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Primarily, the current owner of the
supposedly haunted/possessed house, Norma
Sutcliffe, researched the history of her home and
discovered many factual errors presented as
truth by the Perron family, the Warrens, and
subsequently the filmmakers behind The
Conjuring (she also sued Warner Bros. due to an
influx of trespassers following the film's
release). Sutcliffe produced a video detailing her
research, which alleges - among other things -
that the "witch" featured in the film, Bathsheba
Sherman, was anything but, and that any Satanic
worship, infant sacrifices, or general witchery
was pure fabrication. Sutcliffe's evidence is by the Warrens to help shape the Snedeker's show signs of improvement, especially after the
further detailed by Andy Smith in an article for narrative. According to Benjamin Radford, boy was placed into counseling and moved to a
the Providence Journal, and it is corroborated by writing for Live Science, Garton told Horror private school for children with psychological
J'aime Rubio on the investigative blog Bound magazine he "interviewed all the family and other issues. But Johnson was not so lucky,
Dreaming Casually. members about their experiences, and soon as apparently a few of the demons exorcised
Much like the Lutzes, the Perron family realized that there was a problem: 'I found that from David's body entered his, eliciting growls
(alongside the Warrens, of course) always the accounts of the individual Snedekers didn't and hisses similar to his soon-to-be brother-in-
maintained the veracity of their claims, and quite mesh. They couldn't keep their stories law's, as well as slipping into "trances" off and
perhaps they truly encountered something straight. I went to Ed [Warren] with this on for a period of months before killing Bono
unexplainable that terrified them. It should be problem. "Oh, they're crazy," he said..."You've with a five-inch pocket knife, stabbing the man
clear, however, that at least some of the got some of the story - just use what works and over and over as Debbie Glatzel watched.
backstory surrounding their haunting is made- make the rest up... Just make it up and make it The "Devil Made Me Do It" plea didn't
up. scary."" work for Judge Robert Callahan or the jury, and
Moreover, according to investigator Joe Johnson eventually went to prison for his crime.
Snedeker Family Haunting Nickell in the June 2009 issue of Skeptical Years later, in 2007, Carl Glatzel, David's older
Inquirer, neighbors of the Snedeker family (as brother, attempted to sue Lorraine Warren and
This case inspired the Hollywood film A well as Garton again) attributed most of the Gerald Brittle, author of the requisite "true
Haunting in Connecticut, which Lorraine paranormal happenings to the family's serious story" book The Devil in Connecticut for
Warren reportedly detested for its alleged drug and alcohol abuse. All signs seem to point unspecified damages. As part of his suit, Glatzel
inaccuracy, stating "It's embarrassing. Do you less toward a family legitimately terrorized by claims his family was manipulated by the
know the amount of time and effort that we put an evil spirit, and more toward the Warrens Warrens, that they and Brittle "concocted a
into that case? Do you know how many trying to create another Amityville phenomenon. phony story about demons in an attempt to get
meetings with the clergy we had to finally bring rich and famous at [their] expense"—none more
closure to the family?" (The Warrens are The "Devil Made Me Do It" Case so than little David, whose mental illness he
notoriously staunch Catholics, and most of their feels was exploited for monetary gain. Of
investigations centered around families of the According to a contemporary article from course, it should be noted that the Warrens and
same faith - which, for them is apparently the People magazine by Lynne Baranski, in 1981, the other Glatzels might not be the only the only
"one true faith," if we're to interpret Ed's Arne Cheyenne Johnson was arrested and tried ones looking for a little moolah off the
somewhat anti-Semitic remarks correctly.) for murdering his landlord, Alan Bono. His experience: Carl reportedly wrote his own tell-
According to Lorraine, the REAL story defense argued that Johnson was not in control all book, Alone Through the Valley, with Francis
of A Haunting in Connecticut involved the of his actions, not by reason of insanity, but by Richards. The book doesn't seem to be available
Snedeker family, who purchased a home for a way of demonic possession. for purchase, but there's an excerpt still available
knockout price and at a convenient location to See, Johnson's fiancée Debbie Glatzel on an old Geocities site.
the hospital, where their son was receiving had a little brother, David, 11 years old at the
treatment for cancer. Of course, it turns out the time, who, after being visited by "a man with big The Enfield Poltergeist
home's perfection was too good to be true, as it black eyes" that bore a striking resemblance to
was formerly a funeral home, where the Satan, began showing signs that he was no These events, beginning in August of 1977 in
morticians were rumored to have been caught in longer himself - gaining 60 pounds, growling Enfield, a suburb of London, and petering out
acts of necrophilia. This naturally meant the and hissing, involuntary spasming, speaking in sometime in 1979, are the basis for the 2016 film
place was haunted, and the family began strange voices, and "reciting passages from the The Conjuring 2, depicting the further
experiencing the usual strange sounds, demonic Bible or from Milton's Paradise Lost." adventures of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Much of
entities, possessions, and whatnot. Rather than seeking psychiatric help their work investigating the Hodgson home
If this overall scenario sounds familiar, it immediately, the Glatzels first brought in a appeared in The Demonologist: The
should: it's more or less the same narrative priest to bless their house; when that didn't Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
shaping The Amityville Horror and The work, guess who they called? Enter the Warrens, by Gerald Brittle, the same man who wrote The
Conjuring - family moves into house, is who began making regular visits to the Glatzel Devil in Connecticut for the Warrens a few years
terrorized by demons. And like those cash cows, house, bringing with them more priests and later.
the Snedeker Haunting came with its own book, performing "three lesser exorcisms." Ed Warren (Continued on Page 56)
In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, commented that he and Lorraine knew "there
which is credited as written by Ed and Lorraine were 43 demons in the boy." While the priests Are you a skeptic or a believer, send me your
Warren, Carmen Reed, Al Snedeker, and Ray involved denied any exorcisms had actually email - publisher@xchroniclesnewspaper.com
Garton. The latter (a horror novelist) was hired transpired in the Glatzel home, David began to