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Historian Courtney McInvail is the author of Civil War Ghosts of Georgia,

Volume 1 and 2, Civil War Ghosts of Connecticut, Revolutionary War Ghosts of Connecticut,

and Haunted Mystic.

You come by your interest in hauntings, honestly,

as I say, you grew up in a haunted house that was investigated by none other than Ed and

Lorraine Warren. Tell me about that. Yeah, that's very true. So I grew up in New England,

and I think if you ask anyone from New England, we're no stranger to hauntings. Every house sort of has a creaky floorboard or a flickering light. And our house was no different when I was growing up. And my parents were, you know, pretty honest about it. They just said old houses

did strange things. They didn't want my siblings and I growing up scared. But as we got older,

there was a whole lot of change of events in our family life. And I think it's important when you

look at extreme hauntings to really understand that some families can have an

experience in one house that other people don't. And there was a lot going on in my familial home,

and my father was working a second job called post-mortem cleanup, where he was cleaning up

homicides and suicides. And it was around that time that we started to get this really sort of

unexplained,

almost negative or malevolent haunting activity. And being raised by an Irish Catholic mother,

she was calling priests and everything for house blessings. And they couldn't figure out what was

going on. So she ended up calling Ed and Lorraine Warren, who she found on the old dial-up internet on AOL.

They said they helped people in haunted houses, and she gave them a ring.

And after interviewing her and our family, they took the case.

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