All language subtitles for Devils.Road.The.True.Story.of.Ed.and.Lorraine.Warren.2020.720p.TRVL.WEBRip.800MB.x264-GalaxyRG_track3_[eng]

Narrator:
He was a demonologist...

I went into
a religious resistance

And I commanded it to leave
in the name of jesus christ.

Narrator:
She was clairvoyant...

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.

Narrator: 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're the subjects
of a blockbuster film franchise.

My mother and father,
they just kept going.

They just kept helping.

Narrator: 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, mom, 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.

Hall: 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, okay, 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.

I went in the house and here
were police officers,

Firemen,
the goodin family, neighbors,

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.

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.

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.

[ glass shatters ]

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.

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 picked itself up,
throwing groceries everywhere.

And then these dishes come up
and go flying.

The knives came out
of 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.

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 neighbor for help,

Off-duty police officer
john holsworth.

Several minutes later, patrol
officers arrived 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.

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.

Judy: 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.

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'
10-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 center 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 color.

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. Gordon
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.

Hall: 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.

Hall: 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.

Narrator: Despite
a widespread belief

That something paranormal
had occurred,

The bridgeport incident fails
to convince a skeptical 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.

Ed: 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 wall.

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.

♪♪

Tony: He went to
his father one day

And he says weird things
happening 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.

♪♪

Lorraine: It started when I was
probably about 9 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 9 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 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 colors 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."

Lorraine: 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 lighthearted,

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."

Narrator: Lorraine's life
changes when, as a teenager,

She meets ed at the local
movie theater where he worked.

Ed: I was an usher in a small
theater 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 walked her home,
asked her for a date.

That's how it started.

Then I went to the navy
the day I was 17.

And while I was in the navy,
we wrote back and forth.

Lorraine: 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.

Coming up, a wartime disaster
forever changes ed

As he comes face to face
with death.

Reporter: Two oil tankers
in a collision

Exploded in one of the worst
shipping disasters of the war.

♪♪

♪♪

Reporter: Coast guard cutters
and fireboat battled 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 then ed says,
"I'm pulling the guy away.

But I don't know
where I'm going."

He said, "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
pick up 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 ]

Lorraine: 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.

Belanger: He was selling
the paintings for $3 and $5.

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.

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
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.

Ed: I do a real nice sketch
of the house,

Ghosts coming out of it
and everything, you know,

And give it to lorraine
and she 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.

Hawes: 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 had contact

The warrens would be family.

It doesn't matter,

Socioeconomic background
doesn't matter,

Race, ethnicity
are people of all ages.

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.

Ed: 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 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 8 years old,
but that was the very first time

I ever heard
about anything like that.

Ben: 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.

Then in 1971,

A stunning poltergeist event
threatens to expose the truth.

Up next, the warrens
open a portal to hell

And come face to face
with a demon.

♪♪

Narrator: By the early 1970s
ed and lorraine warren

Had devoted their lives
to investigating the paranormal.

Inspired by their unique
childhood experiences,

Ed and lorraine are on a quest
to prove the demons, devils,

And the supernatural exist.

♪♪

Ben: 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.

Ed and lorraine warren
initially started

Investigating homes
throughout new England

Because a lot of paranormal
activity seems to reside here.

Belanger:
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 5

Until the day he died,
looking for more haunted houses,

Wanting to talk to people about
their experience in those homes.

Judy: 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.

Ed: When I go into a home
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.

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.

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.

♪♪

Belanger: 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.

Belanger: 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 séance

To contact who or what is
haunting the perron family?

♪♪

The séance 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 skeptical,

But he goes along
with it anyway.

Narrator: Two days later,
the warrens,

Along with roger
and carolyn perron,

Gather to perform a séance.

And they're going to hold
the séance 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

Because 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.

♪♪

Ed: 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 séance 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.

Belanger: 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.

♪ 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 realize

That six people had been
murdered in that house.

So we said, sure, we would
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.

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.

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.

My mother was more affected
by these things,

But she was 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.

Lorraine: The media asked me
to go on to 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.

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.

I then envisioned myself
in a christ light

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 séance.

Joining the warrens are several
other psychics,

Paranormal researchers,
and members of the media,

Including laura didio.

During the séance 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 séance
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 color
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.

Didio: 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: 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.

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up,

Ed and lorraine
go from small-town new England

To the bright lights
of the international stage,

Bringing them new fame
and critical backlash.

Would you welcome
ed and lorraine warren?

[ applause ]

♪♪

Narrator: In 1977,
the amityville book and movie

Turn ed and lorraine warren

Into pop culture figures
in demand

By television talk show hosts
across the country.

Would you please welcome
ed and lorraine warren.

The amityville case made
ed and lorraine warren's

Career explode.

It put them into
the national consciousness.

Reporter: 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,

An 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.

Belanger: 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."

Tony: 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...

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

I think we better
bless them first.

Belanger: 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 skeptics.
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 to our evidence.

Lorraine: Where haunting
phenomenon 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.

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.

In the words of ed
and lorraine warren,

We can back up
this case history

With numerous other case
histories can prove

Beyond a shadow
of a doubt

That preternatural phenomenon
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 fiancée's younger brother.

Ed: This 11-year-old boy
would become extremely strong

And 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 is such a thing
as demonic possession.

Belanger: 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 defense,

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 fiancée,
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 offense.

It is irrelevant in this case.

And unfortunately,
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.

Ed and lorraine's daughter
remembers the case well.

Judy: I know debbie glatzel
personally and arne johnson.

I believe that the paranormal
exists, absolutely.

Absolutely. Yes, I do.

I 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.

Man: The strange happenings
at the home of the small 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 door's open.

Man: 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.

Ed: 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.

Lorraine: 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 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: Now 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 they get pleasure out of it?
No, they don't.

It's an insult to the birth
cycle of jesus christ and god,

That's why they do it.

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.

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.

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.

Suddenly, ed finds himself
under attack.

Ed: This thing threw me back
about 10 feet onto the bed.

Police officer, he came in,

And 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.

Man: 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.

Woman: 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.

Ed: 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 had 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.

Narrator:
Carmen doesn't realize it,

But her perfect house
is a former funeral home.

Snedeker: 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.

I went to mop the floor,

The mop water turned
this thick red.

Narrator: Horrified,
carmen calls the housekeeper

Into the room.

Snedeker: She leaned down
and she smelled it.

And she got up,
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, "mom,
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, we just stand
on the other side of the door

And tell him to do bad things.

But he would stand there
and say, "philip."

Man: [ whispers ] 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.

Snedeker: 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 defense.

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.

Lorraine: 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 arrived
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.

Snedeker: 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.

Snedeker: She was very calm
and composed, just listening.

And we went back upstairs,

She told me that she felt that

There was 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: Coming up, the warrens
in the snedeker family

Team up with the church
to do battle against the devil.

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♪♪

Narrator: While investigating
a haunting case

Inside a former funeral home,

Ed and lorraine warren
documented numerous examples

Of demonic activity
that threatened to destroy

Not just the family
living there,

But the warrens themselves.

The warrens arranged
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.

Ed: 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.

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.

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 spiritual war.

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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.

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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 okay
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.

Snedeker: 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 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.

Petonito:
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.

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 to kind of
in a different voice.

[ squeals ]

And ed said, give her a pen.

Ed: Are you a devil?

Petonito: And she started
writing on a notebook

Without looking, she's writing,
get out, get out of my house.

Get out of my house.

The girl ended up
getting an exorcism.

Man: The name of jesus christ,
I command you to leave

And go back
to where you came from.

The name of jesus christ,
I command you to tell us

Why you are bothering
this family.

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.

Petonito: When we're assisting
in 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 our legs and arms.

She stood up like
they were straining,

Just broke everything.

There was one time where
the woman being exorcised

Was trying to gouge
her own eyes out.

We're trying to hold
our 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.

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.

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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.

Ed: 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.

Ed: Now, scientists would say,
well, you didn't prove a thing

Because you didn't take that
ghosty and put them in a bottle

So that we could open it up
and examine them.

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 ghost 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
"secrets of the supernatural."

My name is tony spera.
I'll be your moderator tonight.

It was ed's idea.
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.

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

Almost head on
to a tractor trailer truck.

It was demolished

And the priest
was almost killed.

Judy: 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.

Narrator: Decades after their
first paranormal investigation,

The warrens finally receive
the star treatment.

Up next, hollywood
comes calling.

♪♪

Narrator: 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.

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."

Hawes: It hit me hard.
He was just a wonderful guy.

Anytime I talk 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 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

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: "the conjuring"
and its sequels and spinoffs

Introduce the warrens
to a new generation.

♪♪

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.

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 a 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 traveled 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 mom 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.

Narrator: Today, tony spera
keeps the warren legacy

Alive through investigations

And a youtube channel
dedicated to ed and lorraine.

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.

♪♪