The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle
Authors: Gerald Brittle
Ads: Link
as a psychic investigator first,” Ed continues. “I go in not expecting to find spirit activity. If I satisfy myself that no spirit is involved, I leave. As a demonologist, I am only interested in supernatural phenomena: if it’s natural, it’s not my thing. Natural activity will go on aimlessly and eventually resolve itself. But supernatural disturbances take place for a reason. The scientist may have spent months at a haunting site and nothing testable happens. Then I come on the scene one afternoon with religious objects, provoke what’s there, and suddenly, right in front of witnesses, all hell breaks loose. These are unnatural phenomena: you’ve got to go beyond the science book to find the answers here.”
“In our work,” Lorraine picks up, “we’re not just interested in the phenomena, as the strict scientist tends to be. The basis of our work is with people because most of the time, spirit activity is directed at people. We’ll come in on a case where the family has been under siege for some time. Often the police, psychologists, parapsychologists will have told these individuals that they’re imagining things, or aren’t telling the truth. They say this because they don’t understand—or don’t want to understand—spirit phenomena.
“Given our experiences, we see things differently; we see otherwise normal people in the grips of true terror. We don’t summarily dismiss them as being off balance, or tell them they’re overreacting. We ask them why their feelings are so intense. You know, sometimes people in a case will stay out all day long, then come home late at night just to avoid their home because they know it’s haunted. Other times, people will be oppressed to become prisoners in their house and never go outside. This is not normal behavior.”
“To put it another way,” says Ed, “when I had to get the keys from George Lutz to go into the Amityville house, George wouldn’t come any closer than four blocks to his own home! This is a big, burly man with a red belt in karate, an ex-Marine. He doesn’t respect what’s not there. Before moving into that Amityville house, George’s attitude was that the dead are dead and can’t hurt anything. That night when he handed me the keys, I asked him what he saw inside the house. He looked me right straight in the eye and said, ‘Mr. Warren, you know what I saw.’
“That’s the people aspect,” Ed points out. “But the phenomena are also important. As a demonologist, I look for certain types of activity, because it’s my job—and that of the specialist clergy—to determine if there is an external agent; if, in fact, there is an intelligence behind the activity—an intelligence that is supernatural in origin.”
But how can the Warrens know if an intelligence is truly behind the disturbance, when that external agent is invisible?
Lorraine explains it this way: “Although this intelligence often chooses to remain invisible, there is no mistaking what’s behind the phenomena, especially if it is an inhuman demonic spirit. Activity will occur in circles, in reverse, counterclockwise, or in distinct violation of the laws of physics. Stones, for instance, or nuts and bolts will fall out of the blue sky onto a home under demonic attack. These stones will come down with such force that they may actually penetrate the roof. We have seen the same downpour of stones happen inside a house as well. And so that it will be understood that these events are not of natural origin, the objects will fall in a zigzag manner, in defiance of the laws of gravity so there is no question as to what’s really behind them. This falling of stones or even small animals like frogs or fish isn’t rare, by the way—it happens somewhere in this country about once a week.
“And it won’t just be objects falling: a dozen other unnatural things will be happening inside the home at the very same time. And all the while this outward show of phenomena is going
“In our work,” Lorraine picks up, “we’re not just interested in the phenomena, as the strict scientist tends to be. The basis of our work is with people because most of the time, spirit activity is directed at people. We’ll come in on a case where the family has been under siege for some time. Often the police, psychologists, parapsychologists will have told these individuals that they’re imagining things, or aren’t telling the truth. They say this because they don’t understand—or don’t want to understand—spirit phenomena.
“Given our experiences, we see things differently; we see otherwise normal people in the grips of true terror. We don’t summarily dismiss them as being off balance, or tell them they’re overreacting. We ask them why their feelings are so intense. You know, sometimes people in a case will stay out all day long, then come home late at night just to avoid their home because they know it’s haunted. Other times, people will be oppressed to become prisoners in their house and never go outside. This is not normal behavior.”
“To put it another way,” says Ed, “when I had to get the keys from George Lutz to go into the Amityville house, George wouldn’t come any closer than four blocks to his own home! This is a big, burly man with a red belt in karate, an ex-Marine. He doesn’t respect what’s not there. Before moving into that Amityville house, George’s attitude was that the dead are dead and can’t hurt anything. That night when he handed me the keys, I asked him what he saw inside the house. He looked me right straight in the eye and said, ‘Mr. Warren, you know what I saw.’
“That’s the people aspect,” Ed points out. “But the phenomena are also important. As a demonologist, I look for certain types of activity, because it’s my job—and that of the specialist clergy—to determine if there is an external agent; if, in fact, there is an intelligence behind the activity—an intelligence that is supernatural in origin.”
But how can the Warrens know if an intelligence is truly behind the disturbance, when that external agent is invisible?
Lorraine explains it this way: “Although this intelligence often chooses to remain invisible, there is no mistaking what’s behind the phenomena, especially if it is an inhuman demonic spirit. Activity will occur in circles, in reverse, counterclockwise, or in distinct violation of the laws of physics. Stones, for instance, or nuts and bolts will fall out of the blue sky onto a home under demonic attack. These stones will come down with such force that they may actually penetrate the roof. We have seen the same downpour of stones happen inside a house as well. And so that it will be understood that these events are not of natural origin, the objects will fall in a zigzag manner, in defiance of the laws of gravity so there is no question as to what’s really behind them. This falling of stones or even small animals like frogs or fish isn’t rare, by the way—it happens somewhere in this country about once a week.
“And it won’t just be objects falling: a dozen other unnatural things will be happening inside the home at the very same time. And all the while this outward show of phenomena is going
Similar Books
