“The home from the movie The Conjeuring”
PRIVATE PROPERTY. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL! This farm house was the inspiration for the film "The Conjuring", a film that is based on a true story. In 1971, the Perron family moved into a dilapidated farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island with their five daughters. Only a few days afterwards the family began experiencing strange, unexplainable bumps and knocks, followed by the sound of a disembodied voice laughing. The family also began to smell rotting flesh, and Carolyn Perron began waking up every morning at 5:15am. Eventually the haunting became so violent the family invited paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to rid the home of any negative entities. They were not able to do so, and eventually the family was forced to leave to flee the demonic entity that was believed to have been haunting their home. The real Perron family lived in the farmhouse for approximately ten years. Located in the small country town of Harrisville, Rhode Island, Roger Perron and his wife Carolyn purchased the home in the winter of 1970. The most haunting spirit in the movie is that of suspected witch Bathsheba Sherman. Born Bathsheba Thayer in Rhode Island in 1812, she married fellow Rhode Islander Judson Sherman (one year her senior) in Thompson, Connecticut on March 10, 1844. There is no hard evidence to support that Bathsheba Sherman was really a witch, only legend and local folklore. Having lived on a neighboring farm in the 1800s, suspicion grew when an infant mysteriously died in her care. When the baby was examined, it was determined that the mortal wound was caused by a large sewing needle that had been impaled at the base of the child's skull. Bathsheba Sherman died as an old woman on May 25, 1885, roughly four years after her husband Judson Sherman's death in 1881. Bathsheba lived to see her son Herbert, a farmer like his father, marry his fiancée Anna in 1881. The grave site of Bathsheba Sherman is located in the historic cemetery across the street from the fire station and rotary in downtown Harrisville, Rhode Island (near the start of Sherman Farm Road). The family's connection to the spirit of Bathsheba Sherman came at the suggestion of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The mother, Carolyn Perron, told Ed and Lorraine about an incident that had happened a few years earlier. She said that she had been lying on the sofa and all of the sudden felt a piercing type of pain in her calf and then the muscle began to spasm. Upon examination, she noticed a puddle of blood at the point of impact. She checked for bees or anything else that could have caused the puncture in her leg but found nothing. In her daughter's book, Andrea Perron describes the wound as a "perfectly concentric circle" ... "as if a large sewing needle had impaled her skin." "Eight generations of one extended family lived and died in that house prior to our arrival," says Andrea Perron, adding, "Some of them never left." The Black Book of Burrillville, the town's former public records book, reveals that over the course of its existence the property had been host to two suicides by hanging, one suicide by poison, the rape and murder of eleven-year-old Prudence Arnold by a farmhand, two drownings, and the passing of four men who froze to death, in addition to other tragic losses of life. NOTE: This building is private property, so please be respectful and sightsee from the road.
Hello, Old Brook Farm in Harrisville, RI is NOT public property - it is PRIVATE and the current owners have received many vandals to the house and the cemetery in our area since the movie came out. We are a small town and are concerned for the elderly homeowners that currently reside there.
If you were a fan of 'The Conjuring', this is definitely a neat place to check out. While it *is* on private property, you can snap pictures from the road, just don't be a jerk about it.
If you like this, be sure to look for the Warrens' Occult Museum in Connecticut. You can actually visit (if you call ahead) and it has the REAL Annabelle doll featured in the movies.
I've come across spirits before, believe it or not. They were a little scary but I didn't even scream but I was shocked. I always write down about my different experiences, anybody else?
Thanks for letting me know where it is so I can avoid it at all costs.
Definitely would love to have a look.
I am guessing they don't share this history when they sell it. There really should be laws about that! YIKES! Actually, some places do have laws but still....
anyone wanna stay the weekend at a nice cozy farm house? lol
I am so down to check it out
If I ever find myself in the area, you can be sure I'll check it out.
I must check this out, sure I get scared easy but I think it would be neat seeing a place like this that has so much history to it.
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