'link': The Smurl Family

The priest famously took a piece of chalk and drew a line across the threshold of the basement door. He then placed a blessed medal of St. Benedict on the frame. His instruction was simple: "Do not open this door. Do not go into the basement. Ever."

This is the story of 1754 Pennsylvania Avenue. the smurl family

Ed and Lorraine Warren, self-professed demonologists, investigated the home in 1986. They concluded that the home was infested with three spirits and one demon. Ed Warren claimed to have captured an image of the entity (described as a pig-like creature) peering through a window. They classified the haunting as an "inhuman" presence. The priest famously took a piece of chalk

Jack and Janet Smurl moved into the duplex in 1973. It was a modest home, but it was theirs. For the first 12 years, life was normal. The only oddity was the basement—a dark, damp pit that gave visitors an unexplained sense of dread. But the Smurls weren't the type to believe in boogeymen. His instruction was simple: "Do not open this door