Ed & Lorraine Warren | The True Story of These Famous Paranormal Investigators
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Who were Ed and Lorraine Warren?
Paranormal investigators, demonologists, frauds. They've been called it all. Their names became synonymous with the most haunting stories of the last century. Stories that inspired a sprawling film franchise. But who were they really? How did they rise to fame? And why do so many still question their legacy? Today, we explore the lives and infamy of Ed and Lorraine Warren. This is Red Web.
Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the paranormal. I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me here in this case, probably not for the first time on this one, Alfredo Diaz.
I was first introduced to them through the plethora of movies. really good movies some bad ones from the conjuring i was actually able to interview them they're very pleasant people to interview and then obviously with the different episodes that we've had you hear about them sometimes they've you know gone and had some type of involvement in a certain episode um because this is their world their realm and interestingly enough like we talk about them so much and they're so predominant in this field that I feel like we did an episode on them already, but you're like, wait, we're doing an episode on them now. And I'm like, yeah, I feel like, I don't know. It's probably just because also the movies. And then, you know, we talk about them a handful of episodes that I feel like I know them already.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we've done micro episodes within episodes. You know, we've covered so many of their cases. You're right. They're like synonymous when it comes to paranormal investigation. And within that, I give some caveats, some background, some of the claims as to why they might be frauds, some of the talks about their history. And we figured behind the scenes, talking to Jillian, talking to Christian... It was time. The number one movie podcast about mysteries had to talk about the people that inspired the Conjuring universe, Ed and Lorraine Warren. And man, this one's going to be really interesting because we uncovered some stones we didn't expect to uncover. We're going to walk through their history, kind of how they got started, who they are as much as we know. Some of their occult items, some of their major cases. Of course, we've talked about several of those in their own episodes. But then as we wrap up, we're going to talk about the other sides of the Warrens. They do have an infamous reputation. They have helped some people.
They have arguably hurt some cases. And we've talked about the very candidly in those episodes. But we're going to address the claims of fraud and some of the other more sinister claims about their lives. There is a lot of opinion around these two. And so we're going to go right down the middle, talking about everything as factually as possible. We're going to address everything as candidly as possible. But sources do vary on a lot of things. It's really hard to pin down some actual facts. And we're going to be very transparent about all of it. But this is a very interesting topic. You're right. We've covered a lot of these cases. But I forgot in a past life you had actually interviewed these guys.
Or at least Lorraine, right? No, both of them. Both of them? Yeah, both of them. That was a very long time ago. Yeah, for like a whole 10 minutes. It was The Devil in Me or something like that for that movie. Oh, interesting. I think that was their latest movie. I know they have one that's coming out soon-ish. Well, I do know that Ed passed in 2006. Oh, sorry. Sorry. The actors from the Conjuring series.
Oh, okay. Okay. So the people who acted as Ed and Lorraine.
Who portrayed Ed and Lorraine in the Conjuring series. The actors. I got to interview them.
Okay. I was going to say, if you crossed over to the other side and began talking to a ghost hunter as a ghost, we would have had some sort of metaphysical... What a bomb the drug was. All right. Well, as we dive in, as always, I want to say that we've been rolling out the video format of this podcast where possible. So it started on Patreon.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who were Ed and Lorraine Warren?
0:06–10:53
2
What inspired the Warrens to become paranormal investigators?
10:53–34:13
3
How did the Warrens gain fame in the paranormal field?
34:13–50:45
4
What notable cases did the Warrens investigate?
50:45–1:10:51
5
What are the claims of fraud against the Warrens?
39:16–1:10:51
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