Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren have been associated with some of the most
famous and prominent hauntings and supernatural happenings known to the mainstream.
Ed, who had passed away in 2006, was a self-trained and self-proclaimed demonologist with an extensive
knowledge, and Lorraine, who still runs their famous Occult Museum in Connecticut, is a
clairvoyant.
Together, they’ve accumulated many a terrifying story from their cases, some of which we’ve
grown familiar with on the big screen.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at the real life events they accounted for with
our list of the top 5 scary cases investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren.
5 Annabelle The Annabelle doll is the most prominent piece
found in the Warren’s Occult Museum.
Trapped inside a glass case with a sign that reads ‘warning: positively do not open’,
this Raggedy Ann doll was initially purchased in a thrift store in 1970 by a mother looking
for a birthday present for her daughter Donna.
Donna, who was in college and shared an apartment with her roommate Angie, loved the doll at
first, and took it home with her.
Over the course of the next few days, Donna and Angie started to notice something odd
about the doll.
It seemed to move around the house on its own, never where they had left it, and would
change in position.
One time they even found it standing on its feet.
Then, strange messages written on scraps of paper started to appear all over the apartment,
looking as if they were written by a child.
A bit freaked out, Donna and Angie called a medium, who told them the doll was possessed
by a little girl named Annabelle who had died in their apartment building.
Annabelle liked the two girls, and wanted to stay with them.
The young women allowed it, but, much to their dismay, they would soon find out that Annabelle
wasn’t who she said she was.
One of their male friends, named Lou, stayed the night at their apartment, and woke up
in the middle of the night to find Annabelle next to him, appearing to move.
The doll strangled him, and the next morning he woke up to find himself covered in cuts
and burns.
This is when Donna reached out to a priest, who then brought in the Warrens.
The doll wasn’t actually possessed at all; instead a demon was manipulating it, trying
to get close to the girls in an attempt to possess one of them.
4 Smurl Haunting In between 1974 and 1989, a couple by the
name of Jack and Janet Smurl who lived in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, claimed that
a demon inhabited their home.
Jack and Janet began witnessing strange happenings the likes of loud noises and bad odors.
The torment continued to get worse.
Their dog was thrown into a wall, their daughter was pushed down their stairs, and Jack claims
to have been physically and sexually assaulted by the demon on multiple occasions.
The Warrens didn’t get involved in the case until 1986, and their reports were pretty
disturbing.
Ed claimed to see a dark mass form inside the home, and the temperature dropped severely.
The demon even left them a message written on a mirror that read Get Out.
By 1987, the haunting had calmed down to an extent, with Janet telling reporters that
they still heard knocking and saw shadows occasionally.
After the Smurls left, the new house owner told reporters in 1988 that she never encountered
anything supernatural while living there.
The Smurl Haunting had generated a lot of press attention over the years, and there
were a lot of doubts about the legitimately of the Smurls’ claims.
3 Perron Family You might recognize the Perron family as the
story that is depicted in the first Conjuring film.
Back in January 1971, the Perron family moved into an old farmhouse, a 14 room building
in Rhode Island.
Roger, Carolyn and their five daughters began to notice strange occurrences shortly after
moving in, like missing objects, odd noises, and small piles of dirt appearing in previously
cleaned rooms.
The girls began noticing spirits around the house, most of which were harmless, but some
that were more aggressive.
Things got worse; the spirits would cause their beds to rise off the floor and smell
like rotting flesh.
Carolyn researched the house and discovered that it had a long history of people dying
from mysterious circumstances, with some hanging themselves in the attic, and others drowning
in the creek nearby.
One in particular, Bathsheba, was a spirit of a woman who lived on the property in the
mid-1800s who was a Satanist, and was somehow involved in the death of a neighbour’s child.
The Warrens visited the farmhouse multiple times, and on one occasion, Lorraine conducted
a séance, which led to Carolyn becoming possessed and speaking in tongues.
The family, due to financial strain, was forced to live in the house until 1980, and reportedly
the hauntings had ceased by then.
2 Endfield Poltergeist The Endfield Poltergeist is the story that
appears in the second Conjuring film.
In 1977, the Hodgson family, who lived in Enfield, England, began to seeing and hearing
strange things in their home, including a dresser sliding across one of the children’s
bedrooms.
Toys would fly around the house and were burning hot to the touch.
Loud knocking sounds shook the house, to the point where they had to call the police, believing
that someone was trying to break into their house.
The officer who came to the scene reported seeing a chair rise up into the air and move
across the floor all on its own.
Reporters from the Daily Mirror were also present at one point, and claimed they had
also witnessed some of these strange occurrences.
The situation really started to attract attention when one day, the iron fireplace in one of
the bedrooms upstairs was ripped out of the wall.
The Warrens came to the house and upon investigating declared that a demonic presence was there.
While the film depicts an almost-exorcism, the real life story is quite different; two
years after the hauntings began, they abruptly stopped.
1 Amityville Even if you’re unfamiliar with the specifics
of this story, you’ve probably at some point heard the name Amityville in correlation with
horror or hauntings.
Amityville is a real place, approximately 30 miles outside of New York City, and back
in 1974, the 23 year old Ronald J DeFeo Jr murdered his entire family with a rifle while
they slept.
13 months afterwards, a new family purchased the house, the Lutz Family, who stayed there
for 28 days before fleeing.
The Lutz family claimed that their house was haunted by a violent spirit.
After their first night there, the family began constantly getting into arguments, their
daughter Jodie started to spend all of her time playing with an imaginary friend named
Jodie, awful odors emanated from all over the house, and black stains started to appear
on various surfaces.
Flies started to appear in one of the upstairs rooms that they had turned into a sewing room.
George Lutz, the father, would always wake up at 3:15am, the time in which the DeFeo
murders occurred according to the police.
Family members started to appear aged and levitate.
So finally, they got a priest to walk through the house, but they continued to be terrorized.
20 days after the family left the house, the Warrens were called in to investigate.
While they were there, Ed was violently pushed to the floor and Lorraine was overwhelmed
by a demonic presence, and saw the psychic impressions of the DeFeo families bodies laid
along the floor.
Further research into the house revealed that it was actually the site used by a man named
John Ketchum in the early 1900s who practice black magic.
They also captured an image of a boy peering from the second floor of the house.
The Lutz’s eventually sold all of their belongings, some to the Warrens, and relocated
to California.
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