10 Horror Movies Based On True Stories (That Were All Lies)
2. The Haunting In Connecticut
In The Haunting in Connecticut, Sara Snedeker and her family move into a former funeral home to be closer to a hospital for her son's cancer treatment. Over time, Sara discovers the house has ties to black magic, causing souls to bind to her home.
Rather than just dealing with insidious spirits, Sarah finds credible evidence that satanic rituals and necromancy have been performed in the ex-mortuary. Worst still, she uncovers hidden rooms filled with sinister artefacts and desecrated corpses. Even if there there was no evidence of the supernatural, finding cadavers and Devil-worshipping paraphernalia in your house is pretty messed up.
As such, it's underwhelming to learn these genuinely unsettling elements were invented for the film solely to elevate the tension and scares. On top of that, many claims made by the Snedekers originate from Ray Carton's book, In A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, which he admitted was fictionalised, due to wild inconsistencies in the family's accounts.
Other outlandish tales surrounding the house were pushed or fabricated by a pair of famed parapsychologists, whom you may have heard of... which brings us to our next entry.