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Heavily Investigated

Stand in the Arnold farmhouse long enough and you start to feel like something is deciding whether to let you leave. The Perron family moved in during January 1971 and almost immediately the house began its introductions — strange odors drifting through sealed rooms, objects resettled by unseen hands, cold presences that pressed close in the dark. The worst of it, they say, fixed its attention on mother Carolyn: a malevolent force that people have long named Bathsheba, and that the Warrens reportedly confirmed was no ordinary haunting. Visitors still report the same slow dread the Perrons described.

Built in 1736, the Arnold Estate passed through at least eight generations of the Arnold family — a tenure the property's records suggest was marked by drownings, suicides, and deaths of ambiguous circumstance. In January 1971, the Perron family became its newest tenants, blissfully unaware of what the deed did not disclose. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were summoned mid-decade and declared it actively haunted. The 2013 film The Conjuring immortalized the case — though the house, for its part, had been building its reputation without Hollywood's help since the colonial era.