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When I lived in RI I was totally into the New England ghost stories, all the mystical stores we had, knew a few people who were into paganism, etc. I thought I'd heard every ghost story, but not the one that this new movie "The Conjuring" is based on. It's said to have happened in the late 1970s. So I'm kind of amazed I heard about the Vampire's Grave in Coventry a billion times but never heard this one.
Question: who has heard the story or knew of what was happening there?
When I lived in RI I was totally into the New England ghost stories, all the mystical stores we had, knew a few people who were into paganism, etc. I thought I'd heard every ghost story, but not the one that this new movie "The Conjuring" is based on. It's said to have happened in the late 1970s. So I'm kind of amazed I heard about the Vampire's Grave in Coventry a billion times but never heard this one.
Question: who has heard the story or knew of what was happening there?
I had never heard of the story either, and I'm old enough to remember the 70s firsthand! My mom used to follow any RI ghost story, and she hadn't heard it either - but isn't the story that they kept it quiet for years, so they could sell the house or something?
By the way, I hope you do know that Vampires Grave isn't in Coventry. The "real" Vampire's Grave is in Exeter. In the 60s, a Coventry High School teacher told his classroom the story of the vampire, but didn't say where the grave was located. They went looking for it and decided it was on Plain Meeting House Road in West Greenwich. They were wrong, but the legend took hold and generations of kids went looking for the gravestone of Nellie Vaughn, when the real vampire was Mercy Brown.
I've been to both cemeteries and actually find the Plain Meeting House site to be much creepier. I'm not superstitious or much attuned to the spirit world, but it just felt evil. Not so much from a vampire presence but from all the strange people who've visited through the years and toppled the gravestones. I saw one toppled gravestone that had what looked like fresh blood on the hands engraved in the stone - and didn't see much purpose to lingering longer!
I'm excited to see it. I love New England and I attended college at Clark University in Worcester MA. My last year their, my friends and I moved into a creepy "triple decker". We has some odd experiences.
New England seems to have more than it's fair share of hauntings.
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie. There is a thread about in on the Unexplained Mysteries and Paranormal Forum.
I'd love to know if anyone knows more about what really happened.
Has anyone seen it? Does anyone know anything about the real family and the location?
The movie received good reviews and I'm interested to know if anyone has any personal connection to this case, and how they think it was portrayed in the film.
People who have seen it love it. Good old fashioned jump-out-of-your-skin horror.
And yeah, I knew the vampire's grave was a load of BS. Just a place for drunk metalheads to hang out at night back in the 80s. Guilty as charged, except I didn't drink. I was usually the designated driver. I'm originally from Cranston but hung out with a lot of Warwick/West Warwick kids in my late teens and heard about that place constantly and got dared to go up there more than once. Had a nice chat with a Coventry police officer, too.
It is hands down the scariest movie I have ever seen. WAY scarier than Amityville Horror, and we're still debating whether it tops the original Exorcist. People literally yelling at the screen, screaming, jumping out of their seats, etc. Well worth the money to see it in the theater. Seeing it at home wouldn't do it justice IMO. And they list the actual family with photos and names at the end. GREAT movie if you don't want to sleep again. Ever.
It is hands down the scariest movie I have ever seen. WAY scarier than Amityville Horror, and we're still debating whether it tops the original Exorcist. People literally yelling at the screen, screaming, jumping out of their seats, etc. Well worth the money to see it in the theater. Seeing it at home wouldn't do it justice IMO. And they list the actual family with photos and names at the end. GREAT movie if you don't want to sleep again. Ever.
I agree except that I would put in the same category as the "Amityville Horror" and "The Exorcist". Not higher, but the same. However, that's saying a lot.
There hasn't been a horror film of this caliber since the early 1980s, when Amityville came out.
I actually believe that this occurred. I know something happened in Amityville, but it was greatly exaggerated.
This is NOT a film to see on DVD or Netflix. This is something to see in the theater. People were visibly and audibly reacting in terror. Adult people spoke to one another, to strangers seeking and giving comfort and discussing what just went on.
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