Back in 2016, when Harrisville hosted the Ocean State Paracon, Andrea, Nancy and Roger appeared before the crowd as a panel of speakers to discuss experiences at the house on Round Top Road. In a segment the Youtube channel that aired this interview dubbed "When They Touch You," Nancy relates her story of when she and her sister, Cindy, decided to drive up to the old farmhouse for a trip down memory lane.
"When they touch you," Nancy started, "It becomes a whole new ball game. You have a vested interest in them, you become almost a part of them. It happened to me, it happened to my sister, Cindy, and I'll never forget it. Not for the rest of my life, I will never forget it. When they touched my face and they touched my hair and they said to us, 'Oh my God, it's you! You're back!'
This is when my sister Cindy & I went to visit after we had moved. It was approximately five years later.
(Andrea leans in and interrupts - whispers something to Nancy)
Nancy responds, "Well, I don't remember what year it was, all I know is that Cindy and I one day decided we're going to go back and visit and so we headed up to Harrisville and we knocked on the door, and Mrs. Sutcliffe answered the door, and she said apparently she had some things to do, but she was so interested in having us there, that she decided to, you know, to give us a little bit of time to go in and see the house.
She had a lot of questions for us, and my sister, Cindy and I, we went from what was the wood shed into the summer kitchen and we walked into the house and all of a sudden, imagine yourself inside a balloon. And the balloon is blown up around you and the air pressure is very intense. They began touching my hair very gently, and touching my face and began saying, "Oh my God, it's you! You're back!"
Mrs. Sutcliffe said to us, "Something is happening to you right now, isn't it?" and I was embarrassed and I said "no." But I could hear my sister Cindy say "yes." I didn't realize that she was in that so-called balloon with me. And Mrs. Sutcliffe told us at that point that she had been experiencing some paranormal activity in the house. Her husband had also been experiencing things, and friends of her who had come to visit and stay overnight who were also experiencing some things, and she gave us a tour of the house.
She asked us several questions, about, an example that was "where was your mother's bedroom?"
And we told her what room it was, and she said "okay, now that makes a lot of sense, we've had a lot of trouble with this room." And that's where the spirit had appeared to my mother and threatened her."--- Nancy's interview, 2016, Ocean State Paracon.
(to watch this interview please click here)
According to Norma Sutcliffe, who was the owner at the time of Nancy and Cindy's impromptu visit, the story was a little different. It was the late 1980's, about a year after Norma first met Andrea and Carolyn, when she got a knock on her door.
"One of them was Nancy," Norma explained. The other sister's name had slipped her mind. "They came in and were like, "Oh my God! this is so beautiful! If you are going to sell it, please, we want to buy it back!"
Norma recalled that she hadn't heard all the "horror stories" about the house yet, just what Lorraine had told her, and when she had met Andrea and Carolyn just a year prior, the only thing Carolyn spoke of was hearing trumpeting in the cellar. As Norma stated, "back then, the family's claims were a lot more mundane than they later became."
Norma continued to share that the girls talked about their childhood memories and how much they loved it, and that Nancy gave her phone number to her, and insisted that if she ever sold the house, she wanted to buy it. Norma also mentioned that the girls talked about the Warrens and the seance at the house, but that was it. There was no paranormal activity at the house when Nancy and Cindy visited the home.
On top of that, Norma learned that before the Perron's sold the house to the Schwartz family, that Nancy had lived in the house alone for an entire year.
"Nancy didn't want to go. She wanted to stay in the house," Norma shared. "Now, if the house had been haunted, one would presume that Nancy's parents would have vetoed this. Instead, they moved to Georgia, and they allowed Nancy to stay in the house for a year."
After Nancy moved out, it was said that she let one of her friends, a single mother with a newborn baby, live in the house for a short time, alone.
"Why would you bring an infant into a house that apparently tried to kill your kids?"--
Norma claims that it was a whole 15 years later that Andrea called her up on the phone, and that is when Andrea told Norma the story about Bathsheba. Now, Norma had only heard that name once before, way back when Lorraine Warren paid a visit to her house unannounced, and long before she had met any of the Perron's.
We will delve into much more as time goes on: more of Norma's story, more interviews of the Perron's, and of course more about Lorraine Warren, too. But we will save those for another day.
In ending this short blog post, please remember there are always two sides to a story. Nancy claims she had an experience at the house when she visited, yet Norma claims nothing of the sort took place and that it was a very short, and uneventful visit.
The one thing Norma did recall was thinking that day after Nancy and her sister left, was "if this house was supposedly so evil, and that it tormented the family so bad when the Perron's lived there, why on earth would these two young ladies show up one day and tell her how much they love the house? How much they enjoyed their childhoods there? And that they wanted to buy the house if they could in the future?"
It just doesn't make sense. ---
(Copyright 2024 - J'aime Rubio, www.jaimerubiowriter.com)
Sources:
Norma Sutcliffe personal correspondance
"The Old Brooke Farm," by Norma Sutcliffe, 2020
"Perron Family Round Table," Youtube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1wGP1si_Qc
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