Woman Who Owns 'The Conjuring' House Discovers 'Creepy Basement'

In a video posted to TikTok, Madison Heinzen took viewers on a tour of the basement in the old “Arnold Estate” in Harrisville, Rhode Island. The home was built in 1736 and sits on more than 8 acres of wooded property.

The Arnold estate was the site of tragedy and sorrow for eight generations of the Arnold family before a new family, the Perrons, bought the home in 1970. It was the Perron’s decade-long stay that launched the home into paranormal infamy and inspired the 2013 film, The Conjuring.

The Perrons were initially unbothered by a group of friendly spirits, but the more malevolent specters made themselves known and took a particular interest in one of the family’s five daughters. The angriest of all the spirits was the ghost of Bathsheba Sherman, according to the Occult Museum. She’d been involved in the deaths of two infants, including one of her own, though she was never charged with their deaths.

She was, however, believed to be a Satanist in direct contact with the devil. Bathsheba eventually hanged herself on the property, and it was her ghost that caused physical injuries to the Perrons’ eight-year-old daughter, Carolyn. Those injuries included bloody puncture wounds, scratches, and attempts at possessing the girl. The family eventually moved out of the house in 1980 and never returned.

Heinzen’s parents, Corey and Jennifer Heinzen, purchased the house in 2019. Heinzen went on to explain in her video that the home was a daycare in the 1980s, and parts of the center are still in the basement and scattered throughout the house. The most unnerving is a toybox where daycare children drew a lady who appears to have a broken neck. Did they see the ghost of Bathsheba hanging in the tree?

Not much is known about the daycare or how long it operated, but Heinzen says that all the parents withdrew all the children from the center on the same day, presumably because of the paranormal activity around the property.

The Heinzens offer tours of the property for those brave enough to step inside and confront Bathsheba and the rest of the Arnold clan.

To learn more about the demonic possession blamed for a murder in this small New England town, stream Shock Docs: The Devil Made Me Do It on discovery+.

It profiles the infamous murder case of Arne Johnson in 1980’s Connecticut and his attempt to put Satan on trial aided by experienced demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.