True Story Behind the Movie Haunting in Connecticut
When I was younger I remember watching a documentary
that fascinated me so much that I watched it several times on repeat. The
documentary told a story of a family who moves in to the house in Connecticut
only to find out that their new home is haunted. It was few years later when a
movie Haunting in Connecticut was released. This 2009 psychological horror film
told the story of the same family with a bit more of a Hollywood aspect to it. Let’s put Hollywood to the side and take a
look at what really happened within the walls of the allegedly haunted house in
Connecticut.
THE TRUE STORY
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| Source: theparanormalpost.com |
The Snedeker family was quite a big family consisting
of mother, father, three children and a cousin. All six of them decided to move
to a small town of Southington, Conneticut in 1986 in order for them to be
closer to a hospital at which the oldest son was being treated for Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma.
While the family was moving, father, Al ran across a
disturbing discovery in the basement. Apparently, the basement was sectioned
into several rooms and one room in particular was quite strange. This room was
filled with tables and different tools which lead to the realization that their
new bought house was once a funeral home. Furthermore, the rooms in the
basement eventually became bedrooms for two sons.
Quickly after the family moved in, they started
experiencing unexplained phenomena; strange apparitions would be seen, items would
disappear, voices and sounds could be heard as well as a smell of rotting flesh
that could be sensed through the house. The apparitions were usually seen
wearing a tuxedo. Furthermore, once while mother was mopping the floor, the
water started turning into thick, dark red liquid.
Among this phenomena occurring, the oldest son started
to exhibit radical personality shifts. He became withdrawn, angry and started
writing poetry about necrophilia. During one of the episodes, he attacked his
cousin and tried to rape her. This is when his family had him arrested and
taken for an evaluation. Eventually, he was pronounced schizophrenic and was
removed from the house until he seemed to get better. Moreover, the now not only strange but also
violent phenomena continued to occur. Reportedly, both Carmen (mother), her
husband and her niece were repeatedly raped by paranormal entities.
When family hit what seemed to be a dead end, they
turned to paranormal investigators and called famous Ed and Lorraine Warren to their
home. The Warrens stayed at the house for several weeks and after experiencing
and witnessing radical paranormal phenomenon, they deemed it necessary for an
exorcism of a property. Allegedly, the exorcism cleared the property. The
family lived in the house for two more years after the exorcism before they
moved to Tennessee.
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CONCLUSION
According to Lorraine Warren, the movie was very
loosely based on the actual events. The movie might have fabricated the story
but the same as with any other paranormal phenomena, the question arises: Was
the original story fabricated as well? I guess, we can blindly believe or
cynically call them a fraud.
Some think that it is no wonder a family experienced
unexplained phenomenon with all the stress that has been bothering this family;
both financial and health issues. Therefore, something somewhere just had to
snap. Others claim that this was simply yet another shameless exploitation for
money. However, pacejmiller.com writes
that he came across the message board where two brothers posted that they have
lived in the house in Connecticut and that the house is definitely haunted just
not to the extent described by the Snedekers.
Much like with any other paranormal phenomenon, it is
hard to conclude by saying the house is haunted or that the house is not
haunted. The only truth is, let’s keep out minds open to both of these being a
possibility.
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