The True Story Of The Conjuring: What Really Happened?
4. There Was A Wicked Witch
While there were a rowdy party of kind and mean-spirited entities in the Perrons’ household, the film declared that the foulest of them all was a witch named Bathsheba Sherman. Although the real Lorraine and Carolyn vouch for Bathsheba being the wickedest, Andrea has mentioned that there was an even more aggressive entity left undepicted. One whose acts were so heinous that Andrea refused to speak in detail about the ordeal, noting only that it was a very bad male with five little girls.
Still, in alignment with the movie, Bathsheba was a vicious ghost who viewed herself as the household’s mistress. Born Bathsheba Thayer in Rhode Island in 1812, she became a housewife to farmer Judson Sherman in 1844.
Although jealously of her reported beauty could have been the true reason behind why she was accused of being a witch, along with the fact that condemning women of practicing black magic used to be a way of passing the time, the protests against her began after an infant died in her care.
When it was discovered that a large sewing needle had been speared through the deceased baby’s skull, the townspeople uncompromisingly believed that Bathsheba sacrificed the infant as an offering to Satan.
Despite a court finding her innocent of any wrongdoing, the townsfolk's continuous smearing of her name is why Andrea reckoned she was so bitter, malevolent, and grotesque in the afterlife.