: The father, who reported being physically and sexually assaulted by an unseen entity. He passed away in 2017. Janet Smurl
The haunting became a media sensation, fueled by the 1986 book The Haunted by Robert Curran, Jack Smurl, and Ed Warren, and later a 1991 television film titled The Haunted , which dramatized the family’s experiences. For a time, the Smurl name was synonymous with modern American demonic haunting. smurl family