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Every Time Ed &

Lorraine Warren Were

Exposed As Total Frauds

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Here's another account of Ed's supposedly taped
run-in with this famous ghost, from an interview
with Jeff Belanger for GhostVillage.com:
"Ed first recorded the White Lady on
September 1st, 1990 at 2:40 a.m. 'The only light
was a street light which was 50 yards from
where I was sitting,' Ed recalled. 'I heard a
woman weeping and I looked out and saw
hundreds of ghost lights floating around and
forming into a figure of a woman. I couldn't
make out facial features but I could see she had
long, dark hair and she was dressed in white.
I started to walk toward her and she
disappeared. You never walk towards the ghost,
you let the ghost come to you because you can
change the molecular and magnetic field when a
Creepy Ghost Stories see—or isn’t there at all. The police ruled her ghost is materializing.'"
death an accidental drowning, but many people
About Los Angeles believe she was murdered. Go ahead and Google Ed's White Lady
video. You won't find it. There are tons of blogs,
The Cecil moved most of the guests
articles, and other videos by people claiming
staying there at the time to a different hotel, but
by Jen Lennon that Ed and/or Lorraine showed them the
11 people chose to stay. They had to sign a
footage, followed by a quote from one of the
waiver acknowledging the health risks of using
two basically reiterating the same details printed
the contaminated water, which begs the
It shouldn’t come as much of surprise that Los question, if water contaminated by a above. Why?
Angeles, with its glitzy, sordid past, has seen decomposing dead body couldn’t get these One person who claims to have seen the
some sh*t. And that can cause some unruly video, Steven Novella, explains in his article
people to move to a new hotel—free of charge, I
spirits. There are many LA ghost stories, from "Hunting the Ghost Hunters" for SkepticBlog:
might add—then what would?
celebrities haunting their former residences to "We have only been able to view this
The hotel has recently rebranded itself as
parks plagued with the ghosts of dead lovers. tape in the Warren's [sic] home because Ed
The Stay on Main to try and shake its creepy
Let’s just say that restless souls love this place. refused to give it to us for analysis, a common
image, but it’s probably a safe bet that there’s
This list includes stories of famous LA theme in our investigation. The tape shows an
more than one ghost still haunting its halls.
hauntings, some of them spawned by infamous apparent white human figure moving behind
crimes. Hollywood has been kind to a few, but The Colorado Street Bridge some tomb stones. Like videos of UFO's [sic],
many others aren’t so lucky. The pursuit of fame Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster, however,
can take a serious toll. For all the people who the figure is at that perfect distance and
Over 100 people have jumped to their deaths
have succeeded in Hollywood, there are resolution so that a provocative shape can be
from Pasadena’s Colorado Street bridge. The
thousands more who haven’t. The real tales seen, but no details which would aid definitive
bridge, which was built in 1912, is known as
behind these Los Angeles ghost stories run the identification. Ed Warren has not investigated
“the suicide bridge.” Several ghosts now haunt
gamut from desperation to success, just like the the video with any scientific rigor, and refuses to
it. Supposedly, you can see a woman in a white
city itself. allow others to do so. Despite Ed's insistence
flowing robe jump to her death. Homeless that he was engaged in scientific research, he
people who live under the bridge have heard
The Cecil Hotel continued to jealously horde his alleged
someone—or something—whispering “your
evidence, rather than allow it to be critically
fault.” And then there’s Myrtle Ward, a woman
This place is so terrifying that an entire season analyzed, as is necessary in genuine scientific
who committed suicide and attempted to kill her
of American Horror Story was based around its endeavors."
three-year-old daughter. Ward threw her
lore. Two serial killers (Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. Much like with the Werewolf Demon
daughter off the bridge and then jumped. She
the Nightstalker, and Jack Unterweger, an died, but her daughter’s fall was broken by thick case, we should accept that the White Lady
Austrian serial killer who murdered women in trees, and she survived. Some people claim they video indeed exists and is genuine simply
multiple countries) spent time at the Cecil Hotel. because the Warrens tell us so.
have seen her walking the bridge, looking for the
In fact, Unterweger killed three people while he
daughter she was never reunited with in the
was staying there.
afterlife.
But that’s not even close to the whole
story of why the Cecil is so creepy. In 2013, a
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guest of the hotel named Elisa Lam went
missing. More than fifteen days later, patrons of
the hotel began complaining that the water
coming from the taps and showers was
discolored and tasted funny. A maintenance
worker went to check the hotel’s rooftop water
tank, and guess what he found inside of it? The
body of Elisa Lam, which had been in there for,
you guessed it, more than fifteen days. There’s
even creepy security camera footage from the
night she disappeared, showing what appears to
be her talking to someone who the camera can’t