Even before the success of The Nun, we knew The Conjuring 3 was in the works and it now looks like it’ll be filming next year for a 2020 release date.
The first two movies are based on the accounts of real-life “demonologists” Ed and Lorraine Warren and the movies have already covered some of their biggest cases, including the Amityville haunting, the possessed Annabelle doll and the Enfield poltergeist.
Even Valak is based on real-life mythology – though the Warrens never came into contact with him/her/it.
But they claim to have investigated more than 10,000 cases of paranormal activity, so there’s plenty for The Conjuring 3 to bring to the screen – and we’ve picked out five of the most likely cases.
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1. The Southend werewolf
Yes, you read that correctly, there was allegedly a werewolf in the quiet Essex seaside town of Southend. The Warrens wrote a whole book – Werewolf: The True Story of Demonic Possession – about the incident, where Bill Ramsey believed he was possessed by a demon that appeared as a wolf.
It stemmed from Bill’s childhood, where he was said to have displayed superhuman strength. This carried onto his adult life: he had violent incidents with the police, and bit his family and friends. He claimed that before the attacks he noted a rancid smell and was overcome by cold.
After one such incident made national newspaper headlines, the Warrens got involved and they invited him to their home in Connecticut where a bishop performed an exorcism to rid him of the wolf-like demon.
This seems the most likely story to feature in The Conjuring 3, as Vera Farmiga revealed earlier this year that she heard the movie would have “something to do with some werewolf case”, noting that she was given the book by Lorraine Warren and her son-in-law Tony.
2. White Lady
The Nun dabbled in some cemetery-based scares, so why not set a whole movie in one? That’s what The Conjuring 3 could do with the legend of the White Lady at the Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
While the Warrens didn’t directly investigate the phenomenon, they have claimed to have a video of the White Lady in action and have written a book about it. It’s said that the spirit appears in a delicate white nightgown or wedding dress and moves through the cemetery, with reports that drivers have even seen her outside of the cemetery, causing them to swerve.
“I can tell you that I know for a fact that this place is haunted, it’’s one of the most haunted places around,”” noted Lorraine Warren – and if that isn’t scope for a Conjuring movie, we don’t know what is.
3. Smurl haunting
In 1986, the Warrens helped out on the case involving the Smurl family in Pennsylvania. Jack and Janet Smurl said that their family home was menaced by a demon with all sorts of the usual paranormal incidents and, more seriously, a physical and sexual assault on Jack.
“We’re dealing with an intelligence here. It’s powerful, intangible and very dangerous,” explained Ed Warren. This eventually led to some unsuccessful exorcisms before the Smurl family – with the help of the Warrens – wrote a book on the incidents and moved out of the house in 1988.
The Smurl haunting was turned into a TV movie in 1991 called The Haunted, but that doesn’t rule out The Conjuring 3 taking it on. However, this seems unlikely given that producer Peter Safran seemingly ruled out any sort of haunted-house angle for The Conjuring 3 last year.
“There are some [cases] that maybe aren’t as well known, but they spent a fair bit of time researching and were part of [them]. Clearly, we can’t do another haunted house movie, right? We can’t do another supernatural possession in a house, with a family in peril. Right?,” he told JoBlo.
“So, it’s got to be something different than that, I think. There are a lot of places to go, and there’s a fair bit of material there.”
4. Arne Cheyenne Johnson
You’ve probably heard the phrase “the devil made me do it” even if you don’t know exactly where it comes from.
A famous 1981 case saw 19-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson plead not guilty to the manslaughter of his landlord, Alan Bono, on the grounds that he was possessed by a demon when the crime happened, a demon that had previously used Johnson’s fiancée’s brother David Glatzel as a host.
The Warrens testified in Johnson’s defence as they were involved in the exorcism of David several months before Johnson killed his landlord. It was judged that Johnson’s defence couldn’t be proven and, as a result, he was convicted, but only served 5 years of a 10- to 20-year sentence.
5. Snedeker house
Back in 1986, Carmen and Al Snedeker moved to Southington in Connecticut to be close to their ill son, unaware that the house they purchased was a former funeral home.
Soon after, they said they began experiencing ghostly incidents, including flickering lights, unexpected toe tags showing up and water turning red. The Warrens came to help and concluded that the house was filled with ghosts who were unhappy that the former morticians did things with their dead bodies – and we’ll leave you to fill in the gaps.
The Snedeckers moved out after two years and the Warrens helped to – you guessed it – write a book about it, although author Ray Garton has spoken out against the work, accusing the Snedecker family of not being able to “keep their stories straight”.
If the story sounds familiar, it’s because it’s already been (loosely) covered in A Haunting in Connecticut, making this one probably the least likely to be covered from the Warren case files.
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