Who Is Ed and Lorraine Warren's Daughter Judy Spera? How She's Continued Their Paranormal Legacy (and Her Honest Thoughts onThe Conjuring)

Mar. 15, 2025

Judy Spera and Tony Spera.Photo:Latour/Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images

Latour/Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images

Judy Spera, sometimes referred to as Judy Warren, is the daughter of famed paranormal investigators Ed andLorraine Warren, who became famous afterThe Conjuringfilm franchisechronicled their life’s work.

Judy spent much of her life away from the spotlight, and even away from the paranormal world of her parents, but in recent years she’s come around to embrace her family’s legacy.

Judy was scared of the paranormal for most of her life and still feels some trepidation about it, saying in the same interview, “I don’t pursue it. I back away from it.” But as she got older, she also realized the importance of continuing her parents' legacy and protecting their reputation. “I still get discouraged reading negative articles about my parents,” she toldUSA Todayin 2019.

Nowadays, Judy helps run a paranormal investigation organization with her husband and is continuing the Warrens' reputation with the strange, spooky and unexplained.

Here’s everything to know about Judy Spera and where she is today.

Judy is married Tony Spera

Judy Spera and Tony Spera attending the premiere of Annabelle Comes Home.JC Olivera/WireImage/Getty Images

JC Olivera/WireImage/Getty Images

For Tony, it was love at first sight, and thanks to a mutual friend he was able to connect with Judy later that evening and asked her out on a date. She said yes and they spent their first night together eating fried chicken and french fries. “And now, 40 years hence, she is somehow still saying ‘yes,’ ” he wrote.

Judy and Tony run a paranormal agency together, like her parents

American ghost hunters Lorraine and Ed Warren. April 30, 1980.Russell McPhedran/Fairfax Media/Getty Images

Russell McPhedran/Fairfax Media/Getty Images

Together, Judy and Tony run the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR). The organization conducts paranormal investigations and holds interviews and panels at conventions.

NESPR’s website also serves as a hub for Warren fans, complete with archival footage of the Warrens’ interviews and case files for their most famous investigations like the Annabelle doll, the Amityville house, the Perron family and more.

She was a central figure in the documentaryDevil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren

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Though Judy stayed away from the spotlight for most of her life, she ended up becoming heavily involved in Travel Channel’s 2020 documentaryDevil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The doc showed a real account of the Warrens’ life and career, removing the Hollywood filter ofThe Conjuringfilms and instead revealing the actual couple behind the cultural phenomenon.

Judy toldDen of Geekthat she was inspired to get involved with the documentary because she wanted to provide a first-hand account of her parents that hadn’t been given before, especially for her mother.

When asked why she agreed to the documentary, Judy said, “Because it involved my mother, and I felt I owed it to her to get on there and speak because I never do this.”

She continued, “They were interviewing people that I didn’t know or I hadn’t met. I thought, ‘Well, who knew her better than I did?’ "

Judy was interviewed extensively for the documentary and became a central figure in the film, sharing her experience of growing up as a Warren.

Judy says she has some supernatural abilities like her mother

Lorraine and Ed Warren, demonologists from the New England Society for Psychic Research, held a press conference at the home of Jack and Janet Smurl in West Pittston, Pa. on August 25, 1986. The couple stated that the Smurls’ home is infested with demons, and the Smurls claim they have been experiencing supernatural attacks for the past 18 months.AP Photo/Wilkes-Barre Times Leader/Carolyn Bauman

AP Photo/Wilkes-Barre Times Leader/Carolyn Bauman

Lorraine was known to be a clairvoyant and used her abilities amid investigations. During an interview withWarner Bros., Lorraine said, “From the time that I was about seven years old, I remember seeing lights around people. I realized that I was communicating.”

Judy toldDen of Geekthat she’s picked up a few abilities of her own. “I had things happen that I’ll say, ‘Oh, my gosh. How did that happen?’ I don’t know if you want to attribute it to being anything to do with my mother’s gifts, but I have had some things happen. It’s a lot of dreams that are very strange, and warnings – from my father," she said.

She thinksThe Conjuringfranchise has kept her parents’ spirit alive

Lorraine Warren and Vera Farmiga.Michael Buckner/Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images

Michael Buckner/Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images

On top of spawning eight films (so far) and becoming one of the highest-grossing horror franchises ever, Judy also thinksThe Conjuringhas helped keep her parents’ spirits alive.

“I just read a quote, and I’m not going to have it exact, but it was so perfect about ‘a person is not really dead until the ripples in the stream stop,’ to that effect," shetold ComicBook.com. “And I thought, ‘Well, that’s actually how their after-life is.’ They’re still here because of that, because people are still interested in everything they’re doing, and they’ll quote them and read about them.”

Judy and Tony no longer run the Warren Occult Museum

Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived at Danbury Superior Court on March 19, 1981, where a grand jury indicted Arne Cheyenne Johnson for the slaying of Alan Bono on February 16, 1981, in Brookfield, Connecticut. Lorraine Warren spoke with the 19-year-old man after the killing, which his attorney claimed was the work of the devil.Bettmann/Getty Images

Bettmann/Getty Images

The Conjuringfilms turned the Warren Occult Museum — which was filled with all of the Warrens' haunted memorabilia — into a massive tourist attraction. But it was located in their old house in a residential neighborhood, and because of the number of visitors, litter, noise and property destruction that was happening, the museum wasclosed in 2019and there are currently no reports of it reopening.

Since its closure, Judy and Tony still own many of the haunted items, including theinfamous Annabelle doll, and they sometimesbring the objects with themto paranormal conventions.

source: people.com