Wednesday, February 10, 2010

How does the true story of The Haunting in Connecticut go?

I actually read about their story the other day and apparently it looks like its a bogus story the family made up.





The Snedeker family, who in 1986 rented an old house in Southington, Connecticut. Allen and Carmen Snedeker moved in with their daughter and three young sons. While exploring their new home, Carmen found strange items in the basement: tools used by morticians.








The family soon discovered - to their horror - that their home had once been a funeral parlor, and the eldest son began seeing ghosts and terrifying visions. The experiences spread to other family members and got worse: Both parents said they were raped and sodomized by demons; one day as Carmen mopped the kitchen floor, the water suddenly turned blood red and smelled of decaying flesh; and so on.








Finally the family contacted a pair of self-styled ';demonologists'; and ';ghost hunters,'; Ed and Lorraine Warren, who arrived and proclaimed the Snedeker house to be infested with demons.





The Snedekers have told their story many times, including on national talk shows and in a Discovery Channel TV show. The film's poster states in capital letters at the top that the movie is ';based on true events.'; Yet others aren't so sure.








Investigator Joe Nickell reports in the May/June issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine that the Snedeker's landlady found the whole story ridiculous. She noted that nobody before or since had experienced anything unusual in the house, and that the Snedeker family stayed in the house for more than two years before finally deciding to leave.








Apparently being assaulted and raped by Satan's minions for months at a time wasn't a good enough reason to break the lease.





Garton was hired by Ed and Lorraine Warren to work with the Snedekers and write the true story of their house from hell. He interviewed all the family members about their experiences, and soon realized that there was a problem: ';I found that the accounts of the individual Snedekers didn't quite mesh. They couldn't keep their stories straight. I went to Ed with this problem. 'Oh, they're crazy,' he said.... 'You've got some of the story - just use what works and make the rest up... Just make it up and make it scary.'';








Garton, who had accepted the job expecting to have a real ';true story'; to base the book on, did as he was told: ';I used what I could, made up the rest, and tried to make it as scary as I could.';
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