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He was a demonologist...
I went into a religious resistance

and I commanded it to leave
in the name of Jesus Christ.

She was clairvoyant...

When you challenge the demonic,

It waits till you are the most
vulnerable.

Together, they documented

the most famous haunting cases

ever recorded.

The cases that Ed and Lorraine
Warren worked on

were groundbreaking.

Now, for the first time,

never before released recordings...

..document how this unassuming
couple devoted their lives

to saving others from the demonic...

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.

They are the pioneers
of the paranormal,

Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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."

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."

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.

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."

The Warrens, along
with Father William Charbonneau,

arrive at the home
of Jerry and Laura Goodin.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Goodins tell
the Warrens

that the previous evening
something attacked them.

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.

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.

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.

That's when the Goodins
say they reached out

to their neighbour for help,

off-duty police officer
John Holsworth.

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."

City engineers are
also baffled by what is happening.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

The moment Lorraine crosses
the threshold,

she feels the house acknowledge
her presence.

Then it begins to wage war.

Ed became quite concerned
that the energy could especially

affect her being sensitive
to these things.

And he was worried about something
much bigger.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Convinced they are dealing
with something demonic,

the Warrens make plans to perform
an exorcism.

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."

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coast Guard cutters
and fireboats battle flames

in one of the worst shipping
disasters of the war.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ed and Lorraine Warren
initially started

investigating homes throughout
New England

because a lot of paranormal activity
seems to reside here.

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.

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.

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?"

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the Perron farmhouse,
Lorraine picks up the presence

of what appears to be a female
spirit.

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?

Ed and Lorraine suggest
holding a seance

to contact who or what is haunting
the Perron family?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The three story
Dutch colonial

is where in November 1974,

Ronald DeFeo Jr shoots and kills
the six members of his family.

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.

Then he went down the hall
and systematically shot

each of his brothers,
each of his sisters.

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.

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.

Laura DiDio sets up
a meeting

between the Warrens and George Lutz.

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.

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.

After speaking
with George Lutz,

Ed and Lorraine inspect
the Amityville house.

It would be a visit
they would never forget.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Forced to the ground,
Ed fights back

the only way he knows how.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The Amityville case made Ed and
Lorraine Warren's career explode.

It put them into the national
consciousness.

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.

The Warrens find themselves

in high demand for interviews,
speaking engagements,

and especially college lecture
tours.

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.

We, we, uh...

We thought it'd be fun to have
a couple of demons on the show.

I think we'd better bless them
first.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And even the family's
German shepherd has provided

little comfort against
these allegedly demonic forces.

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."

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.

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.

Several nights later,

a demonic creature known
as a succubus appears.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I do carry a true piece
of the cross, relics of saints.

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.

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.

Suddenly, Ed finds himself
under attack.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I suspected necrophilia.

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.

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.

Carmen doesn't realize it,

but her perfect house is a former
funeral home.

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.

On the day her family
moves in,

Carmen notices something strange.

I went to mop the floor,

the mop water turned this thick red.

Horrified, Carmen calls
the housekeeper into the room.

She leaned down
and she smelled it.

And she got up and walked out
the door,

and I never saw her again.

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,
"Philip."

Philip.

Philip.

He said he knew his name.

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.

Carmen grabs
her bedside Bible

and heads to Tammy's room.

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...

..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.

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.

Ed and Lorraine
arrive the next afternoon

with a team of investigators.

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.

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.

Lorraine makes her way
through the former funeral home,

spending extra time
down in the basement

where much of the mortuary equipment
still remains.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I had no idea
what to expect,

but I have extreme trust in God

and that's what I was trusting on.

Shortly after the prayer
service begins,

strange sounds rise
up from the basement.

There were knocking sounds
all around the house,

but you could feel what I would call
evil in that home.

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.

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.

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.

After hours of prayers
and blessings,

the danger finally lifts for Carmen
and her niece.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the name of Jesus Christ,
I command you to leave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And Ed said, "Give her a pen."

Are you a devil?

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not long after returning
from Japan,

Ed suffers a debilitating stroke.

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.

Distraught but determined,

Lorraine takes it
upon herself to care for Ed.

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.

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.

After Ed's passing,
his son-in-law, Tony Spera,

stepped into help Lorraine
carry on the Warren legacy.

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.

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.

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.

I've never seen a greater love
between two people

than them because they did
everything together.

They were never apart.

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.

They were a regular couple

and they were very religious,

Lorraine especially,
and that was no act.

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.

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.

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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