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When you challenge the demonic,
It waits till you are the most vulnerable.
NARRATOR: Together, they documented
the most famous haunting cases
ever recorded.
The cases that Ed and Lorraine Warren worked on
were groundbreaking.
NARRATOR: Now, for the first time,
never before released recordings...
..document how this unassuming couple devoted their lives
to saving others from the demonic...
ED: In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave.
..and proving to the world that the devil exists.
They thought there is evil in the world,
we need to fight it.
You can't imagine what has taken place in this home.
NARRATOR: They are the pioneers of the paranormal,
Ed and Lorraine Warren.
NARRATOR: In 2013, the film, 'The Conjuring'
shocked the entertainment industry
by earning more than $300 million at the box office
and spawning a blockbuster movie franchise.
The film and its sequels
are based on real life hauntings
investigated by famed demonologists,
Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Their pioneering investigations are something
their daughter Judy can attest to.
Dad, Mum, they opened the way for people
of all these paranormal groups to start,
and most of them will say it.
"If it wasn't for your parents, I wouldn't be doing this today."
NARRATOR: During their extraordinary 50 year career,
the Warrens investigated thousands of reports
involving poltergeists, demons, and devils.
But perhaps the most documented case of evil
is one that took place in Ed Warren's hometown.
On Sunday, November 24, 1974,
Ed and Lorraine Warren
receive a desperate call from their friend,
psychic, Mary Pascarella.
Mary Pascarella was Director
of the Psychic Research Institute
in Hamden, Connecticut.
She was a personal friend of ours and she said,
"Ed, you have got to meet me at this house."
NARRATOR: By the early 1970s,
Lorraine, a clairvoyant, and Ed, a demonologist,
have been investigating the paranormal
for over 20 years,
but to most people, the idea of investigating haunted houses
is a new phenomenon.
MAN: Mary Pascarella said,
"We have a real poltergeist case going on."
"There's police cars,"
"people are starting to form outside the house."
And that's when Ed said, "Oh, OK."
"Well, this sounds like the real deal. We'll be right over."
NARRATOR: The Warrens, along with Father William Charbonneau,
arrive at the home of Jerry and Laura Goodin.
ED: I went in the house and here were police officers,
firemen, the Goodin family,
neighbours, and it looked like
somebody went through the house
with a baseball bat,
smashed things off of the walls, knocked furniture over.
LORRAINE: Every one of these police officers,
when myself and the priest walked in,
they know and asked for the priest's blessing.
They were frightened.
NARRATOR: As part of his investigative technique,
Ed Warren tapes interviews with witnesses.
In these rare recordings,
we hear Ed speaking with the first police officers called to the scene.
NARRATOR: After talking with the officers,
Ed knows he must experience the poltergeist himself
to be certain it's real.
Ed was really good at trying to rule out
the logical physical causes and explanations.
He would take a second look.
He would not just take people's word for it.
ED: I was standing in the kitchen.
I noticed that there was a movement from my peripheral vision.
A set of Melmac dishes flew across the room
and landed on the floor.
A crucifix which was on a wall was made of plastic, just burst.
NARRATOR: After confirming the existence of a poltergeist,
the Warrens gather more information to help the Goodin family.
In this unearthed recording, Ed interviews the homeowners,
Jerry and Laura, about when the hauntings began.
NARRATOR: The Goodins tell the Warrens
that the previous evening something attacked them.
BILL HALL: Jerry was bringing in the groceries,
Laura's in the kitchen,
and this table picks itself up, throwing groceries everywhere...
..and then these dishes come up and go flying.
The knives came out of the knife holder
and were flown around the room.
They didn't know what to do.
NARRATOR: The Goodins admit being confused,
but not overly concerned.
So they straightened up the kitchen,
hoping it's just an isolated experience.
But it's not.
BILL HALL: Jerry's ready to go back in and say,
"Laura, you're not gonna believe this."
Meanwhile, she's coming out
because other things are happening.
They have these three heavy recliner chairs
and they're opening and closing by themselves,
all three of them in concert.
It was horrifying.
NARRATOR: That's when the Goodins say they reached out
to their neighbour for help,
off-duty police officer John Holsworth.
NARRATOR: Several minutes later, patrol officers arrive on scene.
When they witness the unexplained,
the officers contact the Fire Department.
Firemen, they don't know what to do
because they start witnessing things
and they saw the TVs moving,
they saw the chairs going in and out.
It was pretty clear to them
that this was not a job for the Fire Department.
As the public statement went,
"We're not very good at fighting devils."
NARRATOR: City engineers are also baffled by what is happening.
NARRATOR: Outside, news of the strange happenings
on Lindley street attract huge crowds.
Just a few months before the film, 'The Exorcist'
shocked audiences with its dramatic depictions
of the devil and the power of evil.
So, when news reports surfaced of an actual poltergeist case,
what was once thought to be fiction
suddenly seems frighteningly real.
BILL: Naturally, the media got word of it,
and then it goes out on the AP wire,
and now it's being reported around the country
and it even goes outside the country.
My friends had known about the Bridgeport case
because it was the news all over town.
So they said, "Let's go down and see what's going on."
And here's this massive crowd of people.
I went to school with a policeman that was there
and he looked at me and he said, "Judy, this is real."
"This is real, what happened."
NARRATOR: Convinced they are dealing with a true poltergeist case,
Ed asks Father Charbonneau to perform a house blessing.
The religious ritual goes forward without a hitch
until they move to the basement.
NARRATOR: Suddenly, as quickly as it appeared,
the black mass vanishes.
Meanwhile, upstairs,
Father Charbonneau seminary assistant,
21-year-old, Paul Eno,
sees Lorraine coming under attack.
Lorraine and I were sitting at the table.
All of a sudden, Lorraine kind of let out a little yelp
and a blister formed right on her hand.
NARRATOR: Coming up, previously unreleased recordings
of the investigation that made the Warrens famous.
The extraordinary happenings
began on Friday.
Some furniture began to move
and then a crucifix fell off the wall.
NARRATOR: Ed and Lorraine Warren had never investigated a case
with so many eyewitnesses before,
and by Sunday night,
news of the Bridgeport poltergeist
spreads far beyond the city limits.
We had observed
the movement of objects
refrigerator, bureaus.
No one could have possibly moved this thing.
NARRATOR: The moment Lorraine crosses the threshold,
she feels the house acknowledge her presence.
Then it begins to wage war.
BILL: Ed became quite concerned that the energy could especially
affect her being sensitive to these things.
And he was worried about something much bigger.
NARRATOR: Ed and Father Charbonneau take Lorraine home for the night,
but leave Paul Eno behind to keep watch over the family,
especially the Goodins' ten-year-old, Marcia.
PAUL: Ed told me to keep an eye on her, to stay with her,
to make sure she wasn't doing any of these things
because there was a natural assumption
that the child who seemed to be the centre of the phenomena
would be the one perpetrating it.
NARRATOR: The next evening,
while playing a board game with Marcia,
Paul senses something wrong.
All of a sudden I felt a surge of energy.
There was like an ozone smell.
I looked into the kitchen.
The air had turn like this gauzy, whitish colour.
I picked up a Orthodox prayer book
and I started reading an Akathist or hymn
to the glory of Christ.
NARRATOR: According to Paul,
that's when the gauzy mist forms into four separate shapes.
Just instinctively, I pushed against it.
It pushed back.
It was a solid structure, almost the skeletons of birds.
That's what it felt like.
There was a bone structure there.
When the entity was standing in front of me,
I got angry and I was also fearful
because I knew it was after the little girl.
I wanted to protect her.
PAUL: The energy was so strong at that point,
I decided to pull everybody out of the house
because I didn't know what would happen.
It felt like the place was gonna explode.
NARRATOR: Convinced they are dealing with something demonic,
the Warrens make plans to perform an exorcism.
PAUL: Marcy hugged me, said,
"Promise, promise me you'll come back."
And I did.
Mrs Goodin hugged me and said,
"Promise us you'll come back."
NARRATOR: The following morning, Police Superintendent Joseph Walsh
declares the haunting a hoax perpetrated by Marcia Goodin.
The exorcism would never take place.
The girl admitted that since last Friday,
she's been banging on walls, knocking pictures off.
We have no ghost in Bridgeport.
Chief Walsh made it his business
to make sure that he was going to call that a hoax.
It's impossible that this was a hoax.
Apparently, right after we had left,
Superintendent Walsh had sent officers into the house.
Said, "This ends here now."
ED: He not only made fools out of the family and us,
he made fools out of his own men.
These police officers were going into the media,
which were all around the house, in the house,
telling them about the things that they experienced.
BILL: Ed was very frustrated by it all.
He thought with all of these police officers,
all of these firefighters, all of these media people,
that the truth finally would come out about poltergeist activity.
NARRATOR: Two months later,
vindication comes when the police department
allows a parapsychology group
to tape record interviews with the police officers.
Today, those tapes, most never before shared with the public,
offer a unique insight into what many describe
as the Roswell of haunted houses.
BILL: Something happened.
You can argue if you want, whether it's a poltergeist,
whether a poltergeist is a demon, but something happened
and nobody really could explain what happened.
ED: That case stands out in my mind
and the annals of psychic research
as one of the most powerful, most credible cases
of poltergeist activity ever recorded.
And it was recorded.
NARRATOR: Despite a widespread belief
that something paranormal had occurred,
the Bridgeport incident fails to convince a sceptical public
that demons do exist.
Their mission in life was to let people know
that the devil existed, that he was real.
NARRATOR: Understanding the paranormal
is something Ed's been obsessed with since he was a young boy,
growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
I lived in a haunted house when I was a boy.
Many times I would hear the closet door opening up.
I'd look into that closet darkness,
I start to see a light starting to form,
and I went into like a ball shape
and then I'd see face in that ball.
It was a face of an old lady.
Next thing, the ball came out into my bedroom.
The room became icy cold and I could hear footsteps.
I could hear heavy breathing.
I'm saying to myself,
there's a logical reason for all of this.
He went to his father one day
and he says, "Weird things happen in this house."
"I see shadows. This old lady."
His father looked at Ed and said,
"Ed, there's a logical reason
for everything that happens in this house."
Then Ed laughed when he told me.
He says, "My father never gave me a logical reason."
"He just said there's a logical reason. Then he dropped it."
NARRATOR: Like Ed, Lorraine is a child when she first discovers
the supernatural and her clairvoyant abilities.
It started when I was probably about nine years old,
when I first had experiences
where I could see lights around people,
but the lights that I could see around people,
I thought everybody could see that.
TONY: When Lorraine was nine years old,
she went to an all girls Catholic school,
very prestigious.
And there's two nuns overseeing everybody outside the classroom,
Mother Superior and Sister Joseph.
Lorraine says, "Hey, look, Sister Joseph's lights, look."
"Her lights are brighter than Mother Superior's lights."
What she was seeing was the aura around Mother Superior
and around Sister Joseph.
Anything that's alive that god has created has an aura
and a certain psychic can see the aura,
and when she said, "Her lights are brighter",
she meant the aura was more spectacular,
more colours emanating from around her body.
Mother Superior overhears this conversation about the lights
between the two girls, she walks over to Lorraine.
She says, "Lorraine, we don't speak of things like that here."
You couldn't share things like that with the nuns.
That was very much frowned upon, and if I tried at home,
it was fine as long as I could joke and light-hearted,
but it was never anything to be discussed seriously.
TONY: And Lorraine related to me later,
she said it many times, "I never wanted to be different."
"In fact, I never even told my parents."
NARRATOR: Lorraine's life changes when, as a teenager,
she meets Ed at the local movie theatre where he worked.
I was an usher in a small theatre called The Colonial.
She used to come with her mother every Wednesday night.
We started talking and became friends
and I was 16 at the time, she was 16.
One night, I walked her home, asked her for a date.
That's how it started.
TONY: Ed was always impeccably dressed.
He used to have tightly-creased pants, nice hair.
This is what Lorraine said. She goes,
"They introduced me to Ed and I smiled because I said,"
"'Boy, what a nice looking young man that is.'"
And then she says, "He smelled like Noxzema."
She swore he was a lifeguard in the daytime
and he used to get red.
He would put this Noxzema cream all over his face and body
to cool down his body.
That's what she remembered, the first encounter.
ED: Then I went to the Navy the day I was 17
and while I was in the Navy, we wrote back and forth.
Most of our courtship, we were kids
and it was through mail
because Ed had entered the service soon after we met.
NARRATOR: While serving in the Navy during World War II,
a life threatening experience proved to Ed once and for all
that there was a greater spiritual dimension to life.
NEWSREADER: Coast Guard cutters and fireboats battle flames
in one of the worst shipping disasters of the war.
NARRATOR: While serving in the US Navy during World War II,
a fiery collision with an oil tanker
forces Ed Warren and some 100 other sailors
to fight for their lives in the icy Atlantic.
TONY: He goes into the water
and sees one of his sailor buddies in trouble.
This guy named Salazar.
Ed swims over to Salazar, puts his arm around him,
and starts to pull him away.
And Ed says, "I'm pulling the guy away."
"But I don't know where I'm going. All I see is a wall of flame."
ED: I said a prayer to the blessed mother.
That gasoline opened up and went around us.
Then a Coast Guard picket boat comes through the flames
and pulls us out of the water.
Is that miraculous? Is that an angel?
I was a survivor, a lot of guys were killed that day
and I came home on survivor's leave.
I had a 30 day leave.
TONY: Ed came home.
He said, "Lorraine, let's get married."
He only had a few hours to do it and get back, but he did it.
He married Lorraine in May 22, 1945.
She was 18 and he was going on 19.
ED: We got married in Bridgeport,
had a great big honeymoon.
One night, took a train to New Haven,
stayed at the Taft Hotel,
and came back in the morning, left for the Navy again. (LAUGHS)
And we were married while he was still in service
and our daughter was born while he was still on active duty.
So, when he came home from the service,
I was at that time maybe about 20, 21 years old.
NARRATOR: After the war and supports his family
as an artist, selling paintings of homes and landscapes
to tourists visiting New England.
He was selling the paintings for three dollars and five dollars.
Back then, it was a pretty good haul.
If he sold five or six paintings in a day, he did pretty well.
But then they were always interested in haunted places.
TONY: "Remember, back then," he goes,
"Lorraine and I used to stay at a cabin up in Vermont"
"for a dollar a day."
"We used to buy a hot dog for ten cents."
He says, "And I used to fill the car up, 18 cents a gallon."
He said, "So, if I had $25 in my pocket, I was rich."
That's how they supported themselves for a long time.
He would sell these paintings
and go into these tourist spots and just sitting there
and talking to people, explaining how he did the painting
and why he did it.
'Cause he'd find haunted houses to paint too.
NARRATOR: While traveling through New England,
Ed and Lorraine visit the Ocean-Born Mary House,
a legendary haunted residence
located in Henniker, New Hampshire.
Curious, Ed talks with the homeowner, Louis Roy,
about his experiences with the house.
While he's interviewing Mr Roy,
Lorraine is - she's over the back of the chair like this,
listening to Ed very, very diligently.
All of a sudden Ed asks Lorraine a question like,
"Isn't that right, Lorraine?" No answer.
He looks back and Lorraine is staring like this
in a trance-like state.
Ed starts getting really nervous.
He's like, "Mr Roy, what's wrong? My wife there. What's happening?"
Mr Roy very calmly says,
"That happens to a lot of clairvoyants in the house."
Lorraine leaves her body and looks down
and she can see Ed talking to Mr Roy and she said,
"That was the first time I knew not to fear death."
But all of a sudden, she snapped back into her body
like somebody jolted her back into her body.
NARRATOR: Lorraine's clairvoyance
inspires Ed to seek out other haunted houses.
Ed would read about these places.
Then he'd go up and find the location
and he'd paint the house.
I'd do a real nice sketch of the house,
ghosts coming out of it and everything, you know,
and give it to Lorraine and she'd go knock on the door
and with her Irish personality,
she'd say, "Oh, my husband loves to sketch and paint haunted houses,"
"and he made this for you."
And that would pretty much be their ticket in.
They would get to talk to the homeowners about their ghosts,
and Ed would learn that they've had experiences
that are pretty similar to what he went through as a child.
And from there, an entire career developed.
It progressed from just talking about the ghosts
to people calling them in on cases to come and observe
what's going on in the house or to clear the house.
And they would talk with anybody about cases
and their views of the paranormal.
That influenced me in the ways
of just understanding that everybody's different.
Everybody has paranormal problems.
Typically, the people who would contact the Warrens
would be families.
It doesn't matter, socioeconomic background doesn't matter,
race, ethnicity, people of all ages.
Once the ball gets rolling on something like that,
you know, once you start helping somebody,
you don't stop and say,
"OK, I'm going to leave those there."
They just kept going. They just kept helping.
You know, because there was always somebody else and everything,
and no matter what was happening,
if they could get help for them, they were going to do it.
It's always been my experience
that the one thing we all have in common
is that we are susceptible to negative energy.
JEFF: It gets to the point between the 1950s into the 1960s,
if you lived, especially in New England,
and you had a weird ghost story in your house,
you would find them and ask them to come to your home
and check it out because no one else was doing it.
NARRATOR: For Ed and Lorraine, both devout Roman Catholics,
a belief in the supernatural comes naturally.
Now, I was brought up a Catholic.
My father was a very strict Catholic.
And I can remember one time, Father Tomasco,
he said to my father, "You know, Frank,"
"you won't believe what's happening two blocks away from here."
"There's a man under possession."
He said, "This guy takes on the appearance of a pig"
"and he makes noises like a pig."
"There's these foul smells."
"So, we are going to perform the rite of exorcism over this man."
Now, I'm only eight years old, but that was the very first time
I ever heard about anything like that.
BEN ENO: Our perspective plays a lot into the paranormal phenomena
in general.
What we bring into the situation
is what we're going to get out of it.
The Warrens, they were both Roman Catholic,
so they had that belief system framework on the phenomenon.
NARRATOR: By the early 1970s, Ed and Lorraine
have investigated hundreds of hauntings
and are known as the seekers of the supernatural
throughout New England.
But most of the general public views demons and devils
as the stuff of a skewed imagination.
Inspired by their unique childhood experiences,
Ed and Lorraine are on a quest to prove that demons, devils,
and the supernatural exist.
The paranormal changes world views
in a way that nothing else really does.
It's terrifying.
It's that line of not understanding, I think,
that drives everyday ghost hunters
to want to find out what it is,
why they want to gather evidence.
There's that need to not just prove to themselves
that it's real,
but to prove to everybody else, this is real, this is happening.
NARRATOR: A devout Catholic,
Ed views the paranormal through his religious beliefs
to exorcise any demons, he must invoke the power of the church.
Ed uses audio and video recordings
as proof to convince church leaders to become involved.
More often than not,
it's an uphill battle.
NARRATOR: Ed and Lorraine Warren initially started
investigating homes throughout New England
because a lot of paranormal activity seems to reside here.
JEFF: Ed wanted to find out
have other people lived in haunted houses?
What was it like for them?
And he never stopped looking from age five
until the day he died, looking for more haunted houses,
wanting to talk to people about their experience in those homes.
People would call and say, this is happening,
that is happening, what should we do?
At the drop of a hat,
they go if people needed them, never asked for money
because these people were desperate.
There was no one else to call.
NARRATOR: In 1971,
a young Rhode Island family
suffers a series of threatening hauntings.
They desperately seek help from Ed and Lorraine,
who are known for their paranormal investigations
and doing battle with the demonic.
When I go into a home, I'm not looking for devils.
I'm not looking for ghosts.
What I'm looking for is a natural explanation
as to what's going on.
Only when I find that there is something supernatural,
something paranormal, do I accept it.
JEFF: Ed Warren was passionate about gathering evidence.
That's what he would say over and over and over again.
"I want to show you the evidence."
"I don't want to just tell you a ghost story."
"I want you to see the ghost, hear the ghost."
"I want you to experience it in some way."
And that's what he was really all about.
Was, "How do I gather that evidence?"
NARRATOR: Ed also pioneers the use of technology
and evidence gathering during paranormal investigations.
Paranormal investigation today hasn't really changed all that much
since when Ed and Lorraine were doing it.
We're still using audio recorders,
we're still using video recorders, we're still using EMF meters.
But is the same process.
We are trying to go into an environment
and use gear to say, "Is there something here?"
"Can I measure it? Can I capture it in some way?"
NARRATOR: Roger and Carolyn Perron
say the haunting started the day they and their five daughters
moved into this 18th century farmhouse
known today as The Conjuring House.
JEFF: Andrea Perron's carrying boxes from the truck
and setting it down in the kitchen.
And she sees this man.
That she thought was with the previous owner,
then her sister sees the same man.
Her third sister comes in with another box
and the man just kind of slowly vanishes.
Over time, more and more strange things are happening.
WOMAN: Carolyn Perron, the mother,
she seemed to be the focal point
of a lot of the negative energy.
I remember coming here once with the Warrens and Carolyn said,
and this always stuck with me and still does years later,
she went to cut open an orange
and blood spurted out.
JEFF: Living in a haunted house
is something that's difficult for people to understand.
Everyone in the family almost feels like it's only affecting them.
You get afraid to tell someone else because you think,
"Well, they'll think I'm crazy or I don't want to scare anyone."
And so each sister is experiencing different things.
But Carolyn Perron, she's seeing an older woman in the house,
apparitions, objects are moving.
She's afraid. She's afraid for herself.
She's afraid for her family. And so she seeks help.
NARRATOR: While Ed interviews the parents about their experiences,
Lorraine attempts to pick up
the presence of paranormal energy or entities,
Lorraine is walking through the house
and seeing what she picks up,
trying not only to connect, but to see where are the hot spots,
where is this entity or entities located specifically?
Lorraine would put her hands out when she would walk into a room,
and you usually knew when she was getting something
because she'd have a certain look on her face.
Sometimes she would even interact with it.
She would ask a question and listen for the response.
NARRATOR: In the Perron farmhouse, Lorraine picks up the presence
of what appears to be a female spirit.
JEFF: Ed depended on Lorraine a lot.
So, if Lorraine says, "I'm not picking anything up",
that was good enough for Ed to say, "Maybe this place isn't haunted."
So, because Lorraine was picking something up in this house,
Ed is now focused, hyper focused.
He's thinking something is going on here.
What it is he doesn't quite know yet
because this is just the very early stages.
This is just the first investigation.
They're gonna have to dive in deeper.
They're gonna have to connect
with whatever is here to try to identify it.
Is it just the spirit of a person that lived here
or died here or is it something more sinister?
NARRATOR: Ed and Lorraine suggest holding a seance
to contact who or what is haunting the Perron family?
JEFF: The seance will allow them to maybe find a name,
maybe find a motive for why some spirit might be stuck here.
Carolyn Perron is for it. She's fine. She just wants answers.
Roger Perron is a little more sceptical,
but he goes along with it anyway.
NARRATOR: Two days later, the Warrens,
along with Roger and Carolyn Perron,
gather to perform a seance.
And they're going to hold the seance right here
in this room behind me.
They're sitting around a table. Lorraine is a psychic medium.
She's gonna take some deep breaths, close her eyes,
and she's gonna try to connect
with whatever might be there.
She'll start to ask who's around.
But then suddenly things take a dangerous turn.
Something, some unseen force, overpowers Carolyn,
she is picked up from her chair, thrown across the floor
to the ground.
Very, very unexpectedly,
Carolyn began speaking in strange tongues.
She became possessed.
Roger is petrified for his wife.
Something's happening to her
that he's never seen anything like this.
So, he runs to her, but Ed stops him.
Ed believes that she's under demonic attack
and that if Roger intervenes in any way,
he could put himself in danger.
At that point, Roger's furious, and he punches Ed in the face
'cause he's hell bent on helping his wife.
And then Roger kicks Ed and Lorraine Warren out of this house,
and they're not allowed back again.
NARRATOR: The Warrens learn a difficult lesson.
Even with the best of intentions,
investigating the paranormal can be a dangerous undertaking.
In this case, I do not believe that any exorcism,
any ritual of a religious nature
or anyone could ever clear that home
of the very negative human and inhuman spirits
which are bringing about these destructive acts.
As good as the Warrens might be,
they don't have 100% success rate.
Nobody does, and sometimes unintended consequences ensued
when they did a seance or in the course of the investigation.
NARRATOR: While The Conjuring case would not be the one
to convince the public demons are real,
years later, the Amityville Horror case
would open the eyes of the world.
NARRATOR: Five years after The Conjuring House,
the Warrens find themselves in the middle
of what will become the world's most infamous haunting,
this time in a sleepy village on New York's Long Island.
A lot of people will look at a home
and think the place looks like a haunted house,
but looking at the Amityville home,
you would have never thought that anything was going on there,
any type of paranormal activity.
But you never truly know until you look inside.
NARRATOR: The three story Dutch colonial
is where in November 1974,
Ronald DeFeo Jr shoots and kills the six members of his family.
JEFF: Ronald DeFeo Jr walked into the house
with a rifle in the middle of the night.
First he went to his parents' bedroom
and he shot them both in their beds where they slept.
(GUNSHOTS)
Then he went down the hall and systematically shot
each of his brothers, each of his sisters.
(GUNSHOTS)
NARRATOR: Then a year later, the new owners,
George and Kathy Lutz,
hold a press conference where they announce
that they have abandoned the home
after just 28 days claiming the house to be haunted.
TV JINGLE: The Choice is Channel 5!
Metromedia New York, 5!
I just happened to be at Channel Five working on a series
on psychic phenomenon and paranormal events,
so of course, we were going to do the story.
Now, this was not
the Amityville Horror Case
at that time.
This was just another haunted house
and we didn't even realise
that six people had been murdered
in that house.
So we said, "Sure."
"We'd come down there." And we did.
And that was the beginning of an adventure,
which we'll never forget, a supernatural adventure.
NARRATOR: Laura DiDio sets up a meeting
between the Warrens and George Lutz.
JEFF: George tells Ed and Lorraine about some of the insane stuff
that happened.
Windows would open and close.
They would hear strange sounds,
they would hear voices.
They would see ghost lights over their beds, in the rooms.
The beds are shaking.
They heard screams and they couldn't get to the children.
This house, something dark is going on.
Investigating hauntings are,
you know, you never know what you're going to walk into.
Each one is individualised and people experience things
in their own way,
they have different dynamics in the family, certainly.
You don't know where it's going to lead.
Sometimes it can get a little scary,
sometimes it can get a little dangerous.
ED: George Lutz was an ex-marine,
karate expert,
he ran around with motorcycle gangs.
We're talking about a rough, tough guy
who after 28 days in that house, fled, left everything behind,
took his wife and children and went off to California.
NARRATOR: After speaking with George Lutz,
Ed and Lorraine inspect the Amityville house.
It would be a visit they would never forget.
LORRAINE: The very first night that Ed and I went to that home,
I was fearful, but I didn't know what I was fearful of.
I took with me a relic
of a very pious priest,
and I asked many clergy
of different faiths to enter
that home with us in spirit and prayers to protect us.
JUDY: My mother was more affected by these things,
but she's very religious and she depended on that,
always, she relied on her religion to get her through.
When the Lutzes said they fled in terror,
they weren't kidding, they left everything there.
It looked like you might have just gone out to go to school,
work, run some errands.
Everything was just the way they left it.
The media asked me to go onto the second floor
to tell them what I felt.
And as I was going up the stairs,
I reached a point where it felt
as if a force of water coming against my chest,
almost like a waterfall.
It was the worst feeling.
I stopped on the landing and held tight to the relic
that was in my hand and asked for strength and direction
in going forward. It felt ominous to me.
There was something inhuman or very, very negative.
LAURA: She started to feel ill there, nauseous,
and she could pick up the things that had happened, the murders.
If somebody dies a violent and sudden death,
many of those people, especially kids,
were not prepared to cross over
and may be confused and deciding were hanging around.
Lorraine was picking up on all of that
and it was having a physical effect on her.
That was not unusual again in the world of the paranormal.
JUDY: My mother, she would relive things,
she could see these things happening.
And she said herself that was the closest to hell
that she'd ever want to go.
NARRATOR: While Lorraine is upstairs,
Ed Warren searches down in the basement,
hoping to provoke any demonic spirits.
I felt as though I was underneath a waterfall.
That's how terrific the pressure was on my head and shoulders,
forcing me down to the floor.
NARRATOR: Forced to the ground, Ed fights back
the only way he knows how.
ED: I went into a religious resistance.
and I, again, commanded it to leave the name of Jesus Christ.
It immediately lifted off.
I knew right at that point what we were dealing with.
NARRATOR: Ed survives the attack
and is now convinced a demon infests the house.
Two weeks later, he and Lorraine returned to Amityville,
this time to hold a seance.
Joining the Warrens are several other psychics,
paranormal researchers, and members of the media,
including Laura DiDio.
During the seance itself, what came through for Lorraine Warren
was she felt a demonic presence.
Mary Pascarella, one of the other psychics,
she felt there had been a warlock
living right where the house was built in 1928.
She felt that this man
had brought a lot of dark energy with him.
NARRATOR: Although the seance is intense,
the group does not make contact with the other side.
But several people report feeling ill.
Our cameraman walked up the stairs,
got to the second floor landing where Lorraine had been ill,
and all of a sudden he clutched his chest,
doubled over in pain,
and I could see the colour draining out of his face.
ED: Mary Pascarella, who was the director
of the Psychic Research Institute in Hamden, Connecticut,
never went into a haunted house after that. She gave up the work.
LAURA: They did not feel so much that there were ghosts
of the murdered DeFeo family,
but they felt that there was a demonic presence there.
And Lorraine said another priest, an exorcist,
is gonna have to come here and cleanse the house.
NARRATOR: The Warrens hope an exorcism,
especially one caught on film,
will prove once and for all to the world that demons are real.
But just like in the Bridgeport Poltergeist case,
the exorcism never takes place.
Instead, George and Kathy Lutz
let the bank foreclose on the house
and move their family to California.
The Warrens kept in touch with them
long after they had moved out of New York and to California.
They were very concerned at the impact
of those experiences on the Lutz children.
And they did that with every case.
They didn't go in asking for money.
They had a sincere desire to help.
NARRATOR: Today, the Amityville house remains a curiosity.
But its succession of owners have not admitted experiencing
any hauntings.
A hundred families could move into an Amityville horror house.
Nothing would happen.
Evil spirits who haunt houses do not like happy homes.
So, they leave.
They go where there's a lot of antagonism,
a lot of arguments, violence. This is what they thrive on.
NARRATOR: In 1977, a best selling book by Jay Anson
and subsequent film adaptation turned the Amityville Horror
into the world's most famous paranormal event.
Although not featured in either the book or the movie,
through their connection to the case,
Ed and Lorraine Warren become famous.
They were no longer the "Warrens ghost hunters."
They're "America's ghost hunters,"
Lorraine and Ed Warren.
Would you welcome
Ed and Lorraine Warren?
(APPLAUSE)
The Amityville case made Ed and Lorraine Warren's career explode.
It put them into the national consciousness.
NEWSREADER: Last year, over one million Ouija boards
were sold in America.
I'd like to know what it is that's out there.
'The Exorcist' took it out of the closet,
but now you have real life demonologist,
paranormal investigators, and exorcists
who have a lot of credibility.
The way they worked with the media,
the way that they got the word out,
opened up the doors for a lot of other investigators.
NARRATOR: The Warrens find themselves
in high demand for interviews, speaking engagements,
and especially college lecture tours.
JEFF: I remember attending their lectures.
I had never seen a ghost.
I had friends who lived in haunted houses.
But when you saw an Ed and Lorraine Warren lecture,
they played video clips,
they played audio clips, they showed you pictures.
And I remember sitting there thinking,
"Oh, my god, maybe now I have seen a ghost."
College kids are drawn into this like a moth to a flame.
But Ed didn't do it just for entertainment purposes.
Ed would say to me, "I'm here to also give a warning"
"not to dabble in occult practices,"
"that the devil exists, that the devil is real,"
"and don't dabble with Ouija boards."
"Don't go to a psychic reader, don't do any of that stuff."
"You're opening doors."
"And once you open the door up, very difficult,"
"if not impossible to close that door."
He holds the unique title of demonologist.
She's a psychic. Would you welcome Ed and Lorraine Warren.
(APPLAUSE)
We, we, uh...
(LAUGHTER)
We thought it'd be fun to have a couple of demons on the show.
I think we'd better bless them first.
JEFF: There weren't paranormal ghost hunting shows back then,
there were none.
It was just people like Ed and Lorraine
willing to put themselves out there, willing to talk about it,
put themselves up to ridicule, get called hoaxers.
And that broke down a ton of walls.
Once we start talking about something,
then it becomes out in the open.
ED: I don't mind sceptics. That means they're open minded.
But show me a closed minded atheist and I say,
put up your money or shut your mouth
because we can prove that there is through our evidence.
Where haunting phenomena is concerned,
we have never really met a true atheist in a haunted home.
I was there. I saw it firsthand.
I know the work that Ed and Lorraine did.
They were willing to take that risk for other people,
for strangers,
and to be the subject of ridicule like that.
It was very difficult for them.
NARRATOR: Lorraine attempts to quiet critics
by undergoing scientific testing by parapsychologists at UCLA.
The team of scientists led by Dr Thelma Moss put Lorraine
through a battery of tests that indicate
she is what they call a light trance medium.
LAURA: A deep trance medium will have a spirit guide come through
and when that part is over, they wake up
and they might not be aware of what they said or did.
Lorraine was always aware in this light trance state.
She's going to another plane.
But is still aware of all of her surroundings.
She was found to be well above average in psychic ability,
which kind of vindicated her in her mind.
Now, she had real test results
that proved that she was not just like making up stories.
NARRATOR: In the 1980s,
the Warrens take on a number of controversial cases.
One offers yet another chance to prove that the devil exists,
this time in a court of law.
Not guilty of murder by reason of demonic possession.
That's what an attorney
for a 19-year-old Connecticut teenager will try to prove.
"We're going to take the devil to court."
The words of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
We can back up this case history
with numerous other case histories
and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
that preternatural phenomena was taking place here.
NARRATOR: According to prosecutors, 19-year-old, Arne Johnson,
stabbed to death his landlord, Alan Bono in a fit of rage.
But Johnson's lawyer claims Arne was possessed by demons at the time,
demons that entered his body
during an exorcism of his fiancee's younger brother.
ED: This 11-year-old boy would become extremely strong.
It would take five men to hold him down.
Arne Johnson, who was engaged to this boy's sister,
would help every night to control the boy.
One night he screamed at these devils.
"Take me on."
"Leave my little buddy alone."
When you challenge the demonic,
it doesn't act at that particular time.
It waits until you are the most vulnerable,
then it strikes.
We're gonna have to prove to a jury
that there's such a thing as demonic possession.
JEFF: The Warrens are out to establish in the court of law
that demonic possession is possible.
And if it can be used successfully in a legal defence,
then from Ed Warren's perspective,
we have legal precedent of the existence of demons
and that it can affect a person's actions
and activities.
NARRATOR: Johnson's fiancee, Deborah Glatzel,
backs up Arne's story of demonic possession.
What did you see take place?
All hell broke loose.
What do you mean?
With the growling,
when he went under demonic attack.
What about the actual stabbing? Did you see Mr Bono fall?
No, I never saw Mr Bono get stabbed.
NARRATOR: In November, nine months after the stabbing of Alan Bono,
the judge in Arne Johnson's case makes his ruling.
The judge listened to precedents, to arguments,
and then he said that demonic possession
is not an acceptable defence.
It is irrelevant in this case
and unfortunately in the United States,
it is not a science and he will permit no evidence
on demonic possession and devils.
ED: If the judge had let us bring in our evidence
and the priests waiting outside of the courthouse
to testify that what occurred to this young boy, Arne Johnson,
was indeed a diabolical possession.
The judge didn't want to be known as the judge
who allowed "The devil made me do it" case
into his courtroom.
NARRATOR: Ed and Lorraine's daughter remembers the case well.
I know Debbie Glatzel personally and Arne Johnson.
I believe that the paranormal exists, absolutely.
Absolutely. Yes, I do.
You can't help but believe it
if you're around it as much as I was.
We knew it was inevitable that there was going to be a tragedy,
but never, ever did we think
it would be Arne Johnson.
NARRATOR: Although Ed and Lorraine lose their case in court,
their battle with the devil continues.
Up next, the Warrens do battle
with one of the most evil demons to infest the Earth,
the Succubus.
NARRATOR: In January 1986,
Ed and Lorraine Warren receive a desperate call
from a married couple in Pennsylvania.
For years, they and their four children have been plagued
by a strange series of unexplained events.
Blood curdling screams, rumblings in the night,
a mysterious and foul stench in the air.
Well, a family in West Pittston, Pennsylvania,
says this is a nightly horror they endure.
REPORTER: The strange happenings at the home of the Smurl family
began the day daughter Dawn received her confirmation.
My parents see it and sometimes they hear a heartbeat
in the middle of them when they're sleeping
and the closet doors open.
REPORTER: And even the family's German shepherd has provided
little comfort against these allegedly demonic forces.
NARRATOR: After enduring a series of hauntings,
Jack and Janet Smurl ask for help
from their local Catholic diocese, but to no avail.
Cast doubt ye evil demons.
New York's Cardinal John O'Connor
revealed that a priest performed exorcisms
on people who were allegedly possessed by the devil.
Our guests are Janet and Jack Smurl.
Who did you bring in to help you? We went to our local priest,
and said, "Father, there's something very strange going on here."
So he came over. He blessed the home and said,
"There's no one here who can help you."
NARRATOR: After the church diocese fails to send help,
the Smurls contact the Warrens.
I'll never forget I was driving up to West Pittston.
It's in a coal mining area and they thought,
well, maybe something was happening underneath
because of the old mine shafts.
When phenomena first began to occur in this house,
They tried everything. They called people.
They called the church.
The priest came out and blessed it.
But so much more was needed.
ED: The Smurls are lying in bed one night
and all of a sudden the bed starts to rattle and shake.
Then they start seeing black shadows
moving across the bedroom
and suddenly something grabs her by the leg and yanks her
right out of the bed onto the floor.
Then there's the night when the both of them
were lying in bed and both of them
rise up into the air as high as the ceiling.
NARRATOR: Several nights later,
a demonic creature known as a succubus appears.
ED: A succubus is a name given to a demon or a devil.
It attacks the male physically and sexually.
Jack is sitting down in his living room.
It's about 10:00 at night, just about ready to go to bed.
And he sees this woman coming down the stairs.
Now, from a distance, she looked very beautiful,
but then as she came closer, the face changed
and what he'd seen was a skeletal face
with rotting teeth that attacked him.
Why would a demon want to attack somebody sexually?
Did it get pleasure out of it? No, they don't.
NARRATOR: To save the Smurl family,
Ed and Lorraine must do everything in their power
to exorcise the succubus,
including religious provocation.
Religious provocation is all about using your belief system,
your faith in this case, Catholicism,
to try to vanquish whatever evil might be in the building.
JEFF: Ed would bring in holy water.
He would hold up holy relics like crosses,
and he would tell
whatever entities were around, "In the name of Jesus, get out."
He pictured himself a warrior and these were his weapons.
NARRATOR: In the master bedroom, Lorraine senses the presence of evil.
We sat on the edge of the bed
and Ed put out these different things he had with him.
ED: I do carry a true piece of the cross, relics of saints.
LORRAINE: Now, there is a television set there.
The TV, it's not even plugged in and the whole screen lit up.
And then objects on the double dresser
moved around like they were dancing.
ED: I had a police officer with me.
We were walking down that hallway
and I was using religious provocation
when I felt a pressure, grab me right by the neck.
NARRATOR: Suddenly, Ed finds himself under attack.
ED: This thing threw me back about ten feet onto the bed.
The police officer, he came in, and he threw holy water
at this thing finally, lessened up.
NARRATOR: The succubus proves too powerful for Ed and Lorraine
to battle by themselves. They need reinforcements.
But when the Warrens approach the Catholic Church for help,
they are turned away.
During the time the Warrens were really at the peak
of their investigations, they were having a hard time
because the church was keeping all these things a secret
about performing these exorcisms.
So they were shunning the Warrens.
Nothing made Ed Warren more angry than if you went
to the local Catholic priest
and said, "You've got a family in your community in need."
And if that priest said, "No, no, I don't do that."
"There's no such thing as ghosts." That infuriated Ed.
So he had no qualms whatsoever about using his fame
to escalate the situation, to get the media involved.
REPORTER: What do you want the church to do?
We would like him to bring in two or three priests
who are exorcists to clear this house of what is here.
Why doesn't the family just move?
LORRAINE: They have left here. They have gone to a camp site.
The same type of phenomena
that had occurred to them in their home
also followed them to the camp site.
None of you would be able to go through
what the Smurls are going through.
You cannot even imagine what has taken place in this home.
REPORTER: In your expert opinion,
how much longer do you feel the family can go on living here?
By the looks of the family, today, dear,
I think that they couldn't even go through the rest of this day.
NARRATOR: The press conference works.
When the Vatican hears about the case,
Cardinal Ratzinger, a future pope, intervenes.
Cardinal Ratzinger assigned an exorcist
from the Catholic Church who went to the house
and performed the ritual of exorcism,
the Ritual Romano in that house, which is very unusual
because they usually do that only over a person.
And to this day, that house has been clear.
People will say, "Well, why would God allow the devil"
"to attack a family like this?"
Because God lets this happen every now and then
to prove that he is more powerful than any devil.
Do you, Father Lebar, believe the Smurls?
Absolutely, 100%.
What does the church, guess or know, that this is?
They would call it, as Lorraine mentioned,
the diabolical infestation.
This is where diabolical spirits
are not actually possessing people,
but rather they're inhabiting the place.
What happens during an exorcism?
During an exorcism,
the church calls upon the power of Christ
to remove the devil from the person or the place.
We're talking about a creature of God who is a fallen angel,
therefore has powers greater than a human being.
Would all Catholics believe this?
All Catholics should believe this.
The pope would believe this. Absolutely.
He's spoken on it several times.
NARRATOR: The Warrens prove victorious this time,
but their war against evil is never over.
Coming up, Ed and Lorraine investigate a former funeral home
where unspeakable horrors took place in this world
and beyond.
ED: I suspected necrophilia.
NARRATOR: By the mid 1980s, the Warrens had helped
over a thousand families overcome demonic hauntings,
but perhaps their most trying case involved an attack
so devious that it left a residue of evil,
the remains with the family over three decades later.
Carmen Snedeker desperately needs a place to rent
in Southington, Connecticut.
Her son is undergoing cancer treatments
at a nearby hospital and the commute from their home in upstate New York
is wearing both of them down.
CARMEN: And I drove by this beautiful old colonial
and there was a 'for rent' sign out front
and I just pulled over.
I fell in love, it was perfect for my family.
NARRATOR: Carmen doesn't realize it,
but her perfect house is a former funeral home.
CARMEN: There's no way we're gonna find another place.
I've already scoured the entire county
for a place to live that will support four children,
so we're kind of locked in.
We can't really go anywhere.
NARRATOR: On the day her family moves in,
Carmen notices something strange.
CARMEN: I went to mop the floor,
the mop water turned this thick red.
NARRATOR: Horrified, Carmen calls the housekeeper into the room.
CARMEN: She leaned down and she smelled it.
And she got up and walked out the door,
and I never saw her again.
NARRATOR: Carmen's son, Philip, is the next family member
to have a paranormal encounter.
He said, "Mum, we have to leave this place."
And he was shaking, visibly shaking.
And he said, "This place is evil, it's evil."
And I said, "Son, evil lives in the hearts of man,"
"not in a house."
And that's what I truly believed at the time.
And he said, "You're gonna see."
He started seeing this man. The way he described this man
is long black hair, very narrow face.
He had squinting dark eyes.
There was no whites.
And the man, would just stand on the other side of the door
and tell him to do bad things.
But he would stand there and say, (WHISPERED) "Philip."
(WHISPERED) Philip.
Philip.
He said he knew his name.
NARRATOR: Carmen refuses to believe her son
and instead suspects his cancer treatments
are causing him to hallucinate.
But then Carmen's niece suffers a horrifying incident.
My niece Tammy came in from a date
and I was asleep in bed already.
She knocked on the door and she's like,
"Aunt Carmen, Aunt Carmen. It's happening again."
The entity, would pull her shirt down on her shoulder
and start pulling her bra down. She got very upset by this.
NARRATOR: Carmen grabs her bedside Bible
and heads to Tammy's room.
CARMEN: I open the book and it was Psalms 24 where it opened.
And I started reading and she said,
"Aunt Carmen, it's coming. Can you feel it? It's coming."
And I can feel this this heaviness growing in the room.
And I see under her light shirt
a hand I could see the knuckles go up under her shirt
and it laughed a hideous... (EVIL LAUGHTER)
..and went through the back wall.
I've got to protect these children.
I'm the last line of defence.
I reach for the rosary and I grab the crucifix.
And it shatters.
I don't know what to think or to do. I'm lost.
NARRATOR: Desperate, Carmen looks up the number
for the Warrens and calls.
I took a phone call in the middle of the night
from a very hysterical woman on the other end of the phone.
NARRATOR: Ed and Lorraine arrive the next afternoon
with a team of investigators.
ED: Mrs Snedeker was terribly frightened.
They were seeing ghosts.
They were being physically hurt, even attacked sexually.
When she told me that it was a funeral home,
I suspected necrophilia,
which would be an abuse of a dead body.
And we know that this can bring about terrible phenomena
and hauntings in such a house.
CARMEN: They were kind to us and they listened to our story
and ask us a million questions.
They ask us about our faith, what had been going on.
They ask us about deaths in the family
and then Ms Warren wanted to tour the house.
NARRATOR: Lorraine makes her way through the former funeral home,
spending extra time down in the basement
where much of the mortuary equipment still remains.
CARMEN: She was very calm and composed, just listening.
And we went back upstairs,
she told me that she felt that there was a demonic in the house.
My heart sank and my world crashed.
The whole episode was as if somebody had taken
everything I had learned in that 36 years,
that was in a box that I had all neatly stacked in there,
and it was dumped out on the floor and strewn around.
What I believed, the physical realm, the materialistic world,
was not all there is, it's not.
NARRATOR: The Warrens arrange for a priest to conduct
a special mass to cleanse the house of evil.
The way that Ed and Lorraine would try to cleanse a house
would be a multifaceted attack, actually.
Ed would call in a priest,
either Catholic or of the family's faith,
to do a blessing of the house.
Sometimes a simple blessing will work.
It's a set of prayers casting out evil spirits
out of a home or a location or out of a person
where they are diabolical, possessed.
In this case, you have to have a man
who realizes that when he leaves there, even though he has commanded
that these evil spirits to leave,
they could attack him in his own rectory and they did.
NARRATOR: The attack on the priest,
along with the Warrens' evidence,
convinces church officials
to grant permission for a formal exorcism.
When I first heard about exorcism,
I had no idea what it would entail
and they told me that anything could happen during an exorcism.
There have been even people that died during exorcisms
and they warned, "Are you willing to take that risk?"
Their warnings made me tougher, stronger, more determined.
NARRATOR: Nine weeks after Carmen called the Warrens for help,
Catholic priests arrived to perform the ancient rite
of exorcism, the Rituale Romanum.
First private confessions are made by each person
and the sacred rite of absolution is given.
Everyone is then given one last warning.
Once the exorcism starts,
they must keep going until it's finished.
CARMEN: I had no idea what to expect,
but I have extreme trust in God
and that's what I was trusting on.
NARRATOR: Shortly after the prayer service begins,
strange sounds rise up from the basement.
ED: There were knocking sounds all around the house,
but you could feel what I would call evil in that home.
NARRATOR: As the noise grows in intensity,
something grabs Carmen's niece.
My niece was lifted up by her neck.
And I could feel the growling behind me.
I reach my hand on her shoulder and that calmed everything down
it kind of like brought her in my safe space.
NARRATOR: Minutes later, the attack resumes, this time targeting Ed.
He felt like it was the demon
that was actually attacking his heart,
which was his weakest point.
His chest pain got so bad
he was removed from the exorcism and taken into the living room.
NARRATOR: The priests continue the ritual undeterred
as the exorcism escalates into a full scale war.
Carmen ignores the chaos unfolding around her.
I'm focused on the priest.
NARRATOR: After hours of prayers and blessings,
the danger finally lifts for Carmen and her niece.
CARMEN: It was amazing. Faith was overtaking me
and I was feeling that wondrous presence
and knew she was gonna be fine.
I just knew.
When it was all over, I went in to find Lorraine and Ed
'cause I was concerned about his heart.
I asked if he was OK
and he said now that the exorcism was over, he was sure
that he would be fine and everybody would be good.
NARRATOR: After the exorcism, Carmen moves her family out
and has never looked back.
30 years later, she remains vigilant,
fearing a return by the demonic force.
CARMEN: The way the priest explained it to me,
you're born into a room with no doors.
You can do something to create a door.
What they do is they come in and they close the door,
but the door remains there and that door can be opened
very, very easily.
So, I have to walk a very tight path to keep that door closed.
NARRATOR: Books about the Snedeker haunting
and other cases raised widespread interest
in awareness of the Warrens and their paranormal work.
Each week, dozens of callers reach out for help.
To handle this increasing caseload,
Ed and Lorraine train a team of investigators.
Coming up, never before broadcast video
of the Warrens helping a young woman possessed by a demon.
(SQUEALING)
In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave.
NARRATOR: By the 1990s,
Ed and Lorraine Warren had established themselves
as the world's preeminent paranormal investigators.
The number of people asking for their help grew beyond
what they alone could handle.
Not wanting to turn any cases away,
Ed and Lorraine passed down their knowledge
to a new generation of investigators.
When I first started attending classes,
it was more instructional.
They didn't just send you out on a case immediately.
You know, they might go for a few months
before you even went on your first case.
We'd usually go as a group, like Ed and Lorraine,
plus maybe four or five others.
Eventually, with more experience,
she'd send us out on our own.
I started going to their classes and they would present cases.
And it was just fascinating.
All the knowledge that they were trying to impart.
JIMMY: Our job for Ed and Lorraine
were to observe and report and then get back to them.
If Ed and Lorraine felt it's an interesting case
to investigate, they would call on it themselves
and they would start from the beginning again,
interviewing the people involved.
NARRATOR: One of Jimmy's responsibilities
while working with the Warrens is to videotape
their investigations.
In this never before released footage,
Ed and Lorraine help a family who suspects their daughter
may be under demonic possession.
JIMMY: One time, Ed and Lorraine were interviewing a couple
and the daughter that was sitting at the table with us
all of a sudden started acting up.
Like, she started coming under possession.
She's talking kind of in a different voice.
(SQUEALS) And Ed said, "Give her a pen."
ED: Are you a devil?
JIMMY: And she started writing on a notebook
without looking, she's writing, "Get out, get out of my house."
The girl ended up getting an exorcism.
ED: In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave
and go back to where you came from. Who are you?
What? You're okay.
Ed was the bravest person I have ever met in my life.
He'd go into any situation
and doesn't seem scared of anything.
But he would tell us later,
"You know, I was still scared myself,"
"but I can't show that I'm scared."
NARRATOR: Over the years,
Jimmy Petonito works alongside the Warrens
on hundreds of hauntings and dozens of exorcisms.
Most are performed by Bishop Robert McKenna.
Bishop McKenna was pretty high up
in the rankings so he was able to kind of bypass
some of the long process of granting someone an exorcism
through the Catholic Church.
He had performed the rite of exorcism
so many times in his career that the entities knew him.
They knew him personally,
they knew of him, they were very fearful of him.
When it comes down to the Warrens performing exorcisms,
some of the priests that they used were questionable,
some weren't sanctioned by the church,
some were considered black sheep by the church.
But I think really when it comes down to it, performing an exorcism,
I believe it just needs to be somebody
who has faith in what they're preaching that gives them the power
to try to push these things out.
This is my home office where I keep everything I've accumulated
over the years.
DVDs, tapes, audiocassettes of my investigations.
Objects taken from haunted houses.
My favourite item is a first-class relic given to me by Bishop McKenna
for assisting on exorcisms.
It's a relic of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint.
It's actually a bone from her body.
It's used during an exorcism of a person.
What this does is it helps draw out the evil from the individual
when applied by the exorcist.
When we're assisting on an exorcism
we usually set the altar up for the priest,
we get the restraints out in case they're needed,
the person afflicted will sit in the chair.
The priest will start doing the litany of the saints
to start the prayers.
NARRATOR: The prayer service often generates a violent reaction.
We had a 95 pound woman rip out of hospital restraints,
like the canvas unbuckles on her legs and arms.
She stood up like they were string and just broke everything.
There was one time where the woman being exorcised
was trying to gouge her own eyes out.
We were trying to hold her arms back. She bit me on my arm.
NARRATOR: Often physical restraint is the least of their worries.
During an exorcism, it would not be unusual
at all to experience different types of manifestations.
A lot of sounds in the room, guttural types of noises
and a lot of banging happening all around us in the room.
And all of a sudden, the temperature would just plummet
to, you know, you can almost see your colleagues' breath.
JIMMY: We had a police officer in our group.
While we were setting up, the police officer told me,
"I got into a terrible fight with my mother last night"
"on the phone. I said terrible things. I feel bad."
"I've got to apologise as soon as I get home."
So, when this woman got here,
during the middle of the prayers, she just turns all of a sudden
and says, "And you, the way you talked to your mother last night."
"That's disgusting." And just went back to the priest.
And that scared me more than getting bitten.
That knowledge of the unknown.
LAURA: One of the things that the Warrens
cautioned people against doing was don't play with Ouija boards,
don't try and invoke spirits on your own.
You don't know what door you might open.
There's always that chance that you're sensitive to it
or there is a confluence of events and boom, something can happen.
NARRATOR: Of the thousands of paranormal investigations
conducted by the Warrens,
Ed considered perhaps his most important case to be
one involving a single mother living in Hebron, Connecticut.
There was a woman who believed the house she was renting was haunted
and she was freaked out and she left.
The realtor was suing her for $2,000
to get back the money that she still owed in rent,
so they called in the Warrens.
She begged us to go into the house and to find out or get some evidence
that would prove that there really were ghosts.
Now you don't walk into a court of law and say,
"Well, judge, there was ghosts there."
"Well, that's fine, yes."
You have to have evidence.
Any court of law, they use photographs, recordings,
credible witnesses as evidence.
That's what we use. We won the case.
We set a precedent here in the United States.
JEFF: When you would talk to Ed about his legacy
and about the work he did,
it was one of the things he was most proud of.
He said, "We did it. We proved in the court of law"
"that there are such things as ghosts."
ED: Now, scientists would say, "Well, you didn't prove a thing"
"because you didn't take that ghosty and put him in a bottle"
"so that we could open it up and examine him."
You know, they're saying that scientifically you have
to prove that God exists, that ghosts exist.
There is no such thing.
You can't get scientific in the supernatural world.
So, if we can prove in a court of law that ghosts exists
in haunted houses,
I think that's good enough for anyone.
NARRATOR: In addition to their books and media appearances,
Ed and Lorraine expand their reach by producing
and starring in their own television program.
'Seekers of the Supernatural'.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome
to 'Seekers of the Supernatural'.
My name is Tony Spera.
I'll be your moderator tonight.
It was Ed's idea. He says, "What do we talk about?"
He says, "We're gonna talk about the demons,"
"we're gonna talk about ghosts,"
"we're gonna talk about the reality of ghosts,"
"about these certain cases we've been on"
"and what happened in these cases."
He goes, we're gonna show the people that these things are real.
NARRATOR: The Warrens also open their own occult museum
to the public.
Here they display the many haunted and demonic artifacts
collected over the years.
Perhaps the most infamous item in their collection is Annabelle,
the doll since featured in several 'Conjuring' films,
was given to the Warrens by a nurse who feared its demonic power,
a power Ed believes it still possesses.
ED: The priest came here one day and he said,
"This doll, it's supposed to be infested by devils."
He picks the doll up and he throws it across the room.
On his way home, the car went out of control,
and was hit head on into a tractor trailer truck.
It was demolished and the priest was almost killed.
My mother told me not to look Annabelle in the eye.
When I go into the museum,
whenever I've been in and very, very few times,
I don't even look there.
Horrible in there.
It's oppressing, it's very heavy.
Just get an awful heavy feeling.
I went and I visited them
at their house in Munro, Connecticut, went into their museum.
I saw Annabelle, the doll.
Annabelle at that point was not consigned to the basement
and locked in a cabinet.
They had her in one of their rooms in the back of the house
and went out to lunch and we came back from lunch
and Annabelle the doll was in a different spot
from where we left her.
NARRATOR: Decades after their first paranormal investigation,
the Warrens finally receive the star treatment.
In 2001, a documentary film company invites
Ed and Lorraine Warren to Japan
in order to investigate a haunted tunnel.
After the filming completes, Ed and Lorraine visit Nagoya,
a city where Ed served for a time after World War II.
TONY: January 11, 1946, Ed was in the Navy.
He was standing on a dock in Nagoya
when he gets word that his daughter was just born.
Years and years later, goes to the same dock
and he looks at Lorraine and he says,
"This is where I stood all those years ago"
"when I heard Judy was born."
You're thinking about war time
all the people you saw die,
and then the birth of your daughter.
He had this revelation about his life
that he had come full circle.
NARRATOR: Not long after returning from Japan,
Ed suffers a debilitating stroke.
(SIREN)
TONY: His heart stopped...
..and the medics actually use the paddles on him and got him back.
But he was never the same.
He was in a coma for 11 weeks
and never really regained control of his functions.
In other words, reasoning and speech.
NARRATOR: Distraught but determined,
Lorraine takes it upon herself to care for Ed.
TONY: She moved him around so he wouldn't get bed sores,
she would change his catheter,
she would do things that a nurse would do.
NARRATOR: On August 23, 2006, five years after his stroke,
Ed Warren passed away.
When my dad finally passed away,
my feeling was that he was free.
I even said that to him as I was driving to the hospital.
I said, "You're free, Dad."
It hit me hard. He was just a wonderful guy.
Anytime I talked to him, he was down to earth,
was willing to express his beliefs
and his thoughts on different types of hauntings.
And I think when he passed,
the field lost an incredible person.
NARRATOR: After Ed's passing, his son-in-law, Tony Spera,
stepped into help Lorraine carry on the Warren legacy.
TONY: Lorraine and I continued lecturing after 2006.
Lorraine got satisfaction out of doing it
because she would talk about Ed at these lectures.
Then one day, we get a call from an entertainment lawyer.
Warner Brothers wanted to buy her rights and Ed's rights
to their life story, rights and their cases.
Lo and behold, all of a sudden, there's a movie gonna be made
on one of their cases.
It was a haunted farmhouse in Rhode Island.
NARRATOR: In 2013, Warner Brothers releases
'The Conjuring', based on the Perron family case.
The film shocks the entertainment industry
by earning more than $300 million at the box office.
I had chills down my back
seeing actors portraying Ed and Lorraine like that.
You know, they couldn't have picked two better people in my book.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.
I'm proud of them for what they've accomplished.
Just seeing others portraying them,
they've brought so much attention to the field
that it's only a positive thing.
NARRATOR: On April 18, 2019, at the age of 92,
Lorraine Warren passes away.
When I heard that Lorraine Warren had passed, I was in shock.
It was the end of an era.
Ed and Lorraine were some of the original pioneers
in this field and they meant so much to so many.
They meant a lot to me.
TONY: I've never seen a greater love between two people
than them because they did everything together.
They were never apart.
JUDY: My mother, when she passed,
one of the undertakers, said they have security cameras,
and there were orbs floating around her coffin all night long,
which I thought was wonderful
because it felt like there was all good spirits around her.
LAURA: They were a regular couple
and they were very religious,
Lorraine especially, and that was no act.
JEFF: The Warrens blazed a trail that is still being travelled today
by so many different paranormal investigative groups
and television shows saying,
"I believe in ghosts, I believe we can document them"
"and I want to tell others about it."
They were doing it first.
Now, it's out in the open and it's out in the open
because of people like Ed and Lorraine Warren.
PAUL: I refer to them as the grandparents
of modern ghost hunting.
The Warrens brought the idea of the paranormal
to the public consciousness
in a way that had not been done before,
and I don't think it could be replicated or replaced.
JUDY: My mum and dad were very sincere in what they did.
They truly wanted to help people.
They truly wanted people to know that the devil existed,
that God exists.
The legacy of Ed and Lorraine Warren
is always do right,
always try to help others.
To prove that the devil is real,
not just a mythological figure,
and that God is our protector.
Their legacy is love
and love for mankind.
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