CBS-TV | KFDM.com – The new owner of the Rhode Island house made famous in “The Conjuring” movie is coming up on six months at the helm of the paranormal enterprise.
There are tours, TV shows, merchandise and an upcoming sold-out Halloween event too.
The business of catering to those who are paranormal-curious is brisk at the Arnold Estate, the house brought to prominence in the blockbuster 2013 movie “The Conjuring,” and laid out in full detail in Andrea Perron’s trilogy of books “House of Darkness, House of Light.” Perron’s family lived there from 1970 to 1980.
Jacqueline Nunez purchased the property in May of this year, for $1.5 million, nearly four times what Corey Heinzen paid in 2019.
The big reason why I bought the house is that it gives us a unique opportunity to communicate with spirits and people that have passed on,” Nunez said. “For me, it isn’t a matter of whether or not things are happening, it’s why.”
Hour-long to all-night tours, booked solid through next month, range from $25 to $190 and are bringing more experiences. They’re also bringing more questions than answers concerning things like guests hearing “steps, to being touched, to hearing voices in their ears,” added Nunez. “So it’s been pretty amazing just how much activity that some of the guests are experiencing.”
Guests aren’t allowed to snap pictures during a tour, but afterwards they can walk through and snap a few.
On Oct. 14 in the afternoon, one of the guests snapped a random photo that leads to the dining room of the house. It was only after he got back home that he realized what he captured.
“I kind of looked deep into the picture, you know I saw two eyes and a mouth. It was a face,” Devan Gomez of Cranston told WJAR. “And everybody else I’ve shown the picture like family and friends, they’ve said ‘I can see it clear as day’. I think it looks like a distressed face.”
Gomez even had the picture in question run through various programs to validate its authenticity.
“One’s called Photo Forensics, one’s called Forensically Beta. There was no deviations, showed the photo was just pure,” Gomez said.
Not particularly interested in the paranormal, he had recently seen “The Conjuring,” then thought of booking a tour.
It was very intense,” added Gomez, a bit on edge retelling the story. “And a lot of people would just stop and say ‘Woooah’, or I would start sweating at one point, cause I just couldn’t believe how much of a feeling, like the vibes I was getting from the home.”
He has since burned sage in his house just to make sure if something hitched a ride with him back home, he’d be safe.
“That’s what made me feel very uneasy. Because it was looking right into me,” said Gomez.
Nunez, when shown the picture, said it’s the most compelling photo yet of an entity that she’s seen at the house so far.
by R.J. Heim | WJAR Staff
