After discovering that The Conjuring 2‘s original release date of October 23, 2015, was terrifyingly haunted by director James Wan’s need to promote Furious 7, New Line called in famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to try and discover a new ghost-and-Furious 7-free release date. Unfortunately, Ed Warren has been dead for years, and choosing release dates has nothing to do with investigating ghosts anyway, so New Line settled on June 10, 2016. Presumably, it did this because June is widely recognized as the spookiest month of the year, which makes it perfect for a big horror movie sequel like this. After all, June 10 is only about 20 weeks from Halloween, so all of the ghouls and goblins will be running rampant on the hot summer streets as it is.