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Beyond the Conjuring: The Real Case of the Warrens

Director James Wan introduced the world to supernatural research couple Ed and Lorraine Warren. The most famous of their cases were already transferred to the movie screens, and Wang was so inspired by their stories that he decided to create his own Warren MCU – to the delight of the audience and film critics, who received the first films of the series very well, as well as lovers of creepy stories about the ghosts that live among us. According to Ed and Lorraine, during their lives they witnessed the manifestation of dozens of cases of the presence of otherworldly forces in our world, and after that they wrote several books about it and gave many lectures in the United States and beyond. This article will focus on four of the most frightening cases from their practice, which served as the basis for the creation of blockbusters “The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2”.

Ghostbusters

Ed and Lorraine Warren traveled all over America with their lectures on various paranormal phenomena. He is a World War II veteran and former police officer, she is a professional medium. Together, the Warrens called themselves “explorers of the paranormal” and enjoyed the support of the Vatican, often consulting with the Catholic Church about this or that spiritualistic manifestation. In addition, Ed and Lorraine published several books in which they talked about the most famous cases of the appearance of spirits and made attempts to study their nature.

Ed Warren passed away in 2006, but Lorraine continues to be actively involved in the study of supernatural phenomena. She also helps support the Warren Occult Museum they founded in the back of their home in Monroe, Connecticut. All the exhibits of the museum are connected in one way or another with the mysterious stories that the husband and wife have been investigating during their busy careers.

Don’t Disturb the Witch’s Grave

The quiet provincial town of Harrisville, Rhode Island, has its own haunted house story. This chilling legend takes place in a house that once belonged to a woman named Bathsheba (Bathsheba) Sherman.

She was born in Rhode Island in 1812 and married Judson Sherman in 1844. Bathsheba quickly became an outcast in her city, primarily because she was suspected of killing her young child – according to locals, she killed him with needles, dedicating her victim to Satan. But the evidence of Bathsheba’s involvement in the death of the baby was not enough, and she continued to live quietly in her house alone. Periodically, rumors continued to spread around the city about her mistreatment of the servants. Nevertheless, Bathsheba lived safely until 1885, and later the coroner who examined her body admitted that he was very surprised: the witch’s corpse seemed to have “turned to stone.” She was buried near her home, and the tombstone with her name is still very popular with local tourists.

Tombstone over Bathsheba Sherman’s grave near the haunted house in Harrisville.

In the eight generations that have passed since the death of Bathsheba, the history of the house has acquired new terrible events – two suicides were committed in it and death from poisoning took place, four men froze to death in the district, two drowned, and an eleven-year-old was raped and killed in the nearby forest girl. Most of the deaths in one way or another concerned the Arnold family, which is directly related to the late Sherman. At 19In 71, the Perron family, consisting of a married couple and their five daughters, settled in the house. Strange events in the house began already on the day of the move: according to three girls, when the previous tenants were picking up their things, they saw a man standing in a dark corner who was watching the movers.

Not all the spirits inhabiting the old house were hostile towards the Perron family. According to the children, they even had different smells – the friendliest ghost, for example, smelled like summer flowers. The younger girl, April Perron, actively communicated with an entity named Manny. Manny often appeared near the children, watching them play with a smile, but disappeared as soon as someone tried to look directly at him. Later, the family came to the conclusion that, most likely, this “visitor from the other world” was Johnny Arnold, who hanged himself in the attic of the house in the early 1700s.

The Perron family on the steps of the house where they will experience the worst years of their lives.

But soon it was the turn of the evil forces living in the vicinity. At night, the girls began to wake up from the fact that someone was pulling hard on their legs or slamming doors. Periodically, the Perrons heard a child’s voice desperately calling for their mother, and one of the ghosts told them that “the remains of seven dead soldiers lie within the walls of the house.” But all these phenomena were in fact only a warm-up before the appearance of the most sinister of the spirits that inhabit the old house – the furious Bathsheba. Most of all from the ghost of the witch went to the mother of the family, Carolyn Perron. According to her daughter, Bathsheba appeared in a terrible way – her face was like “a dried-up beehive covered with cobwebs, on which insects crawled.” The Perron family seriously thought about moving, but financial problems did not allow them to leave the ill-fated house. And the attacks of the evil entity continued and became more and more aggressive, after which Carolyn Perron could not stand it and turned to Ed and Lorraine Warren for help.

From the doorway, Lorraine admitted that she felt the presence of dark forces in the house, mainly directed at Carolyn. The Warrens immediately began to carry out the rite of “cleansing” the house, but nothing came of it: psychics only angered the spirits present in it and personally witnessed their antics. When the situation got out of control, the head of the family, Roger, asked them to leave the house so as not to anger the ghosts once again. The departure of the Warrens really “calmed” the spirits, which, nevertheless, continued to terrorize the family until 1980, when the Perrons had saved enough money to move to another state. Many years later, Andrea Perron, one of the girls who lived in the mansion, wrote the book House of Darkness, House of Light, in which she described in detail the events that took place in the 70s and left an indelible mark on the history of her family.

“Whose slave of ideas are you, why would you hunt people?..”

At first glance, Annabelle is a completely inconspicuous doll from the popular series called “Rag Annie” (after the character in the children’s book series). But under her huge rag eyes, a rather terrible secret is hidden about the events that unfolded in 1970th year. Then the doll was purchased in a second-hand store by the mother of a nursing student Donna. She was happy to receive such a gift – but only at first. Soon she, along with her roommate Angie, began to notice mysterious phenomena occurring in the apartment at night: doors and windows opened and closed abruptly on their own, the doll moved around the bed and changed its position. According to the students, the most terrible discovery for them was the moment when they returned home and found Annabelle, who was standing in the kitchen and leaning on a chair with one hand – although when the girls themselves tried to put the doll on the floor, she fell because of the soft rag legs. Some time later, Angie left a piece of paper and a pen in her room, and later found a clumsy, as if made by a child’s hand, inscription “help.” And on the hands of the doll, drops of blood began to appear out of nowhere.

Annabelle in The Conjuring.

Frightened students turned to a medium for help, and he managed to find out that the spirit of the deceased seven-year-old girl Annabelle Higgins lives in the doll, whose body was once found in the field, on the site of which the house with the girls’ apartment was built. This discovery reassured Donna and Angie, after which they made a grave mistake – they offered the restless spirit to stay with them. The girlfriends saw off the medium safely and decided to continue to live a quiet student life. But it was not there. Annabelle in a short time began to behave much more aggressively than before.

Donna and Angie invited their friend Lou to spend the night, who was unaware of the strange events taking place in their house. Late at night he woke up and felt that he could not move. Looking at his chest, the guy saw a doll sitting on it. Annabelle seemed to be looking straight at him. She “slid” up his leg, stopped on his chest and suddenly began to choke Lou, after which he lost consciousness. The next morning the guy decided that it was just a bad dream. But the attacks didn’t stop there. The next day, Lou and Angie were studying road maps while planning a vacation when they suddenly heard rustling noises coming from Donna’s room. Entering the room, Lou found Annabelle lying on the floor. He took the doll in his hands and suddenly felt someone’s presence behind him. Lou turned around for a second and immediately cried out in pain – long bleeding scratches appeared on his chest, and Annabelle’s hands were again smeared with blood.

The real Annabelle doll in Lorraine Warren’s arms and in her glass “chamber” at the museum.

Donna, who began to seriously fear the demonic forces that settled in her toy, asked the local priest, Father Hegan, for advice, and he, in turn, referred the girl for a consultation with the Warrens. After hearing the creepy story about the doll from Donna and her friend, Ed and Lorraine immediately recognized that Annabelle was possessed by evil forces. The spirit that inhabited her rag body manipulated it at will, appearing to be a harmless ghost of a girl, and its real goal was to possess a human host, which, according to the Warrens, served as the current stage in his plans. On their advice, several “cleansing” ceremonies were carried out in the students’ apartment, and the doll itself was taken out and placed in a closed glass cabinet in the Warren Museum, where it remains to this day. Ed Warren also claimed that another person was the victim of the doll. Once a motorcyclist came to the museum, whose attention was immediately attracted by Annabelle’s shelving. He tried to open the lock and knocked several times on the glass door, after which Ed asked him to leave the premises. But on the way home, the man’s motorcycle lost control, after which he crashed into a tree at full speed. Death came instantly.

Walls washed with blood

On a cold night on November 13, 1974, twenty-three-year-old Ronald DeFeo shot his sleeping relatives in cold blood – his mother, father, two sisters and two brothers. The guy denied his guilt for a long time, trying to convince the police that his family was attacked by a gang of a local gangster, but later confessed to his deed and received six prison terms of twenty-five years for his crime. But in his story, new nuances appeared. The neighbors were as surprised as the police – why on a quiet night in a residential area no one heard a series of shots, why didn’t any of the family members wake up from the screams of others? And according to Ronald himself, a month before the crime, he heard strange voices in his head, ordering him to deal with his relatives. However, DeFeo went to jail for life, and the Lutz family moved into his home, better known as Amityville, thirteen months later.

The house where DeFeo killed his entire family is the infamous Amityville.

George, Cathy and their three children moved into the mansion the week before Christmas. The Lats were a believing family, and therefore, the day before their arrival, they invited a familiar priest to bless the house. But as soon as he crossed the threshold of the house, the priest sensed something was wrong, and he developed a fever, as with a fever. And when it came time to sprinkle the corridors with holy water, he suddenly heard a male voice from the bedroom on the second floor, ordering him: “Get out.” The frightened pastor nevertheless finished the ceremony and did not begin to tell the Lats about what had happened, mistaking the voice for a game of his imagination.

The Lutz family lived a quiet life in their early days in Amityville. But soon strange things began to happen. To begin with, hordes of flies settled in the house, the presence of which in the cold winter was already alarming in itself. The smells of perfume and excrement hovered in the corridors from nowhere, windows and doors slammed shut of their own accord. The Latzes’ five-year-old daughter, Missy, told her parents about her new friends – a little boy and a pig-like creature with bright red glowing eyes that no one but her had ever seen. A few days later, the head of the family, George, while in the garden, saw a pig described by his daughter in the windows of one of the bedrooms – but, having run into the house, he did not find anything in it. Other members of the family began to report red eyes watching from the windows. George Lutz, for some unknown reason, began to wake up every night at exactly 3:15 – exactly at the time when Ronald DeFeo began to kill his loved ones.

The Lats made another attempt to consecrate the house. This time, with a crucifix in his hands, George himself walked through the mansion. And this time, he personally heard a formidable voice ordering him: “Stop it.” The Lutzes’ last night in Amityville had been a nightmare: windows and doors banged all over the house, and the walls shook with a rumble, as if a parade was marching through the building. Unable to withstand such tension, George and his family hurriedly packed their things and fled the cursed mansion. In total, they lived there for twenty-eight days.

Twenty days after the Lutzes fled, Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived in Amityville at the request of a local journalist. In the house they were accompanied by a team of reporters and parapsychologists, but not by the Latz themselves – they expressed a desire to never again approach the deadly place. Lorraine attempted to make contact with the ghosts and later admitted that she saw the bodies of the DeFeo family lying on the floor and covered with sheets, after which something seemed to “push” her and the vision disappeared. Meanwhile, the Warrens’ paranormal investigators have made an even more interesting discovery. They left a camera in the hallway on the second floor, taking pictures of the stairs and the entrance to the room of the Lutzes’ youngest daughter, Missy, every few seconds. Later, having developed the pictures, in one of the frames the detectives discovered something that greatly surprised and frightened them – a child was peeking out from behind the bedroom door, which at the time of shooting could not be in the house. The photo was sent to George Lutz, and when he asked Missy if she knew the boy in the photo, she answered yes – it was the same boy with whom she often played in Amityville. And who, moreover, was very similar to the youngest son of the DeFeo family, who was killed that bloody night.

The ghost of a child filmed by paranormal investigators in Amityville. It is easy to see his resemblance to the youngest of the murdered children, nine-year-old John DeFeo.

Studies have shown that before the murder of the DeFeo family in Amityville, only one person died due to illness – and it is unlikely that he was the evil spirit that forced Ronald to commit such a cruel act. But as a result of further searches, it turned out that the land on which the mansion stands was previously owned by John Ketchum, a practicing black magician. He bequeathed to bury himself on his territory, and his remains are still buried somewhere near Amityville. According to the Warrens, such a dark past is guaranteed to attract suffering and pain to these places.

The story of the Latzes gained wide publicity after the publication in 1977 of Jay Anson’s nonfiction novel The Amityville Horror. By the way, a direct participant in the story, George Lutz, was dissatisfied with both the first film adaptation of the book and the subsequent remake of 2005. According to him, he was disgusted by the very fact that the terrible events that happened to his family, Hollywood studios are trying to use for entertainment purposes. However, in 2005, George contributed to the documentary The Real Amityville Horror, and in 2012, his son Daniel starred in My Amityville Horror, giving his perspective on the family’s creepy story. Lorraine Warren also took part in the creation of the last tape.

Despite all the terrible events, the popularity of Amityville had a positive effect on him financially. Bought by the Lutz family for $80,000, the house resurfaced on the property market in 2010 with a value of $950,000. The current owners of the damned mansion have almost completely restored it (in particular, having got rid of the famous semicircular window from the children’s room at the auction), and they are extremely negative about the history of the house and refuse all kinds of interviews. Well, either the spirits living in Amityville have finally found peace, or its new owners have not yet realized how lucky they were with the purchase.

This is not your home

In 1978, the Warrens were called to Enfield, North London. The reason for their arrival was the phenomenon known as the “Enfield poltergeist” – the most documented manifestation of the paranormal entity in world history. Peggy Hodgson and her four young children, and especially eleven-year-old Janet, became the object of attacks of a violent spirit.

Terrible events began shortly after the Hodgsons moved to their new home. The first happened on 30 August 1977 – Peggy was putting the kids to bed when Janet complained to her that her brother’s bed was shaking and “vibrating” and someone was walking around the room. Entering her daughter’s room, Peggy witnessed a strange phenomenon – a heavy chest of drawers moved by itself, towards the door. Not wanting to scare the children, she tried to move it into place, but met with resistance, as if someone unseen was pushing from the other side.

Later manifestations of the supernatural became more frequent. Most often, the ghost indicated its presence in the room with a loud knock, as if running down the walls from the ceiling to the floor. The frightened Hodgsons began to sleep in the same room, leaving the lights on at night. The ghost received special attention from Janet, who later admitted that shortly before the start of terrible events, she and her sister played with the Ouija board, with which mediums communicate with the world of spirits. The poltergeist lifted the girl into the air, sometimes even hitting her against the walls and the window.

Young Janet sometimes felt like she was being tossed around the room by unseen forces like a toy.

Peggy turned to her neighbors for help. One of them, Vic Nottingham, personally walked around the Hodgson house and admitted that he heard strange knocking everywhere, as if coming from the walls. By that time, the phenomenon of the Enfield poltergeist was gaining more and more public attention. The number of witnesses to inexplicable events in the house was increasing – among the eyewitnesses were the police, who once came to the call and watched the chair move by itself. Janet was the victim of attacks at school – classmates mocked her, calling her “Ghost Girl”.

A variety of mediums from all over the country began to flock to the Hodgsons. Janet, on the other hand, became the victim of another terrible phenomenon – from time to time she began to speak in a low, hoarse voice, which a fragile eleven-year-old girl could hardly imitate. With the help of mediums, the Hodgsons managed to find out that Janet was possessed by the spirit of an old man named Bill Wilkins, who previously lived in the house and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Wilkins’ relatives found later confirmed the story heard by the mediums from the girl. Dozens of reporters also ran to the scene every day, carefully documenting what was happening. On the Web, you can find a recording of an interview of one of the researchers with Janet Hodgson, in which the voice of the deceased Bill Wilkins allegedly speaks through her.

Madison Wolf as Janet Hodgson in The Conjuring 2.

In fact, Ed and Lorraine Warren were not the main participants in the study of the Enfield poltergeist. By the time they arrived, rumors were spreading among the people that the ghost terrorizing the Hodgsons was a fake. They added fuel to the fire and videos showing Janet, imperceptibly from everyone bending spoons in the kitchen, in order to pass them off as the result of the tricks of otherworldly forces. Later, Janet admitted that she and her sister really “embellished” some phenomena, but firmly stood her ground when the conversation turned to the presence of an ominous ghost in the house. She was absolutely sure of his existence, as were the other members of her family. The Warrens did not stay in the mansion for long, but that was enough for Ed to study the manifestations of the poltergeist and come to the conclusion that the Hodgsons are not charlatans, and the spirit of the former owner, dissatisfied with the new cohabitants, really lives in their house.

The Enfield poltergeist calmed down in 1978 after a priest from the local church cleansed the Hodgson home. However, Janet claimed that at night she and her mother continued to hear strange sounds, and sometimes there was a feeling that someone was watching them. But family life became positively calmer, albeit not for long: Janet’s younger brother, Johnny, died of cancer at fourteen. Then the same disease took her mother, and many years later, eighteen-year-old son Janet died in his sleep.

After the death of Peggy Hodgson, Claire Bennett moved into the house with her four children, but they did not live there for long. At night, the children heard a strange knock, it seemed to Claire herself that someone was watching her, and the last straw was the night when her fifteen-year-old son woke up and saw a man standing in the doorway in his room. The Bennetts left the house the next day, spending a total of two months there. Apparently, old man Bill Wilkins really valued his mansion.