A trip to the movies 65 years ago changed the life of 14-year-old Lorraine Moran. She still remembers the movie, "The Strawberry Blonde," a romantic comedy starring James Cagney. But Ed Warren, an usher at the Stratford theater, made a far more lasting impression on Lorraine, now 79 and known worldwide for her gift of second sight, or clairvoyance. She said she looked up at young Ed, who then weighed no more than 140 pounds, and saw him not as a skinny teenager bounding up the stairs to his home in Bridgeport, but older and heavier — the image of the man as he looked when he collapsed of a heart ailment in 2001. Lorraine knew in a flash, and even wrote in her diary at the time, that she would spend the rest of her life with Ed Warren. He died Wednesday at his home under her care at the age of 79 after a lifetime of renown as a paranormal researcher and ghosthunter. "I will carry on this work, as a tribute to Ed," Lorraine Warren said Thursday from the couple's home on Knollwood Drive. "Yes, for him I'll do it. Yes, I will." Ed Warren made a living from a world that most people today don't admit or believe exists — the world of ghosts and malevolent spirits. He had said he lived in a haunted house as a child, which began a lifelong quest into the paranormal. Long before the 1980s movie "Ghostbusters" popularized the concept of ghosthunting, Ed and Lorraine were doing it in real life.

But not everyone had the Warrens' fascination with the paranormal and the occult. There are national organizations dedicated to debunking such phenomena, such as the Skeptics Society in Altadena, Calif., publishers of Skeptic magazine. "Paranormal investigation has been around 200 years and they've still gotten nowhere," said Pat Linsey, co-founder of the group. But Linsey said she had heard of Warren, such was their renown. Jerry Allen, 39, of Bridgeport, who had been Ed's nurse's aide nearly four years, said he had initially been a skeptic about the paranormal, but began changing his mind. "The more I saw all the phone calls come in" to the Warrens from people who needed help with spirit phenomena, Allen said, "I'm starting to believe it."

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I had the oppertunity of meeting Ed, and it was decent to say the least. His knowledge on his subjects of demonology and the supernatural phenomena were very well proven in our discussions. However, his lust for money and fame were just the pinnacle of his greed. After reviewing many of his cases and the families he " helped " I was forced to believe that he himself might of been corrupted by the forces he had sworn to denounce. All in all, he was a man that I believe had good morals, and good intentions, but were twisted around in a money hungry society.

I wonder if he'll attempt to appear to anyone, to prove that ghosts exist??

right. well i say rest in peace! he was a good man and did a lot for the paranormal lifestyle