Draft:Andrea Perron

Andrea Perron
Perron speaking at WonderCon 2013
Born	(1958-10-18) October 18, 1958 Rhode Island, USA
Parent	Carolyn Perron (Mother) Roger Perron (Father)

Andrea Perron (born October 18, 1958, Rhode Island).is an American author. She is most known for being involved in the Perron Family case file, investigated by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren which was the inspiration for The Conjuring, which is loosely based on the Perron’s experience inside the Old Arnold Estate. She has written a series of books titled ‘House of Darkness, House of Light’ which is in three. Volumes documenting her and her families experience in the home.

Early life

Andrea Perron was born in Rhode Island, the eldest of 5 siblings and the only one to have been born in Rhode Island. When she was 2 months old her parents bought their first home in Willimantic, Connecticut, where the rest of her siblings were born and raised. They lived there until Andrea was six, they then bought a home in Cumberland, Rhode Island for six years, but, in Andrea's words, ‘Living in a suburb of Providence proved disquieting’ Which lead to their parents, Carolyn and Roger, in June 1970 buying 1677 Round Top Rd. in Harrisville, Rhode Island, aka, the Old Arnold Estate, the previous owner was a Mr Kenyon for around $72,000.

The Old Arnold Estate

In June 1970 Carolyn Perron was looking in a Rhode Island news paper, The Woonsockett Call in the column titled ‘Land and Farms for sale’ which covered all of North Rhode Island. Carolyn had seen in the paper a section reading ‘9 bedroom colonial w/ barn + 200 acres Harrisville $75,000’, which to her, sounded a perfect place to live.

In June of 1970 the Perrons moved into the home during what Andrea called a 'swirling ice storm'. Mr Kenyon, the previous owner, at that point still hadnt left the property, and was still packing his things away. Once the family arrived Roger Perron had handed each of the girls a box, Andrea handed one titled 'kitchen', she went through the sided door leading into the parlor, Mr Kenyon was stood in the corner, packing away his China from a cabinet in the corner of the room, she greeted Mr Kenyon and headed to her mother in the kitchen, she saw a man stood staring at Mr Kenyon, she greeted the man but recieved no response, and the man, who she presumed was just a neighbour, was fixated on watching Mr Kenyon leave. She then asked her mother who the man was, but her mother hadnt seen the man. Each of her siblings had seen the man, but as Cindy had walked through she had seen the man disappear into thin air.

Around 2 or 3 hours after, Andrea, Nancy, Cindy and Christine were stood in the dining room where they initially saw the man, Roger was inviting Mr Kenton to stay and live with them. Andrea though had noticed a manifestation once again in the corner of the room.

Later after everything had been packed away and the beds had been moved upstairs Mr Kenyon had taken Roger Perron for a walk, telling him 'for the sake of your family, leave the lights on at night' which Roger presumed was referring to the narrow hallways and steep stairs cases.

A spirit depicted in The Conjuring, and the only spirit to ever say its name, is a boy named Rory, but in real life Andrea Perron said that the boy was named “Oliver Richardson”, the Richardson’s also originally built the home. Oliver was described by Andrea as April’s playmate. She never told the Warrens about Oliver as she didn’t want them to get rid of him.

On the site in a barn near the home one Mrs John Arnold had hanged herself in 1797 at the age of 93 after her husband had passed away. Around the house there was a woman who is nicknamed the “bent neck lady” who could’ve been Mrs Susan Arnold. In the basement of the home there is drawings on furniture depicting a woman with a bent neck. Andrea also believes that Mrs Arnold wanted to take Carolyn Perrons place as the head of the house. In the movies Bathsheba Sherman is commonly and faslely depicted as commiting suicide in the estate but her cause of death was documented in a Harrisville newspaper as a ‘sudden attack of paralysis’. She also never have though to have lived in the Arnold Estate.

In August 1973 the Warrens had come to the house. They had brought a priest, medium, sound specialist and cinematographers. Everyone, except Nancy, was in the home during the seance. In a YouTube interview she describe the events as such:

“she was in agony, she was in a very big captains chair at the table. Her body drew up into a ball, to the extent you would expect to hear her bones breaking. She started- first her head dropped, like she had gone to sleep. And then she threw her head back and her eyes popped open, and she started looking wild eyed around the room like she didn’t know who any of these people were. And then she started to growl, and howl and cry. And then she started to speak in a language that does not exist on this planet. And then the table levitated and flew back down onto the floor, all the candles they had lit went out instantly. Her chair levitated about probably 18 inches off the floor, and in a split second, my mother and the chair she was sitting in was tossed from the middle of our parlour- our dining room- into the middle of our parlour and when the chair hit the floor snd her head struck the floor I was quite certain I had just seen my mother pass away. My father ran to his side, Ed Warren tried to stop him from going to her, and my father turned around and punched him right in the face brought him to his knees, blood pouring out of his nose and mouth, it was a mess. And he went to my mothers side, she was unconscious but I didn’t know she was unconscious. Cindy’s crying and collapsing in my arms, were standing behind a door (Perron raises her hand to show how much the door was open with her finger and thumb) that's only open that much so as mom got thrown into the other room we pushed it open a little more because the lights were out nobody could see us, and I could see my mother on the floor motionless and my father hovering above her and Lorraine running to her side and the priest over in the corner of the room literally quaking in terror and the medium having collapsed unconscious on the table”.

Throughout the 10 years in the home they all heard and saw things. Andrea, being the oldest, had her own room. Her sisters were constantly sleeping in the room with Andrea. Within the second night Cindy had crawled into bed with Andrea, Andrea thinking she was just cold. Cindy told her she was scared, telling Andrea she heard voices. Andrea presumed it was Christine, since she spoke in her sleep sometimes. All the doors between the rooms were open and Cindy told her all the voices were talking at once and saying the same thing over and over after Andrea asked what she was hearing she said they were telling her “there are 7 dead soldiers buried in the wall”.

After 10 years in the home Carolyn told Roger she couldn’t survive another winter in the house due to the lack of heating and insulation and so they moved to Georgia. Andrea Perron and other members of the family have since been back to the Estate, although some refuse to return. Andrea Perron has also written three volumes of books, each titled 'House of Darkness, House of Light' which tells the story of the Perron's experience in the home. The Conjuring (2013) was also loosely based on the Warren's case files on the home.

Andrea Perron continues to tell the story of what her and her family experience in the home through her book series, interviews on YouTube.

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