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Is The Nun Movie Based on Ed and Lorraine Warren's Real Life Story Of a Demon Nun?

The Terrifying Real-Life Encounter That May Have Inspired The Nun
In the 1970s, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren saw a spectral sister in a British abbey

The Nun, the latest movie in the ever-expanding Conjuring universe, a cowl-clad demon with piercing yellow eyes and dagger-like teeth haunts the cloisters of a Romanian abbey and terrorizes local clergy. The film is a prequel to The Conjuring, which detailed the real case files of noted demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Those case files have also inspired The Conjuring 2, Anabelle and Annabelle: Creation, and the 1979 horror classic, The Amityville Horror.

So how much of the story about The Nun is based on actual events?

The couple's son-in-law, Tony Spera, tells Esquire.com that The Nun's ecclesiastical phantom bears resemblance to a "real" spectral nun the Warrens encountered during a trip to the haunted Borley church in southern England in the 1970s. After learning about a string of eerie events at the church—including bells ringing without warning, rumors of a headless monk thought to have left cryptic messages on walls, and a ghostly nun spotted walking around at night—the Warrens recruited several photographers to accompany them in a quest to capture evidence of the spirit.

They ended up coming face-to-face with the churchyard's ghost who was, according to lore, a nun buried alive in the brick walls of the convent centuries ago after having an affair with a monk.

"I feel the presence of a nun in this church," Lorraine apparently told the group, as they entered the church, around midnight.

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Image of the Borley nun caught on camera.
Courtesy Tony Spera


It was pitch black, and there were no lit candles or lights. Their photographers snapped photos on a 35mm camera with infrared film. When they developed the images, what appeared to be a spectral nun was seen walking down the aisle, praying.

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Lorraine (right) inside the Borley church.


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