Bathsheba Sherman: The Evil Ghost That Haunted The Perron Family
PinterestThe Perron family, the real-life subjects of the 2013 movie, The Conjuring.
The last story of demonic possessions on this list involves Ed and Lorraine Warren yet again, as well as a murderous ghost named Bathsheba Sherman.
The subject of the 2013 film The Conjuring, Bathsheba Sherman allegedly married a man who owned a farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island, in the 19th century. Shortly after their marriage, she possibly killed a child under her care and her own son before pledging allegiance to the Devil and hanging herself from a tree.
Over 100 years later, the Perron family — Roger, Carolyn, and their five daughters — moved onto the property. Soon, they found themselves haunted by an evil spirit and reached out to the Warrens for help.
Bettmann/Getty ImagesEd and Lorraine Warren.
In 1974, the Warrens conducted a seance with Carolyn Perron — but everything went horribly wrong. An evil spirit living in the house, Bathsheba Sherman or something else, began to attack Carolyn. As her daughter Andrea later told Global News Canada:
“The night of the seance was a gruesome event, shocking and horrific, the definition of childhood trauma. My mother’s body was rolled into a ball. It was absolutely heart-stopping hearing her scream, watching her writhing in pain… My father thinks she was possessed for a few minutes because she spoke in a language that does not exist on this planet.”
According to Andrea, her father threw the Warrens out of the house after the seance — which isn’t exactly what happened in the film. In fact, the family stayed in the house until 1980 because they couldn’t afford to move.
“The film portrayed a Hollywood scene of Ed and Lorraine casting out a so-called demon that “possessed” my mother and everybody lived happily ever,” Andrea Perron said. “That’s not what happened, not at all. Sometimes there is no happy ending. Sometimes survival is a success story all its own.”
After reading through these nine stories of demonic possession, enjoy this list of horror movies based on true stories. Or, discover the stories of these real-life exorcisms.
