THE CONJURING HOUSE (OLD ARNOLD ESTATE) House — Burrillville, Rhode Island Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/the-conjuring-house-old-arnold-estate-burrillville-rhode-island/ The 1736 farmhouse where the Perron family lived the real "Conjuring." A house in Burrillville, Rhode Island, The Conjuring House (Old Arnold Estate) is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1736 farmhouse where the Perron family lived the real "Conjuring.". HauntHunt files it with haunted places, the paranormal and dark history. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Bathsheba. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. When Roger and Carolyn Perron collected the keys to the old Arnold farm on Round Top Road in December 1970, the departing family left them a single piece of advice: leave the lights on at night. The Perrons had five daughters, ten rooms, and roughly two hundred acres of Harrisville, Rhode Island — a colonial farmhouse dated to 1736 on land surveyed in 1680. They would stay a decade, and they would spend much of it, by their own account, negotiating with whatever they believed shared the house. The file is now famous out of proportion to its evidence, because this is the case that became The Conjuring. What is documented: the house, the family, the residency from December 1970 to June 1980, and the Warrens' involvement. What is claimed: nearly everything else, including a witch named Bathsheba whom the historical record declines to convict. THE DOCUMENTED RECORD The Old Arnold Estate sits on land deeded in the seventeenth century, on Round Top Road in what is now Burrillville; the house itself dates to about 1736, and eight generations of the Arnold family lived and died on the farm. The family's account, retold in later books and tours, stocks the property with prior calamity — an elderly Mrs. Arnold hanged in the barn at ninety-three, a girl named Prudence Arnold murdered at eleven, two drownings in the creek, four men frozen to death on the land. Those deaths are filed as the house's darker tradition rather than as a verified register; what is certain is that the Perrons bought the farm in December 1970 and sold it in June 1980. WHAT THE FAMILY REPORTED By Andrea Perron's account — she was twelve the October after they moved in, and later wrote a three-volume memoir — the phenomena began the first day and sorted themselves into two registers. There were benign spirits: a presence the youngest daughter, April, treated as a playmate, and household figures the family learned to live around. And there was a hostile one the accounts name Bathsheba — blamed for foul smells, cold spots, levitating beds, and, in the telling that reached the screen, the possession of Carolyn Perron herself. The reports are the family's own, which is both their strength and their limit: a decade of consistent testimony, no controlled test, nothing a skeptical file can weigh. THE WARRENS AND BATHSHEBA Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived in October 1973 and conducted, by their methods, an investigation that culminated in a séance in August 1974 — after which Roger Perron reportedly threw them out. It was the Warrens who attached the name Bathsheba to the hostile presence, identifying her with Bathsheba Thayer Sherman, a real woman born in 1812 who lived nearby, married Judson Sherman, was once accused by neighbors in the death of an infant in her care, and died in 1885. Later research, including the documentary Bathsheba: Search for Evil, found she was never charged, was not a witch, and likely never lived at the Arnold Estate at all — a real woman defamed posthumously by the legend that needed her. WHAT REMAINS The house outlived its own story. The 2013 film made the address the most famous haunted farmhouse in America; the Heinzens bought it in 2019 for roughly $439,000, ran it as a paranormal attraction, and sold it in 2022 for $1.5 million to a buyer who now books overnight investigations at several hundred dollars a head. The lights, one assumes, are still left on — though by now that is less advice than branding. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Investigation claim] named ghost legend: The "Bathsheba" figure is the case’s central entity. A house with Burrillville's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. source: The Conjuring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring) · [Anecdotal] reported anomalies: The Perron family reported voices, figures and a presence for a decade. A house with Burrillville's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'The Conjuring' keep the claim in circulation. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record. source: The Conjuring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · [1736] The 1736 house and the 1970s Perron residency are documented; the Warrens investigated. A house in Burrillville, Rhode Island with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'The Conjuring'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. SOURCES — 3 cited · The Conjuring — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring · Ghost Adventures — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Adventures · The Conjuring House — official site — The Conjuring House https://www.theconjuringhouse.com/ — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/