The True Story Of The Conjuring: What Really Happened?
5. A Lot Of The Entities Were Aggressive
Despite not portraying Mrs. Arnold’s motherly devotion or mentioning the supposed corpses in the walls, the film did depict the rotting smell the Perrons endured, along with the routine of the spirits annoyingly waking the family up most mornings.
In reality, this happened at 5:15 with the entities lifting the beds and tossing aside whomever was in them, as opposed to the film’s witching hour of 3:07 where framed pictures were continuously knocked down in conjunction with three slams against the walls.
One of the most horrifying incidents not depicted in the film was a night where all the household’s ghosts surrounded Carolyn and Rodger’s bed like a coven of witches. In an interview with The Blaze, Andrea said that the spirits had burning torches and used them to regularly torture her mother with fiery images.
Andrea also mentioned that instead of birds committing suicide by breaking their necks, it was bats who circled the farmhouse and terrorised the family by entering through the chimney.
Another difference is that while in the movie the Perrons frequently visited the cobwebbed cellar to investigate strange noises and to accompany Ed and Lorraine, the real Rodger and Carolyn avoided the spirit hotspot as much as possible.
It was only when the house’s heating equipment failed that poor Rodger was guilt tripped into venturing down there all alone to make repairs with a cold, stinking presence behind him.