Paranormal Investigator dies at 79

Ghosthunters and believers in the paranormal are mourning the death of Amityville Horror investigator Ed Warren this week.

Warren, 79, died last Wednesday at his home in Monroe, Conn.


Lorraine and Ed Warren

A self-proclaimed demonologist and life long experiencer of the paranormal, he and his wife Lorraine co-founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952. After investigating multiple New England hauntings, the Warrens built quite the following of individuals looking for proof of the other side.

Eventually, the couple began to make a living from their exploits and made their mark in the paranormal hall of fame by investigating the controversial Amityville Horror in 1976. After gaining notoriety, the Warrens opened a museum dedicated to the paranormal consisting of various items, mainly creepy dolls, from supposedly haunted sites.

Despite the respect that so many ghosthunters and hopeful afterlife believers give these folks, the Warrens were probably the biggest blow to paranormal research to hit the books. Because of their “do it yourself” attitude to investigating paranormal phenomena, the world is now filled with an outrageous number of people who see bad photography as proof of an existence after death.

Highlighted in shows like Sci-Fi Channel’s Ghost Hunters and countless other rip offs, people now believe that water spots, developing mistakes, and camera straps popping into camera frame are visual depictions of ghosts. Unfortunately, not enough people took photography as an elective in high school.

While ghosthunter societies around the world swap pictures of flash flares and developer smudges, some people are trying to make real headway in to what psychic and paranormal phenomena might be.

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, along with other scientific based organizations, has been investigating the boundaries of the human mind and consciousness since 1979. Although they have not brought forward conclusive evidence of ghosts, they have had many revealing studies that show us that there is more to human consciousness than our textbooks reveal.

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/

After reading a few studies by PEAR, however, one can see how a water spot on a photograph can be more exciting than the scientific jargon of a study on The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering Perspective.

This blogger is not one to spit on a dead man, so hopefully Ed Warren, wherever he may be, is in a better place and only been given a mild kicking for the debunkable photographs and the slew of crackpot followers he and his wife have given rise to.

Article on Warren’s Death at the Connecticut Post Online: http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4235706

Notable followers of the Warrens
Lou Gentile: http://www.lougentile.com/
John Zaffis: http://www.johnzaffis.com/