2007
marks 39 years of lecturing on the college circuit for Lorraine
Warren. For over 45 years she has painstakingly investigated the
realm of the supernatural throughout North America, Brazil, Japan,
United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. Lorraine's intensive research
on over 5000 cases of reported phenomena throughout the world has
convinced her beyond a shadow of a doubt of the existence of ghosts,
demons, witches, satanists, vampires and werewolves. She has delved
into such areas as voodoo, exorcisms and possessions, satanism,
curses, reincarnation, human combustion, psychic photography, seances,
telepathy and many other "occult" sciences.
Married at age
18, Ed and Lorraine toured the United States as professional artists.
Ed's childhood experiences in a haunted house in Bridgeport, Connecticut
often enticed him to investigate haunted locations they would come
upon in their travels. After such visits, he would sit down and
paint his impressions of the phenomena occurring. Although Lorraine
accompanied him on many of these adventures, she refused for a long
time to use the powers of clairvoyance that she, as a child, had
discovered she possessed. It was only after continued confrontations
with "spiritual entities" during such investigations with
Ed that she finally decided to develop her latent powers. Today
she is recognized as one of the country's leading light trance mediums
with the ability to pick up thought impressions present in the environment.
In 1969, an
exhibit of Ed's collection of paintings depicting hauntings captured
the imagination of the public and led to their eventual college
lecture tours dealing with the subject. Since that time they have
appeared both nationally and abroad, in countless newspaper and
magazine articles, and radio and television programs. National television
credits include 20/20, Phil Donahue, Entertainment Tonight, The
Joan Rivers Show, Today Show, Prime Time, and Good Morning America.
In the spring of 1991, one of The Warrens most celebrated cases,
the Smurl haunting, and the best-selling book that followed became
the basis for the Fox movie of the week called "The Haunted."
Nine books on their work have been written, including Satan's Harvest
and The Ghost Hunters. Their tenth book, “Ghost Tracks”
Has recently been released.
Ed is one of
the few people authorized to examine the original files upon which
the book and movie The Exorcist were based. He has been present
at 200 exorcisms of locations, homes and individuals. The Warren's
most celebrated case involved their role as chief investigators
of the haunting on Long Island that became the subject of a number
one best-selling book and movie, The Amityville Horror. According
to The Warrens, that case was not a hoax, but a reality. To this
day, it remains one of the worst cases that they have ever been
involved with and certainly the most controversial. Mrs. Warren
was interviewed on Prime Time for the anniversary of Amityville.
They investigated the hauntings at the United States Military Academy
at West Point. They were involved in the famous demon murder case
in Connecticut in which a young man accused of murder pleaded innocent
by reason of demonic possession. This became the subject of an NBC
"Movie of the Week" starring Andy Griffith and Cloris
Leachman. One of their cases involved tracking down the much-publicized
"Werewolf of London" and bringing him to America for help.
This ordeal climaxed with a startling exorcism in their small New
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Late in 2000, Ed and Lorraine were in Japan and worked with Buddhist
monks on three different cases. One was in the mountains of northern
Japan where two hundred and fifty people died in the collapse of
a tunnel. Another site was at a new apartment complex where new
tenants were describing frightening phenomena. Their investigation
revealed that a Samuri warrior had been killed there. The third
case involved a very violent exorcism of a person at a monastery.
The national media of Japan funded and filmed all of their work.
Ed became ill soon after their return from Japan and finally passed
in 2006. Lorraine has continued their research and still does a
great deal of media work.
These
experiences, along with all those cases that come to their attention
every week have gained Ed and Lorraine Warren the celebrated title
of "America's Top Ghost Hunters." Their current slide-illustrated
program about witches, satanism, poltergeists, haunted houses and
ghosts, includes photographs and recordings of the phenomena witnessed.
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