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October sixteen, 2022 three:02 pm • Terminal Updated: October xvi, 2022 3:02 pm

Carol Matsumoto shows the Adelaide room at Captain Grant'due south Inn Friday, October 14, 2022 in Poquetanuck. The inn will exist featured on a Netflix show "28 Days Haunted" streaming starting October 21st. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Captain Grant's Inn Friday, October 14, 2022 in Poquetanuck. The inn will be featured on a Netflix show "28 Days Haunted" streaming starting Oct 21st. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Preston ― As the owner of what is called ane of America's nearly haunted places, Carol Matsumoto stopped being surprised long agone at requests from ghost hunters to bear paranormal investigations at the Captain Grant's Inn on Route 2A in Poquetanuck.

But the request in April 2021 from MAK Pictures in Los Angeles was different. The crew wanted to rent the entire seven-room inn for 28 days in July and August 2021, with no i else allowed in – non the owners, staff or other guests. And Matsumoto could non tell anyone near it.

Matsumoto recently received an e-mail from the executive producer of the Netflix testify, "28 Days Haunted" giving her the all-clear to announce to friends, neighbors, guests and the media that the 1754 Captain Grant's Inn will be one of 3 well-nigh-haunted buildings in America to be featured in "28 Days Haunted," a Netflix show scheduled to be released October. 21. The other two buildings are in Denver, Colo. and Madison, NC.

The 87-2d trailer gives teasers of what the 3 teams encountered at the iii locations, with fast-paced clips of ghost hunters running upwards staircases, shouting things similar, "I just saw a full-out shadow!" and "What the hell was that?" and "I just saw something coming into the room with us. It just flew right here into the middle." Along with several bleeped-out words.

MAK Pictures founder and President Mark Kadin said all 6 episodes of the testify will be bachelor starting Friday, and each volition take segments from the three locations.

The concept was derived from theories put along past famous Connecticut paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. They proposed that the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds would weaken with 28 days of exposure. So crews spent 28 days at each location, shut off from the exterior world, with no cyberspace and prior noesis of their destinations, Kadin said.

"At MAK Pictures, we're always up for a claiming," a statement on the visitor website'due south home page says. "That's why we'll go to the ends of the Earth to discover the most compelling characters and bring back their untold, unforgettable stories. No matter the location, genre or subject affair, taking audiences into new worlds is our passion and why we love what we do."

Watching the trailer for "28 Days Haunted," Matsumoto identified several clips from Captain Grant'southward, including the broad chief staircase. The Adelaide Room on the second flooring is the virtually haunted room in the house, Matsumoto said, more specifically the bathroom off the side of the room. Some other shot showed the inn'due south basement.

Matsumoto places diaries in all the rooms for guests to write their experiences. On one folio in the Adelaide Room diary, one invitee drew the outline of a adult female's face. On the opposite page, one guest, wrote that they felt "light touches" and one said in the kitchen, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a woman in her 50s with light brown hair.

The Helm Grant's Inn has been featured multiple times on TV networks. The "Press" folio on the inn's website at present lists the upcoming "28 Days Haunted" series at the peak, followed by lists of previous Television receiver, newspaper and magazine features, including "Psychic Kids" in 2010 and "Portals to Hell," produced by Jack Osborn in 2020 just before the COVID-19 pandemic striking.

Matsumoto said she knew nothing of the hauntings when she bought the dilapidated historic farmhouse in February 1994. Intense renovations took over a year earlier her first bed and breakfast rooms opened Memorial Twenty-four hour period weekend 1995.

She said she could no longer ignore comments and questions from guests about noises, bumps in the night, images and unexplained experiences when in 1999, a New York Metropolis detective complained that she and her married man, Ted, were the rudest innkeepers he had seen, with constant stomping and banging in the attic in a higher place his room. Carol Matsumoto showed him that the attic was stacked with lumber for continued renovations, and no ane could walk or stomp on the boards.

In 2017, Matsumoto wrote "The Ghosts of Captain Grant'south Inn," published by Llewellyn Publications. The volume recounted her experiences from earlier she purchased the firm through fortuitous – miraculous – events that aided her through the procedure.

Matsumoto found she has an analogousness with the spirits of the Helm Grant's Inn, named for a 19th century owner, a sea captain who died at sea off Cape Hatteras, N.C., leaving significant married woman, Mercy Adelaide and two children.

"Although Mercy died in the 1800s," Matsumoto wrote in her book, "she continues to occupy the habitation, every bit does 1 of her children. She says that she is still waiting for the helm to return."

One day, a paranormal investigator came to the inn with Fifty-rods, ii Fifty-shaped copper rods, the shorter leg of the L sheathed in copper tube, which allow the rods to spin freely while a person grasps the shorter legs, the sheaths acting as handles of sorts.

When Matsumoto first grasped the rods, they spun "like helicopter blades," she recalled, and she dropped them on the table. She was reluctant to effort again simply somewhen grew comfortable with using the rods, and with the Grant'south Inn spirits. Especially Deborah.

Deborah, not a member of the Grant family, died at historic period 5 in the 1700s. She never lived in the house but is buried in the old cemetery that abuts the inn'due south grounds. On Thursday, Matsumoto picked up the rods and asked if Deborah was there. The rods separated to 180-degrees apart. That means yep, Matsumoto said. She asked if Deborah liked the toy tea fix that sits in the dining room. The rods spread apart to say "yes."

Matsumoto recounted the spooky story of the tea set in her volume. A woman called the inn to make reservations for a stay. When the woman arrived, she carried a toy tea set. She apologized to Matsumoto that it wasn't new. She had stopped at an antique shop on the way and bought it.

Matsumoto was puzzled. The woman said the little girl, Deborah, who was on the telephone with them had asked for the tea set up.

And over the years, Matsumoto said, Deborah "plays" with the tea set, moving information technology around here and at that place.

Her book is out of print, but Matsumoto said she plans to contact the Minnesota publishing company to try to get a second printing. She's hoping "28 Days Haunted," brings more business to the inn during the winter ho-hum flavor. She doesn't have to worry about Oct, she said, especially Halloween. She already is decorating for the upcoming holiday. Halloween dark has been sold out since March, she said.

Neatly folded T-shirts are printed with "I Survived a Night at Captain Grant's."

c.bessette@theday.com

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