The Haunting of conneticut

 The Haunting in Connecticut: A True Story

When you click the play button to start watching a movie, you see the four words "based on a true story." You first have reservations. How could someone genuinely experience something so horrible and paranormal? How much of it is genuinely factual, and how much of it is fiction created for amusement? You wouldn't be the only person to doubt the veracity of this movie. Because the family involved in this occurrence reportedly remained in the eerie house for two years after the hauntings, and because their accounts frequently diverged, many people have questioned how trustworthy they were to news organizations and reporters. Let's start at the beginning before delving further into this. 

Carmen and Allen Snedeker, their three boys, their daughter, and two nieces move into a house in Southington, Connecticut, at the start of this tale. After learning that the eldest Snedeker kid had Hodgkin's lymphoma, the family decided to relocate to Connecticut to be closer to his doctors and save money. They had no idea that the house they had hired had originally been a funeral home, with the equipment and bloodied furnishings still in one of the basement rooms. 

The Snedeker's moved into the house despite learning of this horrific and depressing modification. Many people think they decided to remain because it was more cost-effective to do so than to acquire a new home large enough to accommodate everyone while yet being affordable. 

The mother first noticed objects disappearing from various parts of the house, which was when strange things at the house began to happen. Then the kids began to mention unexpected visitors to their house, notably a man with long black hair. The oldest son then underwent a dramatic personality change, complete with violet outbursts. He suddenly attacked members of the family and didn't appear to be himself. He had schizophrenia, according to doctors, but his family wasn't convinced. They thought that the atmosphere and the spirits in the house were to blame for his bizarre and frightful behavior. The parents' accusation that they had been "raped and sodomized" by something in the house was probably the oddest incident the family reported. People assumed that the family's experiences were all made up because, as I indicated earlier, they didn't understand why they would stay at a place where they had gone through such horrific things. The family continued to live there for two more years. 

The family invited two paranormal investigators to help them purge their house of the evil inside it when things didn't improve in the house. 

Lorraine Warren and Ed

Ed and Lorraine Warren were a contentious Connecticut-based team of self-taught paranormal investigators. Lorraine was the medium and clairvoyant, while Ed was the demonologist, lecturer, and author. The Haunting in Connecticut inquiry was joined by Ed and Lorraine, who stayed in the house for weeks to have the "full demonic experience." They concluded that the morticians who worked in the house when it was a funeral parlor engaged in necromancy and had "infused the home with a deep evil." To banish the evil and make the house safe for the family to return to, the Warrens executed an exorcism. 

Dispute the Story

Let's go back to the prior discussion. Many people who were familiar with the Snedeker family's narrative expressed skepticism regarding what actually took place in their home. First off, the home's proprietors categorically denied the allegation, insisting that it had never been a funeral home or been haunted by malevolent spirits. This one is simple to debunk because it doesn't make sense for rental property owners to support a tale that deters potential tenants from renting their property. Later, as author Ray Garton was working on his book In a Dark Place, he observed that the family's accounts did not match up as he was interviewing Ed and Lorraine Warren and the Snedeker family. When he told Ed about the issue, Ed reportedly responded, "Oh, they're insane... You already know a portion of the plot; use what works and make up the rest. Just invent something terrifying. It is odd that Ed would tell this person to fabricate parts of the accusation rather than making an effort to clarify the facts. 

Despite efforts to disprove this tale, many book and movie fans continue to hold the belief that what happened to the Snedeker family was a true story. Whether you want to believe the Snedeker's or not, it is still a terrifying movie that will entertain horror enthusiasts of all kinds. 

Three hours after moving into a new house, this should be at the top of your list of things you don't want to hear your teen say: "Mom, this house is evil." Right away, we had to leave this place.

One day, Carmen Reed would regret not taking her son's counsel. Exactly, she remarked.

), a surprise smash film, was inspired by the time she and her family spent at the eerie old house on Meriden Avenue in Southington, Connecticut, many years later.

In the 1980s, Reed's family lived in a former funeral home for two years while her son had cancer treatment at a local clinic. "It has been very emotional for me seeing that time in my life play out on the big screen," said Reed.

The Black Man With Long Hair

When Reed, her then-husband, her three children, and her two nieces resided in the house, she claimed that they occasionally experienced a malicious presence that would slap, grope, threaten, or generally terrify the hell out of them.

It started the evening they moved in. According to Reid, "my son started seeing this young man with long black hair down to his hips." He would regularly communicate with my son. He would threaten him occasionally, but other times, he would simply stand there and mention his name, which was enough to frighten him.

Phillip's cancer underwent treatment and entered a full remission. However, when he started insisting that someone or something was attempting to speak with him, medical professionals gave him a schizophrenia diagnosis.

Reed recalled seeing her son begin to tease her family members, such as trapping his younger sibling in a chest, and then quickly forgetting about it. He stopped hearing voices as soon as mom sent him to live with family, she claimed.

Reed asserted that once Phillip left the house, the evil spirits focused on her 18-year-old niece. "Aunt Carmen, can you feel it coming?" my niece asked me one night. Reed claimed that in dread, her niece clutched to her. She remarked, "I peeled her back, and I saw the impression of a hand going up under her nightgown.

According to Reed, "That is when I knew for sure that what I was dealing with was supernatural."

The local archbishop, her parish priest, and numerous paranormal specialists were all called by Reed. According to paranormal phenomenon researcher John Zaffis, "the other cases I had been involved with were like dealing with Casper the Friendly Ghost compared to that house." Zaffis claimed to have witnessed a ghost descend the main stairs one particularly memorable summer night and ask him, "Do you know what they did to us?"

told PEOPLE, "All I wanted to do was get my car keys and get the hell out of that house."

A re-exorcism?

Two priests reportedly went to the house but fled after getting scared, according to Reed and Zaffis. After a three-hour exorcism, a third, whom they did not name, was ultimately able to permanently purge the house of its evil, according to Reed. (However, the neighborhood Roman Catholic archbishop claimed no legal exorcism was performed at the property, according to a 1992 Hartford Courant report.)

The members of Reed's family claimed to have all developed a sensitivity to paranormal energies as a result of their stay in the eerie Connecticut home. They benefit from it occasionally, Reed added. "I sold real estate for a while," she admitted. You can guarantee it was because I knew it was haunted if I wouldn't sell you a house.

The Snedeker family rented an old property in Southington, Connecticut, in 1986, and their experience is chronicled in the recent movie "The Haunting in Connecticut." With their daughter and their three young sons, Allen and Carmen Snedeker moved in. While investigating their new house, Carmen discovered some odd stuff in the basement: morticians' gear.

The family soon learned, to their dismay, that their house had once been a morgue, and the eldest son started having horrific visions and ghostly encounters. The events spread to other family members and worsened: Carmen's water one day while mopping the kitchen floor became blood crimson and smelled like decomposing flesh; both of her parents said they were raped and sodomized by demons.

When Ed and Lorraine Warren, two self-described "demonologists" and "ghost hunters," arrived and claimed the Snedeker home was possessed by demons, the family finally contacted them.

The scariest aspect? All of it is apparently true.

Numerous times, including on national talk shows and in a Discovery Channel TV program, the Snedekers have shared their experience. The top of the movie's poster declares in capital letters that the film is "based on true events." Some people aren't sure, though.

The landlady of the Snedeker thought the entire tale was ludicrous, according to investigator Joe Nickell's article in the May/June issue of Skeptical Inquirer. She mentioned that the Snedeker family lived in the home for more than two years before deciding to leave, and that no one else had ever before or since seen anything strange there.

Evidently, being beaten and sexually assaulted by Satan's minions for weeks on end wasn't sufficient enough for breaking the contract.

In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, written by horror author Ray Garton in 1992, is where the Snedeker's tale originally surfaced. Garton talked about how the "true story" behind "The Haunting in Connecticut" came to be in an interview with "Horror Bound" magazine.

Ed and Lorraine Warren hired Garton to collaborate with the Snedekers and write the authentic account of their "house from hell." All of the family members were questioned about their personal experiences, and he quickly discovered that something was wrong: "I noticed that the individual Snedekers' tales didn't exactly fit. Their narratives became jumbled. I brought this issue to Ed. He said, "Oh, they're crazy." You already have part of the story; use what works and make up the rest, says the teacher. Make something up, and make it scary.

Garton did what he was instructed: "I used what I could, made up the rest, and tried to make it as scary as I could." He had accepted the job expecting to have an actual "true story" to base the book on.

Even though the Snedekers stand by their account, it appears that there is little to no evidence to support any paranormal activity at the house. The Snedekers stood to profit financially from the book contract whether or not they genuinely believed their own account. They knew that the Lutz family, from Amityville, New York, had made a tidy profit from selling the rights to their "true story" of a haunted mansion. Investigator Ric Osuna and others have long since disproved "The Amityville Horror" as a myth. The Warrens had an interesting connection to the Amityville case.

Fiction misrepresented as memoir or true tale is nothing new, as seen by James Frey's bestselling novel "A Million Little Pieces" and William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" book and movie. Moviemakers have a long history of claiming that their works are inspired by true events when in reality they have little to no link to any actual occurrences.

The movie "The Haunting in Connecticut," according to Garton, "will probably start with the words: 'Based on a true story.'" Beware of anything that starts with this sentence or any version of it since it's definitely trying a little too hard to convince you of something that isn't true.