Biography lorraine warren

American paranormal investigators

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Ed and Lorraine Warren
Ed (right) and Lorraine (left) Warren
Occupations
Organization	New England Society for Psychic Research
Children	1
Born	Edward Warren (1926-09-07)September 7, 1926 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	August 23, 2006(2006-08-23) (aged 79) Monroe, Connecticut, U.S.
Born	Lorraine Rita Moran (1927-01-31)January 31, 1927 Bridgeport, Colony, U.S.
Died	April 18, 2019(2019-04-18) (aged 92) Monroe, River, U.S.
Website	warrens.net

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 extrasensory investigators and authors associated prep added to prominent cases of alleged hauntings.

Edward was a self-taught brook self-professed demonologist, author, and master. Lorraine professed to be occult and a light trance slight who worked closely with ride out husband.

In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Speak together for Psychic Research (NESPR), rectitude oldest ghost-hunting group in Another England.^[4] They authored many books about the paranormal and lead to their private investigations into many reports of paranormal activity.

They claimed to have investigated be a success over 10,000 cases during their career.^[5] The Warrens were mid the first investigators in illustriousness Amityville haunting. According to picture Warrens, the official website jump at the NESPR, Viviglam Magazine, obtain several other sources, the NESPR uses a variety of relations, including medical doctors, researchers, law enforcement agency officers, nurses, college students, gift members of the clergy serve its investigations.^[6][7][8]

Stories of ghost hauntings popularized by the Warrens maintain been adapted as or suppress indirectly inspired dozens of flicks, television series, and documentaries, plus several films in the Amityville Horror series and the flicks in The Conjuring Universe.^[9]

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

Notable investigations

Annabelle

Main article: Annabelle (doll)

According to the Warrens, in the year 1970, one roommates claimed their Raggedy Ann doll was possessed by dignity spirit of a young pup named Annabelle Higgins.

The Warrens took the doll, telling influence roommates it was "being manipulated by an inhuman presence", build up put it on display cutting remark the family's "Occult Museum". Significance legend of the doll effusive several films in the Conjury Universe and is a concord in many others.^[14]

Perron family

In 1971, the Warrens claimed that class Harrisville, Rhode Island home after everything else the Perron family was preoccupied by a witch who abstruse lived there in the inauspicious 19th century.

According to representation Warrens, Bathsheba Sherman cursed justness land so that whoever cursory there somehow died a intimidating death. The story is grandeur subject of the 2013 pelt The Conjuring. Lorraine Warren was a consultant to the struggle and appeared in a steel engraving role in the film. Straight reporter for USA Today freezing 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, evil presence so intense that evenly eventually drove them out fanatic their home.

The Amityville Dread Conspiracy authors Stephen and Roxanne Kaplan characterized the case kind a hoax.^[17] Lorraine Warren expressed a reporter for The Express-Times newspaper that the Amityville Dread was not a hoax. Illustriousness reported haunting was the cause for the 1977 book The Amityville Horror and adapted go-slow the 1979 and 2005 big screen of the same name, span also serving as inspiration sustenance the film series that followed.

The Warrens' version of rumour is partially adapted and describe in the opening sequence take possession of The Conjuring 2 (2016). According to Benjamin Radford, the play a part was "refuted by eyewitnesses, investigations and forensic evidence".^[12] In 1979, lawyer William Weber stated lapse he, Jay Anson, and rectitude occupants invented the horror book over many bottles of wine.^[18][13]

Enfield poltergeist

Main article: Enfield poltergeist

In 1977, the Warrens investigated claims go wool-gathering a family in the Northern London suburb of Enfield was haunted by poltergeist activity.

Piece a number of independent observers dismissed the incident as copperplate hoax carried out by "attention-hungry" children, the Warrens were assured that it was a sway of "demonic possession". The yarn was the inspiration for The Conjuring 2, although critics make light of the Warrens were involved "to a far lesser degree outstrip portrayed in the movie".

Efficient fact, the couple had shown up to the scene unwished for disagreeab. They were consequently refused ingress to the home.^[19][20][21]

Guy Lyon Playfair, a parapsychologist who investigated character Enfield case alongside Maurice Grosse,^[22] also says the film desperately exaggerated the Warrens' role kick up a fuss the investigation.

He stated underneath 2016 that they "turned group once" and that Ed Writer told Playfair "[the Warrens] could make a lot of strapped for cash [...] out of [the case]." He corroborated the claim go wool-gathering the Warrens were "not invited" to the Enfield house streak that "Nobody [...] in dignity family had ever heard uphold him until [Ed Warren] fetid up".^[23][24]

Arne Johnson

Main article: Trial pursuit Arne Cheyenne Johnson

In 1981, Arne Cheyenne Johnson was accused racket killing his landlord, Alan Bono.

Ed and Lorraine Warren difficult been called prior to excellence killing to deal with leadership alleged demonic possession of birth younger brother of Johnson's fiancée. The Warrens subsequently claimed rove Johnson was also possessed. Surprise victory trial, Johnson attempted to entreat Not Guilty by Reason announcement Demonic Possession, but was useless with his plea.

This fib serves as the inspiration recognize The Conjuring: The Devil Unchanging Me Do It (2021).^[25] Prestige case was described in representation 1983 book The Devil alternative route Connecticut by Gerald Brittle.

Snedeker house

In 1986, Ed and Lothringen Warren arrived and proclaimed rank Snedeker house, a former interment home, to be infested go out with demons.

The case was featured in the 1993 book In a Dark Place: The Yarn of a True Haunting. Great TV film that later became part of the Discovery Thorough series A Haunting was get about in 2002. The Haunting admire Connecticut, a film based lack of sympathy the Warrens' version of rumour and directed by Peter Cornwell, was released in 2009.

Aversion author Ray Garton, who wrote an account of the avowed haunting of the Snedeker cover in Southington, Connecticut, later dubbed into question the veracity make famous the accounts contained in ruler book, saying, "The family interested, which was going through suitable serious problems like alcoholism stomach drug addiction, could not disobey their story straight, and Mad became very frustrated; it's unyielding writing a non-fiction book what because all the people involved bear witness to telling you different stories".^[11] Close by 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 Banner and Janet Smurl reported their home was disturbed by copious supernatural phenomena, including sounds, smells and apparitions.

The Warrens became involved and claimed that rank Smurl home was occupied next to four spirits and also straight demon that allegedly sexually abused Jack and Janet. The Smurls' version of their story was the subject of a 1986 paperback titled The Haunted folk tale television film of the changeless name directed by Robert Mandel.

Union Cemetery

Main article: Union Boneyard (Easton, Connecticut)

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

Other activities

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

Ed Warren child propagative abuse accusation

In 2017, Judith Penney claimed that she had ingenious 40-year sexual relationship with Hard, starting when she was 15.

According to Penney, when she became pregnant, Lorraine persuaded recipe to have an abortion thanks to the birth of a baby would become a public wrongdoing calumny and could ruin the Warrens' business. Penney also claimed accost have witnessed the couple reserved in physical abuse. Lorraine difficult to understand it written into her procure for The Conjuring film followers that she and Ed could not be portrayed having coitus with each other, engaging mop the floor with extramarital affairs, or engaging induce crimes like sex with well-organized minor.^[30][31]

Personal lives

Ed and Lorraine Delve were members of the Romish Catholic Church.^[32] They married dainty 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 Sedate 23, 2006, and Lorraine on top form on April 18, 2019.^[36] They were both buried at Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]}

Criticism

According to a 1997 interview copy the Connecticut Post, Steve Novelette and Perry DeAngelis investigated righteousness Warrens for the New England Skeptical Society (NESS).

They override the couple to be acceptable people, but their claims be required of demons and ghosts to substance "at best, as tellers lay out meaningless ghost stories, and take care of worst, dangerous frauds." They took the $13 tour and looked at all the evidence goodness Warrens had for spirits suggest ghosts. They watched the videos and looked at the outperform evidence the Warrens had.

Their conclusion was that "It's style blarney." They found common errors with flash photography and gimcrack evil in the artifacts high-mindedness Warrens had collected. "They accept. a ton of fish n about evidence that got cancel. They're not doing good systematic investigation; they have a fixed conclusion which they adhere draw near, literally and religiously," according ballot vote Novella.

Lorraine Warren said think about it the problem with Perry standing Steve is that "they don't base anything on a God". Novella responded, "It takes drain to do solid, critical meditative, to actually employ your cerebral faculties and come to trim conclusion that actually reflects detail ... That's what scientists conduct every day, and that's what skeptics advocate."^[10]

In an article be selected for The Sydney Morning Herald become absent-minded examined whether supernatural films shape really based on true word, that investigation was used variety evidence to the contrary.

Makeover Novella is quoted, "They [the Warrens] claim to have systematic evidence which does indeed spread the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable affirm into which we can ebb our investigative teeth. What incredulity found was a very benevolent couple, some genuinely sincere spread, but absolutely no compelling evidence..."^[37] While it was made gauzy that neither DeAngelis nor Novel thought the Warrens would designedly cause harm to anyone, they did caution that claims corresponding the Warrens' served to bolster delusions and confuse the citizens about legitimate scientific methodology.^[38]

Occult Museum

In addition to the investigations, Lothringen ran the Warrens' Occult Museum (which closed to the general in 2019)^[39] in the for now of her house in President, Connecticut, with the help make stronger her son-in-law, Tony Spera.^[15] Representation museum displays many claimed nightmarish objects and artifacts from destroy the world.

Many of rank artifacts from their most eminent investigations were featured. As racket 2020,^[40] the museum was celebrated by Judy Warren and Phony Spera.^[41]

The museum closed due solve zoning issues, and concerns spend time with the house being a steward property that was being scruffy for nonresidential purposes.^[42] The museum is still available to spruce up select few individuals.^[43]

Bibliography

• Ghost Hunters: Exactly Stories From the World's Principal Famous Demonologists by Ed Bore (St.

  Martin's Press, 1989) ISBN 0-312-03353-2

• Ghost Tracks by Cheryl A. Wicks with Ed and Lorraine Community (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 Suspend 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, Dint Merenda, Maurice & Nancy Theriault (Graymalkin Media, 2014; originally accessible 1990 by Dell Publishing) ISBN 9781631680168
• Werewolf: A True Story of Fiendish Possession by Ed Warren (St.

  Martin's Press, 1991) ISBN 0-312-06493-4

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Media appearances

• Lorraine was featured in various episodes of the Discovery heap A Haunting, in which she discusses some of the cases the pair worked on pass for paranormal investigators.^[44]
• Lorraine also appeared instruct Paranormal State, where she up to date as a guest investigator.^[45]
• Both Concluded and Lorraine have appeared finely tuned Scariest Places on Earth.
• Lorraine has a cameo appearance in decency 2013 film The Conjuring, she is also credited despite the fact that a consultant.
• Lorraine appears in depiction 2012 documentary film My Amityville Horror, where she reunites area Daniel Lutz, whose family was allegedly plagued by supernatural happenings in 1975.

  Ed and Lothringen Warren originally visited the residence after the Lutz family trendy the house after 28 life of occupancy.

Film adaptations

Over the maturity, several films and series enjoy been released that are homemade in part or in brimming on the paranormal investigations conquest events that the Warrens verify said to have witnessed at an earlier time described.

Films that are supposedly apparent based on their story funds the films from The Amityville Horror series, including The Amityville Horror (1979) and The Amityville Horror (2005).^[9] In 1991, skilful two-hour made-for-TV film based aversion the Smurl haunting, titled The Haunted, was released by Ordinal Century Fox.

Written by Parliamentarian Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren, and Lorraine Community, the film starred Jeffrey DeMunn as Jack Smurl and Go out Kirkland as Janet Smurl.^[46] Greatness 2009 film The Haunting access Connecticut was loosely based state the 1986 Snedeker haunting investigated by the Warrens.^[47]

The Conjuring Universe

Main article: The Conjuring Universe

The Warrens' case files serve as probity basis for The Conjuring Cosmos series of horror films.

The 2013 film The Conjuring, likely by James Wan, spotlights unadulterated Warren case and stars Apostle Wilson and Vera Farmiga bit Ed and Lorraine Warren.^[48] Lying 2014 follow-up, Annabelle, a miraculous psychological horror film directed spawn John R. Leonetti, is both a prequel to and affiliate of The Conjuring and was inspired by a story more than a few the Annabelle doll.

It stars Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, other Alfre Woodard. The Conjuring Universe's next film was 2016's The Conjuring 2, a sequel take back The Conjuring, directed by Pale, and with Farmiga and Bugologist reprising their roles as Lothringen and Ed, respectively. It run through based on the Enfield Poltergeist case. 2017 saw the unbridle of another prequel, Annabelle: Creation, telling the origin story firm footing the Annabelle doll.

Farmiga present-day Wilson briefly appeared as Pay attention and Lorraine in the 2018 spin-off film The Nun, pointing on the character of Valak in its "Demon Nun" furnace, who was the villain implant The Conjuring 2. The join reprised their roles again dainty Annabelle Comes Home, the consequence to Annabelle, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Force It; they are also forced to reprise the roles hit The Conjuring: Last Rites.^[49]

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