Old Arnold Estate
A house in Burrillville, Rhode Island, built in 1736, Old Arnold Estate is filed here for what the record attaches to it. 1736 farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring—private home turned paranormal venue. The name the accounts keep returning to is Bathsheba Sherman. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The property is private — the record is for the file, not a visit.
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Is Old Arnold Estate haunted?
The record holds 2 claims, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed disputed. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
The Old Arnold Estate is the house behind the movie — the 1736 center-chimney farmhouse on Round Top Road in Harrisville, built on land the Nipmuc had for millennia before Roger Williams bought it for the colony. The Richardson-Arnold House, the plaque says — eight generations of families lived and died there before the Perrons came in 1970: Mrs. John Arnold hanging herself in the barn at ninety-three, the rape and murder of eleven-year-old Prudence Arnold, the drownings in the creek, the men who froze on the land.
The seller's advice — 'leave the lights on at night' — is the estate's own folklore, before the movie made it famous. The Perrons' decade of reported haunting became The Conjuring; the Bathsheba Sherman story attached to the house is the part the record doesn't support — she lived elsewhere in town, the witch accusation a real cruelty the film turned into a demon. The house is real; the haunting is the family's account; the movie is the legend the farm carried.
The file keeps the Old Arnold Estate: the 1736 farm, the eight generations of deaths, the Perron haunting, and the Bathsheba story the record disputes.
Old Arnold Estate is the archive's house-behind-the-movie file — the real farm and the legend it carried.
Why this file matters
Old Arnold Estate is the archive's house-behind-the-movie file — the 1736 farm and the Conjuring legend.
A farm keeps its deaths — the file's suggestion being that the Arnold Estate's hold is the record: the generations of real deaths the legend built on, the Perron account the movie amplified, and the Bathsheba story the genealogy can't place.
The record of claims
The Warren legend names Bathsheba Sherman—a supposed witch who cursed the land—as the house’s tormentor. Old Arnold Estate wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The claim is disputed by the sources that preserve it. The account appears in 'The Conjuring'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
Historians found Bathsheba Sherman was a real local woman but not a witch; the legend was constructed later.
The Perrons described apparitions, voices and a spirit that lifted the beds. Old Arnold Estate in Burrillville, Rhode Island is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. 'The Conjuring' carries the account. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.
Alleged entities
The Warren legend names Bathsheba Sherman—a supposed witch who cursed the land—as the house’s tormentor. Old Arnold Estate wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The report is preserved in sources like 'The Conjuring'. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Bathsheba Sherman.
Documented history
The Perron family reported a decade of disturbances after moving in 1971; the Warrens’ case became the basis of the 2013 film. A house in Burrillville, Rhode Island with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'The Conjuring' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.
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Investigations & appearances
Sources on file
- 01The ConjuringWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
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