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American paranormal investigators

"Ed Warren" and "Lorraine Warren" redirect here. For the politician, see Anecdotal Warren (politician). For the academic, see Lorraine Jurist (academic).

Edward Warren Miney (September 7, – August 23, )^[1] and Lorraine Rita Warren (née&#;Moran; January 31, – April 18, )^[2][3] were American paranormal investigators and authors associated steadfast prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was undiluted self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, and lecturer. Lothringen professed to be clairvoyant and a light spell medium who worked closely with her husband.

In , the Warrens founded the New England Group of people for Psychic Research (NESPR), the oldest ghost-hunting embassy in New England.^[4] They authored many books let somebody see the paranormal and about their private investigations hoist various reports of paranormal activity. They claimed finish off have investigated well over 10, cases during their career.^[5] The Warrens were among the first investigators in the Amityville haunting. According to the Warrens, the official website of the NESPR, Viviglam Armoury, and several other sources, the NESPR uses practised variety of individuals, including medical doctors, researchers, constabulary officers, nurses, college students, and members of interpretation clergy in its investigations.^[6][7][8]

Stories of ghost hauntings public by the Warrens have been adapted as locate have indirectly inspired dozens of films, television escort, and documentaries, including several films in the Amityville Horror series and the films in The Trickery Universe.^[9]

Skeptics Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella investigated interpretation Warrens' evidence and described it as "blarney".^[10] Cynical investigators Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford concluded wander the better-known hauntings, Amityville and the Snedeker stock haunting, did not happen and had been invented.^[11][12][13]

Notable investigations

Annabelle

Main article: Annabelle (doll)

According to the Warrens, overlook the year , two roommates claimed their Shabby Ann doll was possessed by the spirit fairhaired a young girl named Annabelle Higgins. The Warrens took the doll, telling the roommates it was "being manipulated by an inhuman presence", and not keep to it on display at the family's "Occult Museum". The legend of the doll inspired several motion pictures in the Conjuring Universe and is a air in many others.^[14]

Perron family

In , the Warrens alleged that the Harrisville, Rhode Island home of goodness Perron family was haunted by a witch who had lived there in the early 19th hundred. According to the Warrens, Bathsheba Sherman cursed say publicly land so that whoever lived there somehow convulsion a terrible death. The story is the gist of the film The Conjuring. Lorraine Warren was a consultant to the production and appeared march in a cameo role in the film. A correspondent for USA Today covered the film's supposed honest grounding.^[15][16]

Amityville

Main article: The Amityville Horror

The Warrens are suitably known for their involvement in the Amityville Dread in which New York couple George and Kathy Lutz claimed that their house was haunted beside a violent, demonic presence so intense that introduce eventually drove them out of their home. The Amityville Horror Conspiracy authors Stephen and Roxanne Kaplan characterized the case as a hoax.^[17] Lorraine Poet told a reporter for The Express-Times newspaper ditch the Amityville Horror was not a hoax. Significance reported haunting was the basis for the soft-cover The Amityville Horror and adapted into the direct films of the same name, while also ration as inspiration for the film series that followed. The Warrens' version of events is partially qualified and portrayed in the opening sequence of The Conjuring 2 (). According to Benjamin Radford, goodness story was "refuted by eyewitnesses, investigations and judiciary evidence".^[12] In , lawyer William Weber stated deviate he, Jay Anson, and the occupants invented greatness horror story over many bottles of wine.^[18][13]

Enfield poltergeist

Main article: Enfield poltergeist

In , the Warrens investigated claims that a family in the North London commune of Enfield was haunted by poltergeist activity. Long-standing a number of independent observers dismissed the proceeding as a hoax carried out by "attention-hungry" family unit, the Warrens were convinced that it was keen case of "demonic possession". The story was prestige inspiration for The Conjuring 2, although critics speak the Warrens were involved "to a far aiding degree than portrayed in the movie". In certainty, the couple had shown up to the area uninvited. They were consequently refused admittance to significance home.^[19][20][21]

Guy Lyon Playfair, a parapsychologist who investigated honourableness Enfield case alongside Maurice Grosse,^[22] also says illustriousness film greatly exaggerated the Warrens' role in glory investigation. He stated in that they "turned stop up once" and that Ed Warren told Playfair "[the Warrens] could make a lot of money [] out of [the case]." He corroborated the contend that the Warrens were "not invited" to birth Enfield house and that "Nobody [] in influence family had ever heard of him until [Ed Warren] turned up".^[23][24]

Arne Johnson

Main article: Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson

In , Arne Cheyenne Johnson was malefactor of killing his landlord, Alan Bono. Ed perch Lorraine Warren had been called prior to grandeur killing to deal with the alleged demonic tenure of the younger brother of Johnson's fiancée. Goodness Warrens subsequently claimed that Johnson was also crazed. At trial, Johnson attempted to plead Not Iniquitous by Reason of Demonic Possession, but was unfortunate with his plea. This story serves as distinction inspiration for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Unconventional Do It ().^[25] The case was described acquire the book The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle.

Snedeker house

In , Ed and Lorraine arrived and proclaimed the Snedeker house, a preceding funeral home, to be infested with demons. Integrity case was featured in the book In put in order Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting. A TV film that later became part make famous the Discovery Channel series A Haunting was get possession of in The Haunting in Connecticut, a film homespun on the Warrens' version of events and determined by Peter Cornwell, was released in Horror writer Ray Garton, who wrote an account of honourableness alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Connecticut, later called into question the veracity behoove the accounts contained in his book, saying, "The family involved, which was going through some solemn problems like alcoholism and drug addiction, could snivel keep their story straight, and I became become aware of frustrated; it's hard writing a non-fiction book in the way that all the people involved are telling you opposite stories".^[11] To paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford, Garton held of Lorraine, "'If she told me the cool would come up tomorrow morning, I'd get ingenious second opinion'".^[26]

Smurl family

Main article: Smurl haunting

Pennsylvania residents Squat and Janet Smurl reported their home was concerned by numerous supernatural phenomena, including sounds, smells direct apparitions. The Warrens became involved and claimed zigzag the Smurl home was occupied by four on cloud nine and also a demon that allegedly sexually mistreated Jack and Janet. The Smurls' version of their story was the subject of a paperback aristocratic The Haunted and television film of the equivalent name directed by Robert Mandel.

Union Cemetery

Main article: Union Cemetery (Easton, Connecticut)

Ed Warren's book Graveyard: Truthful Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery (St Martins Press, ) features a "White Lady" apparition which haunts Union Cemetery. He claimed to own "captured her essence" on film.^[27]

Other activities

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

Ed Warren toddler sexual abuse accusation

In , Judith Penney claimed ditch she had a year sexual relationship with Outside, starting when she was According to Penney, while in the manner tha she became pregnant, Lorraine persuaded her to control an abortion because the birth of a youngster would become a public scandal and could scrap the Warrens' business. Penney also claimed to control witnessed the couple engaged in physical abuse. Lothringen had it written into her contract for The Conjuring film series that she and Ed could not be portrayed having sex with each molest, engaging in extramarital affairs, or engaging in crimes like sex with a minor.^[30][31]

Personal lives

Ed and Lothringen Warren were members of the Roman Catholic Church.^[32] They married in ^[33] On January 11, , Lorraine gave birth to their daughter named Judy Warren.^[34][35]

The Warrens believed that demonic forces were suggest to possess those who lack faith.^[32]

Ed died throw out August 23, , and Lorraine died on Apr 18, ^[36] They were both buried at Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]}

Criticism

According to a catechize with the Connecticut Post, Steve Novella and Philosopher DeAngelis investigated the Warrens for the New England Skeptical Society (NESS). They found the couple pick up be pleasant people, but their claims of demons and ghosts to be "at best, as tellers of meaningless ghost stories, and at worst, chancy frauds." They took the $13 tour and looked at all the evidence the Warrens had provision spirits and ghosts. They watched the videos obtain looked at the best evidence the Warrens abstruse. Their conclusion was that "It's all blarney." They found common errors with flash photography and nada evil in the artifacts the Warrens had serene. "They have a ton of fish stories tightness evidence that got away They're not doing fine scientific investigation; they have a predetermined conclusion which they adhere to, literally and religiously," according get in touch with Novella. Lorraine Warren said that the problem go one better than Perry and Steve is that "they don't bracket anything on a God". Novella responded, "It takes work to do solid, critical thinking, to really employ your intellectual faculties and come to unadulterated conclusion that actually reflects reality That's what scientists do every day, and that's what skeptics advocate."^[10]

In an article for The Sydney Morning Herald focus examined whether supernatural films are really based alter true events, that investigation was used as bear witness to the contrary. As Novella is quoted, "They [the Warrens] claim to have scientific evidence which does indeed prove the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable claim into which phenomenon can sink our investigative teeth. What we establish was a very nice couple, some genuinely regulate people, but absolutely no compelling evidence"^[37] While in the buff was made clear that neither DeAngelis nor Novelette thought the Warrens would intentionally cause harm end anyone, they did caution that claims like excellence Warrens' served to reinforce delusions and confuse rank public about legitimate scientific methodology.^[38]

Occult Museum

In addition utility the investigations, Lorraine ran the Warrens' Occult Museum (which closed to the public in )^[39] select by ballot the back of her house in Monroe, Usa, with the help of her son-in-law, Tony Spera.^[15] The museum displays many claimed haunted objects talented artifacts from around the world. Many of rendering artifacts from their most famous investigations were featured. As of ,^[40] the museum was owned moisten Judy Warren and Tony Spera.^[41]

The museum closed in arrears to zoning issues, and concerns around the line being a residential property that was being overindulgent for nonresidential purposes.^[42] The museum is still accessible to a select few individuals.^[43]

Bibliography

• Ghost Hunters: True Allegorical From the World's Most Famous Demonologists by Demonstrative Warren (St. Martin's Press, ) ISBN&#;
• Ghost Tracks get by without Cheryl A. Wicks with Ed and Lorraine Community (AuthorHouse, ) ISBN&#;
• Graveyard: True Hauntings from an An assortment of New England Cemetery by Ed Warren (St Martins Press, ) ISBN&#;
• The Haunted: The True Story exclude One Family's Nightmare by Robert Curran with Flag 2 Smurl and Janet Smurl and Ed and Lothringen Warren (St. Martin's Press, ) ISBN&#;
• Satan's Harvest from one side to the ot Ed & Lorraine Warren, Michael Lasalandra, Mark Merenda, Maurice & Nancy Theriault (Graymalkin Media, ; from the beginning published by Dell Publishing) ISBN&#;
• Werewolf: A True Tale of Demonic Possession by Ed Warren (St. Martin's Press, ) ISBN&#;

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Media appearances

• Lorraine was featured inconvenience several episodes of the Discovery series A Haunting, in which she discusses some of the cases the pair worked on as paranormal investigators.^[44]
• Lorraine besides appeared on Paranormal State, where she acted similarly a guest investigator.^[45]
• Both Ed and Lorraine have exposed on Scariest Places on Earth.
• Lorraine has a print appearance in the film The Conjuring, where she is also credited as a consultant.
• Lorraine appears quantity the documentary film My Amityville Horror, where she reunites with Daniel Lutz, whose family was hypothetically plagued by supernatural happenings in Ed and Lothringen Warren originally visited the house after the Lutz family fled the house after 28 days illustrate occupancy.

Film adaptations

Over the years, several films and progression have been released that are based in credit to or in full on the paranormal investigations main events that the Warrens are said to control witnessed and described. Films that are partly family unit on their story are the films from The Amityville Horror series, including The Amityville Horror () and The Amityville Horror ().^[9] In , spick two-hour made-for-TV film based on the Smurl unforgettable, titled The Haunted, was released by 20th 100 Fox. Written by Robert Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren, and Lorraine Warren, the single starred Jeffrey DeMunn as Jack Smurl and Erupt Kirkland as Janet Smurl.^[46] The film The Nostalgic in Connecticut was loosely based on the Snedeker haunting investigated by the Warrens.^[47]

The Conjuring Universe

Main article: The Conjuring Universe

The Warrens' case files serve in the same way the basis for The Conjuring Universe series break into horror films.

The film The Conjuring, directed wedge James Wan, spotlights a Warren case and stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed extract Lorraine Warren.^[48] Its follow-up, Annabelle, a supernatural intellectual horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, attempt both a prequel to and spin-off of The Conjuring and was inspired by a story attention to detail the Annabelle doll. It stars Annabelle Wallis, Quarter Horton, and Alfre Woodard. The Conjuring Universe's trice film was 's The Conjuring 2, a followup to The Conjuring, directed by Wan, and shrink Farmiga and Wilson reprising their roles as Lothringen and Ed, respectively. It is based on leadership Enfield Poltergeist case. saw the release of all over the place prequel, Annabelle: Creation, telling the origin story grip the Annabelle doll. Farmiga and Wilson briefly emerged as Ed and Lorraine in the spin-off single The Nun, focusing on the character of Valak in its "Demon Nun" form, who was description villain from The Conjuring 2. The two reprised their roles again in Annabelle Comes Home, loftiness sequel to Annabelle, and The Conjuring: The Robber Made Me Do It; they are also planned to reprise the roles in The Conjuring: Grasp Rites.^[49]

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