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Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Has Died at 92
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That's not fair. She was a con artist. That's as close to a fact as I can get. If you want to hide behind some folksy you-do-you-isms to wiggle out of it, and make me look like I'm picking on any old random dead person, that's really on you more than it is me. Taking money from grieving people and lying to them isn't honorable. She was a charlatan. I feel comfortable in the truth of that.
Why doesn't it matter if she was a fraud?
I'm not an atheist.
You can't achieve something if what you achieved doesn't exist.
Yeah going to places and making up fucking stories about demons and ghosts while insisting you're a clairvoyant - what an achievement.
I definitely object to the use of "mentally ill" because that should be reserved for people with clinical problems.
Your last sentence is weird though. When it comes to the paranormal it's not a matter of people proclaiming things don't exist, it's a matter of people proclaiming things do exist. Things that, by every objective measure, do not exist and cannot exist. And the weirdest thing is you don't approach daily life the way you approach believing in these things that have literally no evidence because if you did, you wouldn't survive. And yet you apply a different set of standards to this particular thing and continue to believe it.
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I have no problem leaving reality/logic at the door when doing those things.
Just like I suspend those when watching a Fast and Furious movie.
Laughed so hard I teared up and started sounding like a constipated duck. Phew.
Lol why post this here? This is the most hostile place for anything remotely "paranormal".
Anyhow rip.
Anyhow rip.
Why would I do that? It's clearly for entertainment/tourism purposes, and old houses are still cool. Doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a specific career con-woman anyway.
I agree with yall that she was a con, I am not here to say otherwise. I honestly shouldn't have even said anything because my issue is one of a personal view that to shit on the dead is a waste of energy. I get why people do it and it's not like it makes zero sense to me or that I find it appalling. I just have a hang up with it because if I am throwing shade part of the act is that someone receives it, and dead people can't lol
I can't sit here and definitely prove that it exists at all. I can talk about my own personal experiences that has played a part in my believing in them, but I cannot prove it. I have no evidence. But, I'm also a very open minded individual. Even if I didn't believe on a personal level, I would be open to the possibility that ghosts and such exist. Just because something has never been recognizably or scientifically proven or whatever to exist, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist at all.
RIPing hurts her industry. Seems to me she has a duty to give back to the community that made her famous.
Did you not see the Notre dame thread? I think it's been cleaned up since, but as the building was burning live on TV there were posters in the thread making jokes and laughing at the burning church and people with faith....and same thing here, the Lady's been dead a few hours and the thread ghouls are having their fun at her expense.
She was a con artist
Her husband, Ed Warren died in 2006.
Famous cases include haunted doll Annabelle, and the Amityville house.
Their work and lives were chronicled in the 1980 book The Demonologist, which I highly recommend.
Up until recently, Lorraine Warren was still offering tours of their haunted collection, something I wished I had done.
Whatever you feel about the field of paranormal sciences, she was at the forefront and inspired a generation of ghost hunters.
Go read some other threads. There are people here so hostile to anything they dont believe in they go into threads just to shit them up and belittle people's faith.
You're right. Being a ghost hunter is exactly the same as being a serial sex offender. There's absolutely nothing disgusting about this comparison.
Imagine how much money she's making in the afterlife, showing the dead the living beings who are invading their spaces.
You talking about the people on their high horses about speaking ill of the dead or the people who don't like con artists?
As an atheist I take strong exception to both suggestions. No person who appreciates great architecture would celebrate the fire of Notre Dame.
Objecting to an attempt to celebrate the life of a notorious grifter isn't "dancing on her grave." She had a family and friends who loved her and will miss her, but don't expect me to start pretending she was something she was not.
Hold on.... the Amityville was a total hoax? I remember seeing the film as a kid, and that it was based on truth. But in reality, it was all made up?
Sounds like the Enfield Poltergeist here in the UK
Sounds like the Enfield Poltergeist here in the UK
If anything it's religious people who should be even more upset at how she took advantage of their beliefs in order to peddle her bullshit.
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FFS. It's still someone's Mother or Grandparent that's passed away.
Self righteous twat.
You'd think the "Don't belittle my/other people's faith!" crowd wouldn't go to bat for a known and unapologetic con artist who only really benefited herself.
Lol, is that supposed to be a good or a bad thing? Because the way I see it, she just helped open up the field of pseudo-scientific bullshit which has now given way to shit like anti-vax and flat-earth.
Is this what every ghost thread is going to turn into now? Just a race to see who can say "ghosts aren't real!"
What its not even about that. They straight up had a reputation for not "helping" people, unless there was money to be made. Not just frauds, but scam artists.
I've already cancelled plans for my Ghost Dad rewatch OT. Smh.
There were very very few people acting the way you describe.
