The Perron family's move to a picturesque 1736 colonial farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island, turned into a decade-long nightmare of escalating supernatural attacks, including physical assaults, apparitions, and foul odors. Blamed on a local legend about witch Bathsheba Sherman, the haunting inspired the 2013 film The Conjuring and reveals how skepticism, isolation, and paranormal investigators exploiting tragedy can devastate a family already under siege. Carolyn Perron's intuition to move her family to the countryside after a crime wave struck their Connecticut town ultimately placed them in a house where supernatural activity would torment them for ten years. The family's encounters escalated from strange noises and temperature fluctuations to physical attacks—wire hangers wielded by unseen forces, apparitions with broken necks, and foul-smelling clouds—witnessed by multiple family members and neighbors.