Ed and lorraine warren cases

American paranormal investigators

"Ed Warren" and "Lorraine Warren" divert here. For the politician, watch Ed Warren (politician). For decency academic, see Lorraine Warren (academic).

Edward Warren Miney (September 7, 1926 – August 23, 2006)^[1] and Lorraine Rita Warren (née Moran; January 31, 1927 – Apr 18, 2019)^[2][3] were American psychical investigators and authors associated right prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was a self-taught additional self-professed demonologist, author, and master. Lorraine professed to be precognitive and a light trance mechanism who worked closely with improve husband.

In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Unity for Psychic Research (NESPR), say publicly oldest ghost-hunting group in Unique England.^[4] They authored many books about the paranormal and transfer their private investigations into several reports of paranormal activity. They claimed to have investigated favourably over 10,000 cases during their career.^[5] The Warrens were betwixt the first investigators in glory Amityville haunting. According to righteousness Warrens, the official website a few the NESPR, Viviglam Magazine, near several other sources, the NESPR uses a variety of impoverished, including medical doctors, researchers, constabulary officers, nurses, college students, added members of the clergy connect its investigations.^[6][7][8]

Stories of ghost hauntings popularized by the Warrens possess been adapted as or have to one`s name indirectly inspired dozens of movies, television series, and documentaries, together with several films in the Amityville Horror series and the big screen in The Conjuring Universe.^[9]

Skeptics Commodore DeAngelis and Steven Novella investigated the Warrens' evidence and alleged it as "blarney".^[10] Skeptical investigators Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford concluded that the better-known hauntings, Amityville and the Snedeker cover haunting, did not happen famous had been invented.^[11][12][13]

Notable investigations

Annabelle

Main article: Annabelle (doll)

According to the Warrens, in the year 1970, deuce roommates claimed their Raggedy Ann doll was possessed by picture spirit of a young pup named Annabelle Higgins. The Warrens took the doll, telling interpretation roommates it was "being manipulated by an inhuman presence", stream put it on display heroic act the family's "Occult Museum". Nobleness legend of the doll brilliant several films in the Nonsense Universe and is a pattern in many others.^[14]

Perron family

In 1971, the Warrens claimed that prestige Harrisville, Rhode Island home in shape the Perron family was preoccupied by a witch who challenging lived there in the exactly 19th century. According to integrity Warrens, Bathsheba Sherman cursed primacy land so that whoever cursory there somehow died a severe death. The story is grandeur subject of the 2013 coating The Conjuring. Lorraine Warren was a consultant to the handiwork and appeared in a anaglyph role in the film. Nifty reporter for USA Today awninged the film's supposed factual grounding.^[15][16]

Amityville

Main article: The Amityville Horror

The Warrens are best known for their involvement in the 1975 Amityville Horror in which New Royalty couple George and Kathy Lutz claimed that their house was haunted by a violent, diabolic presence so intense that strike eventually drove them out notice their home. The Amityville Fear Conspiracy authors Stephen and Roxanne Kaplan characterized the case style a hoax.^[17] Lorraine Warren pressing a reporter for The Express-Times newspaper that the Amityville Aversion was not a hoax. Prestige reported haunting was the incentive for the 1977 book The Amityville Horror and adapted smash into the 1979 and 2005 cinema of the same name, completely also serving as inspiration superfluous the film series that followed. The Warrens' version of legend is partially adapted and describe in the opening sequence prop up The Conjuring 2 (2016). According to Benjamin Radford, the report was "refuted by eyewitnesses, investigations and forensic evidence".^[12] In 1979, lawyer William Weber stated go he, Jay Anson, and honesty occupants invented the horror story line over many bottles of wine.^[18][13]

Enfield poltergeist

Main article: Enfield poltergeist

In 1977, the Warrens investigated claims walk a family in the Direction London suburb of Enfield was haunted by poltergeist activity. From way back a number of independent observers dismissed the incident as neat hoax carried out by "attention-hungry" children, the Warrens were confident that it was a weekend case of "demonic possession". The chronicle was the inspiration for The Conjuring 2, although critics asseverate the Warrens were involved "to a far lesser degree surpass portrayed in the movie". Mud fact, the couple had shown up to the scene unsought. They were consequently refused leave to the home.^[19][20][21]

Guy Lyon Playfair, a parapsychologist who investigated illustriousness Enfield case alongside Maurice Grosse,^[22] also says the film gravely exaggerated the Warrens' role comprise the investigation. He stated select by ballot 2016 that they "turned act as a team once" and that Ed Bore told Playfair "[the Warrens] could make a lot of insolvency [...] out of [the case]." He corroborated the claim guarantee the Warrens were "not invited" to the Enfield house fairy story that "Nobody [...] in magnanimity family had ever heard state under oath him until [Ed Warren] overturned up".^[23][24]

Arne Johnson

Main article: Trial stand for Arne Cheyenne Johnson

In 1981, Arne Cheyenne Johnson was accused dear killing his landlord, Alan Bono. Ed and Lorraine Warren abstruse been called prior to illustriousness killing to deal with influence alleged demonic possession of depiction younger brother of Johnson's fiancée. The Warrens subsequently claimed think about it Johnson was also possessed. Fall back trial, Johnson attempted to reduce to pulp Not Guilty by Reason have a high regard for Demonic Possession, but was inept with his plea. This figure serves as the inspiration on the way to The Conjuring: The Devil Thankful Me Do It (2021).^[25] Nobleness case was described in honesty 1983 book The Devil fragment Connecticut by Gerald Brittle.

Snedeker house

In 1986, Ed and Lothringen Warren arrived and proclaimed rendering Snedeker house, a former entombment home, to be infested communicate demons. The case was featured in the 1993 book In a Dark Place: The Star of a True Haunting. Trig TV film that later became part of the Discovery Severe series A Haunting was assault in 2002. The Haunting include Connecticut, a film based be a consequence the Warrens' version of word and directed by Peter Cornwell, was released in 2009. Dread author Ray Garton, who wrote an account of the putative haunting of the Snedeker parentage in Southington, Connecticut, later dubbed into question the veracity invoke the accounts contained in culminate book, saying, "The family interested, which was going through wearisome serious problems like alcoholism champion drug addiction, could not hide their story straight, and Berserk became very frustrated; it's firm writing a non-fiction book just as all the people involved evacuate telling you different stories".^[11] Presage paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford, Garton said of Lorraine, "'If she told me the sun would come up tomorrow morning, I'd get a second opinion'".^[26]

Smurl family

Main article: Smurl haunting

Pennsylvania residents Pennant and Janet Smurl reported their home was disturbed by many supernatural phenomena, including sounds, smells and apparitions. The Warrens became involved and claimed that excellence Smurl home was occupied gross four spirits and also spruce up demon that allegedly sexually molested Jack and Janet. The Smurls' version of their story was the subject of a 1986 paperback titled The Haunted give orders to television film of the by a long way name directed by Robert Mandel.

Union Cemetery

Main article: Union Site (Easton, Connecticut)

Ed Warren's book Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Request New England Cemetery (St Martins Press, 1992) features a "White Lady" ghost which haunts Joining Cemetery. He claimed to conspiracy "captured her essence" on film.^[27]

Other activities

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

Ed Warren child reproductive abuse accusation

In 2017, Judith Penney claimed that she had well-organized 40-year sexual relationship with Ineffective, starting when she was 15. According to Penney, when she became pregnant, Lorraine persuaded assimilation to have an abortion being the birth of a offspring would become a public detraction and could ruin the Warrens' business. Penney also claimed in the matter of have witnessed the couple kept in physical abuse. Lorraine locked away it written into her sphere for The Conjuring film collection that she and Ed could not be portrayed having fornication with each other, engaging sketch extramarital affairs, or engaging display crimes like sex with uncluttered minor.^[30][31]

Personal lives

Ed and Lorraine Writer were members of the Authoritative Catholic Church.^[32] They married be given 1945.^[33] On January 11, 1946, Lorraine gave birth to their daughter named Judy Warren.^[34][35]

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

Ed died on Reverenced 23, 2006, and Lorraine mind-numbing on April 18, 2019.^[36] They were both buried at Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]}

Criticism

According to a 1997 interview get used to the Connecticut Post, Steve Novel and Perry DeAngelis investigated description Warrens for the New England Skeptical Society (NESS). They overshadow the couple to be beneficial people, but their claims be worthwhile for demons and ghosts to acceptably "at best, as tellers check meaningless ghost stories, and exceed worst, dangerous frauds." They took the $13 tour and looked at all the evidence honourableness Warrens had for spirits be proof against ghosts. They watched the videos and looked at the unconditional evidence the Warrens had. Their conclusion was that "It's go into battle blarney." They found common errors with flash photography and breakdown evil in the artifacts grandeur Warrens had collected. "They take. a ton of fish fabled about evidence that got set out. They're not doing good systematic investigation; they have a agreed conclusion which they adhere correspond with, literally and religiously," according bash into Novella. Lorraine Warren said put off the problem with Perry turf Steve is that "they don't base anything on a God". Novella responded, "It takes sort out to do solid, critical significance, to actually employ your academic faculties and come to calligraphic conclusion that actually reflects 1 ... That's what scientists surpass every day, and that's what skeptics advocate."^[10]

In an article espousal The Sydney Morning Herald delay examined whether supernatural films ring really based on true concerns, that investigation was used hoot evidence to the contrary. Translation Novella is quoted, "They [the Warrens] claim to have methodical evidence which does indeed corroborate the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable assertion into which we can go down our investigative teeth. What phenomenon found was a very benevolent couple, some genuinely sincere recurrent, but absolutely no compelling evidence..."^[37] While it was made lucent that neither DeAngelis nor Fable thought the Warrens would purposely cause harm to anyone, they did caution that claims alike the Warrens' served to support delusions and confuse the leak out about legitimate scientific methodology.^[38]

Occult Museum

In addition to the investigations, Lothringen ran the Warrens' Occult Museum (which closed to the citizens in 2019)^[39] in the impede of her house in Town, Connecticut, with the help farm animals her son-in-law, Tony Spera.^[15] Honesty museum displays many claimed unearthly objects and artifacts from swivel the world. Many of distinction artifacts from their most renowned investigations were featured. As sun-up 2020,^[40] the museum was celebrated by Judy Warren and Polite Spera.^[41]

The museum closed due prevalent zoning issues, and concerns have a laugh the house being a property that was being euphemistic preowned for nonresidential purposes.^[42] The museum is still available to skilful select few individuals.^[43]

Bibliography

• Ghost Hunters: Accurate Stories From the World's Swell Famous Demonologists by Ed Poet (St. Martin's Press, 1989) ISBN 0-312-03353-2
• Ghost Tracks by Cheryl A. Wicks with Ed and Lorraine Tunnel (AuthorHouse, 2004) ISBN 1-4184-6767-7
• Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery by Ed Warren (St Martins Press, 1992) ISBN 0-312-08202-9
• The Haunted: The True Story of Pick your way Family's Nightmare by Robert Curran with Jack Smurl and Janet Smurl and Ed and Lothringen Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1988) ISBN 0-312-01440-6
• Satan's Harvest by Ed & Lorraine Warren, Michael Lasalandra, High up Merenda, Maurice & Nancy Theriault (Graymalkin Media, 2014; originally available 1990 by Dell Publishing) ISBN 9781631680168
• Werewolf: A True Story of Infernal Possession by Ed Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1991) ISBN 0-312-06493-4

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Media appearances

• Lorraine was featured in assorted episodes of the Discovery focus A Haunting, in which she discusses some of the cases the pair worked on whilst paranormal investigators.^[44]
• Lorraine also appeared inspect Paranormal State, where she conversant as a guest investigator.^[45]
• Both Filled and Lorraine have appeared take somebody in Scariest Places on Earth.
• Lorraine has a cameo appearance in representation 2013 film The Conjuring, swivel she is also credited by reason of a consultant.
• Lorraine appears in position 2012 documentary film My Amityville Horror, where she reunites touch Daniel Lutz, whose family was allegedly plagued by supernatural happenings in 1975. Ed and Lothringen Warren originally visited the boarding house after the Lutz family gloomy the house after 28 age of occupancy.

Film adaptations

Over the discretion, several films and series put on been released that are family unit in part or in packed on the paranormal investigations faint events that the Warrens drain said to have witnessed take up described. Films that are to a degree based on their story object the films from The Amityville Horror series, including The Amityville Horror (1979) and The Amityville Horror (2005).^[9] In 1991, out two-hour made-for-TV film based meet the Smurl haunting, titled The Haunted, was released by Ordinal Century Fox. Written by Parliamentarian Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren, and Lorraine Dig, the film starred Jeffrey DeMunn as Jack Smurl and Rush Kirkland as Janet Smurl.^[46] Say publicly 2009 film The Haunting swindle Connecticut was loosely based take care of the 1986 Snedeker haunting investigated by the Warrens.^[47]

The Conjuring Universe

Main article: The Conjuring Universe

The Warrens' case files serve as integrity basis for The Conjuring Environment series of horror films.

The 2013 film The Conjuring, fastened by James Wan, spotlights topping Warren case and stars Apostle Wilson and Vera Farmiga in that Ed and Lorraine Warren.^[48] Sheltered 2014 follow-up, Annabelle, a extraordinary psychological horror film directed brush aside John R. Leonetti, is both a prequel to and shoot of The Conjuring and was inspired by a story prepare the Annabelle doll. It stars Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, promote Alfre Woodard. The Conjuring Universe's next film was 2016's The Conjuring 2, a sequel return to The Conjuring, directed by Grey, and with Farmiga and Entomologist reprising their roles as Lothringen and Ed, respectively. It practical based on the Enfield Poltergeist case. 2017 saw the unfetter of another prequel, Annabelle: Creation, telling the origin story cue the Annabelle doll. Farmiga existing Wilson briefly appeared as Cleaned out and Lorraine in the 2018 spin-off film The Nun, purpose on the character of Valak in its "Demon Nun" masquerade, who was the villain running off The Conjuring 2. The combine reprised their roles again keep Annabelle Comes Home, the result to Annabelle, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Criticize It; they are also tied to reprise the roles meticulous The Conjuring: Last Rites.^[49]

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