Group looking to buy ‘Conjuring House’ raises $300K. Here’s what’s happening next

A GoFundMe campaign looking to raise funds to purchase the ”Conjuring House” in Burrillville, R.I., has raised more than $300,000.

Spearheaded by SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters” producer Jason Hawes, the campaign is looking to purchase the property before someone “whose only goal is to turn it into a money making machine,” according to the GoFundMe.

“We just crossed $300,000,” Hawes said in a post on Facebook. “Think about that for a second.... $300,000 raised by people who refused to let a piece of history slip away.”

The house was initially meant to be sold at a mortgagee’s foreclosure auction scheduled for Oct. 31 after previous owner Jacqueline Nuñez defaulted on the terms of the mortgage.

The GoFundMe’s raised funds were meant to be spent to purchase the property at the auction, but