Say, isn’t that the old Henderson place? I heard they never could find a buyer after what happened.
Oh wait, here comes a happy and naive young family from out of town.
Look at this place baby… So much room. I could totally see us living here the rest of our lives.
…GeT…OuuuUuut…
To bad we can’t stay baby!
I honestly don’t understand the houses going up in my neighborhood - it’s getting gentrified and what is being built is so ugly. Who is buying these ugly ass houses for 1.5 MILLION dollars? If that was my budget I’d build something beautiful with a big porch like this picture, but all the “luxury” homes are boxes with big garages in front. I look at them on Zillow and they aren’t even pretty on the inside.
I work for a city that’s an enclave for the mega-rich and is going through hyper-gentrification. People are buying 3 million dollar houses, tearing them down, and building 15 million-dollar houses.
It’s the 1%ers being pushed out by the .01%ers. It’s a whole different planet.
But the contractors still suck and cut every corner they can, so it really is the same anywhere you go.
100 years from now haunted house stories will be about boxes with big garages in front.
New builds really bug me too. They’re so pricey and big, yet the developers keep putting them on postage stamp lots. Like, who wants to spend that much money on a freestanding house while being so crammed together that you might as well be sharing walls?
One of my profs in grad school had a new house built like that, enormous with almost no yard around it separating it from the neighbors. I asked him why and he said his wife liked it like that because it made her feel more secure. I was like, OK so now your neighbors can easily come kill you and then just go home instead of having to flee from a gated community.
TBF this was in Gainesville right after the Rolling murders. Reading about somebody’s head on a turntable might make you do strange things.
Yeah that happens here because they are knocking down one house and building two. I don’t really disagree with that, honestly. But they don’t need to be that big.
What other choice do people have? My options around here are 100 year old failing cardboard houses, or overpriced stupid Zillow Grey boxes. It’s that or just abandon my family.
If you have the budget to buy the ugly box, you have the budget to buy the cardboard house, knock it down and build something you like that isn’t so enormous. We didn’t have the budget for either so are just slowly renovating and hardening the house we bought.
My point isn’t that houses are too expensive - that is beyond question at this point. Even your cardboard box would cost too much now for most anybody. What I do not understand is rich people buying ugly prefabricated stuff in general. I would use that budget for something bespoke.
I know two people who were dead set on building a house who then gave up on it because it was too expensive. Just massively overpriced. Better to just buy an existing home
Small houses can be scary, too! My living room when I moved in back in October (not a joke):
And there’s so much more!
ALDV? I don’t get it.
Do those numbers mean something?
No idea. I thought it might be the combination to the gun safe, but that doesn’t seem to be it. Sort of a LOST situation, I deemed it best not to get too hung up on the numbers, after much speculation.
The spacing almost looks like Ol’ Boy 22 or something. Weird find!
Edit: maybe Ol’ Boyzz?
The previous owner went through a tragedy and had a rough go of it:
Also the crawlspace is labeled “The Dark Side” and there were shoes. And a VHS camera/tape I’ll never watch
STILL NOT JOKING!
Given the context, maybe married 1/13/2004 and divorced 2022?
Edit: actually, if they married in 2004 they would have been married 22 years this year. Maybe dude just rounded up.
Jesus Christ. All I found in my house was a hat one of the workers left in the attic when it was built (1942).
This is some rough environmental storytelling. Damn. I’d be curious about the camera/tape, but not watching it is almost certainly the right call.
I feel bad for the dude, looking at the pictures you posted it seems like the poor bastard had a mental break.
You have to own the house to have it be haunted. So boomers are kinda the least generation of people to be haunted.
“My house is haunted.”
“You live in a ranch in the suburbs built in 1983. What kind of white bread ghost stuck around that mess?”
We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many “ghosts” were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.
It’s like all those stories from the 1800s of clocks stopping the moment a person died. Turns out of a lot of the clocks back then would stop running if you turned them sideways, which a lot of doctors did at night to be able to read the time of death.
You didn’t see anything!
The lights have always been this way.
I wonder if older houses seem more “hauntable” simply because they were built to facilitate air flow within them. Before air conditioning, homes had to be built to allow air to naturally circulate. Thought was placed into room, door, and window layouts to encourage air flow throughout the home, windows were designed to fully open, and transom windows allowed air flow even when doors were closed.
The point is that old homes were built to allow air flow. This means that there’s more opportunity for doors to randomly close and other things to be disturbed by the wind. Older homes also weren’t as sealed and insulated as well. They were designed assuming that some of the structure would get wet and then dry out. Older buildings were designed to undergo constant moisture cycling, while newer buildings try to seal out moisture all together. More dramatic changes in lumber moisture content means more creaks, groans, and other ghostly noises.
Simply because of how buildings science has evolved, it’s possible that older homes just more readily produce “haunting” sounds than modern ones.
I’ve tried/succeeded kinda to make this house in The Sims before lol (DaisyMarie86 - I have lots of Victorians and I’m a good builder 😋) and I can tell you why! it’s really hard and REALLY expensive!
I have a relative with a haunted McMansion. They’re rich, they bought a slot in a brand new subdivision, had the house built for them. We joke that it’s on an Indian burial ground. Everyone’s had some kind of experience there, voices in another room when you’re there alone, electronics turn themselves on and off, they’re spouse interacted with a demon child thing and it left marks, rooms losing electric like the power went out but other rooms on the same circuit breakers are fine, I’ve personally heard a bloodcurdling scream come from upstairs while I was housesitting for them…
That place is the reason I’m agnostic, and not fully atheist.
Or more likely inhaled a lot of black mold spores
The truth is autocad.
Curves and pillars are hard to represent architectures in computer software. What’s easy is nice boxy boxes.
Huh? There are zero problems with any curve you can imagine. The issue is that each one is unique instead of mass produced. Most do not spend the $$$ on top.
That house is a nightmare for any craftsman working on it too. You can pretty much forget about most external DIY stuff. Straight lines make for easy projects. Even crooked lines that are supposed to be straight are better than the curves and twists on this thing.
A new Mansion in which multiple deaths have occurred is a truly haunted thing.
They died cuz of the asbestos
/j
