This cop is battling demons.
A retired NYPD officer turned “demonologist” is breaking his silence about the bone-chilling warning that forced him and his former FDNY EMT wife to take a year-long hiatus from slaying the supernatural — and revealing why they think they’re safe to fight evil again.
Chris and Harmony DeFlorio committed their lives to chasing demons and other paranormal baddies around the world after leaving their city jobs. Chris, 54, retired after 20 years at the 32nd Precinct in Harlem. Harmony, 49, left the Emergency Medical Service following a lupus diagnosis.
For the last four years, they say, they’ve investigated nearly a thousand cases free of charge.
But last year, two sinister figures that first appeared in Florio’s dreams half a decade ago returned — and scared him enough to hang up his holy water.
“In 2019, I had a vivid dream that I was in a hotel room, confronting demons – but I was being defeated. A man in a robe holding an upside down cross ripped my chain, which had two crosses on it, and whipped my arm with it three times,” said DeFlorio.
He continued: “A young woman and a young girl, maybe 6 years old, came up to me and they were giggling. It was that sinister kind of giggling, and the girl said, ‘Do you know what happened to the last person who tried to do what you’re going to do? He’s not here anymore.’
“They said, ‘If you get involved in this, we’re going after your family too,’” DeFlorio told The Post.
DeFlorio pressed on, boning up on every book and report he could find on demonology, including works by Catholic exorcists Malachi Martin, and Revs. Chad Ripperger and Gabriele Amorth.
But last year, DeFlorio dreamed of the mother and child again. This time, he said, there was no vivid imagery – only six chilling words: “We told you to stay away.”
The next day, a frantic Long Island mom called for help: she claimed a mirror had been hurled three feet from her wall – not fallen, but violently thrown – nearly crushing her two toddlers.
When the couple — who fancy themselves the modern-day version of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were portrayed in “The Conjuring” — arrived at the Long Island home, crucifix and Bible in hand, DeFlorio said he heard the words again. But this time they were whispered directly into his ear.
“It went right through me,” he said. As he called out religious commands, a dark presence swirled.
At that moment, “you could see a spirit in the room right around me,” DeFlorio said.
Although the home has been quiet since, DeFlorio could not shake the repeated warnings.
“I was very upset and worried for my family – I’m not scared for me, but it hit home so much because we have grandkids now,” DeFlorio said, referring to the couple’s twin, 3-year-old grandsons.
“A lot of the calls kept coming in, but I kept finding excuses not to go,” he explained.
Now, the Ronkonkoma couple say they’re returning to work.
“We decided, we need to do this. We’re called to do this,” DeFlorio said. “I was thinking with human reasons and forgetting the God factor.”
Harmony added: “We’re just His messengers, it’s really not us doing the work – it’s all His prayers and His blessings, and they help people.”
Besides, with this week’s release of “The Conjuring: Last Rites” – the fifth and final installment of the popular horror franchise, he added, “we know we can’t remain silent.”
