HORROR ON CHASE STREET: The Smurl Family’s Thirteen Years of Hell, Hauntings, and Demonic Possession

HORROR ON CHASE STREET: The Smurl Family’s Thirteen Years of Hell, Hauntings, and Demonic Possession

For thirteen years, the Smurl family reported being terrorized by invisible forces in their Pennsylvania duplex – entities that threw their German Shepherd against walls, sexually assaulted both Jack and Janet, and somehow knew to hide whenever priests came to investigate. The Catholic Church sent multiple clergy who witnessed nothing, the Warrens recorded hours of supposed evidence, and neighbors threw bricks at the house during the media circus, but no one could definitively prove whether the Smurls were victims of a genuine haunting or something else entirely.

THE DEMON KNEW EVERYONE’S SECRETS: The True Possession Case That Terrified A Psychiatrist

THE DEMON KNEW EVERYONE’S SECRETS: The True Possession Case That Terrified A Psychiatrist

When a skeptical Yale-trained psychiatrist was called to evaluate a self-proclaimed satanic high priestess claiming demonic possession, he expected to find mental illness, not a woman who knew intimate secrets about people she’d never met. Dr. Richard Gallagher’s work with “Julia” would span eight exorcisms and challenge everything he believed about the line between psychiatry and the supernatural.