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Digitized by the Internet Arcliive in 2011 littp://www.arcliive.org/details/liauntedonefannilyOOcurr I I One FAMILY'S Nightmare ROBERT CURRAN withJack andJanet Smurl and Ed and Lorraine Warren ST. MARTIN'S PRESS NEW YORK Special thanks and acknowledgment to Ed Gorman for his work on this book. THE haunted: one family's nightmare. Copyright © 1988 by Robert Curran, Jack and Janet Smurl, Ed and Lorraine Warren. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. No part ofthis book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case ofbriefquotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. Design by M. Paul ISBN 0-312-01440-6 Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 87-28399 First Edition 109 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 AUTHOR'S Note Mhe book that you are about to read was compiled from the testimony of the eight residents of 328-330 Chase Street, as well as twenty-eight other people who have experienced supernatural phenomena in connection with the Smurl family. Some of the people whose names appear in this book have been given pseudonyms to protect their privacy; others have al- lowed their names to be used. One character, David Wilson, is a composite of three people who have worked with Ed and Lorraine Warren. The role of this fictional character, however, is unconnected to the supernatural events that have taken place on Chase Street. Certain minor liberties have been taken with the chronology of events, and some scenes and dialogue have been re-created in a dramatic fashion. But each event described adheres strictly to the facts related by the witnesses. I want to express my deep appreciation to all of the people who granted tape-recorded interviews to me and provided insight into the plight of the Smurl family and to the mysterious realm of the supernatural. These people include relatives, friends, neighbors, and ac- quaintances of the Smurl family, and dozens of others who gave me important information. Several Roman Catholic priests were especially helpful, as were various other clergymen and rabbis. Fm also grateful to Mike McLane, my newsroom colleague at the Scrantonian Tribune; photographer Bob Ventre and his assist- ant, Tina Sandone; Bill Hastie, assistant curator of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre; and last, but by no means least, my wife Monica, for her invaluable assistance in many aspects of this book. Robert Curran VU
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