Haunting in Connecticut

[Maryelizabeth]

Anyone watch TLC last night? HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT was about a family of five who moves into a former funeral palor in a rural area. The oldest boy, about 14, has a room in the basement next to the former embalmbing room and refrigerator. YIPES! The boy, who is being treated for cancer, starts seeing demonic visions. His younger siblings, a boy about 11 and a girl of 8, also experience them. The parents don't believe the kids. They move the younger boy into the basement with the older son. YIPES again!

The Mom begins to realize that the crucifixes in the home are mysteriously disappearing but she doesn't say a word. Mom and Dad start blaming the older boy for scaring the two younger ones. Fed up, they move the younger boy back upstairs and leave the cancer patient downstairs. So he is frustrated and ends up getting so weird they have to instutionalize him. He warns his family that major problems will begin.

And they do. Mom and a niece get attacked. The niece's rosary beads, which she is wearing around her neck, are levitated and broken. Mom calls in the parish priest who tells them to IGNORE it!!! And HE LEAVES!! Dad gets attacked. Now they call in ghost busters (for lack of technical word). The woman has the gift of discernment and finds that these are very powerful demons. They advise the family to sleep and stay together.They stay with the family. (I would have taken the kids out of there immediately). They also start imploring the Catholic Church to come in and do an exorcism which is finally and successfully done. With that accomplished, the family moves. The instutionalized boy is released apparently fine.

What got to me was the lack of trust this Mom and Dad displayed. The cancer patient is sleeping next to a room still set up for autopsies. That alone would give anyone the creeps. And they don't believe the kids. They didn't even move the sick child upstairs. Even if it was his imagination, how could you leave a healthy child much less one fighting for his life in that atmosphere? Then when Mom and the niece get attacked, Mom doesn't move the family immediately out of there. And what was with the first priest? I would have been heading for the first Motel 6 I could find.

[Jude]

Yeah, I hear ya! :surprise:

But then, maybe it wouldn't make for such a riveting television docudrama. :rolleyes:

[Maryelizabeth]

I was waiting for the parents to be cited for child abuse. Good grief, what were they and the first priest thinking?!

[ml9652]

I saw it last night also and let me tell you. I think after the mop incident i would've been outta there . :eek: leanna

[Maryelizabeth]

Missed the mop thing. What happened?

[ml9652]

The mother had brought her oldest son with her to their new home. The son went around the house to check it out and the mother went to the kitchen. She picked up the mop from the the pail and began to mop the floor. As she was mopping it turned to blood. The maid walked into the kitchen and helped the mother clean up the mess with paper towels. That was my first sign that they should get out :surprise:

[Maryelizabeth]

What was with that Mom? In conclusion, here's my thoughts.....It is bad to be a demon but it is worse to be an enabler of evil. Mom could have saved her kids from a lot of terror if she had acknowledged evil when she saw it. As the old saying goes, evil exists because we allow it. Guess this Mom is like many of us. She was faced with an obvious evil and, for whatever reasons, stayed. Many of our demons are more subtle. But they still cause havoc and we still harbor them.

[Tanner2]

I really hate to pass judgment on this mother and father because we really don’t know how the show was edited to make a good story. But… even if they were “imagining” it, the boys were obviously scared to death. What would be wrong with sleeping on the sofa. Especially the young man who had cancer. Demons and ghosts aside, he had cancer and there was the possibility of losing her child. A little understanding would have been nice. Was it worth being firm and making a point during a time when he was receiving treatments? No wonder he retreated inward. Poor kid! The mother seemed to have more concern for her niece.

[Pam]

Just for clarification - was this fiction, or was it "based on true events"?

[Tanner2]

I didn't see it from the very beginning, but it was presented like a true story. It preceeded "Haunting in Georgia," and I think that was based on a true story, wasn't it? The faces of the people being interviewed were blacked out and it was reenacted with actors. I'll do a little checking on the internet.

[Tanner2]

I did find this link. It’s apparently a link to different Connecticut hauntings. So it appears to be based on a true story. That’s about all I could find on it. It aired on TLC last night, but apparently has also been on the Discovery Channel.

http://www.tangledforest.com/tangledf/parkersnedx.html

[Pam]

I did a little googling of my own and found that page too. What I saw at the bottom of that page bothered me so I searched a little more. I found that the movie was based on a book "In a Dark Place" by fiction writer Ray Garton. Only the google cache of the interview is available, but in it, he basically says that he personally believes nothing of what he writes about (paranormal) and that the infamous Warrens were involved (the Warrens are paranormal investigators of questionable integrity) and that he was told to "make it scary" by Warren.

While I do believe in evil, and that some evil or dark, (or as JE has referred to them as "chaotic") energies do exist, this story has a ring of heavy fiction to it.

But it's always interesting fodder for discussion for "what if" scenarios. :)

[Jude]

I noticed at the end of that article it says:

"If you want further information on this haunting, do not read the book In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting..."

It sounds like the writer of this article is saying that the book by the Warrens and Garton contains some details that are fictitious. It was hard to read the last line or two of the page, but if the special was based on the book rather than actual events... :rolleyes:

[Tanner2]

Interesting! Well, if the purpose was to make it scary, it worked. I'm a little torn though by the interviews they did. I guess I'm gullible, but it really seemed like they were interviewing the real people. They were interviewing the younger brother, the niece, and the mother. They were all very convincing. I guess it could have been a set up, but they seemed very sincere and emotionally upset when retelling the story (their faces were blacked out and their names were changed). The show totally freaked me out to the point of not wanting to go downstairs by myself to fold laundry! It was not a happy little program. I just fell into the show and got hooked. I'm going to watch happier things tonight! Actually when I went to bed, I tried to surround myself with the White Light I had talked about, I was that scared. I just kept trying to picture white light all around me.

[Pam]

...and that's where I think true evil's power lies. In the psychological arena.

My sig line should always be:
I could be wrong, I'm not an expert, but I have lots of opinions! ;)

[eurl]

I read the book by the investigator of the home, the Warren's. The TV docudrama was good but the book of the Warren's eye witness accounts are a lot more graphic and disturbing. I can't remember the title of the book now. But Ed and Lorraine Warren are the authors. I hope this helps any that are interested.

[Gail]

Just want to welcome you, eurl, to our site. :wave:

[eurl]

Thanks for the welcome. I'm glad to have found this forum. :D

[Pam]

Welcome to all our visiting guests who clicked over from Yahoo. I'm guessing this show aired again today somewhere, because of all the traffic and the views to this thread today.

So, those of you who watched it, do you think the story was more fact, or more fiction?

View the poll here:
http://friendscommunities.org/showthread.php?t=12443

[Laith]

Anyone watch TLC last night? HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT was about a family of five who moves into a former funeral palor in a rural area. The oldest boy, about 14, has a room in the basement next to the former embalmbing room and refrigerator. YIPES! The boy, who is being treated for cancer, starts seeing demonic visions. His younger siblings, a boy about 11 and a girl of 8, also experience them. The parents don't believe the kids. They move the younger boy into the basement with the older son. YIPES again!

The Mom begins to realize that the crucifixes in the home are mysteriously disappearing but she doesn't say a word. Mom and Dad start blaming the older boy for scaring the two younger ones. Fed up, they move the younger boy back upstairs and leave the cancer patient downstairs. So he is frustrated and ends up getting so weird they have to instutionalize him. He warns his family that major problems will begin.

And they do. Mom and a niece get attacked. The niece's rosary beads, which she is wearing around her neck, are levitated and broken. Mom calls in the parish priest who tells them to IGNORE it!!! And HE LEAVES!! Dad gets attacked. Now they call in ghost busters (for lack of technical word). The woman has the gift of discernment and finds that these are very powerful demons. They advise the family to sleep and stay together.They stay with the family. (I would have taken the kids out of there immediately). They also start imploring the Catholic Church to come in and do an exorcism which is finally and successfully done. With that accomplished, the family moves. The instutionalized boy is released apparently fine.

What got to me was the lack of trust this Mom and Dad displayed. The cancer patient is sleeping next to a room still set up for autopsies. That alone would give anyone the creeps. And they don't believe the kids. They didn't even move the sick child upstairs. Even if it was his imagination, how could you leave a healthy child much less one fighting for his life in that atmosphere? Then when Mom and the niece get attacked, Mom doesn't move the family immediately out of there. And what was with the first priest? I would have been heading for the first Motel 6 I could find.
If the boys were scared to death dont u think they should move them out of the morgue area? espaicially the younger one because hes way too young to be expierencing this.

[Nelda1]

So, this is a real story? I was trying to find it on the internet, but I couldn't really find a site. Anybody, know where to look? Any books, or anything?

[Jayell]

It is a good thing that I did not see this show....especially if it turns out that it really happened to a family.........the lesson.....do not make a mortuary your home....thanx for the update.............Jayell

[Nelda1]

Yeah, I used to work in one. I didn't like being left alone. Especially when there were dead bodies there! *Shiver.*

[Pam]

So, this is a real story? I was trying to find it on the internet, but I couldn't really find a site. Anybody, know where to look? Any books, or anything?If you have time, read this whole thread for resources about this story. I think it's x% fact, and y% fiction if you know what I mean ;)