When there's something going on inside your home, something paranormal, something you can't explain. Who do you go to for help?

When others may brush you off, call you crazy, who can you turn to? Well, for many years,

it was Ed and Lorraine Warren that you wanted on the scene. Two of the world's most well-known

paranormal investigators, seekers of the supernatural.

Many know the couple from the Conjuring franchise, which is the most successful horror franchise

in box office history. And there's no wonder why the Warrens worked on some of the most

extreme cases ever documented, casesases where priests became possessed.

Cases where people were physically attacked.

Cases where spirits don't just haunt a house.

They visibly want to destroy it.

This is Avery After Dark, and as always, I am your host, Avery Ross.

Today we are talking about Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The husband and wife duo investigated over 10,000 paranormal cases. When everyone else was running out of the haunted house,

they were running in. The couple gained worldwide fame with the films, but the two were very well

known before Hollywood jumped on the Warren train. They founded the New England Society of Psychic Research and started their very own occult museum

filled with some of the most haunted and cursed objects in the world.

So how does one get to this place of chasing ghosts talking to the dead?

Let's go back in time a bit and see because their story is pretty

fascinating. Lorraine Warren grew up in Connecticut. Her family lived in an affluent area,

and she attended in all girls Catholic school in town. When she was nine, she had her first

encounter with the supernatural. In school one afternoon, the nuns directed all the students outside

to plant little trees outside in the dirt for Arbor Day. As soon as she planted the small tree,

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