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The housing market is tight all around New England these days, but among the selling points for most homes, rarely is “haunted by a witch” high on the list. That’s a big part of the terrifying charm of the house on Round Top Road in Harrisville, Rhode Island — that, and the fact that the house was part of the inspiration behind the horror movie franchise “The Conjuring,” the eight movies from which have grossed more than $2 billion. And that’s precisely why Cory and Jennifer Heinzen, longtime residents of the Maine town of Mexico and paranormal investigators, bought it...

“I grew up in probably the most haunted house in America,” said author Andrea Perron during a recent interview on the Internet radio program Mystic Moon Café, “However, we didn’t tell anybody that … because forty years ago people didn’t want to hear it. They didn’t want to believe it. They certainly didn’t want to know anybody that was living in circumstances like that. And so we kept it under our hats for more than thirty years after we left the house. We moved in there as a completely normal family … but we left as a paranormal family, because...