I think the initial investigatory team of the Warren's produced one possible explanation when they decided to bring in their own psychic Mary Pascarella Downey. Mary Downey calls herself a 'timewalker' and actually has a proven record of being able to ascertain certain fact outside of the realm of the norm. She has been consulted by the police for help in solving crimes specifically because of her attuned awareness (whatever it may be). I'm inclined to disbelieve in 'psychics' but this one has a track record that is demonstrable.
I'm not so convinced that Downey's track record is as impressive a implied. Granted, I'm only aware of a few of her "timewalking" jobs but her modus operandi seems to be the same as other psychic sleuths: ambiguous claims that can be attributed to just about anyone or any location and an active retrofitting to make the psychic "hit" appear more impressive than it is. Downey participated in the investigation of the Penney Serra murder (Penney was a 21 year old women murdered in 1973). Downey offered such profound psychic wisdom as:
The colour blue.
The odor of garage oil, water
The phrase "blood would tell" held some relevance apparently.
She said it would take a very long time to find the killer .
She "saw" a uniform with a name tag with the letter "E".
Greasy hands being wiped on a dirty cloth.
26 years later a mechanic named Edward Grant was arrested based on the fingerprint evidence and a blood test confirmed that it was his blood at the murder scene.
The problem is that her clues were to vague to be useful (for example,
E is a common letter psychic frauds choose because it's so common in names). The case was solved by forensic science, not psychic intuition. And the other problem is that Downey offered her "clues" years after the event when Grant was a well known suspect:
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Also, Downey's working with those known frauds Ed and Lorraine Warren causes my b.s. metre to go into the red.
Mary Downey said in an interview that two things were the probable cause of the events described by the Lutzes. The first is that they were experimenting with transcendental meditation which likely opened their minds up to a more attuned awareness. The second thing she said is that she saw the house/location as a 'vortex'. Like some other places on earth, there are points where energy collects. Tesla knew this when he was trying to sell his idea of wireless electricity as evidenced by specific placements of his towers. Some places are simply more conducive to energy than others for a vast array of reasons (geological, spatial concerns etc).
This may not be the thread to pursue this but what kinds of energy? What kinds of geographic features? Listric faults? Batholiths?
In Mary Downey's assessment, the Lutzes for those reasons, were in the right place at the right time (or wrong place depending on your perspective) and doing the right things to lay the foundation for odd experiences.
Those who bought the house later were set in their minds that 'spooky' things would not be evident to them so they weren't.
For the most part, the Lutz's stories are fairly tame with the obvious exception of George's insistence that his wife levitated off the bed (which I chalk up to a mistake on his part or a lucid dream of some sort). Both Lutzes took lie detector tests administered by the best in the business at the time, and both passed. While it is possible that a person could fool a lie detector test (which is why they are not admissable evidence) I think two people trying to fool one by telling the same lies would exponentially preclude them from doing so.
Not really. Lie detector tests are easily fooled, and it's a testament to archaic investigative methods that they're even referred to at all.
