Ed and Lorraine Warren, The famous paranormal investigators
The Conjuring movies still remains as some of the best and most successful horror franchises ever created to date. At this point, it’s pretty much just common knowledge that all of these movies are based on true stories .
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The first Conjuring movie hit theatres in mid 2013 and was instantly a massive success. Since 2013, there has been a sequel based on another real life case that the Warrens investigated, as well as 2 spinoff series, Annabelle and The Nun, they even have more sequels coming. They are planned to be released later. So far, there are 7 movies in the conjuring series and another 17 films in the Amityville Horror series.
Edward Warren was a World War II United States Navy veteran and also a former police officer. He eventually became a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, and lecturer. His wife, Lorraine, was a clairvoyant and a light trance medium. In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research, also known as N.E.S.P.R, which is also the oldest ghost hunting group in New England. The two of have written numerous books about the paranormal and about the cases they have investigated, which they say is over 10,000 cases during their entire career.
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Ed Warren himself actually grew up in a haunted house from age 5 to 12. He lived in a Connecticut house, in which he experienced supernatural events. His father, who was a police officer at the time would say to him that there's a logical reason for everything that happens in this house, yet he’d never came up with any logical reasons behind the strange noises and weird things happening. His family would always hear pounding and footsteps, and he explained that they would all go to bed and just around 2 to 3 o'clock in the morning.
Ed would relate that, “many times I would hear the closet door beginning to open up. At first I'd look into that closet and see only shapeless darkness, then slowly I'd start to see a light beginning to form and it would morph into like a ball shape, sort of like a basketball and then I'd begin to see a face in that ball.” he then said what he saw was the face of an old woman.
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