NumberNine
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Yes, about three foot IIRC. Dad told me the next day that he'd rebuilt the back of the house before I was born, and that room's floor level had changed by about the amount and in the direction, I'd described. I think that might be why he believed me. He knew I had no way of knowing that. It was actually the least spooky bedroom in the house precisely because it was 'modern' with a big, 1950s' picture window - the rest of the house was 18thC and 19thC. But as a kid, I don't think I understood that kind of thing. It just seemed like the 'nicest' bedroom and I had been quite excited that I was going to get to sleep in there.
I saw my stepsister recently - not seen eachother for years. And I couldn't bring myself to talk about this, but I did tell her I'd walked past the house recently and she said something like "Oh yes, the House of Horrors!"
ETA What you said about the image itself being chilling - resonates. Because I nearly crapped myself in the later 70s I think it was, when I first saw Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' - the kid floating in the air outside the window - because that was the ghosty type image from the media, that most reminded me of what we saw. So much so it really unnerved me at the time. Although the man we saw was seated - we couldn't see the chair. So he appeared to be floating about a yard or so in the air, but seated... And I remember thinking he was made up of like pin pricks of light and in the days before we had a concept of pixellated, he reminded me most of an image from a comic, because he appeared made up of dots.
Ah ok. Maybe it made me think of the scene in The Wizard of Oz with Aunty Em in the tornado floating in her rocking chair. If you ever ask your step sister what she remembers that made her refer to it as the House of Horrors tell us what she says!