The Rhode Island house from "The Conjuring" traded hands earlier this year, and new owners Cory and Jennifer Heinzen claim they've witnessed bizarre occurrences that show there is still ongoing . And then talking to people from paranormal TV shows who have an interest in pop culture. Last year, when Ghostbusters: Afterlife came out, I did a livestream with Greg and Dana Newkirk from Hellier, John E.L. Tenney, and Amy Bruni and Adam Berry of Kindred Spirits where we all reacted to the movie and what we thought about it as people who work in the paranormal. During his extensive career as a journalist, Sagers has appeared on numerous TV shows and online videos. He said on camera that one night when he went check on the girls in their room, he found one of them positioned oddly on top of a piece of furniture with her leg resting on the wall and fast asleep. Famous photos from the haunting, captured by photographer Graham Morris, show Janet being seemingly flung across her bedroom by an invisible force. His wife, Lorraine, claimed to be a clairvoyant and medium who was capable of communicating with the demons that Ed discovered. This is a complete exaggeration of what allegedly happened in real life during the Enfield haunting. The ghost would reportedly talk through Janet for hours at a time. We [told our mom] the chest of drawers was moving toward the bedroom door, Janet recalled while speaking on iTV in 2012. One of their tapes includes unintelligible babble and is included on a featurette for The Conjuring 2, which is posted below. AS: I do not know yet about a second season of 28 Days Haunted. Expand your knowledge of the Enfield Poltergeist true story by watching the Janet Hodgson interviews below. Not necessarily malevolent, I dont think its necessarily dark, but it can be strange and intimidating to us. Call me mad if you like. Made for a budget of $20 million, the film grossed over $319 million worldwide. YouTube The Perron family minus Roger in January of 1971, shortly after moving into their haunted home. In fact, the upside down cross has not traditionally been a symbol of evil. M3GAN Dances Into a Whopping $30.2M Box Office Opening. BD: Do you know if there will be a season 2 of 28 Days Haunted? The Talking Strange podcast is really my chance to talk to people about the paranormal, talk to people about entertainment, but also cover topics that I think are worth mentioning such as the Satanic Panic from the eighties and how it never really went away, and now its even more politicized. An interview with Janet Hodgson at the time suggests that the idea of talking in a possessed voice may have been encouraged and planted in Janet's mind by paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse. I think that when youre dealing with the unexplained, it is a strange experience. I will say that we are currently filming our sixth season of Paranormal Caught on Camera on Travel Channel and Discovery Plus, so that is definitely continuing on. The knocking would fade in and out as it ran down the wall, supposedly frightening the family so much that they all slept in the same room with the light on. The Enfield house depicted in The Conjuring 2 is a real residence in the UK. And I love that. Penny, Janet and Margaret Hodgson have spoken out about their familys 1977 haunting in recent years. While exploring The Conjuring 2 true story, we learned that single mother Peggy Hodgson took the family next door and pleaded for help. Set in the late '70s in the London Borough of Enfield, The Conjuring 2 ticks off many of the same boxes as the original: haunted house, demonic possession, and a relentless pace full of jump. The poltergeist was with me and I feel that in a sense he always will be. The Conjuring is a horror movie released in 2013 and directed by James Wan. In a 2011 interview with Radio 5, Morris said it was clear the poltergeist was drawn to Janet. I was checking out books on the paranormal and reading the Time Life collection of Mysteries of the Unknown. In the recordings, she can be heard conveying a message via an eerie voice, which is supposedly that of Bill Wilkins, a man who had died in the living room of the house several years earlier. Answer (1 of 5): Well the movie leaves you skeptical throughout the movie. And when she went to try and push back against the dresser, it wouldnt budge. -Daily Mail Online, Yes, at least according to the real Janet Hodgson, who says that she and her sister Margaret played with a Ouija board just prior to the start of the supernatural activity. Her sister smiles in astonishment, as if Janet just gave up a secret, and whispers, "Shut up!" Those events did happen. The Conjuring 2 is based on the case of the Hodgson family, who in the late 1970s allegedly experienced hauntings and demonic possession. The one that I share a lot is the one that launched me into this as a job and it was at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. We were sort of frightened, but also intrigued.. Ed Warren was a World War 2 veteran and a former police officer who became a self-professed demonologist after studying the subject on his own. Carolyn allegedly researched the history of the home and discovered that it had been in the same family for eight generations and that many of them had died under mysterious or horrible circumstances. I operate from theory, not treating things as dogma or rules. We shouted Mum! Unwelcome Exclusive Clip Meet the Tiny Goblins in Upcoming Irish Creature Feature! Those of you who've watched movies from The Conjuring series may already know that the house in the movies is not the actual house in Harrisville. So, the horror and spooky crossover is to be seen everywhere. The actual true story of The Conjuring, namely the Perron family and Enfield haunting, is scarier than the movies themselves. The most frightening [encounter] was when a curtain wrapped itself around my neck next to my bed.. Managing editor/music guy/social media fella of Bloody-Disgusting, The Backrooms Viral Shorts from Kane Parsons Getting a Feature Film from A24 and James Wan. They then witnessed a chest of drawers slide across the room by itself, and that's when they realized that something truly bizarre was going on. "The lady saw me spinning around and banging against the window," recalls Janet. The real Bathsheba Sherman's gravestone site in downtown Harrisville, Rhode Island. I like seeing connections between stories and popular media, as well as the beliefs and the theories of the paranormal that are out there, and they cross over a lot. And maybe I would have been unintentionally influencing the experiment. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. "But what is the Enflied poltergeist?" I hear you cry. When asked when the voices started, Janet said that one night Maurice Grosse told them, "All we need now is the voices to talk." Madison Heinzen has amassed a huge following on TikTok, thanks to her videos of the Harrisville, Rhode Island home the site of real-life events in the 2013 horror film. They showed up and immediately believed that a demonic presence was present. Investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) attempt to help out the family haunted by the homes spirits. Moving into the 14-room home in 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron, along with their five daughters, lived in the Old Arnold Estate for a decade. When the Enfield Poltergeist events subsided and the press attention faded, the family faced various challenges. Copyright IBTimes 2023. In fact, Janet admitted that she and her siblings fabricated a few events. The Conjuring 2 is a rare beast, if you'll spare the metaphor. According to real estate agent Mott & Chace Sotheby . Harry Price, who was a well-known investigator, tried to do that at the Borley Rectory, I believe, and that was in the early 1900s. When The Conjuring was released in 2013, it was met with critical acclaim. They always did." But when the reporter arrived, the house sat silent for hours. Youve probably seen him analyzing bizarre videos on Paranormal Caught on Camera on Travel Channel and Discovery Plus or hosting shows like Discoverys Paranormal Lockdown: Evidence Revealed or the web series Ripleys Believe It or Not! Ive worked hard but its been an embarrassment of riches as far as my experiences with the paranormal, because I didnt travel a lot as a kid and this job has allowed me to see so much of the world, as well as the job of an entertainment journalist. But when it was happening to you, In the BBC documentary, Janets sister Margaret, then 14, said all of her siblings had experienced the paranormal, but Janet faced the brunt of the activity and her voices were always stronger. The Gorge Sigourney Weaver Joins the Cast of Scott Derricksons New Movie. You can keep up with Sagers paranormal adventures by checking out his website and then read on to find out what we talked about. Horror and the paranormal cross over a lot more than people may realize and I think we should be talking about that. After the seance, Roger kicked the Warrens out, worried about his wifes mental stability. And that commonality can be a cultural connection; by shows like Paranormal Caught on Camera, whereby talking about the phenomena in the Phillipines and connecting it back to occurrences in North America, we can see that there are a lot of similarities in our stories, a lot of similarities in our folklore. I'm not sure the poltergeist was truly 'evil'. [Set Visit Report] We Visited the Filming Locations of James Wans The Conjuring 2! As displayed in the film, Janet appears to be controlled by an older gentleman named Bill Wilkins. Reports claim Wilkins was a man in his 70s who had died in the home. Supporting the family's claims were two witnesses, a baker and a lollipop lady, who were passing by outside and claimed to have seen Janet hovering above her bed as they looked through an upstairs window. Thats why its kind of an experiment, but its never entirely complete. The Conjuring 2 is based on the real-life pair's real-life adventures, as they were brought in to investigate the Enfield poltergeist. Andrea, the oldest of the five Perron daughters . 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Or the same group of investigators could enter into a different location and just because they had success in the one, does not guarantee success in the next location. BD: You also have a podcast called Talking Strange and youve had some interesting horror and pop culture guests. The Conjuring, directed by James Wan and written by Chad and Carey W. Hayes, was a runaway success. Aaron Sagers: Ive always been interested in that stuff. It was almost as if it wanted to be part of our family. While the first film saw the couple battle evil spirits inside the Perron family's home in Rhode Island, the sophomore installment, "The Conjuring 2," will take the pair over to Enfield,. Im friends with Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman from Paranormal Lockdown and they would spend 72 hours onsite, and various other people have tried to extend this time, so its something that a lot of people have tried to do. Margaret and Penny both appear on camera, but Janet does not. -Daily Mail Online. Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position, said Andrea Perron, the oldest of the five girls. Other TV shows have attempted these things as well. Throughout the 18-month period, a number of additional paranormal researchers visited the house including famed demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. The officer who arrived reported witnessing a chair rise up and move across the floor on its own. Initially built in 1736, the home, previously known as the Old Arnold Estate, is situated on 8.5 acres of land. Heinzens home, which her parents boughtin 2019, has documented claims of paranormal activity. The Conjuring: The Lover is a five-issue limited series that serves as a prelude to the film The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It takes us to 1981, Brookefield Connecticut. "I thought I might actually break the window and go through it." The Conjuring 2 (2016) Starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Frances O'Connor, Franka Potente | based on the Enfield Poltergeist haunting investigated by Ed & Lorraine Warren It lived off me, off my energy. "We told her what was going on, and she came to see it for herself. FrightFind asked, "Did Lorraine Warren see the first Conjuring movie? What starts as mildly paranormal events quickly take a turn for the terrifying as they realize they are haunted by the evil Bathsheba. The Conjuring 2 laid its cards on the table early but you'd be forgiven for not noticing.. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene early in the film foreshadows the true culprit behind the haunting . When Penny is asked to address the naysayers, she says: If you havent experienced youre going to say that. 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