In a 2012 on-air interview, Janet Hodgson describes the first night the disturbance started:
Me and my brother, we were settin' down to bed one evening, and we could hear this shuffling noise. And Mom came in 'cause she could hear us shoutin' and screamin'. We said that the chest of drawers was moving towards the bedroom door. She said, "Oh, don't be silly," but she'd seen it move herself. At one point, she couldn't push it back.
The Daily Mail cites a quote from Janet's sister Margaret, in which she described "strange little noises in the house, you couldn't make out what was going on. None of us got slept. We put on our dressing gowns and slippers and went next door."
This all plays out the same way, more or less, in The Conjuring 2. There are a few sequences involving sleepwalking and children's toys, but an early scene has the girls' dresser sliding across the floor and hurtling into the bedroom door, slamming it shut. They run across the street to the neighbors and eventually call the police.
In the same aforementioned interview, the host cites a police report in which the female officer states, "A large armchair moved, unassisted, four feet across the floor." A matching scene appears in the film, with a kitchen chair used instead.
