PUBLIC INVITED TO SEND HAUNTED OBJECTS TO NEW OCCULT MUSEUM
Connecticut, USA — 15 October 2025
The legendary Warrens’ Occult Museum, once sealed and silent, has returned to life — and this time, it wants your haunted relics.
Comedian Matt Rife and paranormal YouTuber Elton Castee have purchased the former Connecticut home and museum of famed demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, the couple whose cases inspired The Conjuring films. Their newly restored property, purchased for just over $1 million, now stands as a hybrid of haunted history, performance, and research.
According to CT Insider, the duo are not simply reopening the museum — they’re inviting the public to mail their own “cursed” or “possessed” items for inclusion in a filmed investigation series titled Overnight at the Occult Museum.
From Conjuring to Curation
The Warrens’ collection, assembled over decades of field investigations, includes hundreds of alleged haunted artefacts — among them:
- the infamous Annabelle doll, now locked behind bulletproof glass,
- the Shadow Doll, said to induce nightmares,
- ritual relics from the Amityville and Devil Made Me Do It cases,
and dozens of exorcism-linked items that once required priestly containment.
The artefacts remain legally owned by Tony and Judy Spera (Lorraine’s daughter and son-in-law) under a five-year lease agreement. Rife and Castee, however, have taken over the property’s public operations — transforming it into an experiential project where scepticism and belief collide.
“Send Us Your Haunting”
Castee’s production team has issued a challenge: anyone who believes they own an object infused with negative energy or unexplained phenomena may ship it to the museum for evaluation and documentation. The most disturbing cases will be filmed for YouTube and live-streamed paranormal sessions.
The response has been overwhelming — the first wave of overnight stays sold out through May 2026, and the incoming volume of haunted packages has forced the team to build an annex for quarantine and cataloguing.
In a social-media statement, Rife joked:
“I thought stand-up comedy was scary until Annabelle stared me down. Now my whole career’s a haunting.”
But beneath the humour lies something serious: a cultural fascination with the physical containment of evil. What was once forbidden behind church-sealed doors is now crowd-funded, filmed, and livestreamed.
A Museum Between Worlds
To many believers, reopening the Warrens’ archive is a ritual of remembrance — an act of keeping the supernatural conversation alive in an age of digital scepticism. To critics, it’s a performance exploiting tragedy and fear.
For Occult World, it represents something older: humanity’s enduring need to give form to the unseen. Each cursed trinket mailed in is a modern reliquary — proof that even in the twenty-first century, we still seek tangible vessels for our myths, traumas, and spiritual anxieties.
The line between museum and mausoleum has never felt thinner.
Occult World Commentary
Haunted museums have always stood as borderlands between faith and curiosity. The Warrens’ revival in 2025 marks not only the return of their artefacts but a new era of participatory haunting — where the public becomes both witness and contributor.
It poses a haunting question for our time:
When belief becomes entertainment, and fear becomes commerce, what happens to the spirits in between?
Sources:
- CT Insider — “Owners of CT’s Warrens’ Occult Museum invite public to send their haunted items,” 15 October 2025.
- New York Post — “Matt Rife purchases Ed and Lorraine Warren’s Connecticut home and museum,” 2 August 2025.
- Yahoo Entertainment — coverage of Overnight at the Occult Museum series, October 2025.
