Vera Farmiga dropped a chilling revelation about her experience filming the Conjuring series.
The actress, 52, has revealed ‘inexplicable’ bruises have appeared on her body throughout the making of the movies.
Vera previously shared a photo of a mysterious cross-shaped bruise on her upper thigh, which she attributed to the film at the time – but didn’t say it may have had a supernatural origin.
However, when asked about the marking during an interview with E! News, Farmiga revealed these particular injuries mysteriously appear ‘every time’ she films a Conjuring film.
‘Yeah, I get battered,’ Farmiga, who is returning for the fourth and final installment of The Conjuring: Last Rites, in told E! News. ‘It depends whether it’s upside down or not, whether they’re crosses or upside down crosses. I guess it depends on how I show you my leg.’
Vera tries to avoid talking about the markings over concerns of ‘sensationalizing’ the horror film, which is based on the real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Vera Farmiga has revealed the chilling bruises that mysteriously appear on her body during the making of the Conjuring franchise
Farmiga, pictured 2022, called the bruises ‘inexplicable’ and said they appear every time she films a Conjuring movie
‘We don’t like talking about it,’ she said. ‘We’re caught between a rock and a hard place—sensationalizing this and selling a movie.’
Farmiga first revealed the bruise photo last month on Instagram, raising concerns from fans.
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‘Okay Vera I see you with the fish but more importantly what happened with the bruise?’ one fan commented.
Farmiga didn’t say exactly how she received the bruise but replied: ‘#Conjuring’s coming. That’s what.’
Her co-star Patrick Wilson, who joined her for the interview, also strives to avoid sensationalizing the story out of respect for the people the film is based on.
‘I’ve said this in response to even what Vera’s talking about, with stuff that’s happened on set,’ he told E!. ‘I think anytime something happens in real life, I never sensationalize it.
‘There’s a lot of unexplained things and anytime you’re dealing with real people, real families, real friends, that’s much bigger than any of this sort of stuff.’
The horror flick is set to showcase another famous case that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren – played by Wilson and Farmiga – took on during their decades-long career.
Vera and Patrick Wilson will be returning to big screens for the fourth and final installment of The Conjuring series
The pair play paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren
In the trailer, Ed and Lorraine explain that they have decided to put an end to their ghost hunting and retire – but when a desperate couple claiming that a demon is terrorizing their family comes begging for help, they agree to help out one last time.
It turns out, the film was inspired by the harrowing Smurl haunting, which wreaked havoc on a small town in Pennsylvania in late 1970s and early 1980s.
In the chilling true story, Jack and Janet Smurl moved into a stunning duplex home in the charming town of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 1973 with their two young daughters.
But soon after arriving, the couple claimed that strange things started happening. They alleged that they started hearing loud bangs and smelling weird odors around the house.
They claimed that things continuously worsened as time went on: their possessions began moving on their own, and things soon turned violent.
Vera first raised eyebrows over the bruise after she shared a photo of it to her Instagram, and attributed it to The Conjuring film
It turns out, the film was inspired by the harrowing Smurl haunting, which wreaked havoc on a small town in Pennsylvania in late 1970s and early 1980s; pictured in The Conjuring: Last Rites
They alleged that a force threw their dog against a wall and pushed one of their daughters down the stairs.
Jack even claimed that he was sexually assaulted by the entity – which they believed to be a demon.
‘A light fixture fell from the ceiling, cutting one of the daughters on impact. The family dog was thrown against the wall,’ read a description of the events on the website of Ed and Lorraine’s organization, which is now run by their daughter and son-in-law.
‘Janet said she was picked up by an invisible presence, dangling some six feet in the air, and then tossed across the room.
‘Jack claimed a succubus (female demon) entered the living room and raped him while a baseball game played on the TV.
‘Even neighbors reported hearing screams from the house while the family was out.’
In 1986, the couple called the Warrens in for help. They also went public with their story, which earned them immense media attention.
The horror flick is set to showcase another famous case that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren – played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga – took on during their decades-long career; real-life Ed and Lorraine Warren pictured in 1981
According to reports, Ed told newspapers at the time that he witnessed furniture moving and saw ‘dark shadows’ during his visits to the house.
He also claimed that he felt a sudden drop in temperature and that the ‘demon’ left a message on the mirror that said ‘get out.’
Ed and Lorraine’s website states that after their investigation, they ultimately ‘concluded that the Smurls shared their home with four spirits: a harmless elderly woman, a young and possibly violent girl, a man who suffered and died in the home, and a demon that used the other three spirits to destroy the Smurl family.’
Together, the Smurls and the Warrens teamed up to write a book about their experiences in the home, entitled The Haunted, which was later turned into a movie of the same name.
In the end, the Smurls moved out of the home and a woman named Debra Owens bought it, and she claimed she ‘never encountered anything supernatural while living there.’
In The Conjuring: Last Rites, Janet and Jack will be played by Rebecca Calder and Elliot Cowan respectively.
The Conjuring: Last Rites will be released on September 5.