Has anyone read The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren? It is a brilliant, entertaining and frightening book about real documented happenings. What did you think of it?
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They are both frauds. One of their ghost writers came forward saying that he was told to make up stuff in order to sell the book. He also said that Ed told him that the people who come to him are crazy. They claim to investigate hauntings for free but in reality they sell the book and movie rights for hundreds of thousands of dollars. They operate a museum where they claim to house haunted and cursed items that people can see for a price. Don't you think that if these items really where so dangerous that they would destroy them? They are frauds.
shareYeah, I once wrote a heart-felt and knowledgeable letter to this duo, detailing specific areas of concern, from a Catholic viewpoint (they are Catholics) and received in return a postcard telling me that the answers could be found in their books - which of course, is untrue because my questions were a direct consquence of, and response to, reading their goddam books.
I always evaluate "paranormal researchers'" claims to authenticity by their views and attitudes to the Warrens. No offense to the OP, of course, but if a researcher applauds the duo, it's more or less certain to me that s/he is extremely naive and uncritical. Ditto with occultists who valorize the late Malachi Martin, and for much the same reasons.
They are frauds.
Read the book and enjoy it as fiction.
"A stitch in time, saves your embarrassment." (RIP Ms. Penny LoBello)
They are both frauds.
Yep.
They are liars, hucksters, and phonies.
It astonishes me that people fall for crap like that...
Send her to the snakes!
Ed is deceased but Lorraine is still alive. Has she ever tried to contact him via séance ? What better way to prove she is in touch with the supernatural as she claims.
shareExcept for her Catholicism, which officially forbids seances...
shareBut she was present at a séance in the Amityville house. This is even shown at the beginning of THE CONJURING 2.
shareThat would underscore my distrust of the Warrens. Are they staunch Catholics or do/did they temper their Catholicism with unapproved and/or condemned beliefs and practices? It's like when people mention Mel Gibson's strong Catholicism, without knowing that he is not a Catholic at all, but a member of his dad's made-up church which is in rebellion against the pope/Vatican...AND he mixed extra-biblical material with the New Testament Passion Narratives.
Likewise, I don't trust the Warrens' claims to deep Catholicism, not only because of things like the seance-participation you mentioned, but other stuff they've said that match up with occultism much more than with Catholicism.
I believe they were fakes. I know the conjuring was based on their studies were shown as tricks & mirrors
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