David Glatzel

And it had reached its 193rd birthday without a single recorded murder ever occurring in the town.

In the summer of 1980, an 11-year-old boy named David Glatzel was helping his older sister Debbie and her boyfriend Arnie Cheyenne Johnson fix up a rental house that they planned to move into.

David said that he saw an old man there who pushed him and warned him that something bad was going to happen.

afterward his family said the vision seemed to follow him home he told his family about a figure with eyes that were solid black like coal and he began to kick bite spit and swear his mother judy glatzel contacted ed and lorraine warren now this does seem to be true it does seem like they were actually involved in this one for for fucking once for

But $81,000, that's insane.

Yeah.

So David Glatzel said in the documentary that Lorraine had promised him that he would be a rich little boy and that it had been a lie.

So in the documentary, the guy that was supposedly possessed says that it was not true.

Um, I pretty much grew up knowing loosely that there was some kind of devil made me do it defense, um, but I didn't really realize exactly what the origin story of that was, so we will be discussing that case today.

Um, before the sensational trial and even wilder defense, this is the story of a young boy named David Glatzel.

Now, when I went to the haunted museum, [laughs] the Zak Bagans haunted museum in Las Vegas, they had a whole room devoted to the David Glatzel story.

Um, this included audio tapes of him, his possession, so that was playing the whole time you're in the room.

Ew.

Yeah.

Um, this happened in 1980.

An 11-year-old boy named David Glatzel claimed he was possessed by the devil.

sense.

So now the next case we're going to do is the David Glatzel.

Can I

make one note? If you're going to watch Amityville movies, there's a ton of them on Tubi.

You son of a gun.

I'm going back to Salem when I went to the Warrens' Museum, because I got to see the actual, like, tape recorder that the Warrens used when they were recording David Glatzel.

And, like, the tapes had, like, handwritten things on it, and they were actually...

That room, they were playing, um, they were playing the recordings of the tapes, which, I mean, like, they were, they were kinda creepy to hear.

But there's a lot of things, so I'm gonna dive into the things that The, The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It.

There's the truth and the fiction.

So what the movie got right, David Glatzel was real.

David was around 11.

Kids are safe and there are no Demi Gorgons.

This like happy free-range childhood that all these kids have was very picturesque and kind of ruined for this one 11 year old boy named David Glatzel.

So let's dive into who the Glatzel family was.

Judy Glatzel, the mom, was half Hungarian and half Italian.

So, you know, it's between a 10 to 12 year gap.

And then the next son is Alan Glatzel, 13.

And then the youngest of the family is David Glatzel, age 11.

They were known in the town as a tight-knit family who genuinely enjoyed being in each other's company.

It was three brothers who grew up in the same house at the same time, remembering completely different childhoods.

David Glatzel was 11 when it started.

Now a grown man, he says he believes he was possessed.

He also says he remembers less than his brothers do because of the blackouts.

Then two famous strangers showed up on their doorstep and confirmed the diagnosis the family had already made with a book deal at the end of it.

In the documentary, Carl says his mother and the Warrens planted the idea of possession in David's head, and that over time he started to act like the devil was really inside of him.

In 2007, after The Devil in Connecticut was reissued, Carl and David Glatzel took it to court.

They sued the author, Gerald Brittle, along with Lorraine Warren and the reprints publisher for invasion of privacy, libel, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.