Fan of The Conjuring franchise? You must have heard of Ed and Lorraine Warren, two self-confessed demonologists who have investigated some of the most famous paranormal events in the world.
Sadly, Ed passed away in 2006, but Lorraine is still alive and running the Warren Museum of the Occult, which is a scary, scary place. To sum up, the pair encountered a lot of spooks in their time and here we are to talk about just a handful of them!
Here are the 10 creepiest hauntings that were investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren and the movies that were inspired by them.
10. The Connecticut Poltergeist
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Ed and Lorraine investigated the haunting of a Connecticut home infested with a poltergeist. This haunting was later the basis for the movie, The Haunting in Connecticut.
Ed Warren says that this is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for Poltergeist activity caught on camera. The family was being plagued by ghostly activity and wanted help, from so-called demonologists.
It seems in the footage, Ed is holding a seance to contact a spirit and the young spirit got angry when asked if it wants the family to leave.
The Warrens also recorded this footage of the poltergeist moving chairs. Later the Poltergeist is shown trying to pull a chair out from under a child. Years later, Lorraine was interviewed about the house and said the spirits were cleared with an exorcism.
9. The White Lady of Union Cemetery
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Ed and Lorraine have investigated many cases and have usually been the duo behind the case’s outdated fame. The White Lady of Union Cemetery long since outdated and surpasses the Warrens.
Nonetheless, the pair had a scary moment there, and they even caught a ghost on camera. The cemetery is in Easton Connecticut and the site dates back to the 1700s.
The graveyard is said to be haunted by a plethora of ghosts, the White Lady being just one of them. Ed stayed in the graveyard for 7 nights and saw ghost lights filling the place.
He said September 1st, 1990 he had a particularly scary experience as he heard a woman weeping. He said shadow ghosts tried to stop the woman from getting to him, and this was the photo he took. To conclude, this is what he had to say.
8. The Devil
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Ed and Lorraine Warren met the devil and they testified to it. This all went down in 1981 when they were called into a murder trial. Arne Cheyenne Johnson claimed to have killed his landlord because the devil made him do it.
It all started with a possessed 11-year-old – David Glatzel. This is where Ed and Lorraine first stepped into the picture. The pair were called in to try and rid the boy of the demon along with catholic priests.
Over several days, the group rid the boy of the demon, however, according to the group, the demon fled into his brother, 18-year-old Arne’s body. A few months later, he killed his landlord in an argument.
However, his defense lawyer argued that he was possessed. Ed and Lorraine spoke at his trial and attested to the fact he was possessed. Thus ensued a media blitz around the case.
The pair then wrote the book The Devil in Connecticut following the incident. Arne Cheyenne Johnson served just 5 years in jail. The 2021 horror movie The Conjuring: The Devil made me do it was based on this incident.
7. The Witch of Harrisville
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Some of you guys may have seen The Conjuring. Well, that horrifying movie is based on a house that the Warrens investigated in Rhode Island.
Interestingly, the house was said to be haunted by a witch, Bathsheba Sherman, who cursed the land so that whoever lived on it in the future would die.
The Perron family, who lived in that house, experienced supernatural activities that haunted them for years. Ed and Lorraine visited the home and allegedly exorcised the witch. Or maybe not?
Also when members from the Ed and Lorraine Warren museum visited Bathsheba’s grave, they recorded demented voices which gave them literal goosebumps.
6. The Borley Rectory
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According to demonologists, ghost hunters, and psychics like Ed and Lorraine, the Borley Rectory is the most haunted place in the UK. The building was constructed in Victorian times in Essex and rumours of its hauntings were rife from the very beginning.
Ghost hunters claim the activity is related to a Benedictine monastery built in the area in 1362 – a monk was said to have been executed and a nun bricked alive in the walls of a convent after the pair had an affair.
Good old Ed and Lorraine had to go for a jaunt there. When talking about their first experience at the property, Lorraine said she was with a skeptical newspaper report.
Later Lorraine said that a recording taken at the church at this moment revealed a woman’s voice. Chilling.
5. The Enfield Poltergeist
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The Enfield Poltergeist was a case investigated by Ed and Lorraine in 1977. The pair traveled to England to investigate the rumored haunted home in North London and deduced the mysterious goings-on were a result of demonic possession.
The residents recorded sounds that took place in a bedroom after their children had gone to bed. Bear in mind that in the 70s not a lot of people had video recording equipment or even audio recording equipment.
We hear screaming and confusion as the lights go out and it seems a lamp was pulled out of a socket. It seems a slipper was used as a projectile across the room.
Over a period of 18 months, more than 30 people, including neighbors, fellow psychic researchers, and journalists, said they saw furniture moving of its own accord and objects being thrown across a room.
It was even said that one of the children in the house levitated. To sum up, it’s pretty spooky. The events that took place in this Enfield House make up the inspiration behind The Conjuring 2.
4. The Amityville Ghost Boy
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This picture was said to have been taken by Ed Warren as he investigated the Amityville house. The picture shows what appears to be a demonic boy.
The Warrens suspect it could be the youngest of the Defeo children – with his eyes glowing from the infrared film. The Warrens believe this is one of the most credible pieces of evidence for ghosts ever caught on film. It gives me chills to look at this picture.
3. Amityville
In a 2013 interview, Lorraine Warren said that this case haunted her the most, she said I will never go in the Amityville house ever again. What happened in this house that made a self-confessed expert demonologist scared to return?
The story goes that in 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his entire family while they slept at their home in Amityville, Long Island. He killed six people – these were his four siblings and his parents.
However, he said he heard voices that told him to do it. After a year, the house was eventually purchased for 80,000 dollars – although the buyers, the Lutz family, stayed just 28 days because of the horror they experienced.
George and Kathy Lutz said they saw slime coming out of the walls, knives being thrown from counters, and figures wandering and wailing. George even said he saw his wife levitating and an evil red-eyed pig-like creature glaring at him.
Ed and Lorraine were brought in, along with a priest, to rid the house of spirits. The pair believe it was the house that cursed murderer Ronald, rather than Ronald who cursed the house.
Consequently, today there are 18 different films about the house. Because Amityville was so scary, it gets many versions of its very own.
2. Annabelle
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So, many of you will know the horrifying story of Annabelle, a possessed real doll behind the Annabelle and The Conjuring franchise. Ed and Lorraine were called upon by two young women to deal with an out-of-control Raggedy Anne doll.
The doll then became infamous for being demonically possessed – perpetuating the trope of the demon dolly. Annabelle lives in a locked case in Warren’s Occult Museum.
There isn’t any video evidence of the doll being a menace, but things did get pretty scary recently when the doll was moved in a Facebook live video.
1. The Occult Museum
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One of the Scariest things that Ed and Lorraine Warren experienced together was the creation of their Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.
In the museum, you can find Annabelle, the conjuring mirror, and more cursed/possessed items. She says never touch anything in the museum. Despite living with cursed items in the museum, they were very cautious about their safety.
Consequently, a priest circulates the museum daily to bless the space. On the whole, it’s pretty intense.
So which of these moments do you think is the scariest?
