'Paranormal Witness' review: Tragic family

But this family also suffered a devastating tragedy on Jan. 23, 2005, when father and husband Lt. Curtis Meyran, assigned to Ladder Company 27 in the Bronx, died after jumping four stories to escape a tenement blaze. Another firefighter died that day and four others, who also jumped, were seriously injured. "Black Sunday," as it was subsequently called, forced the FDNY to require all firefighters be equipped with descent-control devices.

A State Supreme Court justice later dismissed guilty verdicts of criminally negligent homicide against the tenement's owner -- another devastating blow to Jeanette Meyran, as Newsday reported in 2010. What went on in her house between the years 2005 and 2011, when the supposed "hauntings" occurred? Who knows. But what went on in her life was clear enough.

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