Ownership of The Conjuring house in Rhode Island is once again up in the air thanks to a new lawsuit claiming the recent sale price is “well below its fair market value.” The auctioneers scheduled the real-life farmhouse where the Perron family lived and inspired the The Conjuring film franchise for auction on Halloween. The owners had put the property up for sale for the third time since 2019.
The most recent person to sell the house was Jacqueline Nunez, the owner of Bale Fire LLC. Nunez purchased The Conjuring house for $1.525 million in 2022. It was previously owned by the Heinzen family, who bought it for $439,000 in 2019 from Norma Sutcliff, who bought the house in 1987.
Nunez, who operated the home as a tourist attraction, put the property up for auction after she defaulted on her mortgage payments. Authorities did not renew her entertainment license in part due to allegations that she mistreated staff. Nunez reportedly fired one former employee after she said the spirit of the home’s 18th-century owner told her they were stealing.
A group of people, including Ghost Hunters star Jason Hawes, purchased the 8.5-acre property for $1.3 million before the foreclosure auction could occur. A company controlled by YouTuber Elton Castee purchased the underlying note before the auction could proceed.
The person selling ‘The Conjuring’ home allegedly ‘wasn’t mentally competent’
Now, Elizabeth Greenhalgh of Utah, the sister of Jacqueline Nunez, is suing to stop the sale of The Conjuring house. She is accusing Hawes of conspiring “to acquire the property” despite knowledge that Nunez was unwell.
According to WPRI News, Greenhalgh claims Nunez “wasn’t mentally competent and not of sound mind” when she turned over the rights to sell the infamous property. She also alleges in the lawsuit that Nunez signed a limited power of attorney to Hawes’ associate, Julia Demay, to “do all things necessary with respect to the sale of [the home] with Jason Hawes.”
The home’s real estate listing described the 189-year-old home at 1677 Round Top Road as being 3,109-square-feet with 11 total rooms, three bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, hardwood flooring, four fireplaces, and a full unfinished basement.