Will The Conjuring 4 be about the demon of the Anchor Inn?

Full disclosure, before I go getting anyone’s hopes up: There’s been no official word from anywhere that there even will be a Conjuring 4. However, if there was, what would it be about? Heaven knows Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated a lot of cases.

The CT Post compiled a list of seven of their investigations, at least four of which have already been made into Conjuring movies or ones within that universe. It includes one, the Enfield case (which inspired The Conjuring 2) that did not take place in America.

Will The Conjuring 4 bounce back across the pond and perhaps feature the case of the Anchor Inn?

It’s not one of the best-known cases the Warrens were involved in. There’s nothing super sensational about it. It doesn’t center around a murder like how Amityville did, or the “Devil made me do it” case that inspired The Conjuring 3.

But it does involve some pretty curious and creepy stuff, including a haunting, demons, and an exorcism, as well as a doppelganger —and it was all caught on film for a Scariest Places on Earth episode.

Or was it? Was it perhaps edited in? Or a recording malfunction no one edited out? Why doesn’t anyone ever make a bigger deal out of it?

Let’s first look at the case. Then you can decide if you think it’d be a contender for a Conjuring sequel or not.

A Call for Help

The Warrens got involved after a dearly departed friend of mine, Scott Morrow, contacted them to see if they could help out the owners of the inn at that time, Elen McGannet and Elaine Burrows. (He of course was still alive then. He died several years after this incident.)

Elen had reached out to Scott on a paranormal message board or forum that he’d spotted Scott in because Elen needed help. He had unwanted paranormal activity that was scaring his family.

Scott wanted to help the couple, but the trouble was that Elen and Elaine were in England. They couldn’t afford to get Scott there, nor did he have the means to go. However, he wasn’t about to keep them hanging. He knew Ed and Lorraine Warren. Maybe they could help. If not personally, perhaps they had a contact in England who could.

When he got in touch with them, they said it was actually great timing. They’d been contacted by a new show that was just about to start filming episodes for the series. Maybe they could work the case into that and have a trip across the pond covered that way.

I don’t know who covered the cost of getting the Warrens to England, but they did take a jaunt to the Anchor Inn in Haydon Bridge and that’s when they filmed the exorcism for the show.

How did everyone dismiss the doppelganger?

Ed and Lorraine let Scott know, “Hey, by the way, remember that case in England you told us about? Went there, filmed it for a show, it’ll be on and you should watch.”

After Scott watched he immediately called them and asked, “What the hell was that?”

“The growling? It was from the demon.”

“No, not that. I know what that was. I’m talking about the doppelganger.”

Lorraine and Ed said they hadn’t noticed it before that. They sure hadn’t been aware of it during the exorcism.

The Mystery

It’s one thing to wonder why demons target certain people and not others, like one allegedly did to Elen and his family at the Anchor Inn.

However, if Scott’s account is correct and Ed and Lorraine hadn’t seen the doppelganger appear during the exorcism, what about the cameraman? Had he seen it?

No one really reacts during the incident, so it really seems like no one saw it as it was happening.

Which leads me to wonder if was there some creative editing involved after the fact? Or was it one of those things where it only manifested on camera?

Clearly, someone noticed. It was used earlier in the episode as a teaser about what was coming up next later in the show.

But beyond that, there was no hype. Why?

If something like this happened on a show nowadays can you imagine the publicity that would take place? It was completely downplayed. In fact, it wasn’t even really “played” at all. There’s never any mention of: “Witness this creepy demon look-alike rising from this poor unsuspecting inn owner during an exorcism.”

The episode used to be on YouTube. It’s not there anymore or I’d share it. If you ever happen to watch the first episode of the first season of Scariest Places on Earth, fast-forwarded to the 38:40 mark to hear the growling and see the demon doppelganger manifesting.

Then tell me if it perplexes you that this isn’t hailed as one of the most incredible paranormal caught on camera moments ever too. I’m not sure that translates into making it Conjuring franchise-worthy, but if it was real and not added FX, it sure seems like it could spark some kind of movie.

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So what do you think? Do you see any potential for the exorcism and doppelganger to inspire a plot for The Conjuring 4?