The Warrens! Heroes who were real ghost hunters
The couple took on the most terrible and inexplicable cases. Lorraine Rita Morin was 16 and Ed Warren was 17 when they first met at a party. The young beauty immediately turned Ed’s head, and he unexpectedly proposed to her.
Lorraine agreed. Warren will go to war, from which he will return with the rank of honorary veteran of the Navy. A modest wedding will forever bind the young not only with the bonds of family happiness, but also with a common favorite thing.
Ed and Lorraine Warren will become America’s first ghostbusters. Lorraine, as a child, discovered the ability to feel and see the ghosts of dead people. In order not to be considered crazy, she was afraid to admit it to anyone.
Ed, in turn, already in his youth considered himself a self-taught parapsychologist, because he grew up in a haunted house.
Passionate about unraveling the mysteries of the paranormal world, the Warrens found many adherents among doctors, police officers, scientists, students and even priests.
The latter, for example, believed that the fight against evil spirits was a very necessary and useful thing. In 1952 Ed and Lorraine founded the New England Society for Psychical Research. And a little later they created the Warren Occult Museum.
According to the ghost hunters, which Ed and Lorraine considered themselves to be, they made all their conclusions on the basis of thorough investigations and strong evidence.
In the archive of the Warrens, there are about ten thousand stories related to the paranormal world. And some of them are now well known to millions of people.
For example, the case with the Annabelle doll brought the hunters their first fame and unprecedented popularity. In 1968, a medical student was given a rag doll named Ann.
The appearance of this, at first glance, cute and harmless toy suddenly brought anxiety and anxiety into the girl’s life. Strange, inexplicable events began to occur in the apartment.
It seemed to the poor student that out of the darkness the doll smiled eeriely at her and moved around the room. She will call for help ghost hunters — Ed and Lorraine Warren.
After some manipulation, they discovered that the spirit of a dead woman named Annabelle Higgins had taken possession of the rag doll. The established contact will allow the hunters to discover that the ghost of the deceased is an evil demon.
And away from sin, the doll will be placed in an occult museum under glass with a warning sign: «Do not touch.»
The Perron family, the home of Amityville, the case of the werewolf Bill Raman, the Borley Church, in whose walls, according to legend, a nun was immured, the ghost of the White Lady from the famous Union Cemetery in Connectivity
— these high-profile cases investigated by ghost hunters will bring them worldwide fame.
To be fair, part of this success will be shared by Hollywood directors who have created a series of great horror films such as The Conjuring, Anabel’s Curse, The Nun’s and others.
Until now, the figures of the first ghost hunters cause fierce disputes among specialists. Some even try to accuse them of clever deceit, juggling of facts and staged tricks to enhance the effect of fear.
Others hint that collaboration with Hollywood brought the Warren family fabulous fees.
