where Sarchie assisted well-known demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren on a case involving the McKenzie family. Another case of supernatural activity took place in Washington, D.C. When they finally came back, the group of exorcists and investigators performed an exorcism on each room of the house, finally forcing the demon to leave.Ģ. When they realized the power of the demon they were up against, the partners realized they would have to return when they were more prepared and had backup. As they exorcised the home, a powerful demon possessed, Gabby Villanova, the mother of the family, something they had never seen happen in the midst of their ritual. Working without their typical team of investigators, the duo went to interview the family who had experienced paranormal phenomena such as furniture moving on its own, mysterious body harm and levitation.Īfter Sarchie and Forrester experienced the demons attacks on the family first-hand, they decided to perform an exorcism themselves.

Ralph and his partner Joe Forrester went to investigate a house that was believed to be haunted that belonged to the Villanova family in Westchester, New York. One of the frightening experiences Ralph recalls began on Halloween in 1991, when he received a call from a priest he frequently worked with. To give viewers some insight into the scary stories from the book that inspired the film Deliver Us From Evil, we rounded up four of Ralph’s scariest stories.ġ. Plain and simple, the Devil frightens me much more than anything I’d ever seen on street patrol-and in all my years on the force, I’ve seen just about every horror one person can inflict on another…” said Ralph, who views his work with demonology as a calling. “I am a cop, and I would rather kick down doors and arrest ten armed robbers with my bare hands than take on the demonic. Sarchie is a demonologist, and he has performed exorcisms and led investigations into the demonic during his off-hours, a position he referred to as “the Work.” Sarchie worked on the force for 16 years, but it wasn’t the crimes committed by people he writes about, it’s the accounts of the paranormal. The frightening book, which was written in tandem with Lisa Collier Cool, was released in 2001.

This summer’s crime-horror movie, Deliver Us From Evil, was inspired by the true paranormal stories shared by real-life NYPD Sergeant Ralph Sarchie in Beware The Night.

DEMONOLOGY: A STUDY IN EVIL, A SERIES MADE POSSIBLE BY DELIVER US FROM EVIL

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