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🔮🌫️ **The Smurl Haunting: A Tale of Unrelenting Paranormal Activity** 🌫️🔮

In the heart of America, nestled in the quaint town of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, the Smurl family faced unimaginable terror from 1974 to 1989. What started as subtle disturbances soon escalated into a relentless series of inexplicable and violent phenomena within their family home. The walls seemed to whisper with unseen voices, shadows danced in the corners, and a palpable sense of dread settled like a fog over their lives. 😱👻

Unyielding in their resolve, the Smurls sought answers and assistance. Their cries for help echoed through the townsfolk, ultimately reaching the ears of renowned demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren. With each visit, the Warrens faced off against an unholy force that defied explanation, turning skeptics into believers and leaving the family in a prolonged state of unrest. 🌑⚡

This gripping narrative beckons us to question what lies beyond our perception and reminds us of the courage within everyday people when confronted with the extraordinary. Dive with us into the chilling details of the Smurl Haunting, exploring not only the events that transpired but also the legacy it left behind in the annals of paranormal history. 🌙📚

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Gonâve Island or Zile Lagonav is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve

On July 18, 1926, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Faustin E. Wirkus (1896–1945) was proclaimed by the residents of the island as King Faustin II, where he ruled over the island with the tribal queen Ti Mememnne as co-monarchs. His reign lasted until 1929, when he peacefully abdicated and returned home to the United States.[6] Ti Memenne would continue to unofficially rule the island until her death in that same year. For context, Haiti is a republic and abolished the monarchy in 1859 with Fabre Nicolas Geffrard.

According to an official biography,[5] Wirkus was born in 1896 in Rypin (Congress Poland, in the Russian Empire) a small town now in Poland, however, numerous ship passenger lists (records of the U.S. Customs Service) show his correct birth place as Pittston, Pennsylvania.[6] He and his parents settled in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community northwest of Wilkes-Barre, where he was raised.[5] At the age of 11, he started sorting coal in Pittston.

Wirkus enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1915 and served in the 1st Advance Base Brigade in Haiti and rose to the rank of corporal in 1918 then to gunnery sergeant in 1920.[7] During his service in the Marine Corps, he was promoted to a lieutenant in the Garde d'Haiti, commanding a squad of native troops on La Gonâve. After rescuing a young woman in trouble, he found out that she was Queen Timemenne of La Gonâve. He was welcomed by the population as Timemenne had told them how kind he was to her, and in part, due to the unusual circumstance that he had the same first name as the former emperor of Haiti, Faustin Soulouque, later known as Faustin I ("Faustin the First"), who died in 1867. Somewhat bizarrely, the natives proclaimed him Faustin II in a Voodoo ritual[8] and he ruled jointly with Queen Timemenne for three years.[5][8][9] He became known for dispensing ready but gentle justice.[10]

Queen Ti Memenne of La Gonâve (also written as Timemenne; 19th-century – fl. 1929) was the tribal ruler of La Gonâve, a Haitian island located west of Hispaniola in the Gulf of Gonâve, in the 1920s. While her reign was not officially recognized by the republican government of Haiti during American occupation, she maintained political, economic, spiritual, and social leadership of the island. Arrested by the Garde d'Haiti for being a practitioner of Vodou, she was shown compassion by Faustin E. Wirkus, an American military officer who assisted in her release. She later proclaimed Wirkus to be the reincarnation of former Haitian Emperor Faustin Soulouque and crowned him as a co-ruler over La Gonâve.

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i THINK the only direct sources for this are this guy's memoir and the magic island by william seabrook which seems pretty sensationalist. so i think this might not have happened. the us military believes it though

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If there's one group of American workers used to labor battles, it's miners. Consider the literal gunfights in the West Virginia mountains a century ago, or the 50,000 coal miners striking across 11 states during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989. Consider too that coal is a feast-or-famine industry, and miners know the importance of saving up. "Every old coal miner tells you that you prepare for the next day because you don't know what to expect for that next day," said Antwon McGhee, a striking Alabama coal miner. Of course, many miners' savings have dried up by now. That's where having a strike-seasoned union, like the United Mine Workers of America in this case, helps. The union knows it has to take care of those most vulnerable, said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research at Cornell University — like supporting a young miner with a mortgage and a new baby, or an older miner with health issues and higher medical bills. "They work as a community to do that," Bronfenbrenner said. Every two weeks, the striking miners rally outside of a local union hall in Brookwood before shuffling inside to pick up $800 checks. Around the one-year mark, the United Mine Workers of America said it had given out $20 million to workers.

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Mary Jo Shields

Mary Jo Shields, 70, of South Pasadena, FL and Forty Fort, PA, passed  away on October 12, 2024 while traveling in Italy. Mary Jo was born on September 16, 1954 to the late Joseph and Mary Stiles.  She was born and raised in Luzerne and attended Central Catholic High School in Kingston, PA and was a graduate of College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, as well as the Evelyn Wood School of Speed Reading.  Prior to her retirement from the Wyoming Valley School District, she was a teacher and chair of the science department at the Wyoming Valley West Middle School.  She also taught in several elementary schools in the district early in her career.   

Mary Jo enjoyed life to the fullest.  Her sense of humor was renowned.  An avid sports fan, Mary Jo could be found cheering on her favorite teams: Notre Dame Football; Syracuse Basketball; and the Philadelphia Phillies. As the last surviving member of her immediate family, she was affectionately referred to as “The Matriarch.”  She embraced her Irish heritage and was the hostess to the yearly “Jig’s Dinner” on St. Patrick’s Day.  She loved St. Pete’s Beach, Florida but home was always the Wyoming Valley. Her greatest achievement was her sons. Her love, support, and pride knew no bounds.

Mary Jo was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Mary Stiles;��sisters, Peggy Urbanovitch and Sally Disano; and nephew, Glenn Urbanovitch. 

She is survived by her loving husband Joe, who would have celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary on November 5; her son Attorney Joseph Shields and his wife Laura of Forty Fort, PA; and Michael Shields of Minneapolis, MN and his partner Teresa Pfab and their dog Ted Lasso, who Mary Jo loved; nieces, Laurene Urbanovitch, Lisa Stull, and nephew James Urbanovitch.  Several great nieces and nephews and a great, great niece.  Mary Jo was a blessing and blessed by wonderful friends, too many to count.   

The funeral will begin at the Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home at 9 a.m. on November 4, 2024, with a Mass of Christian Burial to follow at St. Ignatius of Loyola Church, Kingston PA at 10 a.m.  Friends may call at Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home on November 3, 2024, from 2 to 5 p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Feeding Tampa Bay Disaster Relief at https://feedingtampabay.org or to the Catherine McAuley House, 430 Pittston Avenue, Scranton PA.   

The family would like to extend their thanks to Emanuele Caligiuri of La Pavese Funeral Home in Rome, Italy and the staff of the Hotel American Palace, and EUR of Rome for their care and compassion. 

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Holidays 6.20

Holidays

Bald Eagle Day (a.k.a. American Eagle Day)

Brownie 620 Day

Clean Air Day (EU)

Datsun 620 Day

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Ossentian Genocide (South Ossetia)

Flag Day (Argentina)

Gas Sector Day (Azerbaijan)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Hike with a Geek Day

International Asteroid Day

International Day of Nikkei

International Horseshoe Crab Day

International Nystagmus Awareness Day

International Tennis Day

Loch Ness Day

Martyrs’ Day (Eritrea)

Naked Hiking Day

National Celluma Light Therapy Day

National eGiving Day

National Goat Day

National Heroes’ Day (Bermuda)

National Hike with a Geek Day

National Jimmy Day

National Kissing Day (UK)

National Neuroscience Nurses Day (Canada)

National Public Display of Affection Day

National Seashell Day

National Surveillance Camera Day (UK)

National Yard Games Day

New Identity Day

Nystagmus Awareness Day (a.k.a. Wobbly Wednesday)

Oat Day (French Republic)

Oxford Charter Day

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. Kang; Manipur, Odisha; India)

Sack of Baltimore (Ireland)

Sea Serpent Day (Plymouth, Massachusetts)

620 Day

Tall Girl Appreciation Day

Toad Hollow Day of Thank You

Vitamin Discovery Day

World Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Day

World Peace & Prayer Day

World Productivity Day

World Psychedelics Day

World Refugee Day (UN)

World Wi-Fi Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Drink Chenin Blanc Day

Dunkin Iced Coffee Day

Flitch of Bacon Day (UK)

Ice Cream Soda Day

National Kouign Amann Day

Plain Yogurt Day

Vanilla Milkshake Day

Vinegar Day

Independence & Related Days

Aedeland (a.k.a. Republic of Aedeland, Declared, 943) [unrecognized]

Nixland (Declared, 2014) [unrecognized]

West Virginia Statehood Day (#35; 1863)

3rd Thursday in June

Dump the Pump Day [3rd Thursday]

International Knock Knock Day [3rd Thursday]

Recess At Work Day [3rd Thursday]

Social Mobility Awareness Day (UK) [3rd Thursday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

World Kidney Cancer Day [3rd Thursday]

World Tapas Day [3rd Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 20 (3rd Full Week)

World Refugee Week (Australia) [week including 6.20]

Festivals Beginning June 20, 2024

Barefoot Country Music Festival (Wildwood, New Jersey) [thru 6.23]

Bartender Spirits Awards (San Francisco, California)

Belgrade Beer Fest (Belgrade, Serbia) [thru 6.23]

CiderFeast East Coast Tour (Haverhill, Massachusetts)

Cottage Grove Strawberry Fest (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) [thru 6.23]

Cranberry Blossom Festival (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) [thru 6.23]

Encounters South African International Documentary Festival (Cape Town, South Africa) [thru 6.30]

Farmington Dew Days (Farmington, Minnesota) [thru 6.23]

Haubstadt Sommerfest (Haubstadt, Indiana) [thru 6.22]

Herb Society of America Educational Conference (Malvern, Pennsylvania) [thru 6.21]

International Diaghilev Festival (Perm, Russia) [thru 6.29]

Isle of Wight Festival (Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom) [thru 6.23]

JazzAscona [Ascona Jazz Festival] (Ascona, Switzerland) [thru 6.29]

London Strawberry Festival (London, Ohio) [thru 6.22]

National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, South Africa) [thru 6.30]

Pittston Fair (Pittston, Maine) [thru 6.23]

Placer County Fair (Roseville, California) [thru 6.23]

Quahog Day (Cataumet, Massachusetts)

Sommeliers Choice Awards (Chicago, Illinois)

Stilldream Festival (Wilseyville, California) [thru 6.24]

Summerfest (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [thru 7.6]

Taste of Tippecanoe (Lafayette, Indiana)

Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Telluride, Colorado) [thru 6.23]

Feast Days

Adalbert of Magdeburg (Christian; Saint)

Bain, Bishop of Terouanne (a.k.a. Bagnus; Christian; Saint)

Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)

Day of Cerridwen (Welsh Goddess of Barley)

Day of the Purification of All Things (Ancient Egypt)

Feast of the Irish Martyrs

Festival of Saint Joan begins (Spain)

Festival of Summanus (Ancient Roman god of the night sky & nocturnal thunder)

Festival of the New Knee (Shamanism)

Florentina (Christian; Saint)

Georges Dufrénoy (Artology)

Gobain (Christian; Martyr)

Idaberga (a.k.a. Edburge) of Merica (Christian; Saint)

Iron Skegge’s Day (Vikings)

Jacques Saly (Artology)

John of Matera (Christian; Saint)

Josephine Winslow Johnson (Writerism)

Joseph Smith Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Kubik (Muppetism)

Kurt Schwitters (Artology)

Magdalena Abakanowicz (Artology)

Margareta Ebner (Christian; Blessed)

Methodius of Olympus (Christian; Saint)

Michelina of Pesaro (Christian; Saint)

Omer (Christian; Saint)

Otho the Great (Positivist; Saint)

Paul Muldoon (Writerism)

Scira (a.k.a. Skirophoria; Festival for Demeter; Ancient Greece)

Silverius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Solstice [1st Day of Summer in Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. ... 

Acophony (G’BroagFran of Anti-Music; Church of the SubGenius)

Alban Hefin (a.k.a. Litha or Midsummer; Celtic, Pagan) [4 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]

Aimless Wandering Day

Anne and Samantha Day

Aymara New Year (Año Nuevo Aymara; Bolivia)

Cuckoo Warning Day (it will be a wet summer if the cuckoo is heard today)

Daylight Appreciation Day

Day of Private Reflection

Day of the Martyrs (Togo)

Feast of the Great Spirit (Native American)

Fête de la Musique

Finally Summer Day/Finally Winter Day

Hump Day (Tasmania)

Indigenous New Year (We Tripantu; Año Nuevo Indígena; Chile)

International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice

Into Raymi (Incan Sun God Festival; Sacsayhuamán Andes Mountain Natives)

Jaanipäev (Estonia)

Jāņi (Latvia)

Juhannus Day (Finland)

Kupala (fertility rite)

Kupala Night (Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Russia)

Litha (Wiccan/Pagan; northern hemisphere)

Midnight Sun Festival (Nome, Alaska)

Midsomarsblog (Norse celebration of fishing, trading & raiding)

Midsummer

Midsummer Baal (Celtic)

National Celluma Light Therapy Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day

National Day of Greenland

National Energy Shopping Day

Polar Bear Swim (Nome, Alaska)

Saint Jonas' Festival (Lithuania)

Solsticio de Invierno (Bolivia)

Sommar Börjar (Sweden)

Summer Saucestice (Pastafarian)

Tall Girl Appreciation Day

Tiregān (Iran)

Wadjet (Ancient Egypt)

We Tripantu (winter solstice festival in the southern hemisphere; Chile)

Wianki (Poland)

Willkakuti (Andean-Amazonic New Year; Aymara)

World Humanist Day

World Peace and Prayer Day

Yule (Wiccan/Pagan; southern hemisphere)

Takekiri Eshiki Matsuri (Bamboo Cutting Festival; Japan)

Watching the Ferns Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

World Juggling Day (Pastafarian)

Islamic Lunar Holidays

Eid al-Adha, Day 5 [Muslim Feast of Sacrifice] (a.k.a. ... 

Al Adha (Egypt)

Eid al Adha (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Yemen)

Eid ul-Ad’haa (Maldives)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Yellow Day [Happiest day of the year.]

Premieres

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Film; 2012)

The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola (Novel; 1952)

Batman & Robin (Film; 1997)

Blonde on Blonde, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1966)

The Blue Lagoon (Film; 1980)

The Blues Brothers (Film & Soundtrack Album; 1980)

The Blue Train (Le Train Bleu), by Darius Milhaud (Ballet; 1924)

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (Novel; 1902)

Carry On Camping (Film; 1969)

Chinatown (Film; 1974)

Clown of the Jungle (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Count on the Saint, by Graham Weaver (Short Stories; 1980) [Saint #49]

Dangerously in Love, by Beyoncé (Album; 2003)

Don’t Be Cruel, by Bobby Brown (Album; 1988)

Double Vision, by Foreigner (Album; 1978)

Extinct Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1969)

Fastest Tongue in the West (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

Father’s Week-End (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Friend or Phony (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1952)

Get Smart (Film; 2008)

Happy Scouts (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1938)

Hare Trimmed (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

Heart Break, by New Edition (Album; 1988)

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1995)

Hulk (Film; 2003)

Independence Day: Resurgence (Film; 2016)

Jaws (Film; 1975)

The Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart (Novel; 1961)

A Leap in the Deep (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Mickey’s Rival (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Moving Day (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

My Best Friend’s Wedding (Film; 1997)

The Nifty Nineties (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Nurse-Mates (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

One, by George Jones and Tammy Wynette (Album; 1995)

Picnic Panic (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1946)

The Reluctant Dragon (Disney Animated Film; 1941)

Rippling Romance (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1945)

Rommel, The Desert Fox, by Desmond Young (Biography; 1951)

Shanghaied Shipmates (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

Superman: Brainiac Attacks (WB Animated Film; 2006)

Teenage Idol, recorded by Rick Nelson (Song; 1962)

Them, by Joyce Carol Oates (Novel; 1969)

To Hell and Back, by Audie Murphy (Memoir; 1949)

Tonight’s the Night, by Neil Young (Album; 1975)

A Touch of Class (Film; 1973)

The Trooper, by Iron Maiden (Song; 1983)

Unsafe at Any Speed, by Ralph Nader (Book; 1966)

Very Good, Jeeves! P.G. Wodehouse (Short Stories; 1930) [Jeeves #4]

Wee-Willie Wildcat, featuring Barney bear (MGM Cartoon; 1953)

A Wet Knight (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)

Yellowstone (TV Series; 2018)

Yesterday and Today (a.k.a. The Butcher Cover), by The Beatles (Album; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbert, Florentina (Austria)

Margareta, Naum (Croatia)

Květa (Czech Republic)

Sylverius (Denmark)

Kaari, Karlotte, Karola, Karoliine, Karolin, Lota (Estonia)

Into (Finland)

Silvère (France)

Adalbert, Florentina, Margot (Germany)

Methodios (Greece)

Rafael (Hungary)

Ettore, Silverio (Italy)

Imula, Maira, Rasa, Rasma (Latvia)

Silverijus, Žadvainas, Žintautė (Lithuania)

Salve, Sølve, Sølvi (Norway)

Bogna, Bogumiła, Bożena, Florentyna, Franciszek, Michał, Rafaela, Rafał, Sylwery (Poland)

Metodie (România)

Maria, Valeria (Russia)

Valéria (Slovakia)

Florentina, Silverio (Spain)

Flora, Linda (Sweden)

Earl, Earline, Errol, Fatima, Ofelia, Omar, Omarion, Ophelia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 172 of 2024; 194 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 25 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 15 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 13 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 22 Blue; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 7 June 2024

Moon: 97%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 3 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Otho the Great]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 1 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of June)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 31 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Summer [Season 3 of 4; thru 9.22]

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Holidays 6.20

Holidays

Bald Eagle Day (a.k.a. American Eagle Day)

Brownie 620 Day

Clean Air Day (EU)

Datsun 620 Day

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Ossentian Genocide (South Ossetia)

Flag Day (Argentina)

Gas Sector Day (Azerbaijan)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Hike with a Geek Day

International Asteroid Day

International Day of Nikkei

International Horseshoe Crab Day

International Nystagmus Awareness Day

International Tennis Day

Loch Ness Day

Martyrs’ Day (Eritrea)

Naked Hiking Day

National Celluma Light Therapy Day

National eGiving Day

National Goat Day

National Heroes’ Day (Bermuda)

National Hike with a Geek Day

National Jimmy Day

National Kissing Day (UK)

National Neuroscience Nurses Day (Canada)

National Public Display of Affection Day

National Seashell Day

National Surveillance Camera Day (UK)

National Yard Games Day

New Identity Day

Nystagmus Awareness Day (a.k.a. Wobbly Wednesday)

Oat Day (French Republic)

Oxford Charter Day

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. Kang; Manipur, Odisha; India)

Sack of Baltimore (Ireland)

Sea Serpent Day (Plymouth, Massachusetts)

620 Day

Tall Girl Appreciation Day

Toad Hollow Day of Thank You

Vitamin Discovery Day

World Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Day

World Peace & Prayer Day

World Productivity Day

World Psychedelics Day

World Refugee Day (UN)

World Wi-Fi Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Drink Chenin Blanc Day

Dunkin Iced Coffee Day

Flitch of Bacon Day (UK)

Ice Cream Soda Day

National Kouign Amann Day

Plain Yogurt Day

Vanilla Milkshake Day

Vinegar Day

Independence & Related Days

Aedeland (a.k.a. Republic of Aedeland, Declared, 943) [unrecognized]

Nixland (Declared, 2014) [unrecognized]

West Virginia Statehood Day (#35; 1863)

3rd Thursday in June

Dump the Pump Day [3rd Thursday]

International Knock Knock Day [3rd Thursday]

Recess At Work Day [3rd Thursday]

Social Mobility Awareness Day (UK) [3rd Thursday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

World Kidney Cancer Day [3rd Thursday]

World Tapas Day [3rd Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 20 (3rd Full Week)

World Refugee Week (Australia) [week including 6.20]

Festivals Beginning June 20, 2024

Barefoot Country Music Festival (Wildwood, New Jersey) [thru 6.23]

Bartender Spirits Awards (San Francisco, California)

Belgrade Beer Fest (Belgrade, Serbia) [thru 6.23]

CiderFeast East Coast Tour (Haverhill, Massachusetts)

Cottage Grove Strawberry Fest (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) [thru 6.23]

Cranberry Blossom Festival (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) [thru 6.23]

Encounters South African International Documentary Festival (Cape Town, South Africa) [thru 6.30]

Farmington Dew Days (Farmington, Minnesota) [thru 6.23]

Haubstadt Sommerfest (Haubstadt, Indiana) [thru 6.22]

Herb Society of America Educational Conference (Malvern, Pennsylvania) [thru 6.21]

International Diaghilev Festival (Perm, Russia) [thru 6.29]

Isle of Wight Festival (Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom) [thru 6.23]

JazzAscona [Ascona Jazz Festival] (Ascona, Switzerland) [thru 6.29]

London Strawberry Festival (London, Ohio) [thru 6.22]

National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, South Africa) [thru 6.30]

Pittston Fair (Pittston, Maine) [thru 6.23]

Placer County Fair (Roseville, California) [thru 6.23]

Quahog Day (Cataumet, Massachusetts)

Sommeliers Choice Awards (Chicago, Illinois)

Stilldream Festival (Wilseyville, California) [thru 6.24]

Summerfest (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [thru 7.6]

Taste of Tippecanoe (Lafayette, Indiana)

Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Telluride, Colorado) [thru 6.23]

Feast Days

Adalbert of Magdeburg (Christian; Saint)

Bain, Bishop of Terouanne (a.k.a. Bagnus; Christian; Saint)

Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)

Day of Cerridwen (Welsh Goddess of Barley)

Day of the Purification of All Things (Ancient Egypt)

Feast of the Irish Martyrs

Festival of Saint Joan begins (Spain)

Festival of Summanus (Ancient Roman god of the night sky & nocturnal thunder)

Festival of the New Knee (Shamanism)

Florentina (Christian; Saint)

Georges Dufrénoy (Artology)

Gobain (Christian; Martyr)

Idaberga (a.k.a. Edburge) of Merica (Christian; Saint)

Iron Skegge’s Day (Vikings)

Jacques Saly (Artology)

John of Matera (Christian; Saint)

Josephine Winslow Johnson (Writerism)

Joseph Smith Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Kubik (Muppetism)

Kurt Schwitters (Artology)

Magdalena Abakanowicz (Artology)

Margareta Ebner (Christian; Blessed)

Methodius of Olympus (Christian; Saint)

Michelina of Pesaro (Christian; Saint)

Omer (Christian; Saint)

Otho the Great (Positivist; Saint)

Paul Muldoon (Writerism)

Scira (a.k.a. Skirophoria; Festival for Demeter; Ancient Greece)

Silverius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Solstice [1st Day of Summer in Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. ... 

Acophony (G’BroagFran of Anti-Music; Church of the SubGenius)

Alban Hefin (a.k.a. Litha or Midsummer; Celtic, Pagan) [4 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]

Aimless Wandering Day

Anne and Samantha Day

Aymara New Year (Año Nuevo Aymara; Bolivia)

Cuckoo Warning Day (it will be a wet summer if the cuckoo is heard today)

Daylight Appreciation Day

Day of Private Reflection

Day of the Martyrs (Togo)

Feast of the Great Spirit (Native American)

Fête de la Musique

Finally Summer Day/Finally Winter Day

Hump Day (Tasmania)

Indigenous New Year (We Tripantu; Año Nuevo Indígena; Chile)

International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice

Into Raymi (Incan Sun God Festival; Sacsayhuamán Andes Mountain Natives)

Jaanipäev (Estonia)

Jāņi (Latvia)

Juhannus Day (Finland)

Kupala (fertility rite)

Kupala Night (Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Russia)

Litha (Wiccan/Pagan; northern hemisphere)

Midnight Sun Festival (Nome, Alaska)

Midsomarsblog (Norse celebration of fishing, trading & raiding)

Midsummer

Midsummer Baal (Celtic)

National Celluma Light Therapy Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day

National Day of Greenland

National Energy Shopping Day

Polar Bear Swim (Nome, Alaska)

Saint Jonas' Festival (Lithuania)

Solsticio de Invierno (Bolivia)

Sommar Börjar (Sweden)

Summer Saucestice (Pastafarian)

Tall Girl Appreciation Day

Tiregān (Iran)

Wadjet (Ancient Egypt)

We Tripantu (winter solstice festival in the southern hemisphere; Chile)

Wianki (Poland)

Willkakuti (Andean-Amazonic New Year; Aymara)

World Humanist Day

World Peace and Prayer Day

Yule (Wiccan/Pagan; southern hemisphere)

Takekiri Eshiki Matsuri (Bamboo Cutting Festival; Japan)

Watching the Ferns Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

World Juggling Day (Pastafarian)

Islamic Lunar Holidays

Eid al-Adha, Day 5 [Muslim Feast of Sacrifice] (a.k.a. ... 

Al Adha (Egypt)

Eid al Adha (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Yemen)

Eid ul-Ad’haa (Maldives)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Yellow Day [Happiest day of the year.]

Premieres

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Film; 2012)

The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola (Novel; 1952)

Batman & Robin (Film; 1997)

Blonde on Blonde, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1966)

The Blue Lagoon (Film; 1980)

The Blues Brothers (Film & Soundtrack Album; 1980)

The Blue Train (Le Train Bleu), by Darius Milhaud (Ballet; 1924)

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (Novel; 1902)

Carry On Camping (Film; 1969)

Chinatown (Film; 1974)

Clown of the Jungle (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Count on the Saint, by Graham Weaver (Short Stories; 1980) [Saint #49]

Dangerously in Love, by Beyoncé (Album; 2003)

Don’t Be Cruel, by Bobby Brown (Album; 1988)

Double Vision, by Foreigner (Album; 1978)

Extinct Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1969)

Fastest Tongue in the West (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

Father’s Week-End (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Friend or Phony (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1952)

Get Smart (Film; 2008)

Happy Scouts (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1938)

Hare Trimmed (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

Heart Break, by New Edition (Album; 1988)

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1995)

Hulk (Film; 2003)

Independence Day: Resurgence (Film; 2016)

Jaws (Film; 1975)

The Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart (Novel; 1961)

A Leap in the Deep (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Mickey’s Rival (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Moving Day (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

My Best Friend’s Wedding (Film; 1997)

The Nifty Nineties (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Nurse-Mates (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

One, by George Jones and Tammy Wynette (Album; 1995)

Picnic Panic (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1946)

The Reluctant Dragon (Disney Animated Film; 1941)

Rippling Romance (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1945)

Rommel, The Desert Fox, by Desmond Young (Biography; 1951)

Shanghaied Shipmates (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

Superman: Brainiac Attacks (WB Animated Film; 2006)

Teenage Idol, recorded by Rick Nelson (Song; 1962)

Them, by Joyce Carol Oates (Novel; 1969)

To Hell and Back, by Audie Murphy (Memoir; 1949)

Tonight’s the Night, by Neil Young (Album; 1975)

A Touch of Class (Film; 1973)

The Trooper, by Iron Maiden (Song; 1983)

Unsafe at Any Speed, by Ralph Nader (Book; 1966)

Very Good, Jeeves! P.G. Wodehouse (Short Stories; 1930) [Jeeves #4]

Wee-Willie Wildcat, featuring Barney bear (MGM Cartoon; 1953)

A Wet Knight (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)

Yellowstone (TV Series; 2018)

Yesterday and Today (a.k.a. The Butcher Cover), by The Beatles (Album; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbert, Florentina (Austria)

Margareta, Naum (Croatia)

Květa (Czech Republic)

Sylverius (Denmark)

Kaari, Karlotte, Karola, Karoliine, Karolin, Lota (Estonia)

Into (Finland)

Silvère (France)

Adalbert, Florentina, Margot (Germany)

Methodios (Greece)

Rafael (Hungary)

Ettore, Silverio (Italy)

Imula, Maira, Rasa, Rasma (Latvia)

Silverijus, Žadvainas, Žintautė (Lithuania)

Salve, Sølve, Sølvi (Norway)

Bogna, Bogumiła, Bożena, Florentyna, Franciszek, Michał, Rafaela, Rafał, Sylwery (Poland)

Metodie (România)

Maria, Valeria (Russia)

Valéria (Slovakia)

Florentina, Silverio (Spain)

Flora, Linda (Sweden)

Earl, Earline, Errol, Fatima, Ofelia, Omar, Omarion, Ophelia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 172 of 2024; 194 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 25 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 15 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 13 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 22 Blue; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 7 June 2024

Moon: 97%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 3 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Otho the Great]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 1 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of June)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 31 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Summer [Season 3 of 4; thru 9.22]

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The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour - 012 08/03/23 Defy TV 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST Filmed at the Good Time Theatre at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania

SEGMENT ONE (EIGHT MINUTES):

- Sudu Upadhyay opened the show speaking on the Dorney Park special premiere screening last night of Meg 2: The Trench from visionary director Ben Wheatley, and that today on The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour, we not only have our own Trench as his trial series continues, but also our own megalodon, "The Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko. Larry says that last week he drew Starfish Charlie and the rest of those bottom feeders to the surface and will soon be depositing them on a garbage barge where they belong. Sudu agreed that might happen soon, but not today, as Kerry Morton, Starboy Charlie, and Marcus Mathers are preparing for a Trios Kingdom qualifying match this Saturday in Scranton and will not be appearing today. Zbyszko has talked to the staff at Dorney Park and will be alerted if any of them come through the turnstiles. Sudu stated that only Brogan Finlay and Ricky Morton are in the building today for their match against MV Young and Bryan Keith. Larry adds that Kylie Paige is also in the building, Sudu mentions Kylie’s claim not to have had any contact with Morton or his followers, including her own sister, which draws an eye roll from Zbyszko.

- The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour opening aired set to "Black Swan Lake" by Janko Nilovic.

- Raychell Rose accompanied The Alien Rocket to the ring, her first assigned client as she works toward fulfilling the requirements to obtain her official Pennsylvania Pro-Wrestling Manager License.

Fuego Del Sol vs. The Alien Rocket (with Raychell Rose) Fuego Del Sol defeated The Alien Rocket with the tornado DDT. (3:45)

- Cameras followed Raychell Rose and Rocket to the back as she tried to discuss strategy with him, the camera briefly focused on Kylie Paige talking to "The Bounty Hunter" Bryan Keith backstage.

SEGMENT TWO (EIGHT MINUTES):

Trench Trial Series - Match 2 Trench vs. MAO MAO defeated Trench with the shooting star press. (3:30)

- From the CORE news desk, it's Daphne Oz with the Coal Region Roundup.

- Daphne previewed The Risky Raffle this Saturday night taking place as part of the West Scranton Little League Carnival. She announced that in addition to Lio Rush, Flamita, and Francesco Akira, she can now confirm that Titus Alexander will be making his CORE return this Saturday night.

- Daphne reminded the audience that the members of the winning Risky Raffle teams will enter an over the top rope battle royal and the winner of that was to receive a surprise reward. Well, she can now disclose that surprise as the winner of the Risky Royal will receive a shot at New Japan's STRONG Openweight Championship when they face champion Eddie Kingston on August 21st at part of the Pittston Tomato Festival.

- To close out the Risky Raffle preview, as was mentioned earlier in the broadcast Kerry Morton, Starboy Charlie, and Marcus Mathers will be participating in a Trios Kingdom 2023 qualifying match as they take on members of the Young Dumb N Broke faction; Charlie Tiger, Ellis Taylor, and Griffin McCoy.

- Daphne Oz said it was time to reveal the final two trios receiving an automatic bid into Trios Kingdom 2023. First, from the CMLL promotion is the Los Cancerberos del Infierno trio of Cancerbero, Luciferno, and Virus. And second, joining us from the STARDOM office and representing Donna del Mondo - Giulia, Maika, and Thekla will participate in Trios Kingdom.

- Closing out the segment, Daphne announced that in addition to the qualifying match this weekend, next week on Defy TV we will have another Trios Kingdom qualifying match that is sure to be a high flying affair as from CMLL the Los Magnificos trio of Adrenalina, Explosivo, and Fantastico will face off against The Air Show of Jah'Zel, Razerwyng, and Mach10.

SEGMENT THREE (NINE MINUTES):

MV Young and "The Bounty Hunter" Bryan Keith vs. Brogan Finlay and Ricky Morton Brogan Finlay and Ricky Morton defeated MV Young and "The Bounty Hunter" Bryan Keith with a top rope elbowdrop from Finlay on MV. (4:01)

- "The Bounty Hunter" Bryan Keith allowed MV Young to begin the match and abandoned him when he went for the tag. MV Young was defeated by Finlay and Morton and the two continued their attack after the match. When confronted by Larry Zbyszko, The Bounty Hunter did the universal sign for money with his fingers, implying that his services were purchased by someone in the Kerry Morton camp. Despite their match later in the broadcast - Shaw Mason, Tim Bosby, and Hunter Holdcraft ran down and chased off Finlay and Morton. Shaw Mason got on the microphone and reminded Finlay that he forced Brogan to tap out to the ankle lock back in Wilkes-Barre and he'd be happy to do it again next week on Defy TV!

- We cut to the private dressing room of The Family Tree where Afa Jr. asks their advisor Smart Guy Tod Gordon why he has not scheduled them for any matches since they qualified for Trios Kingdom. Smart Guy informed Afa that Journey Fatu approached him about wanting the group to stay healthy before Trios Kingdom. Afa Jr. demanded to know why Journey did not come to his Tribal Elder with these concerns. Afa questioned Journey's commitment; perhaps he's planning to leave The Family Tree to team with Zilla Fatu rather than his partner Sean Maluta. Journey denied this and appreciated his Tribal Elder even before Afa demanded he do so. Maluta and Tod Gordon also appreciated their Tribal Elder and swore their loyalty to The Family Tree.

SEGMENT FOUR (TEN MINUTES):

Utami Hayashishita vs. Giant Baba Yaga (with UltraMantis Black) Giant Baba Yaga defeated Utami Hayashishita with the running neckbreaker. (9:09)

- Utami Hayashishita offered to shake hands with Giant Baba Yaga after the match, and while Baba did not do that, Baba did place an American Rebel cigar in Utami's hand as perhaps the ultimate sign of respect.

SEGMENT FIVE (EIGHT MINUTES):

Trios Kingdom 2023 Qualifying Match folkstyle (Shaw Mason, Tim Bosby, and Hunter Holdcraft) vs. The Practice (Dr. Redacted, Dr. Cornwallis, and Dr. Daniel C. Rockingham) folkstyle defeated The Practice via submission with the ankle lock from Mason on Rockingham. (6:55)

SEGMENT SIX (TWO MINUTES):

- Sudu Upadhyay signed off for the week with a quick preview of The Risky Raffle, next week's episode, and thanked the sponsor Meg 2: The Trench in theaters tonight from visionary director Ben Wheatley. Throughout this Zbyszko could be heard talking to the production truck on his headset asking for them to pull the footage of Bryan Keith talking to Kylie Paige.

Next Week On The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour The Trench Trial Series continues. Brogan Finlay vs. Shaw Mason Trios Kingdom 2023 Qualifying Match: Los Magnificos (Adrenalina, Explosivo, and Fantastico) vs. The Air Show (Jah'Zel, Razerwyng, and Mach10)

Upcoming Shows:

CORE Pro #118 Breaking Training: The Risky Raffle 08/05/23 West Scranton Little League Carnival - Scranton, Pennsylvania

01. Trench Trial Series - Match 3: Trench vs. ???

02. Trios Kingdom 2023 Qualifying Match: Kerry Morton, Starboy Charlie, and Marcus Mathers vs. Young Dumb N Broke (Charlie Tiger, Ellis Taylor, and Griffin McCoy) The Risky Raffle Featuring: Lio Rush, Flamita, Francesco Akira, Titus Alexander, and more!

CORE returns to the Good Time Theatre at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania! 08/06/23 Television taping for The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour as seen on Defy TV.

CORE Pro #119 Burning The Tomato Worms 08/21/23 Pittston Tomato Festival - Pittston, Pennsylvania NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship Match: Eddie Kingston (Champion) vs. The Winner of the Risky Raffle

CORE Pro #120 Trios Kingdom 2023 - Night One 09/01/23 Penn's Peak - Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Featuring: The Calling (AKIRA, Rickey Shane Page, and Delirious) with Raven The 37KAMIINA (MAO, Yuki Ueno, and Toi Kojima) Jake Something, Vincent Nothing, and Giant Baba Yaga with UltraMantis Black Team JTO (Ren Ayabe, Fire Katsumi, and Akira Juumonji) Black Generation International (Kaito Ishida, Flamita, and Yutani) The Production (Derek Dillinger, Magnum CK, and Ziggy Haim) Just 5 Guys (TAKA Michinoku, Taichi, and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) Big Mouth LOUD (Katsuyori Shibata, Kazunari Murakami, and Manabu Hara) The Family Tree (Afa Jr., Sean Maluta, and Journey Fatu) Donna del Mondo (Giulia, Maika, and Thekla) Los Cancerberos del Infierno (Cancerbero, Luciferno, and Virus) folkstyle (Shaw Mason, Tim Bosby, and Hunter Holdcraft)

CORE Pro #121 Trios Kingdom 2023 - Night Two 09/02/23 Charles Chrin Community Center - Easton, Pennsylvania

CORE Pro #122 Trios Kingdom 2023 - Night Three 09/03/23 Martz Hall - Pottsville, Pennsylvania

CORE returns to the Good Time Theatre at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania! 09/04/23 Television taping for The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour as seen on Defy TV.

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Golden Jubilee W. Pittston, PA.

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The Smurl Family Haunting and Demon

Join Amanda & Dakota as they once again open up another case file of the infamous husband/wife demon hunting team, The Warrens. WARNING: Episode contains explicit content and description of an assault experienced by members of the family.

Come explore the haunting and subsequent demonic possession and assault of the Smurl family. The Smurl Haunting refers to claims made by Jack and Janet Smurl of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, U.S., who alleged that a demon inhabited their home between 1974 and 1989.

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Intro/Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

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Beyond the Lows by The Whole Others

Audio taken from Ed & Lorraine Official Interview with Smurls (https://youtu.be/uaPgA12CPjw visit for original video and content)

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January 1911. South Pittston, Pennsylvania. "A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. 'Breaker boys' remove rocks and other debris from the coal by hand as it passes beneath them. The dust is so dense at times as to obscure the view and penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.

From the 1906 book The Bitter Cry of the Children by labor reformer John Spargo:

Work in the coal breakers is exceedingly hard and dangerous. Crouched over the chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate and other refuse from the coal as it rushes past to the washers. From the cramped position they have to assume, most of them become more or less deformed and bent-backed like old men. When a boy has been working for some time and begins to get round-shouldered, his fellows say that “He’s got his boy to carry round wherever he goes.”

The coal is hard, and accidents to the hands, such as cut, broken, or crushed fingers, are common among the boys. Sometimes there is a worse accident: a terrified shriek is heard, and a boy is mangled and torn in the machinery, or disappears in the chute to be picked out later smothered and dead. Clouds of dust fill the breakers and are inhaled by the boys, laying the foundations for asthma and miners’ consumption.

I once stood in a breaker for half an hour and tried to do the work a 12-year-old boy was doing day after day, for 10 hours at a stretch, for 60 cents a day. The gloom of the breaker appalled me. Outside the sun shone brightly, the air was pellucid, and the birds sang in chorus with the trees and the rivers. Within the breaker there was blackness, clouds of deadly dust enfolded everything, the harsh, grinding roar of the machinery and the ceaseless rushing of coal through the chutes filled the ears. I tried to pick out the pieces of slate from the hurrying stream of coal, often missing them; my hands were bruised and cut in a few minutes; I was covered from head to foot with coal dust, and for many hours afterwards I was expectorating some of the small particles of anthracite I had swallowed.

I could not do that work and live, but there were boys of 10 and 12 years of age doing it for 50 and 60 cents a day. Some of them had never been inside of a school; few of them could read a child’s primer. True, some of them attended the night schools, but after working 10 hours in the breaker the educational results from attending school were practically nil. “We goes fer a good time, an’ we keeps de guys wot’s dere hoppin’ all de time,” said little Owen Jones, whose work I had been trying to do.

From the breakers the boys graduate to the mine depths, where they become door tenders, switch boys, or mule drivers. Here, far below the surface, work is still more dangerous. At 14 or 15 the boys assume the same risks as the men, and are surrounded by the same perils. Nor is it in Pennsylvania only that these conditions exist. In the bituminous mines of West Virginia, boys of 9 or 10 are frequently employed. I met one little fellow 10 years old in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, last year, who was employed as a “trap boy.” Think of what it means to be a trap boy at 10 years of age. It means to sit alone in a dark mine passage hour after hour, with no human soul near; to see no living creature except the mules as they pass with their loads, or a rat or two seeking to share one’s meal; to stand in water or mud that covers the ankles, chilled to the marrow by the cold draughts that rush in when you open the trap door for the mules to pass through; to work for 14 hours — waiting — opening and shutting a door — then waiting again for 60 cents; to reach the surface when all is wrapped in the mantle of night, and to fall to the earth exhausted and have to be carried away to the nearest “shack” to be revived before it is possible to walk to the farther shack called “home.”

Boys 12 years of age may be legally employed in the mines of West Virginia, by day or by night, and for as many hours as the employers care to make them toil or their bodies will stand the strain. Where the disregard of child life is such that this may be done openly and with legal sanction, it is easy to believe what miners have again and again told me — that there are hundreds of little boys of 9 and 10 years of age employed in the coal mines of this state.

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Smurl Family Haunting

This infamous haunting went on for over a decade, according to the Smurl family of Pittston, Pennsylvania. In 1974, Jack and Janet Smurl began claiming their home on Chase Street in West Pittston was home to some sort of supernatural, violent force. They claimed to hear loud noises, see levitating furniture, and violent incidents where their daughter was pushed down the stairs and their dog was thrown into a wall. Starting with Janet and then later Jack, the couple began to experience routine sexual assault at night by an unseen force.

When the Warrens were eventually called in in 1986, they attempted to exorcise the demon from the house by playing religious music and engaging in prayer. However, this seemed to only agitate the creature which left them threatening messages. Besides the Warrens, other investigators and local psychologists investigated the incidents in hopes of finding a cure or cause. Unable to rid themselves of the demonic forces infesting their home, the Smurl’s moved out, leaving the evil presences behind.

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Happy November (at West Pittston Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHgo5RDhTEF/?igshid=fjdhnwxxtkyg

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Mary Jo Shields

Mary Jo Shields, 70, of South Pasadena, FL and Forty Fort, PA, passed  away on October 12, 2024 while traveling in Italy. Mary Jo was born on September 16, 1954 to the late Joseph and Mary Stiles.  She was born and raised in Luzerne and attended Central Catholic High School in Kingston, PA and was a graduate of College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, as well as the Evelyn Wood School of Speed Reading.  Prior to her retirement from the Wyoming Valley School District, she was a teacher and chair of the science department at the Wyoming Valley West Middle School.  She also taught in several elementary schools in the district early in her career.   

Mary Jo enjoyed life to the fullest.  Her sense of humor was renowned.  An avid sports fan, Mary Jo could be found cheering on her favorite teams: Notre Dame Football; Syracuse Basketball; and the Philadelphia Phillies. As the last surviving member of her immediate family, she was affectionately referred to as “The Matriarch.”  She embraced her Irish heritage and was the hostess to the yearly “Jig’s Dinner” on St. Patrick’s Day.  She loved St. Pete’s Beach, Florida but home was always the Wyoming Valley. Her greatest achievement was her sons. Her love, support, and pride knew no bounds.

Mary Jo was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Mary Stiles; sisters, Peggy Urbanovitch and Sally Disano; and nephew, Glenn Urbanovitch. 

She is survived by her loving husband Joe, who would have celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary on November 5; her son Attorney Joseph Shields and his wife Laura of Forty Fort, PA; and Michael Shields of Minneapolis, MN and his partner Teresa Pfab and their dog Ted Lasso, who Mary Jo loved; nieces, Laurene Urbanovitch, Lisa Stull, and nephew James Urbanovitch.  Several great nieces and nephews and a great, great niece.  Mary Jo was a blessing and blessed by wonderful friends, too many to count.   

The funeral will begin at the Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort at 9 a.m. on November 4, 2024, with a Mass of Christian Burial to follow at St. Ignatius of Loyola Church, Kingston PA at 10 a.m.  Friends may call at Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home on November 3, 2024, from 2 to 5 p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Feeding Tampa Bay Disaster Relief at https://feedingtampabay.org or to the Catherine McAuley House, 430 Pittston Avenue, Scranton PA.   

The family would like to extend their thanks to Emanuele Caligiuri of La Pavese Funeral Home in Rome, Italy and the staff of the Hotel American Palace, and EUR of Rome for their care and compassion. 

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Beautiful Busty Blonde From West Pittston.