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Ed and Lorraine Warren Biography: Falls, Children and Family Life
Have you ever woken up with fear you couldn’t explain, or felt a strange presence that made the hairs on the back of your neck rise, or even experienced strange happenings around you? Well, these were some of the suggestions that led well-known paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to explain the ideas behind ghosts, demon hunts, and supernatural activity. The founders of the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952 have also become famous.
Biography of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Ed Warren Miney was born September 7, 1926Lorraine Rita Warren was born January 31, 1927. Both are from Bridgeport, Connecticut in America. Lorraine attended Lauralton Hall, an all-girls Catholic college in Milford, Connecticut. For his part, Ed Warren served in the United States Navy at the age of 17 during World War II. Immediately after the war he signed up for painting courses where he learned to paint. He was also a self-taught demonologist.
Her journey into what would make her famous began when Lorraine realized she was gifted with the extrasensory perception ability better known as psychic abilities.
The Warrens began making paintings, which they sold and used the proceeds to start their paranormal investigation business. They gradually began to gain access to haunted places by presenting the paintings of the houses they had made to the owners of such houses. This helped them gain both audience and access to their homes for their investigations.
Soon becoming popular, they were called whenever there were outbursts of phenomena or strange activities, they worked on such projects with other light mediums, clergymen and the Catholic priests who practiced exorcism. In some of these cases people, objects and even some of the priests are said to have been possessed.
In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research with the sole purpose of treating possessed people. The Society is the oldest haunted group in New England.
family life and children
Ed and Lorraine Warren first met in 1943 at the Colonial Theater, where Edward worked as an usher. Both were only 16 at the time they met and married two years later with Ed as the only boyfriend Lorraine ever had. The Warrens gave birth to only one child, Judy Warren.
Much later in life Judy would eventually marry Tony Spera and they would be blessed with 4 children.
Ed Warren died on August 6, 2006, aged 79, but his dear wife Lorraine lives on. She has handed over site visits to haunted places to her son-in-law, who was actively involved in her work.
Cases Ed and Lorraine Warren worked on
Here are some of the key cases investigated by Warren’s family that have caught the country’s attention.
1. The Perron Family Haunting
Roger Perron, his wife Carolyn, and his family moved into their new home in Harrisville, Rhode Island, unaware of the former resident’s alleged deception. The country house was once occupied by Bathsheba Thayer and her children, three of whom died young. The tragedy created distrust in the city, leading to the abuse of Thayer, who was ridiculed and labeled a Satanist. This led her to hang herself in her garden.
Upon entering the home, the Perrons experienced ghostly communications and apparitions, disembodied voices, moving furniture, and ghosts playing with their children while they were in the home. A ghost is said to have punched and pinched Carolyn out of jealousy for showing maternal care for her family, and has also been alleged to have touched Roger inappropriately on other occasions.
In 1974, the Warrens were invited by the family to help, but their presence worsened the situation forcing the family to ask the Warrens to leave. The insights and experiences gained here were processed into a horror film The Conjuration released in 2013.
2. The Amityville Case (American Murder House)
This is Ed and Lorraine Warrens’ best-known study. A family called the Lutz family owned a residence in suburban Amityville, Long Island.
Before this family moved into the home in 1975, it was alleged that there were massive murders including Ronald DeFeo’s murders of 6 of his family members. The Lutz family later claimed they heard hostile voices, swarming of flies, levitation, door knocking, and movements of unseen beings.
After being invited into the house, the Warrens came with a local TV crew, who took some photos, which showed a boy with bright eyes. The verdict was that the house was cursed
3. Annabelle the doll
A ragged doll was bought in an antique shop and given to a boy by a young lady from her mother. This doll is said to have attacked people at night in the lodge where the young lady and some of her friends lived. It reportedly crawled into bed and almost strangled a fiancé of a roommate in the building they lived in.
Along with a number of other similarly odd housemates, they hired a medium who told them the doll was possessed by the spirit of a dead 7-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins. They called the Warrens, who performed a blessing at the residence before taking the doll to the Warrens’ Connecticut Occult Museum.
Other known cases
- Haunted Connecticut
- The Southend werewolf
- The trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson and so on.
Although the works of Ed and Lorraine Warren have been criticized by some skeptical individuals and scholars who did not believe the Warrens’ facts were real. However, they provided evidence and won the court case for their clients with the evidence obtained.
Other facts
The works of Ed and Lorraine Warren have been adapted into many horror films such as James Wan’s The Conjuring in 2013, which starred the Warrens, The Conjuring 2, the Amityville Hauntings series, Annabelle Creations in 2017 and The Nun in 2018.
They have also been featured in television shows and documentaries such as the Discovery Channel series A Haunting Towering State, and The Creepiest Places on Earth to name a few .
Books written about their discoveries are Ghost Hunters: True Stories of the World’s Most Famous Demonologist – 1989 and Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession also published by Ed Warren in 1991.
