The Snedeker House at Southington
In 1986 the Snedeker family rented half a house on Meriden Avenue in Southington and found the remains of a funeral parlour in the basement: a coffin lift, drainage channels, a box of photographs of the dead. After that, according to a book and two films, came the demons. The book was written by Ray Garton, and Garton himself described how it ended: the family's accounts contradicted one another, and Ed Warren told him to make things up and make them scary — they were all crazy, he could put it together however he liked. Neighbours and the landlord told reporters that nothing had happened during the tenancy at all.
Eusapia Palladino at Columbia
For twenty years the Neapolitan medium Eusapia Palladino lifted tables and materialised hands in front of the best scientists in Europe, and some of them went home convinced. Her method never varied: in the dark she substituted one hand or foot for another among the people controlling her, freeing a limb. The Cambridge sittings of 1895 showed it, and the matter was closed in New York in 1910, when investigators from Columbia University hired two conjurors. They took turns lying under the table and watched, in the dark, her foot come out of its shoe and brace against the leg. The report was printed in full and the American tour ended there.
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