Warren

American paranormal investigators

Ed Warren
Lorraine (left) and Ed Warren (correct)
Built-in	Edward Warren Miney September 7, 1926 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	Baronial 23, 2006(2006-08-23) (anile 79)[1] Monroe, Connecticut, U.Southward.
Occupation	Paranormal investigator painter writer demonologist
Organization	New England Society for Psychic Research
Spouse(due south)	Lorraine Warren ​ (m. 1945)​
Children	i
Website	warrens.net

Lorraine Warren
Lorraine in 2013
Born	Lorraine Rita Moran (1927-01-31)January 31, 1927 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.Southward.
Died	April 18, 2019(2019-04-18) (anile 92)[2] Monroe, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Paranormal investigator author
Organization	New England Society for Psychic Research
Spouse(due south)	Ed Warren ​ ​ (m. 1945; died 2006)​
Children	i
Website	warrens.net

Edward Warren Miney (September 7, 1926 – Baronial 23, 2006)^[iii] and Lorraine Rita Warren (née Moran; January 31, 1927 – April 18, 2019)^[4] were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was a cocky-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, and lecturer. Lorraine professed to be clairvoyant and a calorie-free trance medium who worked closely with her hubby.

In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Club for Psychic Research (NESPR), the oldest ghost hunting grouping in New England.^[5] They authored many books near the paranormal and nearly their individual investigations into various reports of paranormal activity. They claimed to have investigated well over ten,000 cases during their career.^[6] The Warrens were among the starting time investigators in the Amityville haunting. Co-ordinate to the Warrens, the official website of the NESPR, Viviglam Magazine and several other sources, the NESPR uses a diverseness of individuals, including medical doctors, researchers, police force officers, nurses, higher students, and members of the clergy in its investigations.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Stories of ghost hauntings popularized by the Warrens have been adapted as or have indirectly inspired dozens of films, television series, and documentaries, including several films in the Amityville Horror series and the films in The Conjuring Universe.^[10]

Skeptics Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella investigated the Warrens' show and described information technology as "blarney".^[11] Skeptical investigators Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford concluded that the amend known hauntings, Amityville and the Snedeker family unit haunting, did non happen and had been invented.^{[12] [13] [14]}

Notable investigations

Annabelle

According to the Warrens, in the year 1968, 2 roommates claimed their Raggedy Ann doll was possessed by the spirit of a young girl named Annabelle Higgins. The Warrens took the doll, telling the roommates it was "existence manipulated past an inhuman presence", and put it on display at the family unit'due south "Occult Museum". The legend of the doll inspired several films in the Conjuring Universe and is a motif in many others.^[xv]

Perron family

In 1971, the Warrens claimed that the Harrisville, Rhode Island home of the Perron family unit was haunted by a witch who had lived there in the early 19th century. According to the Warrens, Bathsheba Sherman cursed the country so that whoever lived at that place somehow died a terrible death. The story is the subject of the 2013 motion-picture show The Conjuring. Lorraine Warren was a consultant to the production and appeared in a cameo role in the film. A reporter for USA Today covered the film's supposed factual grounding.^{[16] [17]}

Amityville

The Warrens are best known for their involvement in the 1975 Amityville Horror in which New York couple George and Kathy Lutz claimed that their firm was haunted by a fierce, demonic presence so intense that information technology eventually collection them out of their home. The Amityville Horror Conspiracy authors Stephen and Roxanne Kaplan characterized the case as a "hoax".^[18] Lorraine Warren told a reporter for The Limited-Times newspaper that the Amityville Horror was not a hoax. The reported haunting was the basis for the 1977 book The Amityville Horror and adapted into the 1979 and 2005 films of the same name, while likewise serving as inspiration for the picture show series that followed. The Warrens' version of events is partially adjusted and portrayed in the opening sequence of The Conjuring 2 (2016). According to Benjamin Radford, the story was "refuted by eyewitnesses, investigations and forensic show".^[13] In 1979, lawyer William Weber stated that he, Jay Anson, and the occupants "invented" the horror story "over many bottles of wine".^{[19] [fourteen]}

Enfield poltergeist

In 1977, the Warrens investigated claims that a family in the N London suburb of Enfield was haunted by poltergeist activeness. While a number of contained observers dismissed the incident as a hoax carried out past "attending-hungry" children, the Warrens were convinced that it was a case of "demonic possession". The story was the inspiration for The Conjuring 2, although critics say the Warrens were involved "to a far lesser degree than portrayed in the motion-picture show" and in fact had shown up to the scene uninvited and been refused admittance to the dwelling house.^{[twenty] [21] [22]}

Guy Lyon Playfair, a parapsychologist who investigated the Enfield case aslope Maurice Grosse,^[23] also says the film greatly exaggerated the Warrens' role in the investigation. He stated in 2016 that they "turned up one time" and that Ed Warren told Playfair "[the Warrens] could make a lot of money [...] out of [the case]." He corroborated the claim that the Warrens were "not invited" to the Enfield firm and that "Nobody [...] in the family had ever heard of him until [Ed Warren] turned up".^{[24] [25]}

Arne Johnson

In 1981, Arne Cheyenne Johnson was accused of killing his landlord, Alan Bono. Ed and Lorraine Warren had been chosen prior to the killing to bargain with the alleged demonic possession of the younger brother of Johnson's fiancée. The Warrens after claimed that Johnson was also possessed. At trial, Johnson attempted to plead Not Guilty past Reason of Demonic Possession, but was unsuccessful with his plea. This story serves as the inspiration for The Conjuring: The Devil Fabricated Me Practise Information technology (2021).^[26] The instance was described in the 1983 volume The Devil in Connecticut past Gerald Brittle.

Snedeker house

In 1986, Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived and proclaimed the Snedeker firm, a quondam funeral home, to be infested with demons. The case was featured in the 1993 volume In a Dark Identify: The Story of a Truthful Haunting. A TV film that afterwards became part of the Discovery Aqueduct series A Haunting was produced in 2002. The Haunting in Connecticut, a film very loosely based on the Warrens' version of events and directed past Peter Cornwell, was released in 2009. Horror writer Ray Garton, who wrote an business relationship of the alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Connecticut, later called into question the veracity of the accounts contained in his book, saying, "The family involved, which was going through some serious issues like alcoholism and drug addiction, could non keep their story direct, and I became very frustrated; it's difficult writing a non-fiction book when all the people involved are telling you dissimilar stories".^[12] To paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford, Garton said of Lorraine, "'If she told me the sun would come tomorrow morning time, I'd get a 2d opinion'".^[27]

Smurl family unit

Pennsylvania residents Jack and Janet Smurl reported their abode was disturbed past numerous supernatural phenomena, including sounds, smells and apparitions. The Warrens became involved and claimed that the Smurl home was occupied by iv spirits and as well a demon that allegedly sexually assaulted Jack and Janet. The Smurls' version of their story was the subject of a 1986 paperback titled The Haunted and television flick of the aforementioned name directed past Robert Mandel.

Wedlock Cemetery

Ed Warren'southward book Graveyard: Truthful Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery (St Martins Press, 1992) features a "White Lady" ghost which haunts Union Cemetery. He claimed to have "captured her essence" on motion picture.^{[ citation needed ]}

Other activities

The Warrens were responsible for grooming several self-described demonologists, including Dave Considine^[28] and their nephew John Zaffis.^[29]

Personal life

Ed and Lorraine Warren were members of the Roman Cosmic Church.^[30] They married in 1945.^[31] On January eleven, 1946, Lorraine gave nascence to their girl named Judy Warren.^{[32] [33]}

The Warrens held that demonic forces are likely to possess those who lack faith.^[30]

Criticism

According to a 1997 interview with the Connecticut Post, Steve Novella and Perry DeAngelis investigated the Warrens for the New England Skeptical Social club (NESS). They constitute the couple to be pleasant people, but their claims of demons and ghosts to be "at best, as tellers of meaningless ghost stories, and at worst, dangerous frauds." They took the $thirteen tour and looked at all the evidence the Warrens had for spirits and ghosts. They watched the videos and looked at the best evidence the Warrens had. Their determination was that "It's all blarney." They constitute common errors with wink photography and nothing evil in the artifacts the Warrens had nerveless. "They have... a ton of fish stories almost evidence that got away... They're not doing good scientific investigation; they have a predetermined decision which they adhere to, literally and religiously," co-ordinate to Novella. Lorraine Warren said that the problem with Perry and Steve is that "they don't base anything on a God". Novella responded, "It takes work to exercise solid, disquisitional thinking, to actually employ your intellectual faculties and come up to a conclusion that actually reflects reality ... That's what scientists do every day, and that'due south what skeptics advocate".^[11]

In an commodity for The Sydney Morning Herald that examined whether supernatural films are really based on true events, that investigation was used as evidence to the contrary. As Novella is quoted, "They [the Warrens] merits to have scientific testify which does indeed evidence the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable claim into which we tin sink our investigative teeth. What we plant was a very nice couple, some genuinely sincere people, but absolutely no compelling testify..."^[34] While it was made clear that neither DeAngelis nor Novella thought the Warrens would intentionally cause harm to anyone, they did caution that claims like the Warrens' served to reinforce delusions and confuse the public virtually legitimate scientific methodology.^[35]

Occult Museum

In addition to investigations, Lorraine ran The Warrens' Occult Museum (at present closed)^[36] in the back of her business firm in Monroe, Connecticut, with the help of her son-in-constabulary, Tony Spera.^[16] The museum displayed many claimed haunted objects and artifacts from around the earth. Many of the artifacts from their most famous investigations were featured.^[37]

Bibliography

The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle was released equally an ebook for the opening of The Conjuring based on the Warrens' life story.

• Ghost Hunters: True Stories From the World'southward Most Famous Demonologists by Ed Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1989) ISBN 0-312-03353-two
• Ghost Tracks by Cheryl A. Wicks with Ed and Lorraine Warren (AuthorHouse, 2004) ISBN 1-4184-6767-7
• Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Onetime New England Cemetery by Ed Warren (St Martins Press, 1992) ISBN 0-312-08202-9
• The Haunted: The True Story of One Family unit's Nightmare by Robert Curran with Jack Smurl and Janet Smurl and Ed and Lorraine Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1988) ISBN 0-312-01440-6
• Satan's Harvest past Ed & Lorraine Warren, Michael Lasalandra, Mark Merenda, Maurice & Nancy Theriault (Graymalkin Media, 2014; originally published 1990 by Dell Publishing) ISBN 9781631680168
• Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession by Ed Warren (St. Martin'south Press, 1991) ISBN 0-312-06493-4

Featured in

• Deliver Us From Evil: From the files of Ed and Lorraine Warren, by J. F. Sawyer (Phillips Publishing Company, 1973) ISBN 9781935856856
• The Amityville Horror, a True Story past Jay Anson (Prentice Hall, 1977) ISBN 9781982138264
• The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Breakable (Berkley Books, 1980) ISBN 9781935169222
• The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle (Bantam Books, 1983) ISBN 0-553-23714-4
• In A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting by Ray Garton (Villard, 1992) ISBN 0-394-58902-5
• True Haunting of Borley Rectory (Conversations with Ed & Lorraine Warren: The original ghost hunters) past Taffy Sealyham (BookBaby, 2013) ISBN 9781935856085
• The Warren Case Files ^{[ ISBN missing ]}

Media appearances

• Lorraine was featured in several episodes of the Discovery series A Haunting, in which she discusses some of the cases the pair worked on as paranormal investigators.^[38]
• Lorraine too appeared on Paranormal State, where she acted every bit a invitee investigator.^[39]
• Both Ed and Lorraine accept appeared on Scariest Places on Earth.
• Lorraine has a cameo advent in the 2013 film The Conjuring, where she is besides credited as a consultant.
• Lorraine appears in the 2012 documentary movie My Amityville Horror, where she reunites with Daniel Lutz, whose family was allegedly plagued by supernatural happenings in 1975. Ed and Lorraine Warren originally visited the house later on the Lutz family fled the house after 28 days of occupancy.

Film adaptations

Over the years, several films and series take been released that are based in part or in full on the paranormal investigations or events that the Warrens are said to take witnessed and described. Films that are partly based on their story are the films from The Amityville Horror series, including The Amityville Horror (1979) and The Amityville Horror (2005).^[x] In 1991, a two-hour made-for-Boob tube picture based on the Smurl haunting, titled The Haunted, was released by 20th Century Fox. Written past Robert Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren, and Lorraine Warren, the motion picture starred Jeffrey DeMunn as Jack Smurl and Emerge Kirkland as Janet Smurl.^[twoscore] The 2009 film The Haunting in Connecticut was loosely based on the 1986 Snedeker haunting investigated past the Warrens.^[41]

The Conjuring Universe

The Warrens' case files serve as the basis for The Conjuring Universe series of horror films.

The 2013 film The Conjuring, directed by James Wan, spotlights a Warren case and stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga every bit Ed and Lorraine Warren.^[42] Its 2014 follow-up, Annabelle, a supernatural psychological horror film directed past John R. Leonetti, is both a prequel to and spin-off of The Conjuring and was inspired by a story of the Annabelle doll. It stars Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, and Alfre Woodard. The Conjuring Universe's side by side pic was 2016'south The Conjuring ii, a sequel to The Conjuring, directed by Wan, and with Farmiga and Wilson reprising their roles equally Lorraine and Ed, respectively. Information technology is based on the Enfield Poltergeist instance. 2017 saw the release of another prequel, Annabelle: Creation, telling the origin story of the Annabelle doll. Farmiga and Wilson briefly appeared as Ed and Lorraine in the 2018 spin-off flick The Nun, focusing on the character of Valak in its "Demon Nun" form, who was the villain from The Conjuring 2. The two reprised their roles again in Annabelle Comes Home, the sequel to Annabelle, and The Conjuring: The Devil Fabricated Me Exercise It.^[43]

References

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4. ^ Birk, Libby (April xix, 2019). "How Did Lorraine Warren Die?". PopCulture.com . Retrieved Apr 21, 2019.
5. ^ Brown, Alan (September 30, 2008). Ghost Hunters of New England. Lebanese republic, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. p. 3.
6. ^ "Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Dies At 92". Outlook India. 20 Apr 2019.
7. ^ Amanda Cuda (28 April 2019). "'Across the grave' – the Warrens' paranormal legacy". Associated Press News.
8. ^ Jeremy D'Entremont (2011). Ocean-Born Mary: The Truth Backside a New Hampshire Legend. Arcadia Publishing. p. 81. ISBN9781614238454.
9. ^ Ed & Lorraine Warren – Homepage
10. ^ ^{a b} "Lorraine Warren: All the Horror and Paranormal Movies She Inspired". Movies . Retrieved 2020-11-03 .
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30. ^ ^{a b} Genzlinger, Neil (19 April 2019). "Lorraine Warren, Paranormal Investigator Portrayed in 'The Conjuring,' Dies at 92". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 September 2020. The Warrens were Roman Catholic, and Ms. Warren said it was her belief that a lack of faith was what often opened the door for malevolent forces to enter a home or a life.
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External links

• The New England Social club For Psychic Enquiry
• Article Detailing the Recent Danbury Court Case
• Hunting the Ghost Hunters: An Investigation of Ed and Lorraine Warren – Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella
• The Demonologist Folio on the Warrens – contains brief biographical information
• Ed Warren at IMDb
• Lorraine Warren at IMDb
• JREF reprint of Ray Garton letter of the alphabet – Ray Garton Letter of the alphabet refuting the Warrens
• Ed Warren at Library of Congress Authorities, with 5 itemize records
• Lorraine Warren at Library of Congress Regime, with 3 itemize records
• Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren at WorldCat
• Dunning, Brian (July 12, 2016). "Skeptoid #527: Conjuring Up the Warrens". Skeptoid.

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