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Guy Buys A House With His Wife, Finds “Too Much Strange Stuff” Inside
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Guy Buys A House With His Wife, Finds “Too Much Strange Stuff” Inside

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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.

“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

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kboettcher avatar
k boettcher
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Wanda Queen
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah......no. This is not even the creepiest thing I've seen this month. Just a different and maybe not so great sense of style.

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Yvonne Bernal
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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TheKnightOwl
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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Sivi
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A little paint and maybe a priest or two, then maybe it will be a nice place :D

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GB1997
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

isit just me that doesnt think this is THAT bad/creepy.....?

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Captain Marvel
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

ionag avatar
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fake/just a prank from the previous house owners

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snoozy womble
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm seeing bad decorating choices, and that branching light "fixture" is something a renter would do. But creepy?

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Lotta Roos
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word mora is actually in the word nightmare (Night+mora). In Swedish the name is mara and mardröm (mara+dröm).

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Carmen Elena
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could this be just a joke that former owners left on purpose? No? Right. It´s time to run.

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Sveta Smirnova
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it was a joke, i guess it might affect the selling price. Perhaps not a joke i believe.

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jamie1707
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't see anything that was really creepy. But all the hanging lights are a tad weird.

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Night Owl
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope they have the Ghostbusters or at least the Scooby Doo crew phone numbers ready to call

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SweetPeach Bellini
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Milena
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its just a house that used to be an escape room. Not that hard to understand really.

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Kathy Baylis
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, when the house finally tells you to get out...get out. Please.

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Wil Vanderheijden
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Margaret Clarke
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Krista Kelly
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was hoping for some super cool refurbished after pictures...

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Grinny Cat
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Macca
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be honest the only thing I find strange is the writing on the wall

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Laura Mish
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Laura Mish
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s honestly not that bad or it was a joke. So big deal, they put a wall sticker up?

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Naima Ivansdóttir
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh my god... wall stickers? MULTIPLE LIGHTBULBS? A NEGLECTED YARD...?!!?!?! THE HORROR!!! for pete's sake...

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Geoffrey Holland
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so not worthy of being haunted or any sort of BS like that I think whoever created this article is a moron.

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Christina Ciccarelli
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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"?.

narg avatar
Velkej Al
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MORA is in english language called Night or Old hag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag

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Fonzie Bulldog
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Bunzilla
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, the creepiest thing about this is the red paint splatters on the wall. Everything else is just weird.

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Paul Marney
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Pion 2s7
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my country Morena represent evil spirit of winter and is burned when winter is finished - to celebrate spring coming.

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The Girl on Fire
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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S Bagci
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5 years ago

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I don't sense anything evil about this house. I think the previous owner was poor or from Africa. Or both.

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k boettcher
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

cathyroberts avatar
Wanda Queen
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah......no. This is not even the creepiest thing I've seen this month. Just a different and maybe not so great sense of style.

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Yvonne Bernal
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

sarah-lennie avatar
TheKnightOwl
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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norsepaw avatar
Sivi
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A little paint and maybe a priest or two, then maybe it will be a nice place :D

geebrain avatar
GB1997
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

isit just me that doesnt think this is THAT bad/creepy.....?

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Captain Marvel
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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emory_ce avatar
Carol Emory
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

ionag avatar
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Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fake/just a prank from the previous house owners

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snoozy womble
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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bobbinewell avatar
Bobbi Newell
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm seeing bad decorating choices, and that branching light "fixture" is something a renter would do. But creepy?

jadulotta avatar
Lotta Roos
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word mora is actually in the word nightmare (Night+mora). In Swedish the name is mara and mardröm (mara+dröm).

carmenelena avatar
Carmen Elena
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could this be just a joke that former owners left on purpose? No? Right. It´s time to run.

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Sveta Smirnova
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it was a joke, i guess it might affect the selling price. Perhaps not a joke i believe.

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jamie1707
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't see anything that was really creepy. But all the hanging lights are a tad weird.

bpbperic avatar
Night Owl
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope they have the Ghostbusters or at least the Scooby Doo crew phone numbers ready to call

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SweetPeach Bellini
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

m_milena916 avatar
Milena
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its just a house that used to be an escape room. Not that hard to understand really.

snorincats avatar
Kathy Baylis
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, when the house finally tells you to get out...get out. Please.

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Wil Vanderheijden
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

mollyclendon avatar
Margaret Clarke
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Krista Kelly
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was hoping for some super cool refurbished after pictures...

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Grinny Cat
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

maccagilyeat avatar
Macca
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be honest the only thing I find strange is the writing on the wall

lauramish713 avatar
Laura Mish
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

lauramish713 avatar
Laura Mish
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s honestly not that bad or it was a joke. So big deal, they put a wall sticker up?

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Naima Ivansdóttir
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh my god... wall stickers? MULTIPLE LIGHTBULBS? A NEGLECTED YARD...?!!?!?! THE HORROR!!! for pete's sake...

locode avatar
Geoffrey Holland
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so not worthy of being haunted or any sort of BS like that I think whoever created this article is a moron.

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Christina Ciccarelli
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

dopethronepunkuk avatar
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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"?.

narg avatar
Velkej Al
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MORA is in english language called Night or Old hag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag

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Fonzie Bulldog
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

imbriuminarian avatar
Bunzilla
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, the creepiest thing about this is the red paint splatters on the wall. Everything else is just weird.

pmmot40 avatar
Paul Marney
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

andymedo avatar
Pion 2s7
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my country Morena represent evil spirit of winter and is burned when winter is finished - to celebrate spring coming.

nvi08140 avatar
The Girl on Fire
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

sbagci avatar
S Bagci
Community Member
5 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

I don't sense anything evil about this house. I think the previous owner was poor or from Africa. Or both.

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