Do Atheists believe the Warrens?
Or is their skepticism limited to organized religion?
The Warren Case Files: Fact or Fiction? https://www.criminalelement.com/the-warren-case-files-fact-or-fiction/
For years, the general public took them seriously. They always had their detractors and skeptics, of course, but they struck many as serious professionals. Something Brittle’s book only emphasized.
But then, following Ed Warren’s death in 2006, people began to recant their original testimonies. Families stepped forward to claim Ed had even paid them to lie, while investigations into several of the Warrens’ cases—such as the Enfield Poltergeist in London—revealed the pair had been far less instrumental in the events than they claimed.
Even their biggest claim to fame, the Amityville Horror, has been thoroughly debunked. According to the lawyer William Weber in 1979, the events at Amityville were completely fabricated by him, author Jay Anson, and the Lutz family “over many bottles of wine” as a means to recoup the family’s losses in their unwise investment.
My friend Emma sums it up nicely: the real-life Warrens are trauma vultures, quick to latch onto anything that implies supernatural interference, while the movie Warrens are precious darlings with a love story for the ages.