Brookfield Demon Murder Case

Ed and Lorraine Warren share the gruesome tale of the Brookfield demon murder case and seek to teach an important lesson; witchcraft and satanic rituals are not to be delved into lightly.

A demon possessed a young boy, David, and was causing his family great stress. Wanting to help, a friend, Arnie Johnson, described by Ed as, “…very polite, a very good living young man — very hard working.” One night, Arnie grew so frustrated that he challenged the demons to take possession of him and leave young David alone. Needless to say, they did, and with a vengeance. Confronting the possession of Arnie required six Catholic priests, including three from the Vatican. Although the ‘normal’ Arnie showed tremendous respect for these men of the cloth, they feared him, or more pointedly, the demons that possessed him. Multiple exorcisms proved unsuccessful and the priests knew this story would end in tragedy. Ed, seeking to summon what came to be called, ‘The Beast”, by the family, called the demon to his study, only to be shocked and terrified by the forty-three devils that came at him, like a kaleidoscope!

Taffy Sealyham met Ed and Lorraine Warren soon after she read Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game in the mid to late 1990’s. At the time, the Warren’s had an active organization named NESPR (the Journal of the New England Society for Psychic Research), a theological society that was founded by Ed and Lorraine Warren in 1952. When the Warren’s learned of Taffy’s interest in the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine invited her to attend the weekly class they held at the Carousel Garden in Seymore, Connecticut. After the first class, Taffy was hooked. She became a student and member of NESPR, wrote stories for their bi-weekly newsletter, and went on various paranormal investigations.