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EP: 393 The True Story Behind The Conjuring with Chad Hayes

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Chad Hayes and his brother Carey wrote The Conjuring—a film with no sex, no blood, and two Christians as the heroes. It became one of the highest-grossing horror films of all time. What most people don't know is that the supernatural events didn't stop when the cameras turned off. Strange voices interrupted phone calls with Lorraine Warren. Objects moved on their own in the artifacts room. Chad's son fled the set after something started operating by itself in the dark. And that was just the beginning.In this episode, Chad shares what Lorraine Warren was really like, the moment on set when she walked up to a crew member and knew exactly what was tormenting him, and why he's spent the last two decades chasing true stories of demonic confrontation, from a possessed man chained to a wall in India to the haunted LaLaurie House in New Orleans where something pounded on a grown man's chest in the middle of the night. Chad opens up about all of it, plus his upcoming projects, why he believes the best horror movies are really love stories, and why he only tells stories where the devil loses. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Captain, an unidentified chip approaching. Over.

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1:12.1

So you don't go see any movie that you don't know what it's about or anything.

1:16.0

It's just depicted as a horror movie.

1:18.7

Yeah.

1:19.4

And well, what do you mean?

1:20.7

I said, well, this is a movie that has no sex, no violence, no blood.

1:24.5

And it's completely led with two Christians or, you know, Christians that teach you that

1:31.5

there's good and evil in the world. And that's, I guess you could call that my horror movie.

1:36.7

And I think that's why I crossed over, honestly. I think it just crossed over into a feeling

1:41.8

and it opened up a big, big gate for movies like this to go tell

1:48.0

real stories, you know, and that depict people's faith. And let's see how they use it. And what do

1:54.5

they use it for? The history of our earth is so different from what we can imagine.

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