Spouses Warren: charlatans or psychics? (11 photos)

Pretty decent films for this genre The Conjuring and "The Annabelle Curse" starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, the audience accepted favorably. Perhaps largely because that the story of the ghost hunters is based on real events.





Young Lorraine Rita Moren met her future husband Ed Warren when she was only 16 years old, at one of the parties. Charming the guy was only a year older, but Lorraine charmed him so much that Ed almost immediately after they met, he proposed to her.



Wedding photo

The girl agreed. And so arose not just another family union, but also the first ever family contract of hunters for everything otherworldly, paranormal, mystical and just weird.



Spouses with daughter Judy

Lorraine has noticed unusual abilities since childhood. Her the ghosts of people who had already gone to another world were seen. Subconsciously she I understood that this was not quite normal, so I kept silent about the gift. Lest not enter compulsory treatment. Ed grew up in a haunted house therefore, he considered himself, though an amateur, but still involved in the world spirits. When the Warrens decided to join forces and plunge into the paranormal research, unexpectedly for themselves, they found the support of representatives various professions - teachers, doctors, police officers, scientists, even representatives of the clergy.



Lorraine and Ed Warren

In 1952, the couple registered the Society for Psychic New England Research, and a little later opened a museum exhibition, dedicated to the cases that they personally uncovered. And they turned out to be surprise huge number, several thousand.



Museum exhibits



This is a real doll, kept in a museum.

The story with the Annabelle doll was just filmed, and about her known to millions of people around the world. It happened like this: in 1968 a student studying medicine was presented with an ordinary textile doll Ann. Soon the girl began to feel an inexplicable anxiety in her presence. It seemed to her that the toy was watching her. Then strange things started room.



This is a movie puppet.

An exhausted student turned to the Warrens for help. Spouses started an investigation and found out that the spirit of the dead moved into the doll a woman named Annabelle Higgins. Subsequently, the entity was evil demon. And the doll was hidden away from sin under glass and placed in a museum so that she could not harm anyone.



That house in Amityville

Another case of the Warrens, which has thundered around the world, is investigation of the tragedy in Amityville, as a result of which the entire the Defeo family except for one son who confessed to the murder relatives, saying that the ghost of an Indian leader.

In the piggy bank of ghost hunters is also the case of Union Cemetery in Connecticut, where the ghost of the White Lady lived, Borley Church, where the living walled up a nun, and many others.



Family photo

As for the veracity of all these stories, opinions in society divided. Some experts consider the Warrens to be pure scammers and charlatans who simply had a good command of the techniques of psychology and skillfully falsified the facts. Other researchers are inclined to believe that the couple really had, if not a gift, then definitely some kind of instinct. Third insist that this is just a commercial project created for earnings. Business and nothing personal.



Shot from the film "The Conjuring"



Lorraine in old age

Interest in the topic sharply escalated after the film adaptations. And after death of famous spouses (Lorraine died in 2019, outliving her husband by 13 years old). The family business was continued by their son-in-law, the formercop and now expert in the field of anomalous phenomena Tony Spera.