While ninth franchise installment The Conjuring: Last Rites breaks records at the box office, and with a TV series on the way, the real house that started it all is now going up for auction.
James Wan’s The Conjuring was of course based on a real-life case investigated by the real-life Ed and Lorraine Warren, documenting the nightmare endured by the Perron family at their Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971. The house is said to be haunted by the spirit of a woman named Bathsheba Sherman, and the latest owners claimed it is indeed still haunted.
The Rhode Island farmhouse that was built in 1736 was purchased back in 2019 for the purpose of turning the property into a tourist attraction, but it’s now back on the market through a foreclosure auction that is fittingly set to begin on Halloween Day, October 31!
The website Realtor.com reports, “The 8.5-acre property with the three-bedroom farmhouse in Harrisville will go up on the block in a mortgagee’s foreclosure auction at 11 a.m. on Oct. 31, a suitably spooky day that celebrates the dwelling’s allegedly haunted history.”
As anyone who has seen The Conjuring is aware, the Perron family was tormented by paranormal activity upon moving into the home back in 1971. According to Andrea Perron, who was a child at the time, “From benign to benevolent to oblivious to mean-spirited, the spirits were just like us, a wide variety of personalities.” The family moved out of the house in 1980.
Michelle Swope actually spoke to Andrea Perron for an article that ran here on Bloody Disgusting just last year. She told us, “The Conjuring is a very toned-down version of events.”
Perron explained, “We’re still learning things about that house and about the spirits who dwell there. And I love them. I even love the cranky ones. I do because to me it doesn’t even matter who they were, that they still are is a freaking miracle. That is magical. That is cosmic forces beyond our comprehension. One of my famous quotations is very simple, but it’s very true—To be touched by a spirit is not a curse, but a blessing. It is that rare glimpse into the realm from which we come and will all inevitably return. And I end it with, be not afraid.”
You can learn more about “The Conjuring House” over on Realtor.com.
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