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Even a famous Ghost Hunter got sick after visiting the house it happened in!!

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Even a famous Ghost Hunter got sick after visiting the house it happened in!!

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The lead investigator on hit Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures" says he was left white as a sheet after exploring the real-life haunted house that inspired the horror flick "The Conjuring."

"This house made me sick, and I did not recover from this investigation for about three weeks," Zak Bagans, 42, told People. "It took everything out of me. My body wasn't functioning right. My balance. This place is haunted by something I believe is very ancient."

Bagans and his crew - including Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley - discovered "some really incredible things" during their several-days-long investigation of the creepy 300-year-old Harrisville Farmhouse in Rhode Island, he said. "When we were using infrared binoculars, we captured this black mass blocking the light and the window of the house."

"I never felt possessed," Bagans told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "But I felt like something was drawing the life out of me."

The paranormal squad had long tried to gain access to the spooky domicile, but it wasn't until new owners Cory and Jennifer Heinzen purchased the historic house in June that they were able to film inside.

"As an investigator, this is the ultimate place to go because of the history," says Bagans. "Being able to get inside of the house and back inside of this case, reopen these files, learn some things that people don't know about this investigation, was just an absolute thrill."

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The Heinzens, who say they also work as ghost hunters, almost immediately started picking up on peculiar incidents.

"Footsteps, knocks, we've had lights flashing in rooms," Cory told a local news station. "And when I say lights flashing in rooms, it's rooms that don't have light in there to begin with."

The home first gained notoriety after the Perrons family - on whom "The Conjuring" is based - called upon famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to comb their house for evil spirits in 1973. And what they claim to have seen and experienced - from clocks stopping at 3:07 a.m. , to birds flying into windows and finding the family dog dead in the yard after refusing to go inside - inspired all the hair-raising scenes in director James Wan's horror franchise.

Daughter Andrea Perron met Bagans at the farmhouse for filming, as well as demonologist brothers Carl and Keith Johnson, who investigated the house before the Warrens did, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"I think that they had the very best of intentions," Perron says of the Warrens in the episode. "Lorraine told me 40 years later, 'Ed and I were in over our heads as soon as we crossed the threshold. We just didn't know it.'"

Before the Perrons, the Arnold family lived in the house for decades, and supposedly many members died from mysterious causes.

"What we can't argue is the fact that there was a huge curse put on the Arnold family," Bagans told the outlet. "I mean, there was suicide. There was murder. There was just unusual deaths. Poisonings, throats being slit. Something was plaguing that family."

Bagans admits he's afraid for the Heinzen couple's safety.

"I fear for the family that lives there if it progresses," he told People. "I know it's a thrill to buy the house and live there, but they need to be very aware of what they could potentially be dealing with."

The two-hour Halloween special called "Ghost Adventures: Curse of the Harrisville Farmhouse" airs Thursday at 9 p.m. on the Travel Channel.

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The lead investigator on hit Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures" says he was left white as a sheet after exploring the real-life haunted house that inspired the horror flick "The Conjuring." "This house made me sick, and I did not recover from this investigation for about three weeks," Zak Bagans, 42, told People.

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According to Screenrant.com, The Conjuring is one of the highest grossing horror films of all time! It made over $300 Million in the first weekend alone!

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In THE CONJURING, in the early 1970s, the Perron family -- Roger ( Ron Livingston), Carolyn ( Lili Taylor), and their five daughters -- move into a new home in the Rhode Island countryside. Before long, they start encountering strange noises and smells, stopped clocks, slamming doors, and figures lurking in dark corners. So the Perrons approach paranormal investigators Lorraine ( Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren ( Patrick Wilson) for help. The Warrens believe a demon is causing the trouble, and when Carolyn becomes possessed, they must get approval from the church for an exorcism. Unfortunately, Lorraine's clairvoyant abilities have taken quite a toll on her physical strength, and Ed worries that she might not survive their latest adventure.

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The Conjuring 2 is proving a terrifying summer success at the UK box office, but French cinemas aren't quite so thrilled with the horror sequel.
262 French theatres were initially planned to show James Wan's follow-up to the 2013 original, with French daily Le Parisien reporting the majority have now taken it off their listings due to 'loud laughter' and 'hysterical yelling' in screenings of the film.

According to 20 Minutes, some Parisian theatres cut the film from cinema listings on the actual French release day, June 29, following disruptive conduct in screens - with Cyrano de Versailles reportedly taking it down to 'ensure the safety of staff and customers.'

400 UGC cinemas even decided to not show the film from the outset, following anti-social behaviour in past screenings for other horror films such as Annabelle, Paranormal Activity 4 and Sinister, which were all also semi-banned in French cinemas.

The moral of the story? Don't be scared terrifying ghostly nuns or the possessed ramblings of young girls, watch out for that bloke spitting popcorn with screams to rival Ned Flanders.

Marc-Olivier Sebbag, executive director of National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF), said: 'Horror films attract a young audience who come in groups to have fun.

'Cinemas are aware of this and have learnt how to handle these situations. For The Conjuring 2, the problem is limited to some showings in cinemas,' he added.

So if you thought the British populous contained strong amounts of cinema rabble, thank the filmic gods you aren't surrounded by hysterical French citizens.

If you fancy a hearty not-banned scream, you can catch The Conjuring 2 in UK cinemas now.

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Box office king %27The Conjuring%27 is said to be based on a true story of the Perron family

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The Conjuring scared up a surprising $41.5 million over the weekend with a haunted farmhouse tale said to be "based on the true story" of ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

But how much paranormal truth does the film handle?

Conjuring depicts the 18th-century farmhouse in Rhode Island where Roger and Carolyn Perron (Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston) and their five daughters allegedly were terrified and even possessed by spirits.

Ed Warren died in 2006, but Lorraine, now 86, was a consultant on the film and remains a paranormal investigator. She insists that many of the movie's harrowing moments actually happened.

"The things that went on there were just so incredibly frightening," she says, citing her own investigation nearly 40 years ago. "It still affects me to talk about it today."

Neurologist Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society, who has investigated the Warrens in the past, is far from convinced.

"The Warrens are good at telling ghost stories," says Novella of the couple who were also involved in the paranormal story that was made into the 1979 film The Amityville Horror."You could do a lot of movies based on the stories they have spun. But there's absolutely no reason to believe there is any legitimacy to them."
Why didn't the family just leave the haunted house?
Nonetheless, Andrea Perron, the oldest of the five Perron girls, now 54, says the film is "a beautiful tapestry" with "many elements of truth to it, and some moments of fiction." And she and Lorraine say they can explain some of the obvious questions:

Rather than the relatively short, intense haunting depicted in The Conjuring, Perron says her family lived in the 14-room farmhouse from January 1971 until 1980.

While many spirits in the house were harmless, some, like one called Bathsheba, were angry. "Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position," says Perron.
Why did they go into the cellar?
When asked why the family endured the spirit invaders, who stunk of rotting flesh and would arrive at 5:15 most mornings to lift beds, Perron says: "I hear that question most every day. I think we were supposed to have this experience and share it with the world."
Did the exorcism attempted in the film really take place?
Perron says the family stayed away from the dirt-floored cellar, which was a spirit hotspot, except when the house's heating equipment would fail, forcing Roger to make repairs. "He would go downstairs and feel this cold, stinking presence beside him."

The Warrens (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in the film) made frequent trips to the house in 1974 to investigate, but Lorraine insists she and her husband would never try an exorcism, which must be performed by a Catholic priest. However, a seance allegedly caused Carolyn Perron to be temporarily possessed, which Andrea claims she secretly watched.
What do they say to non-believers?
"I thought I was going to pass out," Andrea says. "My mother began to speak a language not of this world in a voice not her own. Her chair levitated and she was thrown across the room."

Perron, who has written her family's story in three self-published books, says she is never surprised when people don't believe their tale.

"Both my mother and I would just as soon swallow our tongue than tell a lie," she says. "People are free to believe whatever they want to believe. But I know what we experienced."

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