Author: Austin Walter
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| Edward Warren Miney and Lorraine Rita Warren |
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| The current heads of The New England Society for Psychic Research, Tony Spera, Chris Gilloren, and Dan Rivera. |
The New England Society for Psychic Research
Ed and Lorraine Warren created The New England Society for Psychic Research. The oldest currently active paranormal activity research group. Ed and Lorraine founded the society with one main goal: help tormented people deal with paranormal events that they couldn’t handle on their own. While alive the society was run by Ed and Lorraine, but with their passing the society remains maintained by their son-in-law, Tony Spera and two others, Chris Gilloren, and Dan Rivera. Since Lorraine's death in April 2019 the society has also maintained The Occult museum and all its belongings.
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| The real Annabelle doll in her glass box. |
The Occult Museum
The Occult Museum, founded by Ed and Lorraine Warren, is dedicated to the many investigations the Warrens had a major part of over the years, covered in artifacts from said investigations and a few Halloween decorations sprout to "set the scene". The Occult Museum also included the Annabelle doll, known for its pop culture reference, which is the museum's most valuable possession. It's the raggedy doll that supposedly caused the death of one un-knowing museumgoer and the doll that haunted two college girls and badly scratched their visiting friend. A museum visitor, after questioning the truthfulness of the story behind the doll began tapping on the glass of the doll box. Witnesses say that directly after leaving The Occult Museum he visitor died in a motorcycle accident from a head-on collision with a tree.
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| The Amityville horror house. |
Pop Culture and Investigations
For over 5 decades now, Ed and Lorraine Warren have defended the world against demonic inhabitants, being a "religious authority" to those of the supernatural who decided to stay in our world instead of crossing over to the "other side." Ed and Lorraine Warren have been part of many supernatural investigations, some of which are commonly known from their movie titles, these include The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Conjuring 2, The Haunting in Connecticut, Annabelle: Creation, The Haunted, and their most famous feature My Amityville Horror. In My Amityville Horror,a couple and their children find a new home with a low-price tag in Amityville N.Y that seems “too good to be true”. Soon after they move in and get settled, they notice strange happenings in the house. They soon then realize that the low price that they had been so ecstatic about was due to the house's grim past. The father of the last resident family killed his children and wife, claiming that he was possessed by the devil. Based on its past, the new family concludes that the house is haunted and call a priest to cast off the evil spirits that call the house their domain. Ed and Lorraine Warren after their long carriers as paranormal investigators have contributed much to the paranormal community and a surprising amount to popular culture as well.
Works Cited:
“Annabelle " The New England Society For Psychic Research. https://www.warrens.net/Annabelle /
Bartholomew, Robert. "The Amityville Hoax at 40" Skeptic, vol. 21 no. 4, 2016 Pp. 8-12. Academic Search Premier, http://ezproxy.usca.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=120458146&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Eckstrom, Kevin. “Conjuring Up the Whole Story” National Catholic Reporter, Vol. 49, no. 22 Pp. 18-18. Academic Search Premier, http://ezproxy.usca.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=90009975&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Grundhauser, Eric. “The Warren’s Occult Museum”. Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-warrens-occult-museum-monroe-connecticut
“Warrens’ Biography" The New England Society For Psychic Research. https://www.warrens.net/warrens-biography/
Links for Further Research:
Lorraine Warren, 'Amityville Horror' and 'Conjuring' ghost hunter, dead at 92
This link further explains Lorrain warrens contribution to pop culture and popular horror movies based on her paranormal investigations.
A talk and tour with Lorraine Warren in her home. See the real Annabelle doll in her basement!
This video takes you on a tour of the life of Lorraine warren as a clairvoyant and her home, also interviewing her son-in-law.
THE CONJURING -The Real Lorraine Warren Featurette
This video takes you on a tour of the Occult Museum, and compares the memories of Lorrain Warren's real conjuring experiences and the movie The Conjuring
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