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  1. lordmongrove

    Kids Destroy Million-Pound House Whilst Hunting For Ghost

    Kids may have destroyed a $1.5M home with chainsaws and axes because it's 'supposed to have a ghost,' one of their dads said https://www.insider.com/father-of-child-ransacked-home-says-they-thought-its-haunted-2023-11
  2. Mr_Hermolle

    Creepy Attic Stories Anyone?

    I've always been fascinated as to why attics always seem so damn creepy. I knoe they're generally unvisited spaces in a house, often full of old things (or even sometimes empty) but for some reason some just seem really unnerving and I can never quite work out why. I've lived in houses with...
  3. Wombat68

    Empty Building Felt Full Of People

    Over the summer I visited my old home town It's got a a lot of really old buildings. I decided to visit the old flea pit which has been restored to its 1911 glory. There was only me and a woman in the ticket office in the building. I sat down in the middle row of seats facing the screen admiring...
  4. Yithian

    Suspicious Deaths Among South Korean 'Villa Kings'

    The economics/politics behind South Korea's unique property market and the recent decline in the extremely high prices it has generated are extremely complex, but this new twist—the deaths of a number of mass-owning landlords who may not be what they appear—is murkier still. I take a personal...
  5. maximus otter

    The Crooked House In Himley: The Pub Where Coins 'Roll Uphill'

    The Crooked House, in Himley, West Midlands, has attracted fans from the four corners of the world since it became a pub in the 1830s. And it's all down to its odd structure and crooked bar. Said to be a favourite of visitors, the building slants to the left and is decorated with crooked...
  6. ramonmercado

    Palace Of Westminster: Possible Remains Of Medieval Thames River Wall Found

    Mods: This might fit in an existing Thread, if so, please move it. Palace of Westminster: Possible remains of medieval Thames river wall found Published 6 hours ago Possible remains of the medieval Thames shoreline have been uncovered by experts restoring the Palace of Westminster. The...
  7. AgProv

    So You've Just Bought A House Where Somebody Got Murdered...

    This is an interesting article from yesterday's Guardian (Sat 19th Nov 2022). It's a very Fortean question: if you buy a house, or move into a property, with a troubled past and a violent murder having happened there - what happens next? How do you react, what might you feel, do you have any...
  8. stu neville

    Dr Paul Lee's Haunted Hotels Site

    As mentioned on the Hotel Encounters, Anyone? thread, please do check out our very own Dr Paul Lee's Haunted Hotels site. He's really put some serious legwork into it, hopefully sorting the currently active from the historically active. A good read for anyone who likes a spooky mini-break .
  9. maximus otter

    'Murder Houses': How Does Violence Impact Sale Prices?

    As the ongoing fascination with “true crime” entertainment continues, so too does the fascination with homes where insidious events went down. The owners of a home in Westfield, New Jersey, are currently dealing with an influx of visitors after Netflix’s “The Watcher” — which chronicles a series...
  10. Wombat68

    Homes You Wouldn't Want: Houses With Creepy Atmospheres

    I've been looking at houses to buy over the last couple of months. Does anyone get the feeling that they can or can't live somewhere as soon as they enter a property. One of the houses I viewed which was a new build felt so horrible I made my excuses and left Mr Wombat thinks I've lost it he...
  11. Tiwodalmann

    Prepping For The Biblical Apocalypse (Millennium Manor)

    Millennium Manor A 1937 vintage stone house in Tennessee that was hand built to withstand the biblical apocalypse. https://www.wbir.com/article/entertainment/places/abandoned-places/tennessee-abandoned-places-millennium-manor/51-489a739a-2d0a-4911-906d-6cd3550713e4
  12. G

    Unexplained Late-Night Office Noises

    Hello all. This is probably not the most exciting story posted, but rest assured that everything that I am going to tell you certainly happened. This story is not the most frightening thing that has ever happened to me, but it is certainly the most baffling experience that I have had. To...
  13. ramonmercado

    Buildings Causing Dangerous Wind Effects

    Now its causing killer downdraughts. Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London has once again become a subject of controversy, following reports that its curved facade is channelling gusts of wind strong enough to knock people over. Two years after being blamed for reflecting a beam...
  14. lordmongrove

    Haunted Chicago Museum For Sale

    Haunted mansion up for grabs on the cheap. ==================================================== Historic Mansion Is Shockingly Cheap -- But There's A Big Catch Historic Mansion Is Shockingly Cheap -- But There's A Big Catch By Joseph Erbentraut Apr 30, 2014, 05:50 PM EDT Updated Dec 6, 2017 An...
  15. L

    The Frozen House On Lodge Road

    Not so much "happened to me" as "happened to my Dad." Which is even weirder since the guy is as straight thinking as they come, atheist and logic obsessive previous Bank Manager. This story, to my utter delight, was first hinted at over the Christmas dinner. My Dad was scoffing at my website...
  16. rynner2

    Weird Buildings (Odd Forms / Features; Novelty Architecture)

    A thread for buildings, old or new, that make you go "Wow!" So for starters: Tickets for the Shard sell despite steep prices [Video: Project architect William Matthews shows the BBC's Sonja Jessup round the viewing platform] High entry prices have not deterred tourists wanting to see...
  17. BaronHardacre

    The Strange Case Of The Rattling Door

    It has been many moons since I last posted in these here parts, so I thought I’d return with a tale to tell. The tale of the door that rattled… In July 2011, a girlfriend and I decided to have a few days break in Liverpool. I had booked an apartment for the visit, so it gave us more...
  18. F

    Spooked On The Job: Your Haunted Workplaces

    My story begins....it was a cold dark, foggy night...OK, i shall stop and be sensible now. The building i work in was built in the 1870's, it has most of the original foundations intact, since being built it has always been used as an engineering site, through WW2 it was used to make army...
  19. CarlosTheDJ

    Abandoned, Disused & Ruined Places

    http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/27/abandoned-buildings-property-and-other-places/ Brilliant.
  20. M

    My House Has A Ghost

    I moved into my new house in October last year. At first we thought there was strange noises but put it down to being in an unfamilier place. Now 6 months on we can definately say that the old lady that lived here before she died is visiting. For the last few months or so, we have heard the...
  21. gyrtrash

    Newly-Built Haunted Houses?

    Does anyone know of any 'haunted' houses that have been very recently constructed? What's the 'youngest' house that's been reported to be haunted? How can a house that's just been built or recently been built, be haunted? Just wondered...
  22. Quake42

    Odd Events In My Flat

    I wanted to share a couple of what were to me at least inexplicable events. I live in a modern flat (about 15 years old). There is nothing odd or spooky about it, but around three years ago two strange things occurred. At about 3am on morning I found myself wide awake. Someone had turned...
  23. L

    $1 Million Prize For First Extraterrestrial Home Loan

    Hello all. How safe is their money? Source: http://loanpros.com/prize_f.html
  24. R

    Most Haunted Live DVD: Dudley Castle

    Just watched the DVD presentation of "Dudley Castle". One of the major focal points of this when it was broadcast was a ghostly scream just after midnight, which was claimed to be from a ghost. Curiously, this segment is completely missing from the "Dudley Castle" chapter of the DVD.
  25. M

    Building Sacrifices (Mummified Cats, Immurement & So On)

    mummified cats Hi, I am new on this list and this may sound peculiar but I am working on an online cat-a-log, being a catalog of mummified cats found in houses, churches,deliberatley placed there as a form of foundationsacrifice, all information is welcome, though some of these have a...
  26. McAvennie

    MI5 Building Is Really A Shell Containing Another Building?

    I remember over-hearing someone on a train saying, as the train passed the MI5 building down by the Thames, that the MI5 building that you can see is just a shell and that inside is another building, a building within a building. It is certainly all blacked out and you can't see in at all...
  27. M

    BBC Building Ghosts

    ive read in a book i think was called "northen ghosts?"(ill try to dig it out when i unpack all my books (11 large boxs and 2 tea chests :eek!!!!: )) there was a dj who was working late (doing tapes or similar) one night on his own when he saw a shadow move across the frosted window when...
  28. A

    Fred & Rosemary West

    EH!!? WHAT? SORRY? PARDON? From the BBC: 'The wedding between jailed serial killer Rose West and Slade bass player Dave Glover has been called off - just days after it was announced. The pair have been writing to each other for a year, but Mr Glover is reported to have pulled out because...
  29. J

    Haunted Pubs / Pub Hauntings

    You know, if we just went by local newspaper reports, it would seem that most ghosts prefer to haunt pubs. How curious.:rolleyes: -Justin.
  30. A

    The Winchester House

    I first read this in an Alan Moore Swamp Thing (where the rifle concerned was called Chesterfield, I think) but my brother claimed it was based on the Winchester Rifle. The story is that after Mr Winchester died, his widow kept seeing visions or ghosts of everyone who had been killed by a...
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