The Conjuring House is still haunted
Looks like a couple by the name Cory and Jennifer Heinzen have snatched up the original house that inspired James Wan's THE CONJURING. And not only do they claim that the place is still haunted (go figure) they plan to renovate the Harrisville house in Rhode Island and open it up to visitors and investigators later this year. Oh, good.
Cory Heinzen says
I’ve always been fascinated with the Warrens. It’s just like a piece of paranormal history, this house. We had doors opening, footsteps and knocks. I’ve had a hard time staying there by myself. I don’t have the feeling of anything evil, (but) it’s very busy. You can tell there’s a lot of things going on in the house.
He continues:
We immediately fell in love with it. Eight-and-a-half acres, a river in the back and a pond, it’s so serene down there, never mind the story behind the house, it’s a beautiful home. (Jennifer) honestly was more excited than I was, I think.
Jennifer Heinzen adds:
This whole journey has been both scary — for many reasons other than paranormal — and exciting all at once. I love that we have the opportunity to share the home with others.
No word on just when the couple plan to open the doors of the Harrisville house to the public, but we will make sure to keep up to date on this story and pass along updates as we hear them. In the meantime, remember that Producer James Wan and director Michael Chaves' third entry in THE CONJURING series - aptly title THE CONJURING 3 - will be heading our way in September 2020. It will see the return of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farminga. How excited are you for THE CONJURING 3? Make sure to hit us up and let us know below!
The Conjuring House Is Still Haunted
Because real life is sometimes stranger than a horror movie, recently a couple, Cory and Jennifer Heinzen, snagged up the house that inspired James Wan's original The Conjuring movie - and to the surprise of precisely no living human, they claim that it is still haunted. But that's not all folks. It turns out that Cory and Jennifer Heinzen plan to fix up the Harrisville house in Rhode Island and open it up to visitors and investigators later this year.
To give a bit of history on this whole story, this Cory Heinzen fellow has been a paranormal investigator for about ten years, and a few months ago, when he saw the infamous Rhode Island farmhouse for sale in an online forum, he snatched it up as quick as he could. Heinzen says this.
"I've always been fascinated with the Warrens. It's just like a piece of paranormal history, this house. We had doors opening, footsteps, and knocks. I've had a hard time staying there by myself. I don't have the feeling of anything evil, (but) it's very busy. You can tell there's a lot of things going on in the house."
He and his wife closed the sale back in June, with Heinzen saying this.
"We immediately fell in love with it. Eight-and-a-half acres, a river in the back and a pond, it's so serene down there, never mind the story behind the house, it's a beautiful home. (Jennifer) honestly was more excited than I was, I think."
Jennifer Heinzen adds.
"This whole journey has been both scary - for many reasons other than paranormal - and exciting all at once. I love that we have the opportunity to share the home with others."
I don't know about you, but I think this Heinzen couple snatching up the Harrisville house, and opening it to tourists and fellow paranormal investigators, is really the smart play. After all, the location has been an unofficial attraction for years now. In fact, the woman the couple bought the house from, Norma Sutcliff, sued Warner Bros. back in 2015 because of all the trespassing after the movie's release.
And in an ironic turn of events, it turns out Cory Heinzen was one of those unwanted guests who visited the site a few years before. Go figure. But that's not all, Heinzen even met with Andrea Perron before buying the house.
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Who's Andrea Perron, you might ask? Well, she was a member of the original Perron family who moved into the Harrisville house in Rhode Island back in the '70s and eventually became the basis for director James Wan's 2013 haunted house film. Yes, for the few people out there that somehow might not know, James Wan's The Conjuring is based on real-life events. Shocking, I know. Anyhow, Heinzen, who retired from the military, plans to regularly travel to the house and stay to oversee an extensive restoration throughout the next few months.
While there isn't currently a plan in place for just when the hell Cory and Jennifer Heinzen will open the infamous haunted house to the public, stick with us, and we will make sure to pass along further information as we hear it. Meanwhile, this story comes to us from the Press Herald.
Inside ‘America’s most haunted’ place
I’ve been in a lot of weird situations as a journalist.
I’ve watched a live exorcism; hung out with cult members; traipsed across the Australian outback with a prominent UFO hunter and his pet galah “Pink Bits” and have been escorted through peak hour traffic in Kuala Lumpur by a police convoy — which made cars part like the Red Sea — just to get us to a lunch on time.
I’ve had a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan proposition me during an interview (it was a no from me) and have gone on national television to discuss a half naked man rolling in the grass with a saltwater crocodile on his back as two lingerie-clad models whipped him with items from his new bondage range.
Then there was the time I rocked up to a “live art exhibition” only to be passed a plaster mould of the artist’s vulva before she unexpectedly took off her pants, inserted a ball of wool, whipped out some needles and started knitting from her nether regions as part of the demonstration; her lifelike sculpture, still in the palm of my hand.
Later, she showed us some more of her other crafts which she called “c**t fling-ups” before explaining the purpose of the female genitalia-inspired material cut-outs: they were to be thrown over power lines like some people do with old shoes.
Look, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
But the point is, that despite all of the odd situations I’ve found myself in, it’s probably pretty safe to say nothing will ever knock the knitting “performance” off its perch as the most bizarre of them all.
However, another experience recently become a strong contender for runner-up.
It unfolded during a press junket in Monroe, Connecticut with Warner Bros and a group of international media to promote the release of the Annabelle Comes Home movie.
After watching the new film, we were taken to a site known as one of “the most haunted places in America” — Union Cemetery.
“If anything goes wrong, it’s Annabelle,” a publicist nervously joked as our bus pulled up.
It’s where famous paranormal investigators and demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren — who The Conjuring and Annabelle horror franchises are based on — conducted extensive investigations.
It’s said that a figure known as the “White Lady” haunts the grounds and its surrounds. The legend goes that she appears wearing a white dress, with multiple reported sightings of the ghost over hundreds of years.
To my knowledge, there were no sightings of her during the junket. But it was the next stop where things took an unusual turn: nearby Stepney Cemetery, a 400-year-old burial ground where the Warrens lay side-by-side.
The couple’s daughter Judy Warren and her husband Tony Spera — who had watched her character come to life on the big screen with our group — ushered us over to the final resting place of her parents.
Lorraine had died just three weeks earlier, the soil on her grave still fresh. As the sun set and darkness crept over the cemetery, Tony reminisced about some of the family’s most extreme supernatural encounters and explained there were certain questions one should ask the dead to increase their chances of attracting a response.
He rattled off some examples: “What’s your name?”, “Where did you live?” and “How did you die?”, among them.
Our impromptu crash course in raising the dead concluded with a practical element when we were sent off into the cemetery and instructed to have a chat with whichever gravesite pulled us towards it.
It was a chance to take our new skills on a test run, if you will. But ultimately, a lot of one-way conversations occurred that night.
The junket concluded at the family home of the Warrens, in suburban Monroe, about 30 minutes drive from the cemetery. Outside the house, which has a separate “artefact room” full of items the Warrens said were possessed by demons, we were met by a priest in a clerical collar and shirt.
Health and safety first, he blessed us with holy water by tracing a cross on our foreheads to ensure we couldn’t get possessed by demons upon entering.
After all, the “real” Annabelle was encased in a glass box inside. It’s a little known fact the evil vintage doll of the Conjuring spin-off series Annabelle is based on a real-life doll that the Warrens performed exorcisms on and keep locked up to this day. A sign on the box — also featured in the movie version — warns: “Positively, do not open”.
ANNABELLE COMES HOME MOVIE
There have been eight films in the franchise in the last six years, with offshoots for The Nun and The Curse of La Llorona.
The latest offering, Annabelle Comes Home opens as The Warrens — played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga — are driving home when it dawns on them that the doll they’ve just acquired is a beacon for evil.
When they get to their Connecticut split-level house, they put Annabelle — who had not one but two origin stories in Annabelle and Annabelle Creation — behind glass in their locked room of artefacts, a collection of so much haunted stuff that it’s blessed weekly by a priest.
But for much of Annabelle Comes Home, Ed and Lorraine are out of town, leaving their 10-year-old daughter Judy Warren (McKenna Grace) in the hands of her teenage babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman).
Judy is a sweet young kid who has inherited some her mother’s spirit senses but, due to her parents’ reputation, is shunned by many of her classmates.
She and Mary Ellen are having a fine time together, but trouble comes in the form of Mary Ellen’s friend, Daniela (Katie Sarife), who shows up uninvited and mischievously curious about the Warrens’ work.
She’s also hiding her own grief, having recently lost her father in a car accident. Yearning for some connection to what’s beyond the grave, she’s drawn intractably to the locked room and, naturally, to Annabelle.
Pandora’s box gets opened and the three girls suddenly find themselves in a haunted house teeming with all manner of terrors.
Very nice
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