The movies Conjuring have gained a fanatical audience and like the first two, the third is also based on a true story, where a young he murdered his friend, claiming that possessed after one exorcism.
The case unfolded in the 1980s in the USA and it strongly occupied the press of the time, while it is coming back to the news after so long, because made into a documentary on Netflix with the name “The Devil on Trial».
THE “The Sun” in an extensive tribute describes the details of the case and lists all the opinions of the protagonists, especially those who claim that it is a fraud aimed at “profit” and “manipulation”.
The move that turned into a nightmare
THE 19 year old Arne Cheyenne Johnson he is engaged to her 26-year-old Debbie Glatzel and the July 1980 they decide to stay together, moving to Brookfield, Connecticut, where the woman’s family is located. So, he rents the house of his friend of 40 years Alan Bono and asks his fiancee’s younger brothers for help moving things, Alan, Carl and Davidwhich he will host at home for as long as necessary.
One day the 11 year old David cleans a roomwhen feels “something pushing him back with force” and then he sees “a dark demonic figure with black eyes, like the Devil costumes from Halloween.” He immediately informs everyone and says that this thing wants to take his soul, but no one believes his words.
At some point the his mother goes home and sees a black figure in the woods and after new reports that “the entity visited her son again,” shouts then-famous ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren. They gather the family in the kitchen and ask the entity if it hears them knock three times on the table. “There were three thumps, like someone holding a sledgehammer and slamming it down on the floor,” Alan will say.
The exorcism and the unexpected murder
Ed and Lorraine Warren found a Catholic priest and arranged for it to happen exorcism on 11-year-old boy at St Joseph’s Church. “Suddenly the temperature in the church dropped and within minutes David’s behavior began to change,” Alan reports, adding that his brother began growling, becoming aggressive and “breaking his body abnormally.”
During the exorcism, the child allegedly got out of control and attacked his family, with the priest at that moment putting a cross on his forehead and screaming “come out demon, come out Satan”. The 11-year-old passed out and when he woke up he only remembered the prayers at the start of the procedure and not what followed, with his family thinking he was redeemed.
However, after five months namely on February 16, 1981tragedy struck, when o Johnson along with his three sisters and his fiancee dined with Alan Bono.
Everything was going smoothly, when the two men started fighting for a cause that no one present remembers and minutes later Johnson took a knife and stabbed the landlord and his friend five times. Debbie Glatzel immediately called the police, with her fiance remaining confused until he was arrested, when he claimed to have been possessed by a demon during the exorcism.
Metaphysical phenomenon or hoax?
THE Debbie Glatzel supported Arne Cheyenne Johnson and married him in prison -they stayed together until her death from lung cancer-, claiming that she was possessed by the demon that haunted her brother. The case received tremendous publicity in the US, while the defense used the term “demonic possession” for the first timewhere it was not accepted as unscientific.
Johnson was sentenced to prison and released a few years ago, still believing he was possessed by a demon, something both the now-adult David and his brother Alan claim.
But the third son of the Glatzel family, Carlconsiders that everything is fraud and manipulation of his son-in-law. According to him, ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren ‘drive his family crazy’ to exploit them financially.
“The Warrens had an agenda and they knew what they were doing. After some time they wrote a book about the case and they put in terrifying details that never happenedso they can sell more”, he characteristically said, convinced that no demon possessed his brother, but also his son-in-law, even though they themselves still believe the exact opposite.
Source: News Beast
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