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hi friends. i scrapped my original post in favor of doing this q&a style. as you all know i live in a loving SPOOKY-rear end HOUSE that i bought in december, and wow is it fuckin great. not only are my neighbors the most kickass, genuinely kind people, also uh so there's been like 19 murders on this site since 1930, there was a possession in 1949 APPARENTLY, and oh yeah it's on land owned and then granted to sharecroppers by a gigantically racist POS who founded the local gardens and did a bunch of other things and also buried the remains of the enslaved all over this area of my village. so what up you wanna know stories? ask me questions. i'll give you one good one: in 1949 a child's aunt and uncle lived in the house, and the aunt was brutally murdered by an intruder (supposedly) with a hammer in march of that year. in april of that year, child came to stay after a "bout of strange illness" at a university hospital in maryland, to convalesce with his uncle, the grieving widower. then the poo poo started, kid ends up being watched in house by priests, kid has things appearing all over body and strange voices happening around the house, priests get scared, bed slides itself across the room. child is moved to local hospital attached to what is now a gigantic university hospital, but then was run by a particular sect of the catholic church; exorcisms (multiple) occur, and all is well. right? wrong. house was then abandoned a year later by uncle claiming there were still massive occurrences, it was sold several times over and then fell into disrepair in the 60s and 70s, where it was used by squatters, then by firefighters who would use it for controlled burn training tests. house was reconstructed and restored in 1980s, then sold three more times to a man who slowly lost his mind, murdered his wife with a hammer in 84, and then house was discovered to be hoarded up. with all sorts of weird hosed up poo poo. i have pictures i can either scan or photograph and post later if there's interest. houses were at some point renumbered in the 1970s in the village. probably in direct response to all of the shitshow that was this house and the echoes of the violence that surrounded it. house was not sold again until 2009, when it was sold to the previous owner, who gutted and again restored house over the course of eight years. during all of this restoration, previous owner, and his then-wife, had increasing escalating violent altercations, accusations of mutual adultery (lol whatevs talk to each other and its fine), and then it ended in a violent row in which she left. he was the, at the time, chief of the village police and was fired subsequently fired for stealing money from a local celebrity who was famous for being in a film with judy garland, and was the last surviving munchkin. anyway. cool house right? |
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it's not terribly scary; i mean we get a lot of weird poo poo like sounds of bodies being rolled down my bedroom (the attic, THAT BEDROOM aforementioned) stairs; sometimes all the doors bang rapidly without there being an airflow draft we've found but that's pretty normal. housemate has heard someone screaming my name when he's home alone, but that could be attributed to just wind. you would be likely correct on the house, MockingQuantum, and yeah, it was pretty ace as hell. the current format of the house was built onto in 1948; the previous format house was built in 1919 with a small crofthouse type structure in the back (which is now the hill in the very back, full of weird stones and bricks and apparently a couple of bodies, as found by geophys. local police took an interest in the geophys readings and sent county out to do a preliminary dig to see if they're for real or not. if so, identification and repatriation to appropriate consecrated land, if an identification can be made, would be ideal. hold please for hoard pics, these are in a binder that i got with the house.
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Jun 15, 2018 19:47
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oh there's also a weird stain on the wood floor in the dining room, where some boards were replaced with the wrong kind of wood, but some of the edges of the stain were missed either intentionally or unintentionally and so you can clearly see a body-shape and pooling. which, ok. i'm refinishing that floor anyway this summer, nbd.
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Jun 15, 2018 19:48
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Two posts, for comparison: Here's the hoarded up house as found in 2009 by the previous owner:    
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Jun 15, 2018 20:00
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here are the real estate pictures of the house as when i took possession of it in december 2017:                   not pictured: the other downstairs bedroom attached to the weird palm tree bathroom, because that's my brother's and already had stuff in it.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:08
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the attic bedroom which is all now one, didn't have a bathroom up there, and was originally divided into two bedrooms.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:08
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oh hey, another story: once upon a time, after freeing the enslaved peoples from the plantation what is now a famous garden, my village was originally sharecropped out to lower middle-class people that were both immigrants who were indentured as well as the formerly enslaved, and there were a series of original crofthouses on this land; people were given odd crops and unseasonable types of plants to grow in an effort by the estate of said wealthy landowner, dooming them to fail and starve. then, white but affluent immigrant folks moved in, with money, and built the stately firebrick homes in this, and the neighboring village, causing an influx of cash made during the 1920s. when the cash boom finally busted, families here were relatively well protected due to being well invested in commodities that would fuel the coming second world war. in the 1950s through the 1970s, this became a wealthy african american enclave after the white flight out of the north of this county to another area, during the era of a pond of the spaniards to put it very vaguely, and this became something of a nice integrated boomtown where the famous firebrick houses in the area were restored to their former glory. houses are still being lovingly restored and upkept, making this a gem of the area. except this house. this house wasn't touched for full restoration until 2009. and i'm still fixing it, and removing the atrocious wallpaper and babyshit yellow spongepainting and horrifying blue silver bathroom wall upstairs. it's a long process, a very work intensive process, and well worth it. i've also found several interesting artifacts in the house, mostly in the under-basement crawlspace into the cave access: -photobooks of former families, dating well back to before the actual house was built onto with the downstairs bedroom, kitchen extension, etc. -a tin box of small lead soldiers -a large container of jewelry pieces and old buttons -a tinplate photo of an african american family posing with the landowner, prior to the end of human enslavement federally within the united states, passed down between family members until the last living member likely died in the house or on the property -a doll with a smashed in face, between the basement false wall and the exterior wall -"finger bones" from a broken reliquary to the saints, likely carved into human-like shapes from chicken bones -bags of various powders and herbs, yet unidentified -a silver candle stick engraved with the monogram H -a set of horse carriage bells -two bibles inscribed to the family from 1949; returned to local family members still living it's been very interesting.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:23
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also my kitchen is hella nice and i've never had a real working full scale kitchen before, so i've been cooking a lot. oh yeah fun thing when i hooked the water line up to the refrigerator, from the basement, to make ice/water in the interior spout: i found a little girl's kilt pin from the local catholic school. there were no girls registered as living here ever, only adult women. neat. i wonder which one of them kept it as their momento?
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Jun 15, 2018 21:00
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Kthulhu5000 posted:drat, that's quite the storied bit of property you've got there. I'd advise talking to the local ruling council and seeing if you can get the "murder, monsters, and mayhem" exemption removed from the zoning. actually i'm pretty chill livin in the murderzone, as i have an actual skeleton inside my body right now
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Jun 15, 2018 21:06
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MockingQuantum posted:that list of things sounds like I've found a list of evidence for a super spooky mystery, crazy stuff. My cousin restores homes and finds those sorts of things in walls and whatever pretty frequently, but never that much in one home. yeah exactly. it was in the basement crawlspace down by the limestone cave tunnel. the renumbering leads to hilarious mistakes. my friend lives down the street in the original number, and so she gets lawns full of tourists constantly. especially at night because ~spoopy~ and has been on tv shows, etc. me, i'm just over here enjoying the fact that we only get the REAL fuckin weirdos. here's a hospital that is cool. 
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Jun 15, 2018 21:20
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Kthulhu5000 posted:anyhow, more seriously, between the updating, renovation, and the segments I've seen, your house is on its way to being a pretty kicking rad pad. and is that a car lift in the garage? that was actually roof joists and a car lift in there, yeah! when they rejoisted the whole thing and rebuilt it, they stacked everything in there and unfortunately broke a lot of poo poo. including the lift eventually. i'm having a new one installed when i get paid from an old contract job, since i am officially a Retired Person at age 34 because i'm fuckin BROKEN but also because i want to work for myself instead of a shadowy corporate overlord and make enough being an independent artist that it's cool. i'm currently in the process of removing the hideous nipple wallpaper in the living room, what i call "eldritch wall o ostrich nips" because it's a horrible taupe toned ostrich skin looking vinyl paper that was put up over the lovely intact plasterwork, so a lot of careful steaming has to be done to ensure it stays ok underneath. it'll be fuckin great when i'm done. we've already had a few parties and many a weed has been rebuked in the name of jesus christ right before bursting into flame.
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Jun 15, 2018 21:24
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Kthulhu5000 posted:hey, you're acquiring a house, and one that seems almost tailor made for an artistic work vibe, so you're well on the way to realizing that goal. And I suppose it goes without saying that you've already got a million Halloween decorating ideas in mind? I have a few fully articulated animal skeletons and some human reliquaries from my family so yes yes yes, my house is already hella spoop.
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Jun 16, 2018 00:55
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i also should do a walk around in the basement/garage tomorrow to show you the creepy tiny room that used to have a trapdoor that is concreted over. it's not into a crawlspace, it's into a little bunker with packed dirt walls shored up with wood and concrete. like a super tornado shelter that you couldn't get out of on your own, or the root cellar from hell. maybe a makeshift bomb shelter?
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Jun 16, 2018 02:46
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drilldo squirt posted:You have a nice house. Thank you, I have already chosen to fill it with garbage and return it to its former glory
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Jun 16, 2018 22:24
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I actually use that giant attic room for my bedroom now, and I'm splitting it into two rooms so I have my bed in the gable and that's my sleeping only area, and the rest of the space is being divided into work and 80" tv area with my consoles and desktop tower. The living room downstairs has a projector and big sisters, a giant fancy couch, two new fancy chairs and some Moroccan side tables I brought back from my last trip.
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Jun 18, 2018 00:40
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Found a bunch of broken glass morphine bottles in the crawlspace from back when it was legal to just go to the store and buy, so that's pretty cool.
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Jun 18, 2018 00:42
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Dick Bastardly posted:I have a two part question: 1. No but they do smell like rotting corpses 2. I'll let you live your own personal truth
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Jun 18, 2018 01:56
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Dick Bastardly posted:Happy Halloween! Welcome, please take some candy. I mean to be fair in order to get murdered by the demons* they have to possess someone who is already on the edge of murder-y** so it's probably fine. *Ok we're not sure ** I mean
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Jun 18, 2018 02:18
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drilldo squirt posted:Also ghosts? What the hell, like why not just haunt an orange julius or something, you can spook people for free orange julios. Also you were going to be spooky anyway, so that's just free smoothies. right? they're missing out on the combo julius/dq where they could get sundaes AND smoothies and i mean, ghosts are kinda dumb for not doing that y'know?
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Jun 18, 2018 15:16
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Farecoal posted:the true horror is fiberglass fibers The truest horror
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Jun 18, 2018 20:43
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MockingQuantum posted:other sub-hammer murder & possession horrors my house may feature: earwigs, a leaky bathtub, crushing ennui Buddy we all got that crushing ennui infestation and it ain't going away anytime soon Oh cool story: the attic crawlspace door falls partially open every time I am in the room. It's air pressure but it never DOESN'T unsettle me.
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Jun 18, 2018 21:39
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drilldo squirt posted:Dead people ghosts are just super unreasonable in my opinion, why even bother me with this in the first place. I can't make you not dead, all you are doing is reminding me of death and that's super depressing. I mean I've become really ok with death but I get it. Bought a lot of stuff today at Ye Olde Witch Store.
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Jun 19, 2018 20:49
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Dick Bastardly posted:what items and what do you plan to do with them? Irish moss, oat straw, wormwood, feverfew, rue, linden bark, belladonna berries, hekate's tea, a few other lose herbs, some nice frankincense chunks, oil of myrrh, consecrated burial salts, pipe tobacco, a new silver bell, a book of herbal tinctures and decoctions and growing tips, white sage sprigs, a labradorite, a peridot, a nice Pakistani ruby in the raw, a small desert rose, some extra soapstone slabs for the kitchen, a replacement mortar and pestle for the one that broke in the China cabinet, a new writing journal, a lot of candles, and a bottle of oxblood ink. Home improvement.
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Dick Bastardly posted:me too phone posting but also 
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