Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring (2013)
The real-life ghost-hunting history of Ed and Lorraine Warren is freaky enough to put anyone on edge, but Vera Farmiga knew very little of her character’s counterpart before signing the dotted line on The Conjuring and receiving her first paranormal encounter as a welcome gift. The actress told Cinema Blend that during her first round of research into Warren’s work she had a brush with the beyond after she hung up the phone with director James Wan and opened her laptop to find “three digital claw marks, from the upper right diagonal to the lower left.”