Posted on 12/23/2015 9:06:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
Older houses come with a variety of interesting features: Cool architecture, intriguing family history, and even tales of ghosts. This listing has all three and a mortuary.
Welcome to a grand and mysterious home built in 1912 and located in Northern California. The place comes with so many stories, it even inspired the best-selling novel, "The Mortician's Wife."
The actual mortician's wife supposedly watched as her husband died at the kitchen table. According to legend, she was so distraught, she retreated to her room and left his body untouched for weeks. Her boudoir is Warner's favorite place in the house. "It was the only place the wife felt safe from the spirits," he says.
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Despite some strange episodes (unexplained sounds, doors mysteriously opening and closing), "I enjoyed living there"†Warner says. "There are times when things happen, from benign to scary."
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Measuring almost 9,000 square feet, the seven-bedroom, six-bathroom home also has a wraparound deck, a sun porch, refinished oak wood flooring, a large eat-in kitchen, a formal dining room, and a living room.
On the ground floor of the three-story home is the mortuary, including a viewing area and chapel. The tools of the trade, including a gurney, are still there and come with the purchase price. (None of the other ornate decor is for sale.) According to Warner, another creepy detail is in the basement: the skeletal remains of a 17-year-old girl left in a casket.
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Nice floors.
There was a story about a president who actually had an official investigation done on a house In the south somewhere that was haunted by what people said was a witch (Of course it was evil spirits, not a ghost- but people like to say deceased people haunt buildings-)- The investigation scared the boogers out of the investigators- I’ll see if I can find link
this is a dramatic video but it talks about Andrew Jackson and the encounter he supposedly had with the witch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gld14e0LjZI
Bell witch. Andrew Jackson. Adams, TN
Yep- that’s it- Saw it on history channel many ears ago- surprised I even recalled the incident-
The new buyers should request the skeleton in the basement be removed and given a proper Christian burial. Then have the house spiritually cleansed and finally have a priest bless it. Of course, after all that, the price would have to be reduced because it wouldn’t be haunted.
Nope, not me, don’t want to buy it!
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