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So what exactly is Ed Warren's legacy beyond being fetchingly cast as Patrick Wilson in the "Conjuring" franchise? Maybe we can, like the Warrens professed to do, look at the material evidence of the case, starting with the Warren's Occult Museum.

The sign out front of the house says, "New England Paranormalology Research Center," as seen on the Mirror. The house itself is shrouded in untrimmed greenery and encircled by "Keep Out" and "No Trespassing" signs. These signs don't exist to protect passersby from hellish spirits, but to protect the grounds themselves from lawbreaking interlopers. Inside the house — amongst all the cursed dolls, puppets, trinkets, and what-have-yous —the walls are spackled in Halloween store "plastic props," "assumedly for mood," per Atlas Obscura.

In his work, as Occult World says, Ed refers to the "permissions" people afford demonic presences to enter their lives, such as feeling depressed or becoming preoccupied with the supernatural. These are referred to as the Law of Invitation and the Law of Attraction, and "once allowed to enter, the demonic takes control in three stages: infestation, oppression, and possession. In severe circumstances, the final outcome can be death."

As quoted in his obituary on the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home website, Ed said of death, "No, I don't fear it, not one iota, I know I'll be going to a beautiful place, a place so spectacular it defies words." Ed was interred with "full military honors" on Saturday, August 26, 2006.

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