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rotting  flesh  and  when  it  was  over  the
               smell was gone.

               They found out about our organization

               and  called  us.  Initially,  we  just  did  a
               walk-through  in  the  house.  But  the
               following  weekend  the  family  left  us

               alone  in  the  house  to  do  a  thorough
               investigation. A photographer from the
               Courier  News  accompanied  us  and

               brought  along  fifteen  hundred  dollars’
               worth      of     sophisticated     camera
               equipment.


               By the next day, none of his equipment
               worked.  Much  of  our  own  equipment             A couple weeks later I was up watching

               was  non-functional.  We  never  got  any          a  triple  play  of  ghost  stories  from
               evidence  of  it  except  for  the  periodic       Ireland  when  I  saw  a  segment  on  the
               smell  of  rotting  flesh.  However,  when         elemental  at  Leap  Castle.  They  did  a

               we  investigated  we  found  nothing.  All         reenactment  of  how  it  looked  to  a
               the  audio  and  video  was  flawed  or            woman  who  had  a  face  to  face
               garbled.  I  suppose  this  thing  had  such       encounter. The pictures that the family’s
               an energy that it destroyed any kind of            boy  drew  of  the  spirit  in  their  house

               sound or visual equipment.                         matched the images on the screen.

                                                                  Then the voice on the screen said it had

                                                                  “the smell of rotten flesh.” I got up from
                                                                  my  chair  and  ran  upstairs  to  my
                                                                  computer and found the information for

                                                                  the   Paranormal      Society    of   New
                                                                  England,  which  was  Ed  and  Lorraine
                                                                  Warren’s association. I fired off an email

                                                                  about the case and its details.

                                                                  A  few  days  later  Lorraine  wrote  back
                                                                  and told me that it never was a human
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