Maine couple buys home that inspired horror movie 'The Conjuring'

A Mexico, Maine, couple bought the famously haunted Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired “The Conjuring” movie — and Cory Heinzen and wife, Jennifer say doors started opening by themselves on day one.

“We had doors opening, footsteps and knocks,” Heinzen, 40, said Friday. “I’ve had a hard time staying there by myself. I don’t have the feeling of anything evil, (but) it’s very busy. You can tell there’s a lot of things going on in the house.”

“We immediately fell in love with it,” Heinzen said. “Eight-and-a-half acres, a river in the back and a pond, it’s so serene down there, never mind the story behind the house, it’s a beautiful home.”

In the 1970s, the Perron family with five daughters lived in the Harrisville house, which was built in 1736. Whatever lived there with them, they claimed, “was playful at first, but then it started to become more sinister, more dark,” Heinzen said. “Physical attacks, mystery illnesses.”

That prompted an investigation by Ed and Lorraine Warren, famous Connecticut paranormal investigators, whose experiences inspired the 2013 horror movie.

They (Cory Heinzen and Jennifer Heinzen) hope to fix it up, preserve and tell its history, and open it up to visitors and investigators later this year. “This whole journey has been both scary — for many reasons other than paranormal — and exciting all at once,” Jennifer Heinzen said. “I love that we have the opportunity to share the home with others.”

It’s been an unofficial attraction, with Norma Sutcliff, from whom the Heinzens bought the home, suing Warner Bros. in 2015 because of all the trespassing and curiosity-seekers after the movie’s release, according to a CBS News story.



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