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If there’s one thing horror movies have taught me about haunted homes, it’s that the devil is in the detsails. The house that Craig and Lisa Spurr have purchased, however, isn’t so subtle about its past. “My wife and I flipped [this house] about 2 years ago,” Craig wrote. “There was so much strange stuff. I couldn’t even get in the headspace of what the previous owner was doing!” Scroll down to check out the surprise nightmare fuel that came with the property and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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“Very creepy painted message… was in enamel paint so took a LOT of sanding to remove. (You could still clearly see it when painting over)”
“Ummmm… whatever you call this. The previous owner had an obsession with whatever “Mora” was!”
“A hanging rope light fixture…?”
“A window sticker? On an adjacent wall that featured an actual window but had such heavy curtains you couldn’t easily use it…”
“Ummm… well this?”
“What a wonderful outdoor area… ?”
People were convinced there was something seriously wrong with this house
What do you think ?
k boettcher 6 years ago
We just bought our house and while trying to figure out a loose floor board my husband removed a plywood ceiling . To his surprise a few old books fell out and a box. Then he looks and its porn and condoms. We still cant stop laughing. I feel bad for the person because it was an unused box.
Nervous Chaos 6 years ago
I love this comment, this is absolutely hilarious.
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Yvonne Bernal 6 years ago
Most of this looks staged. Who buys a house, then decorates it with the "old" fixtures and paint still intact? If it were that creepy, he would have painted first... then moved in.
TheKnightOwl 6 years ago
If it was a foreclosed home (which are often flipped), it's likely it was purchased sight-unseen. Auctions can be held in a seperate locations, and it's an "as-is" sale. Sounds like a crazy thing to buy, but you can pick up an absolute bargain.
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Captain Marvel 6 years ago
Yeah. Only the first two pics are very slightly unsettling. The rest are just bad style choices. And a sad looking outdoor area.
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Carol Emory 6 years ago
The ones I love are the people that flip an old home, only to find personal messages from the last owners to the new owners. Like when they rip up the carpets to find a message scrawled underneath saying who lived there, when they laid the carpet down and to wish the new owners happiness in their new home. That tells me people went into the home with a positive upbeat attitude and hope that the positive vibe keeps going on.
snoozy womble 6 years ago
we have an enormous book case which you can't see behind, you can guarantee if we ever move we're painting a creepy message there, then vaguely painting over it so you can still see it. We're probably not nice people now I think about it...meh, new people would have to paint that wall anyway.
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Bobbi Newell 6 years ago
I'm seeing bad decorating choices, and that branching light "fixture" is something a renter would do. But creepy?
Lotta Roos 6 years ago
The word mora is actually in the word nightmare (Night+mora). In Swedish the name is mara and mardröm (mara+dröm).
Carmen Elena 6 years ago
Could this be just a joke that former owners left on purpose? No? Right. It´s time to run.
Sveta Smirnova 6 years ago
If it was a joke, i guess it might affect the selling price. Perhaps not a joke i believe.
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yikes 6 years ago
i kinda want to be friends with whoever used to live in that house......is that bad?
João Ferreira 6 years ago
Your "hanging rope light fixture" actually looks more like braided human hair, TBH.
SweetPeach Bellini 6 years ago
I actually love the quote in the second photo - "The best things in life are: the people you love, the places you've been and the memories you've made along the way." (the ink should've been another colour other than red - yikes) Sadly, I couldn't find the references to Allah mentioned by Purricane. Still though, the rest of the house is a complete nightmare
Milena 6 years ago
There is a plaque, like a black tray on top of the mantelpiece, with Arabic text on it, in photo no. 2.
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Chris Kourou 6 years ago
Its just a house that used to be an escape room. Not that hard to understand really.
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago (edited)
As long as there are no closets with skeletons, no dark shadows appearing, furniture moving on itself or blood coming out of the watertaps, there's nothing to worry about.
Margaret Clarke 6 years ago
I actually like the painting of the window and the outdoor area. The light bulbs? Not understanding the concept of amount of light versus wattage. Probably trying to get 100 watt as in incandescent bulbs.
Grinny Cat 6 years ago
That's not creepy. That's a normal house. The previous owner might not have had money to do better with the decorating, but it's not creepy at all
Laura Mish 6 years ago
It’s not that bad. I’ve seen a lot creepier. Strange, yeah. Haunted....I doubt it. What the big deal that they put a wall sticker up? Maybe the person that lived there was mentally ill.
Laura Mish 6 years ago
It’s honestly not that bad or it was a joke. So big deal, they put a wall sticker up?
Naima Ivansdóttir 6 years ago
oh my god... wall stickers? MULTIPLE LIGHTBULBS? A NEGLECTED YARD...?!!?!?! THE HORROR!!! for pete's sake...
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
This is so not worthy of being haunted or any sort of BS like that I think whoever created this article is a moron.
Christina Ciccarelli 6 years ago
What a weird headline, Guy buys house with wife? Not, couple buys house? I don't usually give a s**t about sexism but this just strikes me as unnecessarily man oriented.
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago (edited)
Anyone find it ironic that the first sentence of this article is "If there’s one thing horror movies have taught me about haunted homes, it’s that the devil is in the detsails"?.
Fonzie Bulldog 6 years ago
One of my friends i Sweden bought a old house who was built rather isolated in a big wood.In the cellar where was a big locked wooden door on the ground who was hiding a real deep well.Nobody to this day understand why they built a well in the cellar and no one who is alive these days who still knows the story of this old house about was surprised when they heard the story about this cellar well from the new owner.The whole thing make me think of these strange horror movies about hidden places in cellars.
Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Question- when these people were buying the property, didnt they actually visit it to see what they were buying?!
Paul Marney 6 years ago
The double light fittings probably are really old,in England the adapters were used to power electrical items like irons radios etc before wall sockets were a thing
Gerry Higgins 6 years ago
I'd have to shout "Here's Johnny!" every time I came through the door.
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
All I've found in the various houses I've lived in was an old newspaper from 1953, and a letter to the "tooth fairy" from an 8-year old girl asking for a pet rat. Luckily nothing this creepy.
k boettcher 6 years ago
We just bought our house and while trying to figure out a loose floor board my husband removed a plywood ceiling . To his surprise a few old books fell out and a box. Then he looks and its porn and condoms. We still cant stop laughing. I feel bad for the person because it was an unused box.
Nervous Chaos 6 years ago
I love this comment, this is absolutely hilarious.
Load More Replies... Yvonne Bernal 6 years ago
Most of this looks staged. Who buys a house, then decorates it with the "old" fixtures and paint still intact? If it were that creepy, he would have painted first... then moved in.
TheKnightOwl 6 years ago
If it was a foreclosed home (which are often flipped), it's likely it was purchased sight-unseen. Auctions can be held in a seperate locations, and it's an "as-is" sale. Sounds like a crazy thing to buy, but you can pick up an absolute bargain.
Load More Replies... Captain Marvel 6 years ago
Yeah. Only the first two pics are very slightly unsettling. The rest are just bad style choices. And a sad looking outdoor area.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 6 years ago
The ones I love are the people that flip an old home, only to find personal messages from the last owners to the new owners. Like when they rip up the carpets to find a message scrawled underneath saying who lived there, when they laid the carpet down and to wish the new owners happiness in their new home. That tells me people went into the home with a positive upbeat attitude and hope that the positive vibe keeps going on.
snoozy womble 6 years ago
we have an enormous book case which you can't see behind, you can guarantee if we ever move we're painting a creepy message there, then vaguely painting over it so you can still see it. We're probably not nice people now I think about it...meh, new people would have to paint that wall anyway.
Load More Replies... Bobbi Newell 6 years ago
I'm seeing bad decorating choices, and that branching light "fixture" is something a renter would do. But creepy?
Lotta Roos 6 years ago
The word mora is actually in the word nightmare (Night+mora). In Swedish the name is mara and mardröm (mara+dröm).
Carmen Elena 6 years ago
Could this be just a joke that former owners left on purpose? No? Right. It´s time to run.
Sveta Smirnova 6 years ago
If it was a joke, i guess it might affect the selling price. Perhaps not a joke i believe.
Load More Replies... yikes 6 years ago
i kinda want to be friends with whoever used to live in that house......is that bad?
João Ferreira 6 years ago
Your "hanging rope light fixture" actually looks more like braided human hair, TBH.
SweetPeach Bellini 6 years ago
I actually love the quote in the second photo - "The best things in life are: the people you love, the places you've been and the memories you've made along the way." (the ink should've been another colour other than red - yikes) Sadly, I couldn't find the references to Allah mentioned by Purricane. Still though, the rest of the house is a complete nightmare
Milena 6 years ago
There is a plaque, like a black tray on top of the mantelpiece, with Arabic text on it, in photo no. 2.
Load More Replies... Chris Kourou 6 years ago
Its just a house that used to be an escape room. Not that hard to understand really.
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago (edited)
As long as there are no closets with skeletons, no dark shadows appearing, furniture moving on itself or blood coming out of the watertaps, there's nothing to worry about.
Margaret Clarke 6 years ago
I actually like the painting of the window and the outdoor area. The light bulbs? Not understanding the concept of amount of light versus wattage. Probably trying to get 100 watt as in incandescent bulbs.
Grinny Cat 6 years ago
That's not creepy. That's a normal house. The previous owner might not have had money to do better with the decorating, but it's not creepy at all
Laura Mish 6 years ago
It’s not that bad. I’ve seen a lot creepier. Strange, yeah. Haunted....I doubt it. What the big deal that they put a wall sticker up? Maybe the person that lived there was mentally ill.
Laura Mish 6 years ago
It’s honestly not that bad or it was a joke. So big deal, they put a wall sticker up?
Naima Ivansdóttir 6 years ago
oh my god... wall stickers? MULTIPLE LIGHTBULBS? A NEGLECTED YARD...?!!?!?! THE HORROR!!! for pete's sake...
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
This is so not worthy of being haunted or any sort of BS like that I think whoever created this article is a moron.
Christina Ciccarelli 6 years ago
What a weird headline, Guy buys house with wife? Not, couple buys house? I don't usually give a s**t about sexism but this just strikes me as unnecessarily man oriented.
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago (edited)
Anyone find it ironic that the first sentence of this article is "If there’s one thing horror movies have taught me about haunted homes, it’s that the devil is in the detsails"?.
Fonzie Bulldog 6 years ago
One of my friends i Sweden bought a old house who was built rather isolated in a big wood.In the cellar where was a big locked wooden door on the ground who was hiding a real deep well.Nobody to this day understand why they built a well in the cellar and no one who is alive these days who still knows the story of this old house about was surprised when they heard the story about this cellar well from the new owner.The whole thing make me think of these strange horror movies about hidden places in cellars.
Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Question- when these people were buying the property, didnt they actually visit it to see what they were buying?!
Paul Marney 6 years ago
The double light fittings probably are really old,in England the adapters were used to power electrical items like irons radios etc before wall sockets were a thing
Gerry Higgins 6 years ago
I'd have to shout "Here's Johnny!" every time I came through the door.
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
All I've found in the various houses I've lived in was an old newspaper from 1953, and a letter to the "tooth fairy" from an 8-year old girl asking for a pet rat. Luckily nothing this creepy.
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