Welcome to Unexplained Extra, with me, Richard McLean, Smith.

Where for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories and ideas that for one reason

or other didn't make it into the previous show.

In our last episode, Negative Space, we looked at the chilling tale of the Peron family

haunting, which, like many people, I first came across through the film The Cundring.

It was also through this film that I first heard about Lorraine and Ed Warren, with whom

the Peron story has subsequently become inextricably linked.

There is little doubt that for whatever reason, some members of the Peron family had noticed

and experienced various things occurring in their home, which they later came to speculate

might be the result of a haunting.

However, it was from the involvement of the Warrens that the story really began to solidify

into something that appeared to give the Peron's concerns some legitimacy and would later

inspire the filmmakers of the Cundring.

I don't think for a moment that those filmmakers have a duty to present a story based on facts

or truth.

It is a film for entertainment and doesn't present as anything else, nor should it be required

to.

However, since many of the Warrens and Perons assumptions and associations drew on the

history of real people, it feels necessary to go a little deeper into the conclusions

that they eventually drew and the subsequent mythology that has now been attached to the

story.

Having become increasingly unsettled by the peculiar events taking place in her home, Carol

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