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Lorraine Warren looks toward Ed Warren as he gestures while seated beside her. Annabelle Raggedy Ann doll sits in a wooden glass-fronted case topped with a cross and a warning reading Positively Do Not Open.
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Ed and Lorraine Warren

American paranormal investigators
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Ed and Lorraine Warren were American paranormal investigators who became widely known for their involvement in a series of highly publicized alleged hauntings, most prominently the 1975–76 Amityville haunting. Quick Facts Ed, a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, described himself as a demonologist, while Lorraine said she was clairvoyant. They married in 1945 and had a daughter in 1951. The couple’s case files later became the basis for the Conjuring horror film series,...

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