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Stuff You Should Know

The Warrens: Paranormal Power Couple

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today we dive into the interesting story of paranormal power couple the Warrens, inspiration behind The Conjuring movie franchise. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.6

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:15.1

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck, and this is Stuff You Should Know.

0:20.7

We're into 2026 now, Chuck. What do you think about that? How do you feel?

0:25.7

I have high hopes for this year. Yeah. Oh man. Do I really? I don't know. I think you should.

0:34.4

Okay. You should have high hopes for every year. And we can be let down, sure, but, you know, you can still have high hopes. I guess I have my cynical hat on. So that was a bad time to ask me that question because we're talking about Ed and Lorraine Warren, as Julia said, who titled this one. I'm using this title even. It's great. A paranormal power couple that you might know if you've ever seen movies like

0:57.7

the Amadaville horror. So we talked about them in that episode for sure. Or The Conjuring.

1:03.2

Yeah. Or was it The Haunting in Connecticut? Yep. Was another one?

1:07.9

Mm-hmm.

1:08.5

They made a lot of money scamming people.

1:12.6

Yeah.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.1

I mean, there's really no, well, I want to say there's no other way to put it.

1:17.7

Plenty of people on the Internet put it differently.

1:20.2

They were the real deal, legit, ghostbusters, demon hunters.

1:26.9

It just, if you add up all the evidence

1:29.8

and you're incredulous and skeptical,

1:32.6

you probably not only suspect the warrants were frauds,

1:35.5

but you might actually have a little disdain for them.

1:38.2

I say we kind of present both sides,

1:40.3

even though I feel like it's pretty clear

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