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Who needs ghosts?
Old House Web — Mine was the broken and bowed in basement wall that leaks at the floor wall joint. We had to jack up the house, dig the wall out, take the wall down and totally re-brick it.. in DECEMBER! The roof that was over my very wet head. Three layers of ...More…
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Paranormal painting
Old House Web — At the closing for my house, the owner, who had inherited from his aunt, shook my hand and said "Now if you've heard any ghost stories, they aren't true. I've been in the house many times and never seen any." I was taken aback ...More…
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Ghosts? No way
Old House Web — When we first moved into our 1880 stick-style Victorian, we had heard about its manyghosts stories. Not really believing in ghosts, I took them as amusement. One story was that a ghost that cared greatly about the house was gettingused to us as ...More…
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Material defects
Old House Web — Indian shutters failed to protect inhabitants of this New Hampshire house in the 1700s -- or so local legend has it. When we bought our 1700s New Hampshire farmhouse, the sellers disclosed thatthe house was "haunted." This seemed odd, but it ...More…
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Hospital Hauntings
Old House Web — I work in a hospital, and one day I was talking with an agency nurse who hadtraveled around to a lot of hospitals. She was very experienced and reliable. She was asking me if I'd heardabout the ghost who haunts another area hospital. Here's the .. ...More…
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Visits from Uncle Truman
Old House Web — I live in a newhouse on my farm while working on the old one. We do use the old one in the summervery often, since it is on the water. It is fully furnished and has a complete kitchen. We frequently have weekend guests, and we joke about Uncle ...More…
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Heavy Slow Footsteps
Old House Web — The house was built in 1905, and I later learned there had been a murder inthe kitchen, shortly after the house was built. One summer, for about six weeks when my parents were on a trip, I was alone in the house except forJudy, another girl my ...More…
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Home In Iowa
Old House Web — Here'sa story about a home in Iowa. I met the owners a few years ago by the way of mysister-in-law, who worked with the wife. Their house has a really bad past. It seems thatthe previous owner shot himself, his wife was hacked to death, and their ...More…
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Antique Shops
Old House Web — Here is something really scary. This is a truestory, or at least my perception of the events. One Saturday afternoon my wife and I were in Brunswick, Maryland, walking around andvisiting various antique shops. It was summer the temperature was ...More…
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Grandfather Remembrances
Old House Web — One year, my brother gave me a collection of stories our Grandfather hadwritten in 1965. I never knew my grandparents very well, so these stories areespecially precious. My Grandfather's mother passed on in 1897 and my grandfather's twin ...More…
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Gaslight Theatre
Old House Web — My teenage son was an actor in a Gaslight Theater owned by a man namedRichard, his blond wife, and curly-haired young stepdaughter. We knew them well, and saw them every time we visited my son at the theater. On evening my husband and I went to a ...More…
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Near Death Experience
Old House Web — I've read countless books on NDE's (near deathexperiences) and one recurring theme is: Dogs can see people who have passed onand are making the transition from this place to the next. People who"return" or are resuscitated often say that ...More…