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Perhaps the biggest piece of evidence to debunk the whole thing is the fact that the Lutz’s had serious financial issues at the time. The case, that the Warren’s really worked upon, has been dissected untold times, with sceptics certain that the events were made up. I will never go in the Amityville house ever again”. It was absolutely horrible”, Lorraine told Yahoo! “It followed us right straight across the country. The family were so scared that they left the house less than a month after moving in. He also claims to have seen his wife and children levitating from their beds. George was known to dabble in the occult and would apparently wake up every morning at 3:15 am, the same time that the murders took place. The Lutz family quickly found this out as they said they experienced mysterious bruises appearing on their bodies, red-eyed creatures watching them from the shadows, strange odours, cold spots, and green slime oozing from the walls. Some of that demonic energy stuck around. The previous owners, the DeFeo family, had been brutally murdered in their sleep by their son, Ronald Jr, who killed his parents, two brothers, and two sisters. They soon realised why the house was so cheap, as apparent demonic forces quickly went to work on them. They got the house for a bargain price and moved in with their three children. The story goes that in 1974, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the house on Long Island, about an hour East of New York City. The house in New York in the 1970’s is the one house that Lorraine said she would never visit again. As to the validity of the actual cases, well… AmityvilleĪmityville is the case that appeared to stick with the Warren’s the longest and brought them to international fame. There really were a pair of paranormal investigators going around helping people with ghostly problems. He passed away in 2006 while Lorraine continued to investigate cases on her own until her death in 2019. This is the kind of thing we see them doing in the Conjuring films.Įd Warren performed a number of exorcisms throughout his life and became the Catholic Church’s only recognised non-clergy expert on demonology. They gained notoriety through being the first psychic investigators to talk openly about their work and they lectured in colleges, giving talks on demonology and playing audio recordings and showing pictures of their work. They claim to have investigated over 10,000 cases across the world. In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research and would offer their services in paranormal investigations to those who appeared to be suffering from hauntings or possessions. Meeting when they were just teenagers, the Warrens were married in 1945 and had a daughter, Judy, in 1950. Lorraine says she could see the future at age 12, and would tell the nuns at her school about their differently coloured auras. Ed claims to have seen the spirit of his family’s landlady who had died the year before when he was just five. Both knew there was something different about them when they started having paranormal encounters in their childhood. They were both born in Connecticut in the late 1920’s and raised in the Roman Catholic Faith.

Ed described himself as a ‘demonologist’ while Lorraine professed psychic abilities as a ‘clairvoyant’ – someone who can perceive historical information through extrasensory interaction – and a ‘medium’ – someone who can communicate with spirits. It’s well known that these two were real paranormal investigators. So, what really happened in these real-life cases and how true are the Conjuring films?Įd and Lorraine are the Mulder and Scully-esque ghost-fighting duo at the heart of the franchise. If it’s real enough for the authorities, there must be some truth to matter. So much so that either the Department of Justice or the FBI actually issued a handbook on working with psychics”. “The Warrens were both famous and infamous, to the point where, in their careers, they actually would work with some police departments and on some missing person cases. We spoke with director Michael Chaves to find out how true-to-life these cases are.Ĭhaves tells us that “the promise of the Warrens is that this is what they did, they would actually have these investigations.”

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The thing that makes the Conjuring films so good is the fact that they are based on real-life events, with a heavy dose of artistic license thrown in for good measure.

Notably, you’ve got the demonic doll, Annabelle, and The Nun, another paranormal possession film. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third film in the Conjuring series but the core movies have sparked numerous offshoots and standalone films too, all based on real events.

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