Who Owns the Warren Occult Artifacts Today? Judy Spera, Tony Spera, and the $1 Million Estate Sale
With the Monroe home sold and the museum decentralized, Tony Spera faces ongoing debates about how the Warren archive should be exhibited. In recent years, NESPR organized ticketed regional events, bringing Annabelle and select secondary artifacts to hotel ballrooms and convention centers for supervised viewings.
These exhibitions draw passionate crowds, but they also draw sharp criticism from secular historians and conservative clergy alike. Skeptics point out that charging attendees upwards of $100 to view an ordinary doll capitalizes on decades of unverified claims. Conversely, traditional religious critics argue that if the objects truly carry demonic attachments, parading them in convention centers is spiritually reckless.
Spera defends the events by positioning them as instructional morality warnings rather than carnival sideshows. Revenue from speaking engagements, media licensing, and NESPR memberships goes toward storage security, historical preservation of Ed Warren’s extensive cassette-tape case archives, and local animal rescue charities that Lorraine Warren passionately supported during her lifetime.