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Chris on The Geraldo Show, 1989. At the time he was still using the title demonologist, but this experience as well as the book, In A Dark Place, made him realize that he did not want to be in the public light. He is only stepping forward now because the need is there.
Jaguar Negro, a brujo and leader of Catemaco, a town of witches in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Chris spent time traveling and learning with this man about the four types of magic that he practiced, white, green, red and black.
The real Annabelle, whose true story can be found in The Warren Legacy, available on Amazon and this website.
Chris leans over Maurice Theriault to check on him during his exorcism by Bishop McKenna. Chris was responsible for protecting the bishop even as his grandfather Ed Warren was having a heart attack 10 feet away. They did not understand the severity of the problem until the next morning when Ed was rushed to the hospital.
While hiking to Everest, Chris slipped on a glacier and tore tendons in his leg, ending his attempt to get to the great mountain.
Bishop McKenna with Lorraine. McKenna was a mentor to McKinnell and often worked with the Warrens and Chris.
The Smurls when Chris met them in the winter of 1986. Ed had asked Chris to check out the home to determine if they should become involved.
As seen in this first edition of The Haunted, what Chris experienced in the Smurl home led to the Warrens taking on the case.
Chris was interviewed for the final chapter of the French book, Confessions of an Exorcist, which was translated verbatim into French for the book.
Chris served almost two years with the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa under the dictatorship of Moussa Traore. This was his mud hut.
The great mud brick mosque of Mopti, Mali, the largest mud structure in the world, from across the Niger River.
On their trip to Dalhousie University in Halifax, the Warrens and McKinnell collaborated with Dr. Raymond McNally and Dr. Radu Florescu, the men who discovered the true ruins of Dracula‘s castle.
Arne Johnson was 19 when he killed a man while supposedly under possession. His story will be examined in the upcoming book, The Warren Files Reopened.
Chris McKinnell at 16, just as he was beginning to investigate the paranormal with his grandparents.
A haunted 500 year old farm house that Chris stayed in and investigated in Villa de Leyva, Colombia.
Investigating a haunted bordello and strip club in Bogota, Colombia. This case is included in the upcoming book, The Warren Files Reopened.
Griots are the traditional musicians, historians and storytellers in West Africa. Strangely, they are considered unclean and are buried in trees after death.
Dr. Kenneth Ring was Chris McKinnell‘s professor of near-death studies at the University of Connecticut and the first academic to treat his work with respect. He taught Chris to look beyond the simple explanations that people give to phenomena, and it has shaped his approach throughout his life.
Chris with two men from the Kogi people of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Colombia. Although his time with them was brief, it opened up a new perspective and revealed the underlying truth that so many belief systems and current research are all converging on now.
Chris’ village, Dieli, Mali, as it prepared for a visit by the dictator Moussa Traore. Chris was asked to meet the man, which he did as a sign of respect to his neighbors, although he found the man to be repulsive.
Chris in the Atacama Desert in Peru, considered the driest non polar desert in the world. It is so dry that a species of fox has adapted to drinking blood as its primary source of liquid.
The Malians were always generous and welcoming, even though they were among the poorest people in the world. Those early experiences shaped Chris’ priorities and behavior throughout the rest of his life.
The compound from which Chris would often go to learn animist beliefs and traditions from the local practitioners, expanding his understanding beyond the Catholic origins of his family.
Borley Rectory, often called the most haunted house in Great Britain, where Harry Price lived for a full year while he investigated its secrets. Although the rectory burned in 1939 and was demolished in 1944, the church that still survives is very haunted and the Warrens and McKinnell have investigated their extensively.
Harry Price, famed British researcher and spiritual mentor to Ed Warren. He appeared to the Warrens and McKinnell while they were on a lecture tour at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia one
evening. The story of his investigations and both the Warren’s and McKinnell‘s interactions with him and his work will be covered in the upcoming book, The Warren Files Reopened.