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To: Vicki

"My family bought the house in 1939 at an auction. There had been a fire and I believe 2 people died in the house. There also was an old rocking chair (which I have in my house) and a beautiful picture of Jesus entering Jerusalem that came with the house.
My grandparents raised 7 children in that house. I also grew up in the house. Everyone including my son has had "experiences" with the house. Footsteps upstairs. Doors opening and closing. You know the shadowy dead people in the movie "Ghost", well I saw them on many occasions in my bedroom. Scariest thing I have ever experienced. My son saw a grim reaper in the middle of the afternoon sitting on the arm of the chair in the living room. He can barely speak about it today.

Those shadow things wouldn't leave me alone until I took a Bible and a Rosary to bed with me at night.

I know it sounds crazy but I know it to be true."

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Nowadays when something infamous happens in a house that gets media attention, the place ends up being demolished. I have wondered if there just might be a lucrative specialized real estate market wherein people who are not too superstitious might buy bloodstained properties at knockdown prices.

"You don't know Charles Dietz, My dad never walks away from equity" (Wynona Ryder; "Beetlejuice")

"I told them you were too mean to be scared!"


89 posted on 12/07/2004 10:49:41 PM PST by sinanju
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To: sinanju
I have wondered if there just might be a lucrative specialized real estate market wherein people who are not too superstitious might buy bloodstained properties at knockdown prices.

Don't read any further if you're squeamish.

In a neighboring town, a man lost his mind and murdered his wife by cutting out her heart. He stuck it on a stick and left it in the backyard.

A year later someone bought the house, knowing the history. You couldn't pay me enough.

100 posted on 12/08/2004 4:56:10 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: sinanju
I know when the Sirloin Stockade Massacre happened in OKC in the 70's, the finally tore it down and built a new building close to that spot.

People were too bothered to go into that place after the slayings. I'm not saying that they saw things, just that the reputation of the slayings was enough to kill business there.

222 posted on 12/08/2004 8:44:04 PM PST by Freedom Dignity n Honor
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