![]() ĭecades later in 431 BC, however, Deimos destroyed the Pyramid in a fit of rage during the Cult's first meeting in many years. This continued until 480 BC, when the the Cult kidnapped and raised the Spartan infant Alexios to be the Cult's enforcer "Deimos", since his direct descent from an Isu bloodline through his grandfather Leonidas I allowed him to access the artifact's powers more easily. The Cult then stole the Pyramid and moved it to the Sanctuary of Kosmos, located beneath the Temple of Apollo in the Sanctuary of Delphi From their new base, the Cult intended to manipulate reality and control the 5th century Greek world, using the artifact's calculations to make prophecies for generations of Pythias to profess that were most beneficial to their purposes. When a number of them grew dissatisfied with the group's ways, they formed a splinter group and called themselves the Cult of Kosmos, choosing to worship an undescribed entity that they saw as the personification of chaos. Update June 2019: Lorraine Warren died April 18, 2019, and the museum has closed.By the 5th century BCE, the artifact was owned by Pythagoras' followers who had formed the Cult of Hermes and worshipped the Greek god Hermes Trismegistus after their teacher met him during his travels. Update March 2018: The museum is currently closed while looking for a new location due to zoning issues. Of course, it could also be just a spooky collection of stuff in an older woman’s basement. ![]() Whether or not one believes in the paranormal, the Warrens’ Occult Museum may be one of the preeminent chronicles of modern culture’s obsession with the supernatural. Unfortunately, Ed Warren passed away in 2006, but Lorraine Warren and their son still attend the museum. Looking at the Warrens’ collection, one might begin to think that Hell has a thing for dolls. Annabelle sits in her glass case, backlit by a haunting red light. However, the most prevalent item seems to be the cursed Raggedy Ann doll by the name of Annabelle, which was said to have killed a man. Death curses, demon masks, and psychic photographs line the museum’s walls accented by a Halloween store’s bounty of plastic props (assumedly for mood). The eccentric collection contains everything from an alleged vampire’s coffin to a child’s tombstone used as a satanic altar. ![]() ![]() Throughout these cases, the Warrens collected trinkets and totems they claim were defiled by evil, locking them in the museum to keep them safe from the public. When they weren’t delving into high profile cases of demonic mischief as the Amityville haunting (the murderer who claimed demonic possession as his defense) and the exorcism of the witch Bathsheba (a case which was most recently portrayed in the film, “The Conjuring,” which also featured a version of the museum), the Warrens were popular lecturers in their day. Open since 1952, when the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research, the ever-expanding collection of knick-knacks and artifacts that had been touched by evil is kept in the basement of their own home. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren operated for decades as the preeminent voices in the believer community, and their strange career of ghost-hunting and demon-busting is on display in their very own Occult Museum. ![]()
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