10 scary movies based on real life ghost stories
‘The Haunting in Connecticut’
Another film based on a true story and connected to Ed and Lorraine Warren is The Haunting in Connecticut, starring Virginia Madsen. This horror began when the Snedeker family moved to Southington, CT in 1986 so they’d be closer to the hospital where their son was being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Snedikers were having financial trouble, so it wasn’t easy to find an affordable rental for a family of six. While they were moving into the home, they discovered that the building had been a funeral home and the embalming tables were still in the basement.
Missing items, horrible smells, ghost sightings, a dramatic shift in one child’s behavior, and other horrible things happened to the Snedikers before the Warrens came in to investigate. After living there for several weeks, the Warrens performed an exorcism and declared it safe for the family to return. The owners of the house claim the story is false, and it had never been a funeral home, but it doesn’t make the movie any less terrifying.