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Frequently Asked Questions
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We had very little money after
the cancer treatments. We couldn't just rent another place.
I had a very hard time finding a place that would rent to me
with 4 children I could imagine finding one for 6 children.
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| Where ever I went the entity followed
me. When I went to work the telephone system or the computer system
would go down. My car would break down. It would not let me go.
One day I went to work and I had been telling my coworkers of
the things that were going on in my house and many thought my
son was telling the truth. One lady who had tried to help me by
giving me the phone number of the Warrens told me she was telling
her husband about my house. She and her husband took the dogs
out while they were talking and when she turned around one of
her dogs was missing. She said they called and called and couldn't
find the dog. Finally one went into the house and there was the
dog standing at the door. She told me she and her husband were
certain they had taken the dog out with them. |
| It seemed that when others would
try to get involved and help me things would begin to happen to
them as well. This scared me almost more than anything else. To
think that this could hurt those around me for trying to help.
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| Why didn't you believe
your son that the house was haunted? |
| The answer to that is a several
part answer. |
| My son was going through cancer
treatment. His cancer was located in his neck and he was receiving
strong medication to combat it. His head, neck, and chest were
being bombarded with Cobalt Radiation. I was concerned that it
could be a side effect of his treatment program. |
| Although I believed in the human
spirit, and in angels, and devils and absolutely in God, I didn't
realize they could affect our dimension in the way that they can.
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| I guess I needed to see if for myself. |
| I had an experience in 1980 it began
simply enough I was doing laundry down in the basement of my rented
townhouse. I just had the feeling that I was being watched. I
just couldn't shake it and it spooked me into going back upstairs.
My husband was on the night shift and my children were sleeping
upstairs. I began to watch TV but nothing but scary movies were
on. I decided to go to bed and was almost asleep when I was jolted
by an eerie sensation of someone in the room with me then I felt
the bed sink in as if someone had put their knee down on the mattress
on the side of my bed and covered my mouth with a hand I assume.
My hair was long and in a pony tail and it had been pulled straight
up over my head. I searched to dark for and image of a human but
there wasn't anyone there. I began to pray, "The Lords Prayer"
and after a period of time I was released. I was completely awake
it wasn't a dream. I rolled over immediately and called my priest
who came out the very next day. He advised me that my home was
clear and told me to get rid of some items in the house which
I did. |
| When this began with my son I called
that same priest and he asked me, "Carmen do you feel anything
like you did in 1980 when that happened to you?" I told him I
had not had that type of an experience again." I hadn't. When
my son told me of ghost I tried to sense if there was something
there and I felt nothing. |
| Why were some things
embellished or exaggerated in the book or movie? |
| Once a film or book is finished
and released, it can be difficult to verify that it will portray
exactly the sequence of events accurately. For the most part,
the book and the movie portrayed the actual events of the case,
but there was some embellishment. |
| How did you not
know that the house used to be a funeral home? |
| The house didn't look exactly as
they portrayed it in the movie. The morgue was covered in building
materials and work tools like saws and the such. In the movie
they have modern morgue tools these were not so modern and I didn't
really see the downstairs on my initial visit I just saw the living
quarters upstairs. |
| Did you really use
the refrigerator used for the bodies for your food? |
| No. The freezer we used for food
was a regular freezer that looked just like a freezer in anyone's
home. It wasn't in the morgue; it was in a coffin room. There
were several tool rooms and storage rooms that were not connected
with the morgue itself. |
| Did anyone ever
figure out why the house became haunted? |
| Although there is no definite way
to know exactly what happened in the house there was quiet a bit
of evidence that necrophilia was part of the problem. |
| Is it true that
the property value was severely impacted, and the sellers were
forced to tell the story to prospective buyers? |
| No. the property values in that
area of CT stay firm no matter what happens. The same person still
owns the property today. |
| Does the current
owner of the house have any supernatural phenomena occurring today?
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| The current owner has owned the
property since Mr. Hallahan sold it. The owner wanted to use the
property as an office building for the hospital, however, he could
not get the zoning changed. He was forced to rent it as a two
family house or duplex. When I went to rent from this gentleman,
he was very kind and did what he could to accomodate us. He still
owns the property today. Although I haven't had contact with him
since I moved, I have heard there have been no further supernatural
occurances. |
| Prior to the story breaking he did
tell me of a couple of things that workers and others had told
him. One story involded a worker that had taken tools and a ladder
off his truck, he couldn't find something and went back to the
truck upon returning to the foyer his ladder was gone along with
his tools. they were back on the truck. |
| There were a few more stories. One
worker broke his leg coming down the stairs and another had a
stroke and later died. Are these things connected to the house?
I cant answer that for sure, but I can add my father was murdered
within months of me moving in. He was very concerned about his
oldest grandson, but I lost touch with him the month I moved in.
I could not reach him by phone and no one saw him. I filed a missing
person report in July they found my father beaten to death in
his home on December 8, 1987. My sister contracted AIDS that year
and my brother was run over by a van and killed. I had a car accident
and lost 4 more family members over the next years. I injured
my spine in 1998 and it took 6 years for me to recover and return
to work. |
| Why did the boys
sleep in the basement? |
| That is the only place they could
have slept. The other rooms upstairs were too small to accomodate
the young teens. |
