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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 4, 2019 8:26:49 GMT -5
Zak Bagans Shuts Down Cursed ‘Devil’s Rocking Chair’ ExhibitZak Bagans has closed a new exhibit at his Haunted Museum in Las Vegas after several visitors became inexplicably disturbed. Bagans was initially excited about the new addition, a rocking chair that figured prominently in the infamous Devil in Connecticut case that inspired the upcoming Conjuring 3 movie. Unfortunately, because of paranormal activity attached to the seemingly innocuous chair, the Ghost Adventures star is now uncertain whether he will continue to display the item.
The Haunted Museum houses a wide variety of notoriously “haunted objects,” but the “Devil’s Rocking Chair” reportedly caused an adverse reaction in at least six patrons. “This is the first time where I have decided to shut an exhibit down at The Haunted Museum due to multiple people being affected in connection to unexplained paranormal activity of the Devil’s Rocking Chair,” Bagans announced. “Six people all shared the same disturbing, uncontrollable crying during the short time I opened the exhibit, one of them being a guest who also collapsed directly above the Devil’s Rocking Chair on the stairs.” He explained the chair was located underneath the set of stairs.
While this isn’t the first time visitors have become distressed when in close proximity to objects on display in the museum – ambulances have been called more than once – the rocking chair triggered a chain of emotional reactions and, according to Bagans, he and a friend suffered a terrifying episode in the ghost hunter’s Las Vegas home, which he also attributed to the demonic chair. “Me and a friend felt an evil presence move between us as we were sitting down in my living room, which then caused my dog to growl,” Bagans claimed. “I then became very affected, began speaking strange things about God and Satan with my head down and then my friend began to cry uncontrollably and literally ran outta my house.”
Bagans paid Alan Glatzel approximately $67,000 for the chair in April 2019, ironically, just hours before the death of Lorraine Warren, who, with her husband, demonologist Ed Warren, investigated the Devil in Connecticut case. In 1980, David Glatzel, an 11-year-old “demonically-possessed” Connecticut boy, was allegedly sitting in the chair when he was “exorcized” by the Warrens and an entity the boy identified as “The Beast,” was observed sitting in the chair on several occasions. Unfortunately, when the demon left Glatzel, it supposedly passed into Arne Cheyenne Johnson, who had foolishly challenged the entity. Johnson later stabbed his landlord, Alan Bono, to death. Johnson’s attorney claimed his client wasn’t responsible because the devil made him do it, but the judge disallowed the defense and Johnson was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison, although he served just five. The sensational case resulted in a book, The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle, and the NBC movie, The Demon Murder Case starring Andy Griffith as Ed Warren.
According to Alan Glatzel, during the time his younger brother was possessed, several witnesses saw The Beast sitting in the rocker and even after the demons were driven out of David, many who sat in the chair developed back pain of such severity that one person was forced to undergo surgery.
It is unclear if the exhibit will reopen or what will happen to the chair.
The Haunted Museum features an array of haunted items such as Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Deathmobile, a roomful of haunted dolls, the possessions of serial killers, and relics from the infamous “Demon House” in Gary Indiana, which Bagans had demolished. Sources: The Haunted Museum; Kelly Wynne, Newsweek, June 3, 2019, and The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle.
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Post by jason on Jun 4, 2019 10:41:51 GMT -5
That bastard is a regular P.T. Barnum when it comes to creating and promoting hoaxes and gullible ghost-chasers have no better sense than to believe him.
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Post by Kate on Jun 4, 2019 14:00:50 GMT -5
I don't remember ever hearing about the "The Devil in Connecticut" case. For some reason I thought the Demon in Connecticut case was about those people who rented the old house that used to be a funeral home and claimed it was haunted.
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Post by catherine on Jun 4, 2019 15:59:47 GMT -5
I don't remember ever hearing about the "The Devil in Connecticut" case. For some reason I thought the Demon in Connecticut case was about those people who rented the old house that used to be a funeral home and claimed it was haunted. T he David Glatzel case, like every other case those two frauds investigated, was a complete hoax, so there's no way the frigging rocking chair could be cursed. It's all hype, like the "demon house" in Indiana that Bagans had bulldozed so that no one could verify his crap. What he'll probably do is move the exhibit to a closed-off area and make a big production about it, telling people they enter at their own risk or some other ridiculous crap. I can't understand why anyone watches his silly show or believes anything he says.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Jun 4, 2019 19:17:06 GMT -5
I agree with Catherine. I think he's "closing" it to stir up hype, and then will re-open it when the movie comes out. He'll probably charge an extra fee to people who want to see it.
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Post by jane on Jun 5, 2019 17:25:36 GMT -5
I don't remember ever hearing about the "The Devil in Connecticut" case. For some reason I thought the Demon in Connecticut case was about those people who rented the old house that used to be a funeral home and claimed it was haunted. The house that used to be a funeral home is known at "The Haunting in Connecticut" case because that was the name of a movie about it. The house is in Southington, CT, and it was the Snedeker family who lived there. The book about that case is "In a Dark Place." The Warrens hired Ray Garton, a horror novelist, to write the book. When the Snedekers couldn't keep their stories straight, he went to Ed Warren, who told him the Snedekers were crazy, that everybody who came to them with problems about demons was crazy, and to just make it up and make it scary.
I used to live in Connecticut and right after hearing about this case, I was visiting friends in Stamford and we drove up to Southington to see the house. There was nothing special about it and it had been turned into a duplex. The people on the other side of the house, which had also been part of the funeral home, didn't have any problems. One of the Snedeker sons had Hodgkin's disease and was being treated for it. They claimed that when they moved into the house, he had personality changes, but I've always thought whatever problems he was having were probably caused by the medications he was taking. |
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Post by aprillynn93 on Jun 5, 2019 19:20:10 GMT -5
Yep. Also Jane I heard an interview with the Snedeker family where they said the movie was way exaggerated, and that they were upset with the way it was portrayed, by both the movie and the show, "A Haunting", where the story was first featured.
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Post by madeline on Jun 6, 2019 9:14:17 GMT -5
I checked on Amazon and the book, The Devil in Connecticut, about the David Glatzel cases, sells for $99.99 up. It was written in 1983 and must not have ever been reprinted.
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Post by chris on Feb 12, 2021 7:25:18 GMT -5
This says that Bagans bought the chair from Alan Glatzel, but everything else that I've read said that the chair was in the Warren's museum.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Feb 12, 2021 18:09:28 GMT -5
This says that Bagans bought the chair from Alan Glatzel, but everything else that I've read said that the chair was in the Warren's museum. I think that many the items in the Warren's museum are "on loan". It says Bagans purchased it from Alan Glatzel, and that it was from the Glatzel's home, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was actually in Glatzel's home at the time of purchase. At least, that's the way I understand it. |
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Post by Graveyardbride on Feb 13, 2021 16:32:08 GMT -5
I think that many the items in the Warren's museum are "on loan". It says Bagans purchased it from Alan Glatzel, and that it was from the Glatzel's home, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was actually in Glatzel's home at the time of purchase. At least, that's the way I understand it. |
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Post by chris on Feb 19, 2021 19:40:02 GMT -5
The rocking chair was in the Glatzel home (this week’s Mystery Location) until around 2011, when Judy Glatzel (David’s mother) died. When The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It was in production, Bagans began searching for objects from the Glatzel case for his museum and discovered the rocking chair – where “The Beast” sometimes sat – was in the home of Alan Glatzel (David’s brother), in North Carolina. He purchased it directly from Alan Glatzel, although I wouldn’t be surprised if his siblings demanded a cut of the proceeds. The chair was never in the Warren museum. I'm surprised that the Warrens didn't try to buy it for their museum. |
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