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Astonishing Legends

The True Story behind the Conjuring Part 2

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Our goal in covering the story of the Perron family's experience while living for a decade at the Arnold Estate, the inspiration for the motion picture, The Conjuring, was to uncover the real story behind the persistent hauntings. What we discovered once again was the actual truths at the heart of this, and other famous cases are as murky and nebulous as the spirits that do the haunting. The question that remains is, what is truth and what is real when it comes to supernatural activity? Skeptical researcher and writer Kenny Biddle investigated the historical people that the Perrons thought may have been the entities that lingered in their home. He found inconsistencies between the records of the lives and deaths of named locals and their claimed involvement with the farmhouse. But the attempt to cast doubt on the Perron story by focusing on historical inaccuracies is to go at the problem in an understandably linear, causal fashion, perhaps not one taken by a paranormal investigator. This leads us to the question, can the supernatural be analyzed with earthly rational thinking? For example, does a person have to die in the same place that their ghost supposedly haunts (if one even believes in ghosts), or can they move about freely? Can spirits visit only some individuals or occupants, or would they have to haunt everyone in the same space equally? Can spirits identify as something they're not, or do they have to tell the truth about who or what they are? What are the rules for something so mysterious? While many of us would like to apply standard logic to understanding the numen world, those that have experienced it might tell you no ordinary rationale matters. Despite the "facts," what they have witnessed was real and true enough.

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0:00.0

If you are feeling suicidal, thinking about hurting yourself or a concern that someone

0:04.6

you know may be in danger of hurting himself or herself, call the National Suicide Prevention

0:08.9

Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK.

0:12.7

1-800-273-8255 is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is staffed by certified

0:20.6

crisis response professionals.

0:23.8

There's no identifiable origin for the expression.

0:26.5

Not everything is as it seems.

0:29.1

That phrase reminds us that our perception is just that, perception.

0:34.5

A word Merriam Webster's online dictionary defines as, physical sensation interpreted

0:40.5

in the light of experience.

0:43.0

Light of experience.

0:44.6

Isn't it interesting that they chose the word light there?

0:49.0

Tonight's story is about light, and what it reveals in the darkness.

0:54.5

Perception, at least this definition of it, is limited by our physical senses.

1:00.5

But who among us believes that nothing lies beyond what humans can perceive without our

1:04.8

particular senses?

1:06.4

You'd have to be foolish to think that.

1:09.3

Even in the animal kingdom, there are many species whose physical senses far supersede

1:13.8

hours.

1:15.1

An eagle can see eight times farther than a human.

1:18.7

An owl has a 270 degree range of vision.

1:22.7

Imagine if we had either one of those attributes.

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