Not only that, but the Warrens were frauds and hoaxters, as most of their investigations were concocted for financial motives. They would go in and tell families that they could "make a lot of money", and then give them like $500 out of the lucrative proceeds from their movies and books, where Ed often told the writer to make it scary, even if they had to make stuff up, fake photographs, etc. ... and there were credible allegations of sordid behavior on Ed's part in his later years.