In a 2008 article that appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader , five years before the first installment of the blockbuster The Conjuring franchise hit theaters, demonologist couple Ed and Lorraine Warren were taken to task. The article examined the founders of the New England Society for Psychic Research, who for decades came to the aid of those plagued by supernatural forces across a purported 10,000-plus cases. But after years building a reputation in the paranormal space, the Times Leader questioned the credibility of the couple, framing its unforgiving takedown of the duo against the local Pennsylvania case of the Smurl family.

In a 2008 article that appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader , five years before the first installment of the blockbuster The Conju

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