The Conjuring and its True Story

Ryan —  March 3, 2013 — 452 Comments

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James Wan’s latest foray into the haunted house genre leads him straight into The Conjuring which is “based on a true story” about the Perron family who were terrorized by demonic entities in which ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to investigate. We see this very often — especially with horror films — because adding the tag “based on a true” story to your credits instantly grabs everyone’s attention. And it should. Many movies are based on some truth and when it comes to something that looks as terrifying as Wan’s The Conjuring then we want to dig deeper into the events which inspired it.

I just recently dug up the true story about The Possession which was produced by Sam Raimi about the famous dibbuk box that held a malicious ancient spirit inside that did horrible things to each of its owners. That story was much easier to track down the “true” events because it was a much more popular haunting. The Harrisville haunting, the basis of The Conjuring, was a bit more difficult as not many people know about it yet. Hopefully this will give you guys an idea as to what the true story behind The Conjuring really is.

What you’re about to read is all entirely from the accounts of Andrea Perron. Like any story such as this, there’s a ton of skepticism because it’s one of those things that we may never know to be true or not. Read on, and take from it what you will, whether you believe in these things or not it’s a fascinating story regardless and one that I hope you guys will find interesting.

THE CONJURING

It had been a very long time before Andrea Perron told her account of what happened to her and the rest of the family in the quiet town of Harrisville, Rhode Island. She kept it all bottled up for three decades until finally releasing her first published work, marking the first book in a three-part series which tells the story of her family’s true experiences while living in a farmhouse riddled with spirits in the lonely Rhode Island countryside.

Although this particular haunting is very well-documented and considered to be one of the most significant hauntings in history, it is still very foreign to many people. The Warrens considered it their “most intense, compelling, disturbing and significant investigation”.

Roger and Carolyn Perron finally purchased their dream home in the winter months of 1970. Little did they know that this house was going to be full of nightmares. As many people would, they were excited to be living in a home full of history and were looking forward to raising their five daughters there. What they didn’t know was that this house was full of agony and death. Two former residents hung themselves — one from the rafters of the barn.

The home was built on beautiful land with plenty of room for five growing children to play. However, once they moved in the spirits began to make their presence known.

Perron says, “My mom just wanted a place in the country to raise her kids”.

“It is an extraordinary place. We started seeing spirits as soon as we moved into the house. Most of them were completely benign and some of them didn’t even seem to notice we were there, but eight generations lived and died in that house prior to our arrival and some of them never left.”

THE CONJURING

At first many of them appeared to be harmless, like the ghost that smelled of flowers and fruit, the one who would kiss the children goodnight in their beds every night, or the spirit that constantly picked up a broom to sweep the kitchen floor. Everything you would expect from a haunted house seemed to have been happening to the family as well, like things moving on their own and doors slamming shut, or quiet whispers heard throughout the night. Probably the most frightening thing was the sound of something that had the habit of slamming itself into the front door of the house in the middle of the night, waking everyone up. There were obviously some very disturbed spirits among the family.

“We had one my sister called ‘Manny’. He was a sympathetic soul. We think he was actually Johnny Arnold, who committed suicide in the eaves of the house in the 1800s,” Perron said. “He would appear in the house and watch over us. He always appeared in the same place, in the front hallway between the dining room and the kitchen. The apparition would always lean up against the door and would wear a crooked smile like he was amused by the children. As soon as we saw him and made eye contact he was gone.”

What is very interesting is that each member of the family actually saw these spirits wandering throughout the home. They weren’t the only ones though, because those who’ve lived in the house prior to and since the Perron family saw them as well. “Everyone who has lived in the house that we know of has experienced some type of supernatural phenomena,” Perron said. “Some have left screaming and running for their lives. The man who moved in to begin restoration on the house when we sold it left screaming, without his car, without his tools, without his clothing. He never went back to the house and consequently the people who owned it, the adjacent landowners, moved in only briefly and it sat vacant for years.”

Her descriptions of the numerous entities are vivid. Perron recalls their features (or lack thereof) as especially haunting. At times, the spirits would appear opaque, seemingly solid, and other times they were translucent or in the form of mist and fog-like haze. She also claims the spirits actually communicated with the members of the family but it wasn’t through speaking out loud. She describes their discourse as being “telepathic in nature”.

Perron said. “When they would appear it was as if all time stopped. My sister Cindy described it like being “in the bubble”. The air is suddenly compressed and we were unable to move or speak, prohibited from doing anything except listening to what the spirit was trying to tell us.”

James Wan’s The Conjuring is a motion picture based on the haunting which occurred in the Perron home and persists to this day. It is a story told from the perspective of Ed & Lorraine Warren, the paranormal researchers who conducted an investigation of their farmhouse in the early 1970′s. The screenplay is based on their case files as well as information that Ms. Perron provided to the producers. The Warrens did an investigation of the supernatural activity at the house while the family lived there in an attempt to intervene on their behalf. During a séance that goes terribly wrong, they awaken and call forth a horrendous presence, one that Mrs. Warren believed to be Bathsheba, described as a “God-forsaken soul”.

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Bathsheba wanted control over Perron’s mother, Carolyn, and was hell-bent and determined to drive her from the house, terrorizing her because the spirit apparently perceived herself as the rightful mistress of the house. She saw Carolyn as competition. She lusted after Roger and coveted the five children, routinely acting out and making her intentions obvious to all of the mortals in the house.Bathsheba frightened Carolyn straight to her bones, tormenting her with fire, a mother’s greatest fear. The spirit would approach her in the night and is described as having a gruesome, misshapen face and a broken neck. This thing was like looking at something straight out of your worst nightmare.

According to legend and local folklore, Bathsheba was suspected of being a practicing witch and was accused of sacrificing an infant child as an offering to the devil. More than two dozen mysterious and tragic deaths occurred on the property. Although she was absolved of any wrongdoing in a courtroom, the court of public opinion was not so kind. Bathsheba lived a miserable life and died an old woman in 1885 from a bizarre form of paralysis which the physician who examined the corpse found stunning and utterly inexplicable.

Early accounts of Bathsheba’s life before becoming this tortured soul are said that she was a young and beautiful woman when an infant mysteriously died in her care. When the baby was discovered, the mortal wound was presumably caused by a needle which was impaled at the base of its skull, which caused it to have convulsions and die. Bathsheba denied these charges and ultimately walked free due to insufficient evidence. Although Bathsheba may have walked free, these accusations never left her as they haunted her for life. Perhaps this is why Bathsheba wanted Perron’s mother out of the home and away from the children so badly.

“What she put my mother through, no human being should ever have to endure,” Perron claims. “She appeared to several of us, but I never saw her. I saw many of the spirits, but I never saw her except in a telepathic dream state. When she would appear to my mother, I would see the encounter in a dream state at the same time it was occurring, though I was rendered immobile and helpless to offer any assistance while she was appearing to torment my mother.”

Perron’s description of Bathsheba is where things really start getting creepy because she describes the sprit’s face as having almost no real features. Instead, it looked like a lifeless beehive with vermin crawling all over it. “Its head was leaning off to one side. It was round and gray, resembling a dessicated hornet’s nest. I couldn’t see anything underneath it… no eyes or mouth…it looked like the cobwebs hanging in the corners of the cellar.” This, as described by her mother.

Despite having Ed and Lorraine Warren attempt to dispel the evil spirits they ended up doing more harm then good and were never successful in ridding the house of its horror. The family stayed in the home for ten years before finally leaving — but the horrible things that happened within those walls stayed with them forever.

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Perron always knew there would be skeptics and I don’t blame her. Her story isn’t the only one that has been subject to criticism over whether it is true or not, which explains why she waited 30 years to tell the world what really happened in that farmhouse. Obviously there is so much more to this story than what I’ve covered here and quite honestly, I have only scratched the surface. This article is only meant to give you an idea as to where the story for James Wan’s The Conjuring came from and to hopefully give you some insight as to what really happened. What I’ve written here is really all I know on the events so if you want to learn more I strongly urge you to read Perron’s book, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story, because it gives a very in-depth and detailed look into this story.

So what do you guys think? Do you believe her story and that evil spirits like Bathsheba really do exist? Have you ever had an experience like this yourself? Personally, I’ve never experienced any sort of paranormal happenings but that doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t believe in ghosts or tortured spirits. It’s one of those things that’s truely hard to believe until you’ve experienced it yourself. I’d love to hear your stories and thoughts on this so please leave them below.  Also, I thought you guys would dig this — it’s a photo of Lorraine Warren, one of the major inspirations behind the film, taken on April 30th, 2013.

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Source: House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story

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452 responses to The Conjuring and its True Story

  1. I’ve never had experience with malevolent spirits, but have with benevolent ones. If one type exists, stands to reason other type exists as well. In my case, when I was 12, I moved to a house with my parents and twin sister and right away we noticed things, like at times the den smelled very strongly of cigar smoke, as if someone had just been smoking, but no one in my family smokes. Other times there would be no trace of the smell. I also would get an odd feeling whenever I would go into my parent’s bedroom, especially in the bathroom, which was connected to the bedroom, it felt like someone was there, but I couldn’t see them. Later we were able to tell that there were two ghosts, most likely a father and daughter, the father was probably in his forties and the daughter about 7 or 8. I heard the daughter laughing in the hallway and this was when I could see the hallway and no one was in it. Then my sister heard both of them laughing and talking in the backyard, but couldn’t tell what they were saying. She looked out her window to the yard and saw them playing catch together. One night I went to go into the kitchen for a late night snack. I thought I saw my mom in the walkway between the dining area and kitchen and her figure was dark because it was late and maybe she hadn’t turned on the light yet. I said “Mom?”, but when I got closer, I could tell it was a shadow and the figure of a man. It couldn’t have been my dad because he has a smaller frame and like I said, was obviously a shadow, not flesh and blood person who was just in dark. He didn’t say anything and I ran into my room, even though he didn’t hurt me he still startled me! The strangest situation and you may laugh, but this is what happened. I was up late again and I heard noises from outside at the front of the house. I looked out the window next to the front door and it was just some neighbors talking on the sidewalk, but for some reason it scared me. All of a sudden, right in my ear, I heard a deep voice sing “Don’t worry, be happy”. Yes, the song from Bobby Mcferrin. There is no way this could have been a radio, tv, anything like that. It was late, but I was fully awake and that singing was absolutely clear. So then the next day without knowing what happened to me, my sister tells me she was reading in bed when her tv randomly turned on. She turned it off and it turned on again. She turned it off again, then right in her ear she heard the same deep voice singing “Don’t worry, be happy.” Not sure why the ghost liked that song, but he was obviously trying to let us know it was okay. I know that song is not so old, I never looked into history of the house, so I don’t know what happened to the people. One more thing, my parents only ever experienced strange noises or smells, but when my 11 year old cousin was visiting, and my parents were both in the living room, he said he saw a man standing in their bathroom and as soon as he saw him, the man disappeared. We never told my cousin about the ghosts, so he had no idea about it before he saw that figure. We think the father appeared to us kids more because we reminded him of his daughter and we didn’t see or experience the girl as often, but we think the father was perhaps being protective of her. Even though some encounters were unsettling, we never felt any danger and eventually my sis and I just moved out when we became adults and then my parents wanted to move into a smaller place.

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    • What’s the address?

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    • I have also heard someone speaking to me or chuckling- once in the middle of the day while I was in my car by myself. I am a teacher and am very careful about who I talk to, because I do not want to have people think I have lost my mind. I have also seen entities occasionally- once an elderly man in and old plantation style suit, and others only once in a while at night. I have also seen lights, one going up a picture of my uncle over my bed. He passed away a year later. I was able to tell him that someone was looking out for him before he died. Everyone in my family believes in these abilities, because my grandmother had the same sixth sense. She did not talk much about what she saw, but I know she saw several faces at night flashing before her and saw her friend being led away by an angel when she died (though my grandma didn’t believe in angels). The only scary sighting I had was a black dog with red eyes growling at me, which I saw at night. All of these things were unsettling, except for the lights, which were very calming. I feel fortunate to have had these experiences, though, since I know that I have help in this world from others (except for the dog). I have noticed that many times I have had sightings or dreams that are trying to warn me about coming events, if I can figure them out correctly, which doesn’t always happen. I am very sorry for those people who are running into malevolent spirits. I wanted to shout out to Reb, because that story sounded the most like mine.

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  2. I’ve never experienced a definite ghost at the place I’m at now, but I did have a very strange experience. I bought a digital watch (not the strange part) with an alarm because I thought I needed one (more on that later). The first thing I do is set the time and the alarm for 7:30 am (when I get up), but I make sure the alarm is off because I only turn it on before I go to bed. Okay, so at 1:40 pm, an hour and 40 minutes after I brought the watch home, the alarm goes off! I look at the watch thinking somehow set it wrong, but no, still off and set for 7:30. I decided to not worry about it and thought maybe was a fluke. I set my alarm that night, but I woke up at 8 and I couldn’t tell if it had even gone off. So, on comes 1:40 and what happens? Yep, the alarm goes off again. Somehow, in the day that I had the watch, I managed to lose the receipt, so I couldn’t take it back, but it seemed to work alright other than alarm going off at that time. Still, seemed rather odd to me. However, here’s where it gets really weird. As I said, I thought I had no other watches as the batteries had died. Okay, the next day at, guess what time, I hear beeping coming from a desk drawer in my room. I open it and there’s a digital watch, which not only is the alarm set for a different time and turned off, but the watch itself shouldn’t even be working! At this point I freaked out a bit and I threw both the watches away outside. Thought that was the end, but no. Next day, 1:40 pm, I hear a beep coming from a bag in the storage closet. Another watch, same story. Clearly simply throwing the other watches away didn’t stop things. I got both of them out of the trash and it wasn’t until I removed the batteries from all of them that it finally stopped. I went out and bought another watch and since then have not had any problems.

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    • I had a Swiss Army watch I bought disappear in my home for 2 weeks and mysteriously reappear on a table which was one of the first places I stopped to look when retracing my steps in my search. My brother found it in that exact spot clearly visible and said, ” what are you blind?” as he had known it was gone missing and I was looking for it. It stopped working and my fiancé took it to a jewelry shop for a new battery and not long after it had stopped working again. I bought a new cheaper watch to replace it and had the handles on it turn by themselves clockwise twice. Alarmed I ripped it off my arm and thought that was really weird. Shortly after that it had stopped working while I was wearing it. Till this day I have it sitting on a dresser and have not worn a watch again and it still works and keeps good time.

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  3. I have been witness to two sightings of pure evil These forces seem to get stronger over time. One is the Republican Party and the other is the NRA. Can anyone help rid us of these demons?

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    • Let me guess, you have a shrine of the Usurper Obama? Tattoo’s of Zedong Mao? Karl Marx? How about an autographed photo of Saul Alinksky?

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    • They only haunt idiots…………………..

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  4. Perron said. “When they would appear it was as if all time stopped. My sister Cindy described it like being “in the bubble”. The air is suddenly compressed and we were unable to move or speak, prohibited from doing anything except listening to what the spirit was trying to tell us.”

    I’ve only ever had one “supernatural” encounter in my life, and that description is probably the most accurate one I’ve ever read for what I experienced.

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    • This whole thread confuses me, but King W. …Im not sure who Perron is, but its exactly how we feel the demons when they are close. It is like being in a vacuum, The air is still, my stomach is in my throat, and its like time does stand still. Every primitive instinct we have, kicks in, and the urge to run or freeze hits. Sometimes they show themselves, as fleeing shadows, moving, or as an image of one of us,,,but the horrible feeling when they are close is always the same.

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  5. I grew up on Long Island in New York. My dad bought a lot and had a house built on the site back in 1968. There were doorbells ringing, banging on the walls at night, my parents were downstairs many nights watching TV, swearing my 3 sons were supposed to be sleeping in their bedroom above the room they were in, hearing the children running back and forth several times my Dad threatened to blister their butts if they did not go to bed, Mom grabbed my Dad’s arm and told him that all 3 of my kids and I were outside in the swimming pool, no one was upstairs. My kids said they saw a man with a red face wanted them to touch and play with is hatchet, they were too young to know what a hatchet was, I had to tell the man “They are children who need their sleep, let them sleep please,” ANd they got their sleep. I slept on the couch on the main floor, brother and his wife had the apartment downstairs in the basement, Brother came upstairs and kicked the couch to wake me up told me to stop stomping on the floor I was waking him and his wife up. I said “Herb, what the heck? I’m asleep!” So many stories. I recently wrote to the occupants of the house, telling them hwo my Dad had designed the house and had it built and asked if they’d write back they never did. I never said anything about it being haunted, was going to ask them after we got to know each other. The house is at 341 Vernon Street in Dix Hills. Don’t know if things are still going on, I used to ehar growling at night by my door my cousin slept over and she heard it too. So many more stories in that house.

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  6. No doubt things like this happen wish we would hear story’s on good spirits but that doesn’t sell

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    • It’s not my story but my Great Grandmother’s – but here’s one of the “nice” ones:

      My Great Great Grandfather was serving in the first World War, but every night when the kids were being put to bed, my Great Great Grandmother would tell them that He was watching over them no matter where he was.

      One night, my GG woke up suddenly, and saw her Father standing in the doorway of the Girl’s room in his Uniform – she was obviously very excited, and when she went to get out of bed, he put his hand up in the air to stop her and said “It’s late my darling, you need to go back to sleep” – it was at that point that she noticed he had a small Dog with him that was jumping at his leg, at which point he said “Get down *Dog’s name*” (which I can never remember the name).

      The next morning, my GG rushed out to the Kitchen expecting to see her Dad, but he wasn’t there – after telling her Mother about what had happened, she was told it must have been a dream, but that hopefully he would return soon.

      It was a week or two later when they received word that he had been shot & killed by a Sniper, and it had occured on the day my GG had her visit from him – the letter that accompanied the official notice from one of his squad members also detailed how he had rescued and “adopted” a small terrier from a nearby village.

      I always took a lot of comfort in that story – I think it fits the bill of a good spirit.

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    • The experience I share with this forum is just that…my experience. I’m not sure what it was and I will leave judgment up to the reader. A “good” encounter that I had happened in the fall of 2002. I had moved into my first apartment with my girlfriend at the time and had started a new job that required getting up at a ridiculously early morning hour. The apartment was part of a subdivided Victorian mansion that was built around the 1860′s. It was gorgeous, but I digress…I awoke one morning after living in the apartment for about a week when I saw a black cat run from the bathroom, across the living room floor, and into the kitchen. At first this did not faze me since I had just moved from my parent’s house where there were two cats that would run or walk about the house at odd hours. I remember thinking, “oh, it’s the cat”, until I remembered that we don’t own a cat! I ran back into the bedroom and woke up my girlfriend frantically telling her that there was a cat in the apartment thinking that perhaps a neighbor’s pet or a feral alley cat somehow got in. We turned on all the lights and searched the small one bedroom apartment to no avail. I easily dismissed this as me being tired and soon forgot it even happened. Fast forward about a year and a half: I was deployed to Iraq and the girlfriend had left while I was over there. I returned to an empty apartment. After about a week after returning I remember lying in bed, late morning, and contemplating what to do with my day. It was an especially beautiful and sunny day. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye I saw the perfect silhouette of a chubby black cat calmly sitting on the kitchen table, looking out the window. I froze and suddenly remembered the cat incident when I first moved in. I slowly turned my head to look at it directly and it evaporated. Similar situations involving this cat would happen about a half dozen times more until I moved out for better living accommodations. I always remember feeling both happy and amused whenever the cat would appear. I never felt threatened or any negative feelings. I never had an experience like that ever again. It was kind of nice having a cat that didn’t need to be cared for. To this day I still question what that was all about.

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  7. The one thing i experienced was when my grandma passed away in her house, they had a ceiling fan in the kitchen. When my mom went to turn it on it began to play music which it never did before. We thought it was a sign that my grandma was still around.

    The night my grandmother passed away she came to me in a dream saying she was no longer going to be around and everything would be ok. Wgen i woke up i did not think anything of it until my mom received a call from her father that she had a sudden heart atrack and passed away on the couch

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    • I’ve been in a foyer where an unwound Grandfather Clock was laying on its side but chimed the hour and half hour.

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  8. I will have to get a copy of that book. My family’s new house is haunted. Every night at 3 am you can hear someone walk around the house. A guy killed himself in this house but I’m not sure it’s him due to the fact that I encountered a shadow being the other day. I believe whatever it was that haunted me when I lived with my family moved with them. It just feels too familiar. My siblings toys will go off only in the middle of the night and I always hear talking and chairs moving in the kitchen. I’m not the only one who experienced this. My sister and I heard a hissing noise all last night and a growl. I will be happy when I’m at my own home again! I love the paranormal but this is too much.

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  9. I’m a believer and I have experienced them in houses that I have lived in . I’ve never been threatened that I’m aware of all though I’ve see them do extreme things like throw a mirror off the walk to land next to my bed while I was sleeping and one time while everyone was awake I had set a soda in the center of my night stand turned to walk away and the soda can flew from the nightstand to land past me on the flow in about the same spot that the mirror has landed . I think it was a female it may have even been the mother of my ex but I often would smell purfem when I know it wasn’t me. Plus I later learned I was medium although I haven’t done it in quite sometime and this was long after these events had occurred. I do however have to express that yes you could be hurt if you were subject to an event that a spirit was capable of conjuring up. But I don’t believe most spirits are out to hurt people or even scare them.I think its most commonly they just want to be non of . and we just assume its bad. I have heard of families that feel presents and never make anything of it. The only thing I would guard yourself against is consciously claiming your body by mentally being aware of who you are and claiming your life and who governs your soul for the less your brain is in connection with your soul’s being give more opportunity for another entity to reside in it and basically clam what you left open to be claimed just like a car thief would still your car. Fully occupy your being and be a good person and there’s not much to worry about.
    But lets face it any way a spirit tries to communicate with humans is going to be preserved as scary so it not fair to say that all supernatural communication is bad …

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  10. I find that very very difficult to believe that James Randi would NOT get back to Ed Warren or Lorraine Warren, or anybody for that matter who accepts his challenge. Randi is so incredibly diligent in his pursuit of exposing charlatans amongst other hoaxsters, liars & those who prey on persons who are either totally convinced something paranormal & malicious is occurring, disabled or just gullable. I simply cannot see Randi shrugging anyones acceptance of his challenge.

    Randi has on numerous occasions exposed people. I mean really really exposed people! Humiliated them & rightfully so. The ones I’m speaking on are the ones who take advantage of someones situation and be it real or just how they perceive it, but take advantage nonetheless, and takes their money. Yanno, the Sylvia Brownes and Peter Popoff’s of the world. Randi exposed Uri Heller and James Hydrick (child molester). Randi went hard on Peter Popoff & exposed the crap out of him and rightfully so! Popoff is a total narcissist and sociopath. He makes my stomach turn. He embodies the word vile. What a deplorable and disgusting person he is.

    I don’t know if ghosts and spirits and all that stuff is real. I say that because I cannot speak on it as “fact”. Now I can say that I have had some very bizarre & strange things (I mean strange!) occur, but nothing like the typical doors slamming, etc. Besides, why would a spirit, demon or ghost want to slam a door? You mean ALL of their preferred method of announcing their presence is to slamming a effing door? Cmon! I would think with ALL the Countries around the word,States,City’s,Bouroughs,etc….homes in general, ALL OVER the world, that one, just ONE person would actually get something so concrete and totally authentic where NASA would even co-sign it. But that seems to never happen. It’s always the same recycled “phenom” going on. Same show, different players.

    One would surmise that if something that terrifying occurred, there would be no need whatsoever for writers. Sure, writers would need to be on board for the “fillers”, yes. But, the embellishing of events wouldn’t be needed because the situation itself would be scary enough. Why is is always a Hollywood Film? ALWAYS! It’s never ever a real and authentic lets say “nanny cam” or any home video type of cam where a very reputable agency such as NASA would put their seal of approval on it. Since the inception of the video camera, you mean to tell me NOT ONE single “episode” of “events” have been captured on film that independent scientists or like I said, NASA who could conclude its authenticity. Please please don’t bore me with the excuse “They cant, the GOV wont let them in fear of public fear and reaction” because that’s so LAME! I would imagine people who know all about diff types of phenom that occurs in our galaxy and on earth could conclude what something is or isn’t & whether or not its related to some sort of magnetic field, etc etc etc.

    Listen, I CANNOT say with any degree of certainty that this is NOT true or any stories like it are not true. I cant say that. I don’t know. But, I can say what I have already stated. I don’t have proof to “disprove” it. But, the burden isn’t on me to do so. The burden would be on the person or persons claiming it to be real. I mean, how does one get to be a “Demonologist”? Experience? Well how do WE know these “experiences”are factual? In fact, how we do know any of the things that a “demonologist” says is “fact”? See, I’m a science chick. Science generally can substanciate fact. Generally. Opinions and great “guesses” are not facts.

    Anyhoo, I WILL watch the movie because I’m a horror genre fanatic. I enjoy the rush and chemicals my brain produces when Im creeped out. Just love it. I also really enjoy the acting chops of Vera Fermiga & Patrick Wilson.

    Lastly, nobody has officially taken James Randi’s challenge. A “phone call’ back is NOT accepting the challenge. We all know that if there is a million bucks for the grabbing and person could prove whats needed to get it, they would be absolutely RELENTLESS in their pursuit of it. THEY would go to media! THEY would get the public involved! Oprah! Maury! Wilkos! I mean the list is absolutely ENDLESS as to how they could reach out to James Randi, if, Randi is simply “not getting back to them”.

    Uh huh. How conveinant.

    Sincerely,
    Not Buying It

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    • I’m not sure what all the discussion is about. It’s already been asked and answered: It’s a glitch in the Matrix and rogue programs being mischievous! :P

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    • I think that you are trying to look at something that can not be seen. I am also scientist and come to find out not everything can be explained through expirementation, not everything is measurable and not everything can be seen, at least at this point on the evolutionary scale. Think about this, if you were an angry spirit, would you let people film you…? And even if some body could pull it off via ‘nanny cam’ you don’t think the skeptics would come out of the wood works to prove that the tape is fraudulent?? Anything can be given skepticism, look at God, there are millions and billions of people that believe in God or a higher power, but I have yet to see the solid proof of that. However, people will give you first hand accounts of ‘Godly experiences’ or ‘miracles’ that they believe we’re performed by the hand of God. But I have to agree with most comments on here, until you experience it yourself, you will be a skeptic. I have also seen a UFO and I see ghosts all the time and I am scientist, think about that. Most people I tell don’t believe me either, which is why most people don’t tell their stories, they don’t want to hear all the bullshit and disbelief. No one asked you to buy anything, they just want someone to be believe them, that their not crazy, and it’s because you have such a closed mind that you will never see what we see…try opening up, try to believe the unbelievable and you will find the proof you are looking for.

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      • “Try to believe the unbelievable and you will find the proof you are looking for.” Wow. Based on that statement I suspect you will believe anything.

  11. For disbelievers it is always easy to deny a haunting, since it means they have not experienced one. Until about 1973 I experienced several, but I “swore off” experiencing any phenomena except for the empathetic (feelings) since then. One of those experiences was especially bad- an entity that I now think was not the perpetrator but the “thing” that made him act out. We never saw anything BUT my brother, an infant and then a toddler during that time (1965-1969), used to escape from his crib or bed and we’d find him sleeping in the hall. He says now that something was touching him in that room, which I later found out was thought to be how a deranged roomer entered the building from the 2nd floor (it had been his room before that and was easily accessible by ladder); he later went upstairs and suffocated the landlady. All of this happened shortly after the place was built in the late 19th century according to a neighbor who lived there long before my grandmother bought the house. I was not aware of any of this until we moved away and she came to visit! Later we moved to another town and unfortunately into a home that we discovered again, had a haunting associated with it, although this haunting was much milder until we pulled out the Ouja board. In both cases-yes-the activity was made worse in this way, so much so, that after a voice came out of someone close to me saying angrily ” Leave me ALONE!” while the voice was from someone of the opposite sex- and slammed the person into a support beam, knocking the person out cold, I determined to never use such a board again! By the way, I have only seen one ghost-enough for me; all of the other activity was spoken or active ( things turned on, moved, doors that had non-working locks, suddenly locking me upstairs, etc.).

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    • I have experienced a “haunting”. Checked into a rehab center while coming down from some MDMA laced with something. The staff told us stories about it being an old convalescence home. While lying in bed, I saw in the corner this horrifying, levitating monstrosity. It looked subhuman with a crooked spine. At the time, I was absolutely sure I had witnessed a ghost and why not? I kept seeing it later in the week. After thinking about it, the staff’s stories and my brain chemistry changing clearly made a “ghost”.

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      • Not sure if it matters, but I was checked in against my will (for heroin addiction) and was an adolescent at the time.

  12. Experiences from early childhood always made me wonder if there was something wrong with me…trying to make my parents see the man standing beside the tree in the white suit with gold teeth (don’t ask..still don’t understand THAT one…1st-4th grade) sending my dad out on wild goose chases in the middle of the night to find the person ‘knocking’ on my window…poor Pops would be out there in his bvd’s,baseball bat, and flashlight, never finding a thing. My numerous siblings would shake their heads and go back to bed. My folks never got angry for all the things I would ‘see’ and ‘hear’…like the woman who used to push me on the swing when I was about 4. We lived in the projects and I would run across a busy road every day to get to the swingset where she and I would have long talks and laughs. My mother, frantic because I’d disappear and then she’d know I’d crossed that busy street alone, would see me out there yappin’ away to ‘nothing’ and then ask who I was talking to. I don’t remember what my response was, but I remember very clearly what my friend was wearing and her hairstyle. Long black skirt, highcollared white blouse with puffy sleeves and lace, hair piled on top of her head. I saw her photo about forty years later. It was my great grandmother. She died giving birth to my grandmother in 1903. When I saw the photo, I knew immediately that was the woman who’d pushed me on the swing.
    Barreling through the years, the paranormal experiences have been wide and varied…some very benevolent, some truly horrid. I don’t ‘see dead people’ but do have clairvoyant and clairaudient experiences. Some family members remain skeptical, but a few others now ‘understand’.
    My son and I watch ‘Paranormal Witness’ together because he likes that ‘chill and thrill’ and gets upset that I’m not cowering behind the blanket with him. I told him, ‘Once you’ve experienced it, it’s no longer scary’.

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  13. Wow someone would stay in a house inhabited by evil spirits for ten years? Give me a break.

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  14. I just saw the trailer for this movie. I have no desire to see this movie. Way too scary. I lived in a small house on 2 acres in the country. My spirit friend would visit me when my husband would travel. I was never afraid after I realized he was protecting my son and myself. He lived in my son’s room in the closet. He would stand behind me in the kitchen and breath on my neck. I would turn around and no one was there. I would see the quick flash of a shadow go across the bedroom to the kitchen sometimes. I could feel him in the house but it didn’t scare me. My son would say sometimes he was playing with his imaginary friend, Bobby. Only later on did I realize what he meant. Our “friend” was there as a friend.

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  15. TO the 99% of you – GO INTO YOUR BASEMENT ALONE AT 3AM
    TURN OFF ALL THE LIGHTS, BUT KEEP A CANDLE LIGHT NEAR BY
    YOU WILL SEE, HEAR GHOSTS & BE HAUNTED.
    TRUE STORY.

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  16. I totally believe that. It happened to me. Can’t move or speak, like frozen. Scariest thing ever.

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    • Probably this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

      I bet this accounts for like 98% of people’s “paranormal experiences” throughout history.

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      • I had several horrifying experiences of waking up and felling like I was being sat on, suffocated, leered at, or pulled by the leg but it was sleep paralysis. Now that I know what triggers it and what it is, I haven’t had another episode.

      • Ryan, sleep paralysis is a very real thing, and ‘feels’ like a paranormal experience, I have had it in the past, but the experiences we have had, has been in the middle of the day while cleaning house, listening to music, getting ready for showers, etc. I do know the difference, both are frighting, but only one is dangerous.

      • I used to suffer from sleep paralysis when I was younger. Fortunately I grew out of it, or maybe it was because my sleep habits improved. It felt to me more like an alien abduction account that a haunting. However, I have had some unexplainable phenomenon in my life when completely awake. I choose to be on the fence on this because it seems to me that most accounts of hauntings are made from believers. I don’t want to invite anything, real or imagined. Living people are scary enough!

    • True that!

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  17. Until you personally experience a supernatural incident that truly amazes and scares you… You will be skeptics… But the paranormal is real and I thank this family for sharing their experience…. I have had several experiences and have had them throughout my life… I believe I am hypersensitive individual and for a long time I was a skeptic …. Until a friend of mine died in a car accident and the day of his funeral I had to go into work and almost was Tboned which would have most likely killed me and I looked in my passenger seat and I saw my friend Lee which ultimately made me press my breaks in shock and avoid being Tboned by the car I did not see as I was pulling out…. I know I have many guardians with me…. And can’t wait to see this movie!

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  18. It looks like a fun scary movie, but true? lol no way. Its like the Amityville Horror all over again..which is another story the investigators worked on. Its money grab, nothing more. The “true story” is for the ignorant and the superstitious…

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  19. I find it Very interesting that they describe being absolutely helpless, motionless and speechless when they were in the presence of the spirits. I thought I was the only one. But from my personal experiences, I only experienced such horror in the presence of evil spirits and was able to talk myself out of it (I am in control of my movements and of my speech) and it was only after repeating this over and over again did I finally gain control. And it wasn’t immediately, it slow and progressive, I could hear my screams in a breathy whisper until finally I heard my voice coming back slowly and then it seemed like all at once I jumped up and could hear my voice again. It seems the ones who are simply lost or curious do not seem to hold such anger. However, the ones who pass unexpectedly or violently, clearly want anyone and everyone to suffer…I have to say I am very excited to see this film and even more curious to see the house. Though it is terrifying, it’s still curious.

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  20. I grew up in an active home. Hearing footsteps, seeing shadow people, having sheets pulled off, etc etc. After moving when i got older i still have experiences. Some good and some bad. But what i’ve learned is to stand up and be firm with whatever passes through and claim my space. Fear breeds fear. Negative energies, in my experience, love to scare u and i do get scared but have to recenter myself, call on my higher power and stand firm.

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  21. I know where andrea was coming from waiting to tell her story. Just like her i have waited 30 years of my own. House of Echoes a true haunting is my own ghost story. The book will be out july 21

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  22. Kimberly Ricketts July 2, 2013 at 12:05 AMJul

    I believe in spirits of all kinds good are evil. People who come across these entities are mor open to whats actually happening and for who dont needs to understand its not only the living thats in the world we live in but its the un dead that can not move on due to they can not rest are of the evil that they did … Like amittyville horror , the haunting in conneticut, and the conjuring!!! What the perrons went through was REAL and unexpexted.. I would know cuz in placesthat are real old and gives you a feeling off dispear and evil are usually has great amounts of not only history but torment and angry spirits .. I once lived in New York Poughkeepsie and my family house was unusual in fact it always felt like someone was watching ” a couple of times i went to sleep and i tryed moving and opening my eyes and i couldnt it was like someone are something held me down. Next day went to bed late and my bed started shaking around that time everyones bed stated shaking and this lady was walking very translucent but with glowing red angry eyes. This image still to this day haunts me..

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    • Amityville proven hoax the haunted movie man found water on brain hallucinated. Devil in Conn. brothers suing Warrens for destroying their lives the Haunting in Conn young boy sickly exposed to many drugs. And many issues of conjuring story fabricated.

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  23. Did you get my previous comment Laurie?

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  24. I do appreciate this summary, or prelude, to the viewing of The Conjuring. I assure you I will wait until it is on DVD or a streaming service before I see it. First, I have had experiences, though minimal. I believe in spirits that stay earth-bound for whatever reason, I strongly believe in reincarnation, and I do believe there is evil on earth that comes from a different place and crosses over into the earth plane. I don’t know why any of this occurs except I do have the gift of forseeing the future and countless friends and family have counted on me to help them. Since I was fifteen years of age, I have never been wrong once. I’ve been asked some pretty intense questions to help people; some were life or death. I think scientists and physicists need to understand there’s a lot out there that cannot be explained scientifically. If we are all energy, and energy cannot be destroyed, but can change form or state, why haven’t we more answers about the paranormal? I think of all the shows on TV that portray ghost hunters, Ghost Adventures and their crew seem to be after answers, not just evidence. I hope Zak, Nick, and Aaron never stop looking for answers because stubborn scientists just don’t get it.

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    • Agreed. Seeking answers and attempting to assist the client in need are both proper motivations. That is why we agreed to take this case on when we did, even though we were a young college group at the time… and which is exactly why we contacted our friends Ed and Lorraine Warren. :)

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    • So you still have the gift of foreseeing the future? I’ve had paranormal activity happen in a home I bought while living in L.A. CA. and witnessed supernatural activity in a home I was visiting while vacationing in Portland, OR. while I was left alone in the home. My friends had not spoken of this to me until I mentioned what happened, then said they were praying with their church over it. Recently I witnessed a black spot on the wall under the air conditioner in my family home where I reside now. Before I saw this it was very “cold” in the house and I’m never that cold. Later on when I remembered to ask my fiancé or brother about it, it was gone! I touched it with my hand and it was definitely there and not a shadow. It was black with some very dark green in it.

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  25. i see dead people. ever since being a young child an not knowing they were dead. ive had conversations with them, see an sense their presence. but not gonna lie have seen some scary things an freaks me out. ive always been attracted to the paranormal an their encounters. ive also seen an Angel Reader/Energy Healer Elaine Grohman an she was the first to tell me that I see dead people an have special abilities…with only giving her my first name for an appointment. She knew that I see them as they are…not necessarily in mist forms, shadows an such or lights, but as they show themesleves. My parents have always been supportive and believed me and have witnessed my encounters at a young age and for themselves. But being one who has been witness to many things…I can see the other peoples side in it being untrue. Just hope you dont have to witness anything terrifying to make you believe and just keep living non believing.

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