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The Haunting in Connecticut didn’t start as a movie. It started as a family who moved into a former funeral home in Southington because their son was dying of cancer and they needed to be closer to the hospital. The basement still had the leftover tools of the taking care of the dead. Then the Warrens showed up and called it demonic.

This is Part 1 of Truth Beyond’s two-part look at Connecticut’s ugliest paranormal stories. Hosts Josh and Frank unpack what the Snedekers said happened in the old Hallahan Funeral Home, why Ed and Lorraine Warren believed something worse than ghosts was already in the walls, and why the writer hired to tell the “true” story later said the accounts didn’t match.

Frank isn’t just reading a case file here either. As a teenager he went through the house himself. He also sat in on an Ed and Lorraine Warren seminar. That first-hand piece is what this episode is built around — not the Hollywood version.

Was it desecration and a dormant presence that locked onto a sick kid? Or illness, fear, money, and a story that got sharper every time someone retold it?

Next week: Part 2. Dudleytown. The abandoned village in the Connecticut woods people still won’t walk into after dark.

Listen if you want the Connecticut cases without the movie trailer.