Haunting in Connecticut/Ghost Boy

[HHorseman]

Was the Ghost Boy about the same family as the Haunting In Conneticut the stories sound eerily similar.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Originally Posted by HHorseman

Was the Ghost Boy about the same family as the Haunting In Conneticut the stories sound eerily similar.

Probably because the Haunting in Connecticut was totally bogus and borrowed any details that sounded good to them.

[TracyLynnS]

I'm not familiar with the "ghost boy". What is it?

The haunting in CT story has been on "A Haunting", it was featured on another program, and has had at least one made for TV movie done about it. Just this year, they did a full length feature film about it.

IMO, that whole story is full of crap. For one thing, their family wasn't big enough to justify storing extra food in the giant basement fridge that the funeral director used to store bodies in.

For goodness sake, their kid was sick and money was extremely tight. How could they even afford to keep that giant fridge plugged in and running? The electric meter must have been red hot from spinning so fast.

And they were living in a house that was so big it had formerly been used as a funeral home, yet the only place they could find in the whole house for the boys to sleep was in the basement "morgue"?

That's gotta be a lie. People with families that size live in single wide trailers with no basement, and still they find enough space for everyone to sleep.

And I've been in a few old homes that were converted into funeral homes with the basements used as the prep area. There's plenty of room in those houses for a family to live without the kids being locked down in the cellar.

[HHorseman]

Originally Posted by Cori aka ChrisSCrush

Probably because the Haunting in Connecticut was totally bogus and borrowed any details that sounded good to them.

I thought that to for one thing I dont recall them ever mentioning the boy having deadly cancer in the Ghost Boy segment.

Originally Posted by TracyLynnS

I'm not familiar with the "ghost boy". What is it?

The haunting in CT story has been on "A Haunting", it was featured on another program, and has had at least one made for TV movie done about it. Just this year, they did a full length feature film about it.

IMO, that whole story is full of crap. For one thing, their family wasn't big enough to justify storing extra food in the giant basement fridge that the funeral director used to store bodies in.

For goodness sake, their kid was sick and money was extremely tight. How could they even afford to keep that giant fridge plugged in and running? The electric meter must have been red hot from spinning so fast.

And they were living in a house that was so big it had formerly been used as a funeral home, yet the only place they could find in the whole house for the boys to sleep was in the basement "morgue"?

That's gotta be a lie. People with families that size live in single wide trailers with no basement, and still they find enough space for everyone to sleep.

And I've been in a few old homes that were converted into funeral homes with the basements used as the prep area. There's plenty of room in those houses for a family to live without the kids being locked down in the cellar..

Ghost Boy was about a family in Conneticut who's oldest son Micheal Jones began seeing Ghosts they moved a bunch of times thinking they could get away from it. I guess when he was born his heart had stopped a number of times, ive tried to google up his name to no avail so I dont know if it was a phony name or what Robert Stack never said they were using a fake name for the show so I dont know. I concur with what your saying from what ive read about this Haunting In Conneticut on IMDB an author of their story said the family has changed their story around a few times. Is that right about the Mortiuary see I didnt know that they count on the wow factor bit like the Amittyville Horror their still is people that beleive that kid was possed when he killed his family,the power of suggestion.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

It was well-known the home had been a mortuary. The family lied about not knowing that beforehand among other things.

[HHorseman]

All they need are move goers that trust it at face value just because itll say that the film was based on a True Story theyll buy it hook line and sinker.