10 Film & TV Locations That Attracted The WRONG Sort Of Attention
1. A Haunting In Connecticut
Ghosts were the least of the Trotta-Smith family’s worries in the run-up to the release of 2009’s A Haunting in Connecticut. Living in the real-life, supposedly haunted, former funeral home that inspired the film, they were soon playing host to a very different type of spectral visitor – the paranormal enthusiast.
The previous owners, the Snedekers believed that the house was haunted because their son claimed to see strange shadows on the walls and hear odd noises from what used to be the embalming room. Ed and Lorraine Warren (later the inspiration for The Conjuring series) visited the property and claimed to have rid the home of its evil presence.
Not that a lack of ghosts put off the many people who would drive to Southington to take photos of the house, have a look around or knock on the door and not-so charmingly tell the Trotta-Smith’s kids that their home was haunted. As a result, the local police had to increase patrols and the woman who lived across the street would chase away the ghoulish visitors.
Susan Trotta-Smith resisted suggestions to erect a fence but stated her concerns about being able to go back to a quiet life if the film was a big success. Given the moderate $77.5 million box office gross and the unfavourable reviews, she needn’t have worried.