Lorraine Warren interviewing George and Cathy Lutz before entering the Amityville Horror for the first and only time. The Lutzes refused to enter the home once they had fled.
Ed Warren in his small office at the back of the haunted museum.
Chris’ father, Graham Christopher McKinnell, with his great grandfather, James Moran, grandfather Ed Warren, and a young neighbor, the year Chris was born, 1964. Each of the three men have appeared in one form or another to Chris since passing over, showing that love continues even after death.
Ed and Lorraine with Ed’s mother Pauline Dennis Miney during the war.
Ed would often move these items from this small bed in the museum on hot nights to have a comfortable place to sleep. It was always cold in the museum although this would have felt terrifying to almost anyone else, Ed was very comfortable here. However, he had strict guidelines for anyone who entered the museum. Safety was always his primary concern.
Lorraine and her sister, Doris Plavnicky, are very proud of their Irish heritage.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked with all faiths. Although they were devout Catholics, they
believed that the work could only be
successful when approached through the faith of the people enduring the haunting.
Lorraine loved her chickens and had a special way with all animals. These lucky animals even lived in the house with her. Her first was the white rooster named Einstein. He had terrorized the neighborhood before a dog almost broke his back. Lorraine took him in and nursed him back to health for a full year. She then had a hen mysteriously appear in her yard and she adopted her as well. They went on to have quite a family.
The final resting place of the Warrens, in their beloved Monroe, CT.
Ed and Lorraine Warren came to this work with no formal training and no roadmap. What they brought instead was something rarer: the courage to follow the evidence wherever it led, and the
willingness to change their understanding when the evidence demanded it.
That is what made them true investigators rather than simply
believers. Their compassion was never separate from their work. It was the reason for it. Every case they took, every family they sat with in the middle of the night, every phone call they answered when no one else would, came from the same place. They believed people deserved help and they showed up to give it.
I grew up inside all of it. Not as a bystander but as a member of a family for whom the paranormal was never entertainment. It was a responsibility. Everything I have investigated, everything I have built, everything I am, grew from the foundation they laid. These photographs offer a glimpse of who they were in public and who they were at home. To me they were never legends.
They were my grandparents. And I miss them every single day.
Ed and Lorraine believed in past lives, and the idea that they had once shared a lifetime on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. This church yard was especially important to the two of them.
Dedication video:
Cille Choirill Chruch, Glen Spean, Scotland.
[CREDIT: Mark Robson 2025]
Vera Farmiga and Lorraine in the Warren home. The two ladies had a very close and
loving bond.
James Wan’s love for Lorraine was so great that he named one of his main characters after her in the movie Insidious even before he met her.
The real gazebo that Ed gave Lorraine as a
surprise gift, as portrayed in The Conjuring 3.
Ed Warren, like Lorraine, was an artist. He went to art school on the G.I. bill after getting out of World War II. He was inspired to create
paintings related to the cases that they had worked on such as these.
Lorraine with Channel 5 News, which had asked the Warrens to determine what was
actually taking place in Amityville. The Warrens always maintained that it was the worst case they ever investigated.
Lorraine’s parents, Georgianna and James Moran.
Ed and Lorraine celebrating their 50th
wedding anniversary.
Although they took their work very seriously, Ed and Lorraine were very lighthearted and loving people.
Every holiday was special with Lorraine. She made each of us feel so loved. Here she and Chris are together around 1975 in Newtown, Connecticut. Chris is showing off his new clothing and shoes.
Lorraine with her mother Georgianna Moran and her siblings, Doris Plavnicky and James Moran.
The family together for the Warrens’ 50th anniversary.
Lorraine with her only child, Judy.
Lorraine and Judy, not long after Judy had Chris.
Lorraine in the mid-1940’s.
In the early years, Ed and Lorraine traveled the country, trying to understand what this
phenomenon was. For many years, they did not believe in anything other than ghosts, but they were constantly confronted by phenomena they could not explain. They fell back on their catholic beliefs to explain what seemed inexplicable to most.
Ed and Lorraine as they were just beginning to investigate the mysteries that had shaped their childhoods. C.1947