BURRILLVILLE, RHODE ISLAND (WBSM) — Social media was abuzz on Tuesday that one of the most haunted homes in America was back on the market, but it turns out a technical glitch may have conjured up the story.
Multiple websites in the Nexstar Media Group – which has over 200 in 116 U.S. markets – published a story on Tuesday that the Conjuring House in Burrillville, Rhode Island was back on the market for $1.2 million.
The 18th-century farmhouse, in which the Perron family experienced over a decade of paranormal activity that inspired the 2013 film The Conjuring, had previously sold in 2022 to Jacqueline Nunez, the owner of a Boston-based real estate development group. She continued the tours and paranormal events that had previously begun under former owners Cory and Jennifer Heinzen.
Nunez has recently made headlines when she fired her general manager Brian Dansereau after (according to his claims) a spirit told her he was allegedly stealing from her; he denies the theft, and says she owes him $9,000 in back pay.
There was also a news story about her conflict with former employees Satori Hawes and Cody DesBiens over money they say they are owed following the barn fire at the Conjuring House last December.
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Hawes and DesBiens were among seven employees who resigned from the house back in June, which also included former owners the Heinzens.
Since then, Hawes’ father Jason Hawes, star of TV’s Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation, has made multiple videos sharing text messages to him from Nunez making accusations against him, including that he is an “assassin” who is trying to kill her.
These situations, combined with head-scratching posts from Nunez on the official Conjuring House Facebook page, have drawn criticism from the paranormal community and beyond – so it wouldn’t surprise some if Nunez had put the house on the market.
However, that’s not the case. The house is not for sale. All online real estate listings list the house as either “sold” or “not on the market” following Nunez’s purchase, and she herself did not post anything about it on Facebook.
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It turns out the article that was published yesterday on multiple Nexstar station websites was just a rehash of the 2022 article when the Heinzens put the house on the market.
The original article was written by WPRI Providence Digital Content Producer Melanie DaSilva back then, and WBSM reached out to DaSilva to find out if she had received any kind of scoop on the house or if it was some kind of glitch. It turns out that it was the latter.
“It’s not for sale. It was sold in 2022,” DaSilva told WBSM. “We updated some Conjuring House articles on our end to fix an error in the date it was built. Not sure why it’s popping up as new stories on Nexstar sites. Sorry for the confusion.”
It seems that updating the story (which the story reflects with an editor’s note at the top) pushed it out to the Nexstar Media Wire as fresh content, and then it ended up on multiple stations’ websites from there.
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