BURRILLVILLE – With renewal of a license to operate in town still pending, a business that makes money offering ghost tours and investigations to the paranormal curious has been ordered to close by the Department of Labor and Training.
The state agency reportedly issued a stop work order to The Conjuring House on Tuesday, Oct. 22, stating that the business has been operating without workers’ compensation insurance since May.
Meanwhile, NRI NOW has obtained a copy of the application by owner Jacqueline Nuñez to renew the business’s entertainment license, which illustrates reasons behind a decision by Burrillville Police Col. Stephen Lynch to deny his department’s stamp of approval.
The news is just the latest in a series of events that have kept Nuñez, and her business operating the internationally known Round Top Road house made famous by the hit 2013 movie The Conjuring, in news headlines over the past year. Nunez, who purchased the 300-year-old farmhouse for roughly $1.5 million in 2022, has had several well-publicized conflicts with members of her former staff including mass resignations, and accusations she fired one employee following advice from a ghost. She has also been accused of withholding an insurance payout from two other staff members who lost their possessions in a barn fire on the property.
In late October, the 61-year-old former real estate developer from Massachusetts was charged by Burrillville police with driving under the influence and eluding law enforcement.
Now, it seems that the Department of Labor and Training has ordered that the business “immediately suspend the operation of its business and remain suspended,” until it provides proof of insurance, according to a report in The Providence Journal. A story on Wednesday, Nov. 13, notes that an investigation by the department uncovered that The Conjuring House had at least one employee and did not have workers’ compensation insurance coverage on file.
The DLT has filed suit in Workers’ Compensation Court to enforce the order and levy fines against Nuñez in a case scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 26.
The Burrillville Town Council is scheduled to take up the matter of the business’s entertainment license at their meeting on Monday, Nov. 18.
The board will look at an application that includes an unsolicited, seven-page essay titled “The Laws of the Cosmos Part 1 by Jacqueline Marie Nunez – The Person Who Has Saved All of Humanity.”
“Discarnate Intelligent Energy within The Laws of the Cosmos is embedded in every scripture written and in every major religion on this planet,” the essay notes in part. “The one supreme intelligence as the prime cause of all inherently contains all truth and the discoverable proof to withstand the most arduous and rigorous scientific and research nothing within all truth requires or necessitates blind faith as Christianity, in particular, espouses.”
“I am Jacqueline Marie Nuñez, owner of The Conjuring House and I am The Person Who Has Saved All of Humanity,” the essay concludes. “This document is fully protected by the United Nations Copyright Laws and The One World Government of the Eastern Hemisphere, headquartered in China and Estonia.”
Supplementary documents include a page on The Conjuring House letterhead addressed “Dear F%^&ing United States.”
“You will never defeat or destroy me at anytime now or in the future,” in notes. “So f$%king be it.”
Amid other legally required documents submitted for the property, which operates under the business Bale Fire, LLC, is a bullet point list stating “I am no longer required to pay any taxes whatsoever,” and “Mike Wood, you do not have a Leasehold for the Township.”
“Stephen Lynch, Saudi Arabia is going to call you very soon,” it states.
The Burrillville Police Department declined to notarize the document, which now goes before the council for review as part of their annual licensing process.
I told y’all to leave them spirits alone
She was unhinged before buying the house. Had nothing to do with the house
I think this woman would burn down The Conjuring House before she let anyone take it from her. She is a certified nutjob and should be in a hospital getting help. Just watching this unfold on Facebook and now in the public eye has been quite a trip. Who knows, maybe the house demon has possessed her? Either way I hope nothing happens to the house.
VW I think the application is a public document so you should ask the town clerk. I don’t think this license is going to be approved.
This freak is in dire need of a checkup from the neck up.
I believe that’s called a manifesto.
This woman belongs in a hospital!
Wow, I wished she sells it to someone who is mentally stable.
I’d love to read through the application.