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The Real Story Behind 'The Haunting in Connecticut'
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A ghost has been defined as the disembodied has been defined as the disembodied
spirit or soul of a deceased person, although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person. Often described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular locations or people that they were associated with in life or at time of death. Wikipedia.
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The Moonville Tunnel During the turn of the century, in the backwoods of Vinton county, and deep in the woods of Wayne National Forest, the small iron producing town of Moonville thrived. The Baltimore and Ohio steam locomotive regularly traveled to the town to deliver supplies and passed through the infamous Moonville Tunnel. Locals say that one rainy night a drunken brakeman waved his lantern to stop the train, stumbling he fell upon to the train tracks losing his head to the oncoming train. On rainy nights some say you can see the brakeman's lantern waving to stop a train that is not there. Another ghost story arrives around a young woman that walked the tracks to see her lover in Moonville. She was trapped by the train on the trestle and had no place to flee. She decapitated by the train and is now said to roam the Moonville area around the tunnel.
The Downside to Antiques
The Downside to Antiques Are you emotionally attached to any of your possessions and would never let go of those willingly? Spirits can feel the same way, and you may inadvertently bring one of theirs home in your next purchase at the antique store.
I experienced this many years ago when I collected tins and purchased a particularly lovely one at the local antique store. It had stamped metal designs on the sides and was quite colorful. I brought it home and placed it on a shelf in my bedroom whereupon I began to notice that I felt quite uncomfortable when I got close to that area of the room. The feeling would increase when I picked up the tin which was what led me to the conclusion that there was something wrong with it. For whatever reason, this tin had an entity attached to it and my impression was that it didn't like me owning the tin. And the feeling kept increasing like the entity was becoming impatient about the situation. This was before I knew much about how all that worked, so I ended up throwing the tin away to be rid of it. And sure enough, that solved the problem.
Possessions may not always be haunted by spirits but also can be infused with emotional energy, good or bad. I live in an old house and I know that two areas are infused with good emotional energy. One is a built-in, glassed cabinet in the corner of the dining room where when standing in front of it, one can feel positive energy from someone who really enjoyed that cabinet. Also, standing at the back door and looking out the window into the back yard, a wonderful homey feeling is infused in that area. Someone particularly enjoyed those areas of this home and must have spent a lot of time in front of the cabinet in the dining room and looking out the back door. Conversely, I have gone into other homes and buildings where they are infused with negative energy.
How receptive are physical things to sound and emotions? In his book, "Messages From Water," Dr. Masaru Emoto shows us photographs of water crystals after they are frozen. He first subjects the water to various types of human emotions or music. Then he freezes it and photographs the frozen crystals. He has found that water which has experienced beautiful music or positive words and sounds undergoes a molecular change into harmonious geometrical forms when frozen. The molecular change from negative words or chaotic music results in ugly crystals. Thus, he has proven what he calls "Hado," meaning "wave" or "move," and that our daily language literally moves physical matter whether positively or negatively.
Scientists are beginning to agree that in particular, water has memory. Here is part 1 of a very interesting interview of David Sereda by George Noory:
Sometimes, hauntings are actually a replay of events as well which are stored in the makeup of a building, such as in the wood itself. When conditions are right, the event replays like a recording. Other times, spirits are doing their thing, and since the subject here is antiques, I'd like to refer you to a few articles for additional information. They are:
Halloween is just around the corner and homes across the country open their arms to ghosts and goblins of all kinds. Pumpkins are carved, webs are woven, and front porches and foyers become a Mecca to the macabre.But what if your haunted décor is with you year round? Author J. Michael Norman shared some of his gruesome and unexplained tales of haunted furniture with me.
THE CONJURE CHEST: 17 deaths are attributed to this antique piece of furniture. The furniture was hand-carved by an African American slave, Hosea, more than 150 years ago.Jacob Cooley ordered Hosea to build him a chest that would be used for his first-born child. Hosea was an excellent craftsman and constructed a beautiful chest but for some reason Cooley was so displeased that he beat Hosea so mercilessly that he perished from the abuse.A group of Cooley’s slaves, led by a “conjure man”, sprinkled dried owl’s blood in the chest and placed a curse upon the item. And bad luck quickly took root in the Cooley family tree with the infant death of Jacob’s beloved firstborn son.
The Real Story Behind 'The Haunting in Connecticut'
posted: 26 March 2009 12:42 pm ET
The new film "The Haunting in Connecticut" tells the story of 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 scariest part? It's all true, supposedly.
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.
The Snedeker's story first came to light in horror novelist Ray Garton's 1992 book "In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting." In an interview in "Horror Bound" magazine, Garton discussed how the "true story" behind "The Haunting in Connecticut" came about.
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."
Though the Snedekers stand by their story, it seems there is little or no proof that anything
supernatural occurred at the house. Whether or not the Snedekers actually believed their story, they stood to make money from the book deal. They were aware that the Lutz family — of Amityville, New York — profited handsomely from selling the rights to their "true story" of a haunted house. "The Amityville Horror" has long since been revealed as a fiction by investigator Ric Osuna and others. Interestingly, the Warrens were also involved in the Amityville case.
Fiction passed off as memoir or true story is certainly nothing new, from William Peter Blatty's book and film "The Exorcist" to James Frey's debunked bestseller "A Million Little Pieces." Filmmakers have a long history of touting movies as being based on true stories, when in fact they have little or no connection to any real events.
As for "
The Haunting in Connecticut," Garton notes, "I suspect the movie will begin with the words: 'Based on a true story.' Be warned: Just about anything that begins with any variation of this phrase is trying a little too hard to convince you of something that probably isn't true."
Benjamin Radford has investigated and written about the "true stories" behind horror films such as "The Exorcist," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "The Amityville Horror." His books, films, and other projects can be found on his website.
