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Some names become tied to places. For Jack and Janet Smurl, that place was 246 Chase Street in West Pittston, Pennsylvania—a modest duplex where they raised their family and ran a small business repairing appliances. They were ordinary people: hardworking, unassuming, deeply rooted in their Catholic faith and their community.

But in the mid-1980s, their home became the setting for one of the most documented and debated haunting cases in American history. The Smurls reported a cascade of phenomena: foul odors, disembodied voices, shadowy figures, physical assaults, and the apparition of a dark, menacing entity they called “the old man.” Their ordeal drew in clergy, paranormal investigators, journalists, and eventually the filmmakers behind The Haunting in Connecticut (which, though loosely based on their story, changed key details). jack and janet smurl

That takes a different kind of courage.