Hill wrote in Doubtful News that many of the myths and legends surrounding the Warrens have “seemingly been of their own doing” and that many people may have difficulty “separating the Warrens from their Hollywood portrayal”. They found the couple to be pleasant people, but their claims of demons and ghosts to be “at best, as tellers of meaningless ghost stories, and at worst, dangerous frauds.” How much of their work and stories are likely to be true?Īccording to a 1997 interview with the Connecticut Post, Steve Novella and Perry DeAngelis investigated the Warrens for the New England Skeptical Society (NESS). The story went on to become inspiration for The Conjuring 2.

While a number of independent observers dismissed the incident as a hoax carried out by “attention-hungry” children, the Warrens were convinced that it was a case of “demonic possession”. The Warrens headed across the pond in 1977, when family in Enfield, north London, was apparently haunted by poltergeist activity. Less spirits, more fortified grapes, then.

In 1979, lawyer William Weber reportedly stated that he and the author of the book, Jay Anson, and the occupants “invented” the horror story “over many bottles of wine”. The reported haunting was the basis for the 1977 book The Amityville Horror and adapted into the 1979 and 2005 films of the same name. Some of their biggest cases have also been turned into movies – like the story of the 1976 Amityville Horror.Ī couple who lived in New York, George and Kathy Lutz, claimed their house was haunted by a violent, demonic presence so intense that it eventually drove them out of their home. What other famous cases did the Warrens cover? In the meantime, the group are holding “An Evening with Annabelle” on 10 August, which promises a viewing of Annabelle and a “banquet buffet dinner”. The NESPR are currently looking for a new venue, so in the future it might be possible to see Annabelle in all her glory – for real. The doll was kept in a glass box at The Warrens’ Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut, but the museum has since closed. The Warrens were contacted, and they took the doll to their museum after pronouncing it “demonically possessed”.

The two women apparently tried to “accept and nurture the spirit-possessed doll”, but the doll exhibited “malicious and frightening behaviour”. They say the doll behaved strangely, and that a psychic medium told the student the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a dead girl named “Annabelle Higgins”.

PicturesĪccording to the Warrens, in 1968 two roommates – including a student nurse – claimed their Raggedy Ann doll was possessed. Who was Annabelle based on? ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ and it doesn’t work out well in the latest film in The Conjuring franchise.

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