Lorraine Warren at the Mark Twain House.
In 2010 I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorraine Warren for an AOL News article I wrote about the hundredth anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. The Mark Twain House & Museum, in Hartford, Connecticut, was hosting a special event featuring a Todd Robbins-led séance and a Warren ghost tour of the house. Numerous workers and guests at the home have claimed to have seen spirits, particularly that of Twain’s daughter, Susy, who passed away in the house at age 24 from spinal meningitis. Would her ghost make an appearance to mark the occasion?
Not that I saw. But Lorraine’s stories during my earlier interview gave me chills and made the hairs on my arms rise.
She and her husband, Ed, were perhaps the most well-known paranormal investigators and demonologists of the second half of the 20th century. They were among the earliest investigators of the Amityville Horror case, and more recently have been featured in The Conjuring and Annabelle movies.
The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.
The latter is what brings me to this story, having just seen Annabelle Comes Home. The film’s premise is based on the Warrens’ museum of haunted objects kept in their Connecticut home. Though it served up a healthy dose of frights and chills, what I liked most was that it left me with a desire to hear Lorraine’s tales once again. She died this past April at the age of 92, but somewhere in my house I had a cassette tape of my interview. Nine years later, however, I had no cassette player to hear it anymore.
Solving that problem was easy enough with the purchase of a cassette-to-MP3 converter. Then I just had to dig through a box of old cassettes, filled with various interviews, plus a few random mix tapes. Eventually, Lorraine showed herself, and I digitized her. Hearing her voice has, in a way, brought her back from the dead. Even if just for a few moments. I think she’d like that.
In this clip, she tells a story about Ed, shortly after his passing. And how his spirit made its presence known. (Pardon her pet rooster in the background.)
Perhaps somewhere out there, Lorraine and Ed are finding all the answers to their paranormal questions.
