Edward Warren Miney (September 7, 1926 – August 23, 2006) and Lorraine Rita Warren (née Moran, born January 31, 1927) were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of hauntings. Edward was a World War II United States Navy veteran and former police officer who became a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, and lecturer. Lorraine professes to be clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband.

In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research, the oldest ghost hunting group in New England. They authored numerous books about the paranormal and about their private investigations into various reports of paranormal activity. They claimed to have investigated over 10,000 cases during their career. The Warrens were among the very first investigators in the controversial Amityville haunting. According to the Warrens, the N.E.S.P.R. uses a variety of individuals, including medical doctors, researchers, police officers, nurses, college students, and members of the clergy in its investigations.

Stories of ghost hauntings popularized by the Warrens have been adapted as, or have indirectly inspired, dozens of films, television series and documentaries, including 17 films in the Amityville Horror series alone. Other adaptations include: the 2013 movie The Conjuring; its prequel/spinoff, Annabelle, released in 2014; its sequel, The Conjuring 2, released in 2016; and the prequel to Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, released in 2017 with a spinoff to the Conjuring 2 The Nun, released in 2018.

Skeptics Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella have investigated the Warrens’ evidence and described it as “blarney”.Skeptical investigators Joe Nickell and Ben Radford concluded that the more famous hauntings, Amityville and the Snedeker family haunting, did not happen and had been invented. I’m not saying all of them are fake, because I myself do believe. If you don’t you haven’t ever experienced other worldly shit then. But yes I do believe some of the details were altered for the TV screen. As a lot of movies are these days. They have fought to uphold their statement of  all their investigations to be true. What they did or didn’t experience we may never know. What I do know is they helped many families in their time here on this earth. Sadly Lorraine passed away earlier this year April 18, 2019.