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Article for iHorror by Author: Lani C.

Swarms of flies in the middle of winter. A flying ghost pig with

glowing red eyes. Levitation. Cloven hoof prints in fresh snow. Not

exactly the kinds of things that make a house a comfy home. But all

these things supposedly happened in a house in the small town of

Amityville, New York, in 1975. The goings-on at Amityville had several

things in common with some of the other famous haunted house

cases that occurred over the course of the next thirty years: the events

were hard to verify; they bore a suspicious resemblance to incidents

in The Exorcist, released only a few years previously; and the

authenticity of absolutely everything that happened was

enthusiastically trumpeted by Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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Ed and Lorraine had been paranormal investigators since 1952 (Ed

died in 2006; Lorraine still makes frequent media appearances as a

paranormal expert). Perhaps "investigators" isn't quite the right word,

for as far as I can determine, the Warrens never encountered anything

"supernatural" that they weren't eager to promote as being absolutely

genuine, no investigation required. The two are associated with pretty

much every haunting that became famous (and made money),

probably because they either wrote a book about their involvement-

the Warrens seemed to write books at the drop of a hat -or they hired

someone to write a book for them. Needless to say, the purpose of

every single book appears to have been to promote the Warrens and

their amazing abilities. According to Ray Garton, the horror writer who

was hired to write a book about the Snedecker haunting (later made

into a movie, of course: Haunting in Connecticut), the Warrens had no

interest in veracity; Garton was told to "make it up and make it scary."

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How do you become a paranormal investigator, or a demonologist, as

Ed Warren also styled himself? This is something I haven't been able

to determine. Is there a demonologist's school? Both Warrens had a

fondness for making pompous pronouncements, and they certainly

made a good show of knowing what they were talking about. Steven

Novella says he was told by Ed Warren that 3 a.m. is the worst hour

for hauntings. (http://www.skepticbloq.org/2009/06/22/huntinq-the-

qhost-hunters/) Why? Because demonic forces like to insult the Holy

Trinity. Despite extensive research, I'm still not sure how Ed got his

insider knowledge of the hours demons keep.

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The Warrens' pronouncements are pretty amusing, and reading about

their cases can be hilarious-ghostly chickens clucking, a demon

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fhttp://swallowinqthecamel.b loqspot.com/2009/05/qhostbusters-ed-

and-lorraine-warren.html)-but it's also disheartening. Many of the

people who claimed to be haunted were clearly in it for the money,

but they were also frequently people with serious problems, and

being associated with the Warrens seems to have made it likely that

those problems weren't addressed. In one case there was a murder,

and the perpetrator, with the Warrens' support (of course!), claimed he

committed the crime because he was possessed by a demon.

Immediately after the murder occurred the Warrens announced they'd

be writing a book about it.

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Nothing in the Warren story is more ludicrous than their famous doll

Annabelle, though where the Warrens are concerned there are lots of

contenders in the "most ludicrous" sweepstakes. Annabelle is a

Raggedy Ann doll that was purchased as a gift for a college student

named Donna. Donna and her roommate Angie noticed that Annabelle

seemed to move around the apartment on her own. Notes written on

parchment paper started mysteriously appearing. Of course it didn't

stop there-then the doll began to bleed.

I would have thrown Annabelle in the trash long before the doll-

bleeding stage, but this is one of those stories, like horror movies

revolving around incredibly dumb high school students, where no one

behaves remotely sensibly. Of course the girls didn't throw the doll

away-in classic horror story fashion they called in a medium. This

didn't help. Now the doll attacked their friend Lou, leaving claw marks

on his chest. (Do any of these people even exist? Has anyone ever

tried to find out?)

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Naturally it was time to call in a priest (instead of throwing the doll

away), and naturally the priest called in the Warrens (instead of

throwing the doll away). The Warrens explained that the doll was

being manipulated by a demon who wanted to control Donna's soul.

(In that case, why did the demon give the game away by making a

spectacle of himself instead of quietly taking possession of Donna's

soul? Even the demons don't behave sensibly in the Warrens' stories.)

The Warrens took Annabelle home. On the drive the car kept behaving

erratically and dangerously, but of course the Warrens didn't do

anything rational like throwing the doll away. They instead gave her

pride of place in their home museum (admission $35). According to

the Warrens, a motorcyclist who visited their museum touched

Annabelle despite their warnings and was killed later that evening in

a motorcycle accident. So according to the Warrens' version of events,

they left an incredibly dangerous object on public display instead of

destroying it, thereby causing the death of an innocent museum

visitor. (http://www.warrens.net/Annabelle.html) In the topsy-turvy

Warren world, this makes them fearless heroes.

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cases the Warrens have been involved in, The Conjuring claims to be

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Tara messier I completely agree with every part of this, but most people don't understand that you do have to make a Living and make money somehow. But I don't agree this is the right way to make money, some people are suckers. 29/08/13 at 0:28 • Reply

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Alexa

I completely understand what you are saying in this

blog; in the sense that everyone kept the doll instead of

throwing it away. But according to the movie, "The

Conjuring", and according to Ed and Lorraine Warrens

official museum website, in fact the teens did try to

throw away the doll. But first the spirit came across as a

Little girl, which then the girls allowed the spirit to stay.

Once they found out that the spirit was a demon, that's

when they tried to throw out the doll and did not

succeed. If you ask my opinion, I don't truly believe that

all of this could be for money. I believe that Ed and

Lorraine opened up a "haunted museum" to show people

and tell people of their experiences, not simply for

money. And that motorcycle rider died later on that night

because, in fact he was taunting the Annabelle doll and

saying things along the line of "You can't do anything to

me? You're so strong, do something! scratch me!" And

although there is no cold hard truth as to why he died,

it's BELIEVED to be that it was because he was mocking

the doll.

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