Court rules Hawes can join lawsuit over Conjuring House mortgage

PROVIDENCE – A Superior Court judge on Friday, March 20, ruled that the star of the “Ghost Hunters” TV show will be made a party to a lawsuit over whether a Massachusetts bank should be allowed to undo its cancellation of the mortgage on Burrillville’s The Conjuring House.

Jason Hawes was seeking to join the case because he says that, in December, Jacqueline Nuñez, the Boston developer who owns the centuries-old farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring,” signed over ownership to him for $1.3 million.

Needham Bank, which loaned Nuñez $1.22 million in 2022, when she bought the Bound Top Road house for $1.525 million, has said it made a mistake in November when it discharged the mortgage on the property. The bank says that, in October, it had sold the mortgage to Summit & Stone LLC, a company formed by YouTuber Elton Castee…

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