Haunted houses may not just be Halloween attractions: Forty-three percent of people claim they have possibly lived in a home with ghosts, due to evidence such as hearing strange noises, spotting shadows and seeing objects move on their own, according to a new Realtor.com poll.
And while bunking with a spirit of the deceased would terrify most people, it’s precisely what makes a dream home for paranormal investigator Cory Heinzen. That’s why, in June, Heinzen and his wife moved from Maine to Harrisville, Rhode Island, where they purchased the actual farmhouse that inspired the scary 2013 film The Conjuring (its third installment will be released in September). The movie is based on the Perron family, who, in the 1970s, experienced horrifying paranormal activity during their nine-year residency: levitating furniture, ghostly apparitions and whispers of “dead soldiers buried in the wall.”
Read the rest of this haunted story by Elise Solé here.
