16 Facts About Ed and Lorraine Warren

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Edward was a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, and lecturer.

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Stories of ghost hauntings popularized by the Warrens have been adapted as or have indirectly inspired dozens of films, television series, and documentaries, including several films in the Amityville Horror series and the films in The Conjuring Universe.

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The Warrens took the doll, telling the roommates it was "being manipulated by an inhuman presence", and put it on display at the family's "Occult Museum".

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The legend of the doll inspired several films in the Conjuring Universe Ed and Lorraine Warren is a motif in many others.

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Lorraine Warren was a consultant to the production and appeared in a cameo role in the film.

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Lorraine Warren told a reporter for The Express-Times newspaper that the Amityville Horror was not a hoax.

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The reported haunting was the basis for the 1977 book The Amityville Horror Ed and Lorraine Warren adapted into the 1979 Ed and Lorraine Warren 2005 films of the same name, while serving as inspiration for the film series that followed.

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The Warrens' version of events is partially adapted and portrayed in the opening sequence of The Conjuring 2.

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Ed and Lorraine Warren had been called prior to the killing to deal with the alleged demonic possession of the younger brother of Johnson's fiancee.

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In 1986, Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived and proclaimed the Snedeker house, a former funeral home, to be infested with demons.

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The Haunting in Connecticut, a film based on the Warrens' version of events and directed by Peter Cornwell, was released in 2009.

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Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed to have "captured her essence" on film.

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Ed and Lorraine Warren were members of the Roman Catholic Church.

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On January 11,1946, Lorraine gave birth to their daughter named Judy Warren.

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Ed died on August 23,2006, and Lorraine died on April 18,2019.

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Lorraine Warren said that the problem with Perry and Steve is that "they don't base anything on a God".