Ghost Hunters: True Stories from the World's Most Famous Demonologists

by Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren, Robert David Chase

Ghosts know no season, respect no boundaries, and offer no mercy. Ed and Lorraine Warren, the world's most famous and respected demonologists, have devoted decades to exploring, authenticating, and conclusively documenting countless cases of otherworldly phenomena.

Best-selling books and hit motion pictures, including The Amityville Horror, A Haunting in Connecticut, Annabelle, The Conjuring, and The Conjuring 2 have been inspired by the Warrens' extraordinary real-life experiences with the supernatural. From the grounds of the United States military academy at West Point, New York, to the backwoods of Tennessee, Ghost Hunters chronicles their first-hand confrontations with the unknown, the unholy, and the unspeakable.

Here are the accounts of teenage girls who trifled with Satanism and séances, only to fall victim to the most horrifying of spirits. A village terrorized by a murderous, unstoppable force too evil to be anything but Hell-born. A family's home besieged by the relentless, destructive fury of poltergeists. The real facts behind the house of horrors in Amityville. In all, 14 terrifying tales, all the more spine-tingling because they're true!

Genres: Horror, Paranormal, Supernatural, Nonfiction

152 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1989

About the author

Edward "Ed" Warren Miney was an American paranormal investigator and author associated with prominent cases of haunting. He was a World War II US Navy veteran and former police officer who became a noted demonologist, author, and lecturer. He worked with his wife Lorraine Warren.

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been an interesting read. Ed and Lorraine share some of their most difficult paranormal cases with their readers.

[Elyse · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gets 5 stars from me. I was scared out of my mind...but then again, I’m stupid and read this stuff ALONE at NIGHT. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
Ghost stories are one thing....you know, sitting with friends and telling a story about two teenagers from 1956 who were making out in their car when this axe murderer came and killed them...and now they haunt that same area and no one ever found the axe murderer.
But THIS STUFF?! This is majorly creepy and freaks me out. The Warrens were the real deal. 🙏🏻

[Kailyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book can be summed up in one word: creepy!

I found this book at my local library after searching for anything involving the Warrens. I enjoyed the multitude of stories and was surprised at the way it was written. It was interesting that some stories were written like short stories and others were interviews. I noticed one of the authors, Chase, was a magazine writer, so this style of writing makes sense.

Certain stories in this book were very creepy and probably weren't the best to read alone at night. I haven't heard of most of the cases discussed in the book, which was refreshing. The only thing I can really nitpick was that some of the case files came across as fictionalized rather than something real that the Warrens dealt with. It was really the way they were written that was the issue. The interviews felt real, but it's not my favorite format to read.

I'm interested in reading more books about the Warrens and the plethora of cases that they investigated throughout their lives.

[Joanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the 70s and 80s, Ed and Lorraine Warren were well-known paranormal investigators. They were later criticized for not using scientific data techniques, which is clearly evident in these stories, which seem to rely heavily on Lorraine's "sensitivity" and vivid imagination. However, it's a fun read of ghost stories (or more accurately not so many ghosts, but lots of demons and evil possessions and even Big Foot). Each chapter is a different investigation and it's an entertaining book, although a bit dated in style.

[Sabrina Mossman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love a good ghost story and Ed and Lorraine Warren come up in many good ghost stories. This book touches on several of their cases but only in a few pages each, you don't get a lot of details or information. Some of the more famous stories don't give you basically any details because it assumes you already know what happened and it just answers questions about the situations instead. Each story made me want to google them and learn more though, so consider it more an introduction to the different stories than anything else. 

[Singe · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️
This was a fun read, as a fan of the real story of Ed and Lorraine Warren. To read some of the less known cases and even some that are recognizable, like the Arnie case, also the newest movie coming out, with the Smurl’s case. There are some cases that some might not be able to handle. So read with caution.

[Elizabeth Steffen · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you just take it as ghost stories and not reality, it's pretty entertaining.

[Glory Par · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to read this book so much

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

ok

[Sydney · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve been weirdly interested in them and their experiences and have been reading up on their cases for fun! I think it’s a great pre-cursor to any spooky season and always a gentle reminder that you can always invite good things into your life just as much as you can invite the bad!

[Cassie 'The Thinker Go Go Go Go' Mis. Roben Goodfellow'\Isabelle Lightwood]

I didn't have time to finish this book before it was due back to the library, come tomorrow and I returned it. I couldn't renew it seeing as it had already been renewed twice.
So my plan is to place it on hold at a later date and then finish it. Review to come once finished at later date.