Ever notice how the most famous hauntings get louder the moment a camera shows up? We grab a cold seltzer, shake off a brutal post‑Halloween fog, and trace three headline‑making cases—Enfield, the Smurls, and the Snedekers—while testing each story against timing, incentives, and the thin line between fear and folklore. It’s part road trip through late‑70s and 80s paranormal culture, part reality check on what happens when grief, adolescence, and a house with bad wiring collide with a media machine hungry for the next big scare.
We start in Enfield, where knocks, thrown toys, and a “levitating” photograph pushed a struggling family into the spotlight. Society for Psychical Research camped out for months, the Warrens breezed through for a day, and a jump shot became cinema canon. From there, we head to Pennsylvania, where the Smurl haunting builds from odd smells to sensational claims and a neighborhood overrun by onlookers. Skeptics flagged sewage, wiring, and possible hallucinations while promised tapes never surfaced—an uncomfortable reminder that the scariest part of a haunting can be the crowd outside your window.
Finally, we sit with the Snedeker story: a sick teen in a former funeral home, whispers and cold rooms, an exorcism the church wouldn’t confirm, and a coauthor later calling the book a hoax. Along the way, we open the file on Ed and Lorraine Warren beyond the movies: their quick cameos turned into sweeping ownership of these narratives, and later allegations cast shadows over the brand they guarded. The pattern is hard to miss—escalation, publicity, profit—and it raises sharper questions than any EVP: who’s being helped, who’s being harmed, and who’s cashing in?
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