A 54-year-old Army veteran who traveled the country with the world’s most infamous possessed doll died in his hotel room, and the internet exploded with theories.
A 54-year-old Army veteran who traveled the country with the world’s most infamous possessed doll died in his hotel room, and the internet exploded with theories.
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.
A Pennsylvania family’s 13-year battle with violent paranormal forces became one of the most documented hauntings in American history, most recently highlighted in the film ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites.’