The Conjuring House — The Arnold Estate
The 1736 Rhode Island farmhouse where the Perron family lived ten years of what they called hauntings, investigated by the Warrens — and turned by Hollywood into the most valuable haunted house in America.
Case File No. 222
FILE 01 The Legend
The Arnold family's farmhouse on Round Hill Road dates to 1736, eight generations of Rhode Island agricultural life. In January 1971 Carolyn and Roger Perron moved in with their five daughters — and by their account began a decade in which the house's previous tenants made themselves known: beds shaken, brooms walking, the smell of rot, small dead things left on doorsteps, and a presence Carolyn said pressed on her family's will, identified by the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as the spirit of a 19th-century local woman, Bathsheba Sherman. The Warren file became the 2013 film The Conjuring — one of the most successful horror franchises ever made — and the farmhouse itself became a global brand: a 1.2-million-dollar listing in 2021, a Halloween auction attempt in 2022 cancelled by a foreclosure complication, and a final sale in 2023 for 1.525 million dollars — 27 percent over the asking price — to a Boston developer who had to pass an interview with the sellers before she could buy it. The new owners run the house as a paranormal destination, with guests paying to sleep in the rooms the films made famous.
FILE 02 The Sightings Log
The Perrons' own accounts anchor the file — voices calling the children's names, doors opening in runs, the mother's sensation of being watched at the well. Guest accounts since 2023 replicate the pattern: footsteps above empty rooms, cold patches on the stair, electronic voice phenomena addressed to the children, and a recurring figure in the hallway known locally as the nurse.
FILE 03 The Skeptic’s File
The historical record is the problem and the interest: Bathsheba Sherman was a real woman whose descendants and local historians dispute every detail of the witch biography, and no account of the house being haunted predates the Perrons' arrival in 1971 — 235 years of tenants produced no surviving legend. The case file is testimony interpreted by the Warrens, whose career supplied Hollywood with material; the films then paid for the house's second life. The economics are the verifiable haunting: an antique farmhouse in a quiet town, worth what the story is worth, and the story is now worth 1.5 million dollars.