The Warrens: Inside the Most Controversial Paranormal Investigations in History
About this episode
This episode explores the controversial cases investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren, examining the intersection of belief, storytelling, and skepticism in paranormal research.
Ed and Lorraine Warren became the most recognizable paranormal investigators in modern American culture. From their Connecticut-based New England Society for Psychic Research, the couple investigated reported hauntings, alleged possessions, strange objects, and families who believed they were under attack by forces outside ordinary explanation. Their cases inspired Annabelle, The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Conjuring 2, and The Devil Made Me Do It. Yet the films are not the historical record. Behind the dramatizations are frightened families, police and court records, disputed photographs, contradictory witness accounts, later books, media campaigns, admitted trickery, and allegations that some stories grew more dramatic as they passed from witness to investigator to publisher to screenwriter. This episode examines the Warrens through the cases that defined them: the Raggedy Ann doll called Annabelle, the Perron farmhouse in Rhode Island, Amityville, Enfield, the Arne Cheyenne Johnson homicide trial, the Snedeker family, and the Smurl haunting. It also considers the Warren method itself, shaped by Catholic demonology and Lorraine Warren’s…
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