## Incident Overview
**Location:** Harrisville, Rhode Island, USA
**Status:** Disputed — Evidence Inconclusive
**Horror Index:** ★★☆☆☆ (5.6/10)
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Most people who know the name *The Conjuring* believe they already know the story. A farmhouse. A family. Something that would not leave. The 2013 film presented itself as fact, and audiences accepted that framing without question. What followed was a franchise worth hundreds of millions of dollars, built on a foundation that, when examined closely, shows significant cracks.
This is not a story about a haunted house.
This is a story about what happens when memory, loyalty, and the hunger for something supernatural collide — and how the darkness that results is entirely human.
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## Records
In the early 1970s, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved their family — five daughters, including the eldest, **Andrea Perron** — into a farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island. By most accounts, the property was old, rural, and isolated in the way that old rural properties tend to be. Andrea would later document the family's decade-long residency in a trilogy of self-published books titled *House of Darkness, House of Light.*
These books form the primary source material for everything the public believes about the Perron house.
Within those pages, Andrea describes her mother Carolyn speaking with a local historian referred to as **"Mr. McKeachern,"** who allegedly provided details about the property's dark past. Much of the lore surrounding the haunting — including the figure of **Bathsheba Sherman**, a 19th-century woman accused in local legend of witchcraft and worse — traces back to these accounts.
However, the historical record does not cooperate.
Contrary to what circulates widely on the internet and in local legend, there is **no documented evidence** that Bathsheba Sherman died in any manner described in the Conjuring mythology. Accounts claiming her body "literally turned to stone" upon death have no verifiable source. Furthermore, Bathsheba Sherman never lived at the Perron farmhouse. Historical records place her residence on the **Sherman Farm**, a separate property located some distance away.
The geography of the legend does not match the geography of the land.
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## Key Horror Scene
The moment most worth examining does not involve a specter or a sound in the walls at three in the morning.
It involves a living room. A mother. And the quiet, suffocating weight of expectation.
According to accounts of the family's dynamic, **Carolyn Perron** — the matriarch, the woman at the center of the haunting narrative — reportedly insisted that her daughters affirm the house was haunted. Not as a shared recollection. Not as an open conversation about what each of them experienced.
As **a show of loyalty.**
Sit with that for a moment.
Five daughters. A mother who needed them to agree. A story that was already becoming something larger than the family itself, already attracting attention, already acquiring the texture of myth. The pressure to confirm, to align, to not be the one who breaks the shape of the narrative — that pressure is the kind that does not announce itself. It settles. It becomes part of the air in a room.
What do you remember when you have been told, firmly and repeatedly, what you are supposed to remember?
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## Unresolved Questions
Edward and Lorraine Warren, the paranormal investigators whose involvement forms the backbone of the Conjuring films, were invited to the Perron home during the family's residency. Their presence did not resolve anything. If anything, it introduced a new layer of complication.
**Roger Perron**, the family patriarch, later denounced the Warrens in explicit terms, calling them **"a pair of two-bit charlatans."** His position on the matter was not ambiguous.
The Warrens, for their part, built a significant portion of their public legacy on cases like this one — cases where the primary evidence was experiential, where documentation was thin, and where the emotional stakes of the family involved made skepticism feel like cruelty.
Several questions remain without clean answers:
- **Who was Mr. McKeachern?** No independent verification of this historian or his claims has surfaced in the public record.
- **Why does the Bathsheba Sherman narrative persist** when the historical and geographical evidence contradicts it at nearly every point?
- **What did the Perron daughters actually experience** — and to what degree was that experience shaped by what they were told to believe before, during, and after the fact?
- **What does it mean** that the man who lived in the house rejected the haunting narrative entirely, while the story continued to grow around him?
None of these questions have satisfying answers. That, in its own way, is the most unsettling part of the record.
---
## Archivist's Note
The Conjuring franchise grossed over two billion dollars worldwide.
Andrea Perron's books remain the foundational source. Roger Perron's objections remain largely absent from the popular retelling. The farmhouse in Harrisville has since become a tourist destination, offering overnight stays to those who wish to experience what the films promised.
The house is still standing.
Whether anything in it was ever real is a question the evidence continues to decline to answer.
**— Yomiwiki Archive, USA Sector. Entry status: Open.**
**Location:** Harrisville, Rhode Island, USA
**Status:** Disputed — Evidence Inconclusive
**Horror Index:** ★★☆☆☆ (5.6/10)
---
Most people who know the name *The Conjuring* believe they already know the story. A farmhouse. A family. Something that would not leave. The 2013 film presented itself as fact, and audiences accepted that framing without question. What followed was a franchise worth hundreds of millions of dollars, built on a foundation that, when examined closely, shows significant cracks.
This is not a story about a haunted house.
This is a story about what happens when memory, loyalty, and the hunger for something supernatural collide — and how the darkness that results is entirely human.
---
## Records
In the early 1970s, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved their family — five daughters, including the eldest, **Andrea Perron** — into a farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island. By most accounts, the property was old, rural, and isolated in the way that old rural properties tend to be. Andrea would later document the family's decade-long residency in a trilogy of self-published books titled *House of Darkness, House of Light.*
These books form the primary source material for everything the public believes about the Perron house.
Within those pages, Andrea describes her mother Carolyn speaking with a local historian referred to as **"Mr. McKeachern,"** who allegedly provided details about the property's dark past. Much of the lore surrounding the haunting — including the figure of **Bathsheba Sherman**, a 19th-century woman accused in local legend of witchcraft and worse — traces back to these accounts.
However, the historical record does not cooperate.
Contrary to what circulates widely on the internet and in local legend, there is **no documented evidence** that Bathsheba Sherman died in any manner described in the Conjuring mythology. Accounts claiming her body "literally turned to stone" upon death have no verifiable source. Furthermore, Bathsheba Sherman never lived at the Perron farmhouse. Historical records place her residence on the **Sherman Farm**, a separate property located some distance away.
The geography of the legend does not match the geography of the land.
---
## Key Horror Scene
The moment most worth examining does not involve a specter or a sound in the walls at three in the morning.
It involves a living room. A mother. And the quiet, suffocating weight of expectation.
According to accounts of the family's dynamic, **Carolyn Perron** — the matriarch, the woman at the center of the haunting narrative — reportedly insisted that her daughters affirm the house was haunted. Not as a shared recollection. Not as an open conversation about what each of them experienced.
As **a show of loyalty.**
Sit with that for a moment.
Five daughters. A mother who needed them to agree. A story that was already becoming something larger than the family itself, already attracting attention, already acquiring the texture of myth. The pressure to confirm, to align, to not be the one who breaks the shape of the narrative — that pressure is the kind that does not announce itself. It settles. It becomes part of the air in a room.
What do you remember when you have been told, firmly and repeatedly, what you are supposed to remember?
---
## Unresolved Questions
Edward and Lorraine Warren, the paranormal investigators whose involvement forms the backbone of the Conjuring films, were invited to the Perron home during the family's residency. Their presence did not resolve anything. If anything, it introduced a new layer of complication.
**Roger Perron**, the family patriarch, later denounced the Warrens in explicit terms, calling them **"a pair of two-bit charlatans."** His position on the matter was not ambiguous.
The Warrens, for their part, built a significant portion of their public legacy on cases like this one — cases where the primary evidence was experiential, where documentation was thin, and where the emotional stakes of the family involved made skepticism feel like cruelty.
Several questions remain without clean answers:
- **Who was Mr. McKeachern?** No independent verification of this historian or his claims has surfaced in the public record.
- **Why does the Bathsheba Sherman narrative persist** when the historical and geographical evidence contradicts it at nearly every point?
- **What did the Perron daughters actually experience** — and to what degree was that experience shaped by what they were told to believe before, during, and after the fact?
- **What does it mean** that the man who lived in the house rejected the haunting narrative entirely, while the story continued to grow around him?
None of these questions have satisfying answers. That, in its own way, is the most unsettling part of the record.
---
## Archivist's Note
The Conjuring franchise grossed over two billion dollars worldwide.
Andrea Perron's books remain the foundational source. Roger Perron's objections remain largely absent from the popular retelling. The farmhouse in Harrisville has since become a tourist destination, offering overnight stays to those who wish to experience what the films promised.
The house is still standing.
Whether anything in it was ever real is a question the evidence continues to decline to answer.
**— Yomiwiki Archive, USA Sector. Entry status: Open.**
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