Real Crime Stories/Paranormal Hauntings/Conspiracy Theories Book II

The Snedeker Family Haunting

In 1986, when the Snedeker family(Allen, Carmen, their three sons, a daughter, and a niece) moved intotheir simple white duplex home at 208 Meriden Ave. in Southington,Connecticut, they were surprised to find it used to be a funeralhome. In the basement, they found mortuary toys like a hoistingapparatus for moving coffins, a medical gurney, blood drains, andeven toe tags.

It wasn't long before the Snedekerswere seeing all kinds of evil acts like sexual attacks, apparitions,and abrupt violent personality changes in their oldest son who wasgoing through treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Connecticut demonologists, Ed andLorraine Warren, who were made famous for their Amityville horrorcase, investigated the house and made the claim that it was"possessed" after launching a major media campaign.

Despite emerging facts surroundingtroubling nature of the oldest son, who supposedly had a drug habit,not to mention suffer from schizophrenia, admitted to the phenomenathat went on in the house. The upstairs neighbor survived theincident, the author, Ray Garton, who was hired to write the storyfor the Warrens and Snedekers, was apparently given conflictingstories from the Snedekers and even more shocking was told to ignorethe stories in favor of sensationalizing the story.

The Snedeker family story continued inpopularity even after the 2002 documentary released on television. And in 2009, it rose in popularity when the story was released intheaters.

After the Snedekers moved out of thehouse, no reports of supernatural activity have been reported by anyof the subsequent owners.

Source:https://atlasobscura.com/places/snedeker-house