But what exactly did the Hodgson family experience during this haunting of their home compared to the film?
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Thinking they were fighting, she expected to just go and tell them to stop and go to sleep.
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She didn’t believe them at first, of course, but then Peggy witnessed it moving herself!
And she found she couldn’t even move it herself.
Understandably, the entire family fled their home that night to their neighbors, Vic and Peggy Nottingham.
Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.
Peggy eventually called for help, the first time throughthe well-known publicationThe Daily Mirror, to investigate their home.
Of course, when the reporter arrived, the activity stopped.
Contacted byThe Daily Mirror,the Society for Psychical Research sent Maurice Grosse to investigate the case.
More furniture moving on its own, fires, and even voices were reported during his time there.
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Still, the family is adamant that the haunting they underwent was very much real.
They always did."
One of these instances was the bending of spoons, which the children were caught doing themselves.
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But surprisingly, a lot of the family’s actual reports made it in.
There’s even the mention of the Lego brick that was sent flying.
The chest of drawers, the family fleeing the house.
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Maurice Grosse investigating, along with others.
The Conjuring 2is currently available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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