The Real Owner of the Conjuring House Finally Revealed
After months of speculation, canceled auctions, and competing buyers, the mystery mortgage holder of The Conjuring House has finally been revealed.
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We finally know who bought the mortgage on the farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring. YouTuber Elton Castee’s name showed up on land records filed in mid-November 2025, solving a mystery that had the paranormal community spinning theories for months. This whole situation has been a wild ride of canceled auctions, competing buyers, and a property owner who seems determined to make everything as complicated as possible.
A Foreclosure on Halloween
Back in September 2025, JJ Manning Auctioneers dropped an announcement that got everyone’s attention. They were auctioning off the Conjuring house at 11 AM on Halloween. Not Halloween weekend. Not late October. Halloween itself, October 31st.
The current owner, Jacqueline Nuñez, had defaulted on her commercial loan with Needham Bank. So the 3,000-square-foot farmhouse sitting on 8.5 acres in Harrisville, Rhode Island, would go to whoever bid highest. The timing felt deliberate rather than coincidental – because of course it did. This wasn’t just any house facing foreclosure.
The property at 1677 Round Top Road in Burrillville has been at the center of paranormal reports since 1736. That’s not a typo. We’re talking about a building that predates the United States. The Richardson and Arnold families, who gave the house its formal name, passed down stories through generations. Doors opening on their own. Objects relocating themselves. That constant sensation of being observed when you’re alone in a room.
Then came the Perrons. Roger and Carolyn Perron moved into the fourteen-room farmhouse in 1971 with their five daughters, thinking they’d found their dream property. Within days, things got strange. Brooms would vanish from where they’d been left. The smell of rotting flesh would suddenly permeate a room, then disappear just as quickly. Doors didn’t just close – they slammed with enough violence to shake the entire structure.
Over the months and years that followed, the activity intensified. The daughters reported seeing a woman dressed in gray wandering through the hallways. Carolyn started waking up at exactly 3:07 AM every single night, discovering fresh bruises and scratches on her body that hadn’t been there when she went to sleep. When they dug into the property’s history, they found documentation of multiple deaths over the centuries. Several suicides. A rape and murder. Two drownings in the creek that runs through the property.
Carl Johnson investigated first. He’s a paranormal researcher who had looked into hundreds of cases by that point. What he documented at the Perron house concerned him enough that he brought in Ed and Lorraine Warren in 1973. The Warrens were Connecticut-based demonologists who had investigated thousands of reported hauntings by then.
They conducted séances at the property. During one of these sessions, Carolyn Perron allegedly levitated while sitting in her chair and began speaking in a language no one recognized. Andrea Perron, the eldest daughter, later described watching her mother’s chair lift off the floor before she was thrown across the room. Roger Perron had seen enough. He ordered the Warrens out and told them never to come back.
The Warrens identified what they believed was the primary entity haunting the property. They said it was Bathsheba Sherman, a woman who lived there in the 1800s. Local legend painted Sherman as a witch who had sacrificed an infant to Satan. Historical records confirm she existed and lived in the area, but the more sensational claims remain unverified folklore. According to the Warrens, Sherman had cursed anyone who would take her land, and her spirit remained attached to the property, tormenting each family that moved in.
The Perrons stayed seven more years after that séance. Andrea later explained that her mother finally told her father she wouldn’t survive another winter in that house. She’d been under attack for a decade.
Years later, their experiences became the 2013 film that launched a billion-dollar franchise. The movie took creative liberties, as Hollywood does, but the core remained: a family terrorized by forces they couldn’t comprehend or escape.
Nuñez Takes Over and Everything Falls Apart
Jacqueline Nuñez bought the property in May 2022 for $1.5 million from the previous owners, Cory and Jennifer Heinzen. Needham Bank issued a $1.2 million loan to Bale Fire LLC, a company owned by Nuñez. Her plan was to run it as a paranormal tourist attraction. Guests could book overnight stays, pay hundreds of dollars, and try to experience something supernatural themselves.
The business model worked initially. People from around the world wanted to spend a night in the house from The Conjuring. PEOPLE magazine even sent Julie Jordan for an overnight stay. She documented motion detectors triggering with no one nearby. A ball of light that appeared and vanished while witnesses watched. Books falling from shelves in empty rooms. A heavy wooden chair that moved several inches across the floor while she observed it.
Then Nuñez’s ownership spiraled into absolute chaos. She fired an employee she accused of stealing money. That employee told Target 12 something remarkable: Nuñez claimed that the spirit of John Arnold – who owned the home with his wife Abigail in the 1800s – had warned her about the theft. She was apparently taking business advice from ghosts.
The fired employee sued for backpay. Other former workers came forward with their own complaints about Nuñez. The Burrillville Town Council voted not to renew her entertainment license in November 2024. They cited issues with the property itself, problems with her application, and concerning interactions she’d had with local police officers.
Nuñez lost her license but refused to cancel trips people had already booked. Visitors who showed up found themselves scrambling to get refunds for stays that couldn’t happen. The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training issued a stop-work order in October 2024 after discovering the business had been operating without workers’ compensation insurance since May 2024.
The situation got messier. Jason Hawes, the star of SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, accused Nuñez of harassing him and his family. Nuñez took to social media and claimed Hawes had tried to assassinate her. The whole thing had devolved into exactly the kind of circus that would horrify anyone who cared about the property’s history.
The Auction Generates Unprecedented Interest
Justin Manning, president of JJ Manning Auctioneers, told reporters the auction had generated more interest in one week than all their previous famous property sales combined – and that included Susan B. Anthony’s birthplace and Myles Standish’s childhood home. The response was unprecedented.
Manning expected bidders from multiple camps. Real estate developers who could calculate profit margins. Paranormal enthusiasts who wanted to own a piece of horror history. Entertainment companies that might see promotional value in controlling the property. The house came with eight acres on a residential street, surrounded by neighbors who had already endured years of tourist traffic, late-night screaming from overnight guests, and cars constantly crawling past taking photos.
The timing aligned with major developments in the Conjuring franchise. “The Conjuring: Last Rites” premiered on September 5, 2025, closing out the main series. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who had portrayed Ed and Lorraine Warren throughout all the films, expressed curiosity during promotional interviews about what would happen to the real house.
Two months before the auction announcement came news that caught everyone’s attention. Comedian Matt Rife and YouTube creator Elton Castee had purchased the actual Warren home and museum in Monroe, Connecticut. The purchase included guardianship of the collection of supposedly haunted artifacts, including the Annabelle doll. The duo now controlled access to 750 allegedly haunted objects that had been investigated by the Warrens over their careers.
Castee had posted on X back in September 2024 that he and Rife were ready and willing to buy the house if Nuñez wanted to sell. They’d made their interest clear months before foreclosure became inevitable. Rife had purchased an 80-acre property in Rhode Island about 20 minutes from the Conjuring house in 2024, according to The Valley Breeze. He was already investing in the area.
Castee runs multiple YouTube channels focused on paranormal content and travel. His main channel, TFIL, has over 4 million subscribers and pledges to visit every country in the world. He also operates “Overnight,” which focuses specifically on paranormal investigations, and hosts a podcast called “Haunted Homies.” This wasn’t some random celebrity jumping on a trend – Castee had built his entire platform around this exact subject matter.
October 8th Changes Everything
Wednesday, October 8, 2025. The paranormal community woke up to shocking news. The Halloween auction wasn’t happening. Needham Bank had quietly sold the underlying mortgage loan on the property. JJ Manning Auctioneers posted a brief statement on their website. The mortgagee had concluded a sale of the underlying mortgage loan earlier that month and no longer had any interest in the Conjuring house property.
Needham Bank wouldn’t say who bought the loan. They explained that the buyer’s identity would become public through the town’s land evidence records once the mortgage got officially assigned to the new owner. Until then? Everyone could speculate.
The cancellation hit Jason Hawes hard. He’d launched a GoFundMe campaign just days before this announcement dropped, despite spending years publicly stating he never wanted to buy the Conjuring house. He’d changed his position after receiving messages from former owners, employees, and residents begging him to prevent the property from being exploited again.
By Tuesday evening – right before the cancellation news broke – Hawes had raised just over $67,000 from supporters worldwide. His video response captured the disappointment everyone felt. He explained that Needham Bank had sold the mortgage, not the house itself. Whoever bought that mortgage would need to go through the entire foreclosure process again from the beginning. The GoFundMe went back online the next day, still pushing toward the goal.
Hawes made it clear he wasn’t the mystery buyer. Elton Castee wasn’t publicly claiming to be either. The paranormal community started spinning theories. Was it a Hollywood studio? Some billionaire paranormal enthusiast? A descendant of one of the families who’d lived there? The speculation ran wild.
Andrea Perron’s Heartbreaking Request
The auction announcement had prompted Andrea Perron to record an emotional video plea. Andrea is the eldest daughter of the Perron family – the one who lived through everything that became The Conjuring. She’s battling stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, and she was watching this property she’d grown up in become the center of legal battles and exploitation.
She specifically asked Jason Hawes to step in and prevent the house from being turned into something that dishonored its history. Despite her medical condition – despite everything she was dealing with personally – she recorded this message asking for help. She talked about the need to salvage the barn on the property, restore the staff who had treated the place with respect, and rebuild the reputation that had been damaged during Nuñez’s ownership. The house didn’t need to become a circus or just another money-making scheme.
Her message carried real urgency. She told Hawes she knew in her heart he was part of the property’s destiny. She asked him – actually pleaded with him – to please consider saving the farm. She ended by telling him she loved him with all her heart. The hashtag #SaveTheFarm started spreading across social media platforms as people shared her video.
After the news broke about the mystery mortgage purchase, Perron made one brief statement. She said she hoped this wasn’t going to be a disaster. That was it. Just those few words that contained so much worry about what might happen to her childhood home.
The GoFundMe Campaign Continues
Hawes set the GoFundMe goal at $1.5 million, matching what Nuñez had paid in 2022. Any surplus beyond the purchase price would fund restoration work, repairs, and ongoing maintenance. The campaign explained his vision clearly. This wasn’t about making money. It was about preserving something important and making it accessible.
The local neighbors rallied behind him. Hawes explained that every neighbor on that street had reached out to support his efforts. They were standing behind him 100 percent because they’d dealt with years of chaos. They just wanted their lives back. Their normal, quiet street had become a destination for paranormal tourists, and they’d paid the price in privacy and peace.
The neighborhood had endured cars creeping by at all hours. Tourists stopping to take photos. Overnight guests who’d scream during the night, waking everyone nearby. Patrick Wilson had mentioned during interviews that the Warrens lived on a regular residential street in Connecticut. Their neighbors probably never imagined their quiet road would become a paranormal pilgrimage site. The exact same thing had happened to the people living around the Conjuring house.
Nick and Tessa Groff from Ghost Adventures, who had initially expressed interest in bidding themselves, decided to back Perron and support Hawes instead. The paranormal community was consolidating around one effort rather than fragmenting into competing bids.
Hawes laid out his plan in detail. If he could acquire the property, he’d fix it up properly. He’d open it to visitors enough to cover the costs of operation and maintenance. The property would sustain itself financially without becoming something designed to maximize profit. He emphasized this wasn’t his first experience with this type of project. He’d done it before and could do it again.
He told supporters this was 100 percent about answering Andrea Perron’s plea and making the house accessible to everyone. Paranormal believers, nonbelievers, skeptics, debunkers, historians – they all wanted to see this property, and they should have that opportunity. It shouldn’t be restricted to people with large bank accounts or massive YouTube followings who could afford to outbid everyone else.
The Identity Revealed
Land records filed in November 2025 revealed the buyer’s identity. The documents showed a real estate holdings company controlled by Elton Castee. Castee, who runs the TFIL channel with over 4 million subscribers, bought the $1.2 million loan through Summit & Stone LLC, a corporation formed in Rhode Island in September. Needham Bank filed the discharge paperwork with the Burrillville Town Clerk’s office on Thursday, November 13.
Castee incorporated Summit & Stone on September 12, 2025 – before JJ Manning announced the Halloween auction, and well before Jason Hawes started his GoFundMe campaign. Castee had been planning this move for months, working quietly in the background while everyone else was focused on the public auction.
Castee declined to comment when reporters reached out. Matt Rife didn’t respond to requests for comment either. The silence from both of them was conspicuous, especially given how vocal they’d been about wanting to purchase the property earlier in the year.
Castee does not hold the deed for the property. That deed remains with Jacqueline Nuñez. Owning the mortgage is not the same as owning the house. When reporters asked Nuñez for comment, she responded with a text message. She claimed she has the rightful entitlement to the vast John Arnold estate as the underlying leasehold. She then added several insults and expletives, which probably tells you everything you need to know about how cooperative she’s planning to be with this whole situation.
What This Actually Means
To gain ownership of the property itself, Castee needs Nuñez to sign over the deed in what’s called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. This is essentially a negotiated transfer that avoids the auction process. If Nuñez refuses to sign – and based on her response, that seems entirely possible – the property could end up going to auction again. Rhode Island law requires public notice of any foreclosure auction, so we’d see it coming if that happens.
The property’s fate hangs in legal limbo right now. Castee controls the debt but not the asset. Nuñez owns the deed but has no way to satisfy the loan she defaulted on. The two of them need to reach some kind of agreement, or this goes back to square one with another public auction.
Jason Hawes told reporters he’s not deterred. He expressed confidence that he’d still be able to purchase the property, pointing out that his campaign has raised more than $300,000. He stated they’re still exactly where they want to be in this process and they have a path forward. The news about Castee buying the mortgage doesn’t change their strategy.
Hawes posted on Facebook that owning a bank note does not mean someone owns the property. He emphasized they understand their position clearly and remain confident about moving forward. He’s not wrong. There’s still a scenario where Hawes could end up owning the house, depending on what Nuñez decides to do and whether Castee can negotiate a transfer.
The competition between these two potential buyers has split the paranormal community. Some people support Hawes because he’s responding to Andrea Perron’s direct plea and has promised to make the property accessible without exploiting it for maximum profit. Others see Castee and Rife as the natural successors, given that they already own the Warren house and museum. They’ve demonstrated they’re serious about preserving paranormal history – they’re the legal guardians of the Annabelle doll and 750 other artifacts, after all.
Castee and Rife stated in August 2025 they plan to open the Warren house for overnight stays and museum tours so people can experience and learn about the haunted history surrounding the property. Whether they have similar plans for the Conjuring house remains unknown. Neither has made any public statement about their intentions since the mortgage purchase became public knowledge.
Castee created a legal entity specifically for real estate holdings and used it to acquire this particular mortgage. That suggests planning and intention beyond a spontaneous decision.
Carl Johnson, the paranormal researcher who originally investigated the house and brought in the Warrens back in 1973, still works as a self-described demonologist. He’s said he hopes whoever ends up owning the property will preserve its history without exploiting it. He considers the house one of New England’s prime haunted sites – a place where some visitors report peaceful experiences while others claim they couldn’t last a single night.
The neighbors caught in the middle of all this just want resolution. They’ve endured years of disruption. They’ve watched their quiet residential street transform into a tourist attraction. They’ve dealt with the noise, the traffic, the constant stream of strangers. The property sitting in legal limbo doesn’t help them. They need an owner who will either respect the neighborhood’s peace or decisively commit to running a legitimate business with proper oversight.
The House Waits
The 300-year-old farmhouse keeps whatever secrets it holds behind those centuries-old walls. Someone now controls the mortgage to a piece of American paranormal history that refuses to cooperate with anyone’s plans. The building where five young girls saw a woman in gray who shouldn’t have been there. Where Carolyn Perron woke up night after night with injuries she couldn’t explain. Where Ed and Lorraine Warren conducted one of their most famous investigations. Where Andrea Perron learned about life and death and whatever exists beyond, as her mother once said.
Andrea Perron watches from Georgia as the property’s future remains undecided. She’s battling cancer while worrying about whether her childhood home will be honored or exploited. The house that shaped her understanding of the world – the place where her family endured a decade of experiences that still defy explanation – continues generating new mysteries almost half a century after the Perrons left.
The mortgage has changed hands. The deed has not. Somewhere in that gap between debt and ownership lies the answer to what happens next. Castee controls the financial instrument. Nuñez controls the legal title. Hawes controls $300,000 in donations from people who believe in his vision. The three of them form a triangle of competing interests around a property that has defied easy answers since 1736.
The foreclosure process will move forward. Negotiations will happen behind closed doors. Eventually, someone will own both the mortgage and the deed. They’ll inherit not just a house but everything that comes with it. The history. The reputation. The responsibility to all the families who lived there and left with stories they couldn’t forget. The expectations of a paranormal community that sees this property as sacred ground. The hopes of neighbors who just want their street back.
They’ll also inherit whatever still resides within those walls, if anything truly does. Former residents, investigators, and visitors have reported consistent phenomena across decades. Cold spots that move through rooms like something passing by. Voices in hallways that should be empty. The overwhelming sense that something watches from corners and shadows. Scientific explanations exist for many reported hauntings – carbon monoxide poisoning that causes hallucinations, infrasound vibrations that create feelings of unease, electromagnetic fields that affect perception. The Conjuring house has resisted simple explanations for 289 years.
By the time you read this, negotiations may have progressed. Agreements may have been reached or fallen apart. The property may have found its way back to auction, or Castee and Nuñez may have worked out a transfer. Jason Hawes may have secured his path to ownership, or his GoFundMe may have refunded donations to supporters who believed in his mission.
Whatever happens, the stories persist. Of the Perrons and their decade of terror. Of Bathsheba Sherman and her supposed curse. Of all the families who lived in that farmhouse over 289 years and left with experiences they couldn’t explain to people who didn’t believe them. The building will outlast this dispute the same way it’s outlasted everything else. It was standing before America existed as a country. It’ll probably still be standing long after everyone involved in this current drama is gone.
The woman in gray will still wander the halls, if she ever did. The doors will still slam on windless nights, if they ever really did. And at 3:07 AM, perhaps something will still move through those rooms, touching the living with cold hands and leaving marks that fade by morning, if any of it was ever more than imagination and folklore and the power of suggestion.
The next owner will discover the truth for themselves, whatever that truth turns out to be.
References
* Halloween Auction for ‘The Conjuring’ House Canceled
* The Conjuring House Halloween Auction 2025
* YouTuber Buys Mortgage of ‘The Conjuring’ House Amid Competition to Acquire Property
* YouTuber Elton Castee Buys R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ House Mortgage
* YouTube Star Buys Mortgage on The Conjuring House
* Matt Rife & Elton Castee Buy Ed & Lorraine Warren’s Home, Complete With ‘Annabelle’ Doll
* Paranormal Investigator Raises More Than $133,000 to Buy Historic ‘Conjuring’ House
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
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