Halloween Night at the Conjuring House: A Paranormal Investigator's Firsthand Account
“The hype around a location can be its own worst enemy — when a house is this famous, you have to work twice as hard to cut through the noise and do real, credible investigative work. Pressure doesn't change methodology.”
— Jason Hawes
There are a handful of locations in this country that carry a reputation so heavy you feel it before you even walk through the door — the Conjuring House in Harrisville, Rhode Island is one of them. On Halloween night, I brought the team to one of the most talked-about haunted properties in the world for a live investigation alongside some familiar faces from the paranormal community. As always, I went in with one goal: find a natural explanation before I ever consider a supernatural one.
I've been doing this for a long time, and I'll be honest — the hype around a location can be its own worst enemy. When a house is as famous as this one, made iconic by a Hollywood film and decades of reported activity, you have to work twice as hard to cut through the noise and do real, credible investigative work. That's exactly the mindset I carried into the Conjuring House on Halloween night. The energy of the team was high, the crowd watching our live stream was enormous, and the pressure to deliver was real. But pressure doesn't change methodology. We arrived, we assessed, and we got to work.
Before any equipment goes up, I always want to understand the bones of a building. The Conjuring House — the former Perron family home — is a structure with genuine history, and that history matters. The Perron family lived here through the 1970s and reported years of disturbing experiences, accounts that eventually drew investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to the property. Understanding what people have reported, and when, helps me build a framework for the investigation. It tells me where to focus, what to listen for, and what environmental factors might be responsible for the experiences that have been documented over the years. Old farmhouses like this come with their own set of natural explanations: settling foundations, drafts, irregular electrical systems, and acoustics that can make sounds travel in deeply unsettling ways.
Once we moved into the investigation itself, the team spread out across the property with our standard kit — EMF meters, thermal imaging cameras, digital audio recorders, and static night-vision cameras placed at key positions throughout the house. I ran control checks on the equipment before we started capturing anything, because garbage data is worse than no data at all. Throughout the night, there were moments that caught our attention — unexplained temperature fluctuations in certain rooms, audio anomalies that warranted a closer listen during review, and at least one instance where multiple investigators in different parts of the house reported a similar experience at roughly the same time. I'm not going to overstate what we found. Every one of those moments got the same treatment: we looked for the mundane answer first. Some of them got one. Some of them didn't, at least not immediately.
What I can say is that the Conjuring House is a genuinely interesting location from an investigative standpoint, and not just because of its reputation. The structure itself, its age, its layout, and its documented history all make it worthy of serious study. Doing this live on Halloween night added a layer of complexity — maintaining investigative integrity while engaging with an audience in real time is a balancing act I take seriously. I never want the entertainment value to come at the cost of honest reporting. If we find something, I want it to be real. If we debunk something, I want that to be just as compelling a story. That's the standard I've held since the early days of TAPS, and it's the standard I held walking through that farmhouse in Rhode Island on the most haunted night of the year.
The Conjuring House earned its reputation for a reason, and after spending Halloween night inside it, I understand why people keep coming back looking for answers. We captured some material worth reviewing closely, and I'll share our full findings as that analysis is completed. For now, the case remains open — and in this work, an open case is often the most honest verdict you can give.