For over fifty years now, Ed and Lorraine Warren have been considered Americas preeminent experts on the subject of spirits and demonology. Even more important perhaps, is the fact that they have also been the very same people for the past fifty years whom religious authorities have repeatedly called in to control some of the most profane outbreaks of diabolical phenomena in the country. Cases where priests become possessed. Cases where people are physically attacked. Cases where unworldly entities manifest and then preside. Cases where time is violated and the physical environment is completely rearranged. Cases where spirits dont just haunt a house, they visibly tear it apart. Ed and Lorraine Warren have dedicated their lives to this work, and they share the wisdom they have gained during their extraordinary career in this field. The work they perform is remarkable. And you can be certain, after all this time, they know things that are completely astounding. The cases they divulge will shock you; yet it is the significance of what they say that will actually floor you. Moreover, the Warrens dont mince words. They know what theyre talking about. They have seen it. They have done it. The Warrens reveal both the methods and the motives behind spirit activity; indeed they reveal what really breaks the peace in haunted houses, and precisely what it means to you. Both now and forever. Ed Warren is a demonologist. Lorraine Warren is a trance medium. But youd never know it if you met them on the street. They are not occultists. They are not strange. They are essentially ordinary people who happen to do highly extraordinary work. And though the Warrens have no ax to grind, their orientation is distinctly religious. For in reality, that is the only way it is possible to function in this work. Because that which they confront are not vaporous, indistinct phantoms that simply come and go in the night. The forces they confront are religious entities that - by their own admission - exist for the sheer purpose of opposing the works of God. Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal., and they exist today. In a world that scoffs at ghosts and laughs at the unusual, the Warrens deliver a contrary message. That message is this: The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow The Warrens ~ The Early Years Ed Warren grew up in a ~Haunted House~in Connecticut from the young age of five until he was twelve he reflects. “My father, who was a police officer at the time would often say, “Ed, theres a logical reason for everything that happens in this house. but he never came up with that logical reason. “My family would all go to bed and just around two to three oclock in the morning, many times I would hear the closet door beginning to open up. At first Id look into that closet and see only shapeless darkness, then slowly Id start to see a light beginning to form and it would morph into like a ball shape, sort of like a basketball and then Id begin to see a face in that ball, That is called a Ghost Globule. In that Globule was a face. face of an old woman, and she was not looking at all pleasant. The globule would then come out into my bedroom and then accompinied by audible footsteps and heavy breathing. The room would then became icy cold, an unnatural cold, a Psychic Cold, and Im saying to myself, “Ed Theres a logical reason for everything,” But by that time I was out of the bed and right between my mother and father in their bed.” When Ed Warren was 16 years-old he worked as an usher at The Colonial Theatre in Bridegport Connecticut, and it was there that he met Lorraine Rita Moran. Lorraine and her mother used to come every Wednesday night, Ed remembered. “ Id see Lorraine coming in and we started talking, and we became friends. I was 16 at the time and she was 16, one night I walked her home and asked her for a date And thats how it all got started.” Art & Ambition Ed Warren went into the Navy on his seventeenth birthday and four months later, after his ship sank in the North Atlantic he was home for 30-day survivors leave. It was during that leave that the two were married. When Ed returned after World War II he and Lorraine had a daughter, and Ed went to Perry Art school which is a Subsidiary of Yale for about two years. “I got fed up with that,” Ed said. “I told Lorraine one day, “You know, I can paint better than these instructors. What theyre teaching me is a lot of Geometry and a lot of nonsense that I dont need for painting.” I said, Well have some fun. “So I bought this car for $15 dollars which I still have in the yard. Its a 1933 Chevy Eagle, Deluxe. The guy gave me two wheels with it. I had to pay him off on time, five dollars a week. I said to Lorraine, “You know, if we go up to the new areas where theyre opening up for tourists like Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire—Ill bet I can take a bunch of my paintings and put them out there when people are walking by and well sell some.” The Warrens did have fun, “We were making a fantastic living, selling the paintings for fabulous prices—three dollars, four dollars. But youve got to remember one thing, hot dogs were a dime, hamburgers were a dime, the theater was a quarter, gas was 18 cents a gallon. So, when you made five dollars on a painting, you were doing pretty good.” It was through painting that The Warrens began their ~Ghost Investigations. If Ed heard of any place that claimed to be haunted, whether a haunted house, or a haunted location he would drag Lorraine to check it out. “Oh Ed, there are no such things as ghosts,” Lorraine would say, Ed would then remind her of his days at his haunted home in Bridgeport & Lorraine would go. How The Warrens would get into these haunted houses is especially interesting, “We were just kids nobody was just going to let us in, we were curiosity seekers—we were not yet the directors of The New England Society for Psychic Research. “Id go out in the middle of the road where they could all see me and Id start to sketch the house and youd see the curtains going back and forth “Whats this kid doing?” they would be thinking. “I would do a really nice sketch of the house with ghosts coming out of it, and Id give it to Lorraine, shed go knock on the door and with her Irish personality shed say, “Oh, my husband loves to sketch and paint haunted houses ,and he made this for you.” I made it special for them.” It was through the paintings that The Warrens got themselves into these Haunted Houses. And then they would talk with the homeowners one-on-one. Basically, Ed just wanted to see if the same things happened to those families that happened to his family, through his art the lives of these two incredible people were formed. TheWarrens thoughts on the Paranormal Ed Warren If you look at a fan and its standing still, you can see the propellers very easily. But, if that fan starts up you cant see anything—its invisible. Spirits are on that different vibrational field. Theyre all around us right now but you cant see them. But if you were like Lorraine, you could see them clairvisually, hear them claiaudioally. I cant. And it wouldnt pay for me to do that because as an investigator people would think Im a little odd seeing ghosts flying around when they couldnt see anything. So, I have to see it, I have to feel it, I have to hear it, I have to record it before I accept it. But, mediums and clairvoyants are very necessary to us because they tell us immediately if something is there. I wouldnt know—I could go into a building for a month and not know if there is something really there. I could interview the people, and maybe through my knowledge I could tell if something is there, but the clairvoyant is the draw. The spirits are drawn to a medium/clairvoyant like a moth is drawn to a flame. Many times we use three or four clairvoyants in one place. We take them into a house one-at-a-time, they dont know where theyre going, what the case is about, etc. And if they all tell me the same thing, that they see a woman spirit in a certain room or a man or a child, then I know that were on the right track. I do think scientifically, we do have scientists working with us, and I think theologically and scientifically. There are organizations of atheists, so-called skeptical investigators that say, “There is no proof scientifically that God exists, that spirits exist that miracles occur.” Thats ridiculous, theres all kinds of proof. In [the Occult Museum] we have hundreds of items, we have thousands of cases between here and the other buildings out there that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the supernatural exists and the pre-to-natural exists. When I say `pre-to-natural Im talking about negative and `supernatural is positive. We have filmed the white Lady of Easton. We have filmed poltergeists, attacks on people, ghosts and we have taken many pictures of ghosts. We work with any clergy that their religion teaches love of God and love of your fellow man. We are not stupid enough to think that because we are Catholics that we are the only religion saved—thats what the problem is with Ireland is today—and a lot of other places. We work with all people of all faiths We have thousands of pictures of ghosts. And Im not talking about filmy ectoplasmic type material, Im talking about spirits that are as clear as you and I. You ask us for evidence, well give you that evidence. We proved in a court of law in 1989 that a woman and her young child driven out of her house by ghosts. She lived in Hebron, Connecticut. We went into Rockville court and we won the case. The Realtor that leased her the house was suing her for $2,000. She begged us to go into the house and to get some evidence that would prove that there really were ghosts. Now, you dont walk into a court of law and saw, “Well judge, there was ghosts there.”—You have to have evidence. In any court of law they use photographs, recordings and credible witnesses as evidence—thats what we use. We won the case, we set a precedent here in the United States. Scientists would say, “you didnt prove a thing, because you didnt take that ghost and put it in a bottle so we can open him up and examine him.” Thats stupid. Theyre saying that scientifically that you have to prove that God exists, that ghosts exist, there is no such thing you cant get scientific in a supernatural world. So, if we can prove in a court of law that ghosts exist and haunted houses exist I think thats good enough for anyone. The New England Society For Psychic Research The New England Society for Psychic Research was founded in 1952 and the goal at first was to simply investigate hauntings. Then, around 1965 the Warrens went into a home where the spirit of a little girl named Cynthia and they listened to the little child coming through a deep-trance medium and she was looking for her mother. Ed thought to himself, “This is horrible, this little child is earth-bound. Shes looking for her mother constantly day in and day out. How do I help this child?” It was no longer just experiencing the hauntings, now the Warrens wanted to help. The question arose as to where to get the knowledge to help anybody in spirit? Well, who delves into the supernatural? Priests, clergyman, rabbis. Ed started interviewing dozens and dozens of clergyman of all faiths, and would ask them “If somebody called you from your parish and said there was a ghost in the house what would you do?” Some said, “I tell them to go see a psychiatrist.” Others said, “Id go to the house and Id bless it. If the blessing didnt work Id say a mass, and if the mass didnt work Id perform the right of exorcism.” But many Catholic priests interviewed didnt even believe theres a devil. And yet all of this material is part of Catholicisms teaching. It is in the bible, within every ten words you have a psychic word: apparition, ghost, devil, demon, evil—its all in the bible, everything we talk about. N.E.S.P.R.s work is based in religion but also uses science. People have said to the Warrens, “Oh God, you go into a house and you look for devils.” And Eds response, “Your damn right I look for devils, and I look for everything else to. And I have the scientists with me and theyre looking for something else and we get together and we talk and straighten the whole thing out. Nobody can bring us into a house and fool us. You couldnt tell us that your house is haunted and get away with it because Im the biggest skeptic going. I have to see it, I have to hear it and I have to feel it with the physical sense.” Medical doctors, researchers, police officers, nurses, college student and house wives are all dedicated members who volunteer their services. The N.E.S.P.R. does not charge for their services and only asks for expenses to be covered. The Skeptics People have said, “Ed Warren hides behind his beliefs of Catholicism,” but he claims he uses them, he doesnt hide behind anything. “And I know that [Biblical beliefs] are fact because Ive seen and Ive heard and Ive felt all the things that it talks about. People have called Ed Warren an eccentric because he believes in devils and demons, “Of course I do,” he replies. “I learned about them as a child and proved they exist as a man—beyond a shadow of a doubt. If you dont want to call them devils and demons call them evil—I dont care what you call them. Religions are man-made, but spirituality isnt. “From the days that I went into a haunted house I always wanted media people with me and people condemned me for that. They said, “Ed Warren wants to be written up in newspapers, he wants to have books and movies. He wants to be exposed to the public. Youre damn right I do. My whole thought is expose the devil and expose evil. A skeptical public is the best protection that evil has, and Im going to make sure that I expose that evil anyway I can. People tell us that we get a lot of money for what we are doing here, our money comes very hard through these books and lectures. We dont get any easy money and the money we get we deserve and we dont charge for our services. But if you want us to come to Arizona, we are going to ask you for expenses.”
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