Case file · Haunting
The Smurl haunting
Jack and Janet Smurl of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, claimed a demon plagued their half of a double house from 1974 to 1989.
1974 CE · 41.33, -75.80 · status: claim
The account
Ed and Lorraine Warren were called in in 1986 and said a very powerful demon was present. The story became the 1986 book The Haunted, a 1991 TV film and part of the Conjuring film series.
The sceptical view
Clergy, psychologists and skeptics offered simpler explanations, and critics say the demonologists encouraged the family to blame demons.
Connections in the atlas
- Amityville haunting
- Poltergeist
- Enfield Poltergeist