of the bedrooms she then claimed to sense the spirit of a man named Patrick a large mustached man who had died here and would often beat his younger wife Elizabeth one day Patrick came home to find Elizabeth with another man he proceeded to strangle her and Beat the man to death she then said that Janet resembled Elizabeth and she believed that the
spirit of Patrick has confused her for his wife and Jack for her lover she claimed Patrick didn't want to cross over to the other side because he was afraid he would be punished punished by what or who wasn't clear interestingly she claimed that the third Spirit presumably the younger woman who had been spotted Regularly wasn't Elizabeth it was a violent insane woman who wanted to cause the family harm and was somehow working alongside the Demonic entity in the house with the aim of possessing a member of the family she was also capable of making Patrick
commit violent acts then there was the demon itself which she described as being everywhere in the house it had invested its very walls Meanwhile during the media Circus the neighbors once again started contacting the SMS although seemingly not to to complain about the chaos outside six different houses close to the smell started reporting banging in their walls strange odors and screaming late at night in their homes it seemed with the awareness and recognition the entities were growing in power what they hoped would be their Salvation had turned on them the SMS couldn't leave their home
without being hounded by the press and the public but if they stayed inside they were endlessly being tormented by the spirits within this seems a good time to talk about some of the more skeptical takes on this case as the Press continued to feature the small story public perception began to turn on them rumors of a book deal and movie Began to circulate and many started to believe they were simply doing this for fame and money the Warren became the public facing entity in this case for a lot of the press some suggested that the
plan to go public had nothing to do with the smells and it had been done entirely by the Warren Steven Kaplan a parapsychologist with some connection to the Amit case claimed that while he believed the Smells had in fact experienced The Haunting that the suggestions that a demon was to blame had been entirely inserted into their heads by the Warren something he claimed they had also done in amville the organization of CSI cop wanting to investigate the case casting a more skeptical wire over proceedings while initially the smes said they could when the team arrived
at the property they were met on the porch by Jack SM with Ed Warren flanking him They were then told there would not be permitted entry into the home the SMS later claimed that CSI cop was one of the first organizations they got in touch with when looking for help but they were not taken seriously something CSI cop Den I having any record of Jack SM then said no other paranormal investigators beyond the warrants would be allowed to investigate he apparently feared that any provocation of the entities could put His family in further danger and
that any help would need to come from a strictly religious Source the church hadn't completely ignored the family's pleas and had been willing to bless the house however organizing an exorcism required sign off from higher ups in the church and particularly once the Warren got involved there was a strong sense of skepticism amongst them about how serious this really was the Warren told The Press time and time again they had video and audio evidence of many of the events that took place in the home however when asked to present these Ed first claimed it had
been given to a TV station they didn't recall the name of before then claiming it had all been given to the church as evidence another interesting Theory came out when it was reported that Jack SM had brain surgery in 1983 to have water removed from his Brain it has been suggested by some psychologists that this could be the root cause of some of the things he was seeing and experiencing and that his fear and belief in what was happening was fuel to his family fear creating a kind of mass Hysteria that then saw everyone close
to them start believing they were experiencing stuff too the noises in the home could be explained Away by the settling of Mines beneath the property and apparently residents had complained for years about a faulty sewer that was pumping out foul odors into the community of course the answer could come in some sort of combination of a lot of these factors maybe the family really were experiencing in something especially in those early days but it does seem that the involvement of the Warren really Amped up the apparent evil nature of the phenomena that was taking place
was there insistence on looking at these events through a Catholic lens and blaming it on demonic entities fueling the family to look at it from a malevolent Viewpoint the other possibility is that the family really were scared and were feeling abandoned by their Church so began to exaggerate the stories that were happening to them in the hope it Would force the church into action after some of the press attention started to Wayne the Warren came up with the idea of holding a Mass Exorcism with multiple prayer groups both in the home and across external locations
all focusing their energies on ridding the home of whatever lay inside it this was the moment the Scranton dases finally stepped in telling the Warren that they would be taking taking over the investigation from here on out father McKenna returned for a third exorcism and for days afterwards friends family members and representatives from the church returned to the home in an attempt to almost drown the evil in prayer for the SMS who had felt so alone for many long stretches of their encounter this was a powerful and beautiful moment their home long a place of
misery and fear was now filled with warming candl light loving friends and most importantly Support and seemingly it worked weeks went by and no incidents took place within the small family's home but then just two weeks before Christmas Jack was alone in his living room he switched off the TV and was about to head up to bed when he saw it again standing there was the black faceless being its Cape still fluttering just as it had the first time Janet had seen it there was a difference this time he couldn't explain how but Jack felt
the overwhelming sense it was calling to him trying to tempt him closer Jack resisted but then it All Began again the family would spend the following weeks in their beds terrified as the pounding on the walls returned and The Haunting started up all over Again although it seemingly never reached the same levels it once had subsequently a book and television movie both named The Haunted were released on the SM family's case the family were finally able to get themselves into a financial position where they could move leaving the dark memories of the house on Chase
Street Long behind them Karen smell the youngest of the children has since grown up but the events of her Childhood have clearly stayed with her as she has become a Paranormal Investigator herself it is reported by some that after moving out of the house and the subsequent Spotlight having been taken off the events the church went and finally performed their own exorcism in the property the residents that have lived there since have reported no strange Activity thank you for joining me on this entry into the tape Library this Might be the most in-depth I've gone
on a case so far but there is just so much information to work with even here I've still been forced to leave out a lot of events this was a lot of research so please if you enjoyed this episode drop me a comment below and let me know what you think of this case hit the like button and if you haven't already then please do subscribe I hope to have one more episode out before the Christmas break so we're going to be Tackling something a bit different and a bit closer to home for me until
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