Case file · Haunting
Ed and Lorraine Warren found the NESPR
In 1952 Ed and Lorraine Warren of Connecticut founded the New England Society for Psychic Research and went on to claim more than 10,000 investigations, many of them made into films.
1952 CE · 41.33, -73.21 · status: claim
The account
Their Occult Museum in Monroe held objects they said were possessed. They were central to the Amityville, Perron, Snedeker and Arne Johnson cases.
The sceptical view
Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford concluded that several of their best-known hauntings did not happen as claimed.
Connections in the atlas
- 'The Devil made me do it' trial
- Ed and Lorraine Warren and the NESPR
- The Snedeker house, Southington
- The White Lady of Union Cemetery
- The Annabelle doll
- The Perron farmhouse, Harrisville