The Conjuring Ghost House Sold For $1.5 Million. Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment.
A lonely farm house in Burriville, RI has sold for US$1.5 million, 27 percent over the original asking price.
The Providence County farm house is the real-life setting and inspiration behind the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring.
This Colonial era home was the site of the infamous Perron family haunting in the 1970s. Director James Wan brought their disturbing account to life on the screen in the 2013 cult classic.
The Conjuring follows the story of a family moving into their dream home in northern Rhode Island. However, they soon found themselves terrorized by strange activity. The Perrons hired paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to exorcise the malevolent spirits.
The house on Round Top Rd. in Burrillville, R.I. is the very same where the Perron family experienced the now-famous haunting. The property has supposedly been the site of murders and suicides and a number of spirits are said to still haunt the grounds.
Ghost House Finds The Perfect Buyer
However, rumors of murder and mayhem only sweetened the deal for one Boston area real estate developer.
Jacqueline Nuñez made one of ten offers for the three-bedroom, approximately 3,100-sq.-ft. house in September 2021. The original asking price was $1.2 million, but after some negotiation, the bill of sale was signed for $1.5 million on Thursday.
Sellers Jenn and Cory Heinzen, bought the home in 2019 for S$439,000, meaning the sale was almost 250 percent more than the price they paid for it.
After the Heinzens moved in, they told the Wall Street Journal that they “spent four months keeping themselves to one room on cots” as “a sign of respect for the spirits, letting them get used to us instead of barging in.”
However, try as they may, the couple experienced paranormal activity. The couple described seeing a black figure one night.
“Once we realized we were both awake and both seeing it, it was gone,” Cory told the Wall Street Journal.
The Heinzens also witnessed flashes of light in rooms that did not have lights and sounds like footsteps and strange knocking.
One Condition
When the Heinzens finally sold the home to Nuñez, they had one peculiar condition.
“…One of the conditions of the sale: whoever bought this could not live here year-round,” Nuñez said via The Providence Journal.
Nuñez will carry on the Heinzens business of running day-time tours and allowing paranormal investigators to occupy the house at night.
“This is a very personal purchase for me,” Nuñez told The Wall Street Journal. “When it hit the market, I thought, ‘This is a property that enables people to speak to the dead.’”
“I fully expect some paranormal phenomena to happen to me. I expect to be startled. I expect to be scared that I’m experiencing something, but I don’t expect a malevolent experience.”
“I’m not afraid of the house,” Nuñez said before joking, “Ask me again in a year.” █
