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What was the first haunted house you discovered?

wasapi

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I'm willing to bet that many of us, growing up, knew of a "real" haunted house in the neighborhood. For me, it was a place we walked past on the way to elementary school. It was up high, and we could never see any entry to get in - not that we would ever want to.

As I recall, it was boarded up, but had been a tall cathedral, sitting up on a hill, with a steeple and a small, singular window. Some of the kids claimed they had seen a face at the window.

It was terrifying, creepy, unnatural, nightmarish, fear gripping, and I loved it! To impress others we would boast about how we had to stay after school, or arrive late in the morning and walked past it by ourselves! (These were often when the story-teller claimed to have "actually seen" the creepy face.)

What was yours?
 
It was around the corner next door to my friend's house. It was nothing special, just another cookie-cutter tract house built post WWII. My friend told me matter-of-factly that the house was haunted by a ghost who wore blue overalls. We were box six years old. I never saw the ghost.
 
For me it was also a place I walked past on the way to elementary school. Been back in the early 60s but I still have a vivid picture in my mind of the place.

The rent was cheap because nobody would stay there very long. My mother had some friends who said they didn’t believe in such stuff as haunted houses so they moved in.

Things moved around on the kitchen table by themselves. The windows would not stay down. Something started pulling the cover off them in bed at night. They lasted a week and moved out.
 
First one I was aware of was the Winchester Mystery House. It was a local fixture, not exactly "in the neighborhood", but as much a part of the fabric of my youth as the local amusement park, movie theater, mini golf, and video arcade.

I didn't actually visit it until many years later, though.
 
I've never been in a purported haunted house. However the grade school I went to was said to be. Later several buildings I worked in were claimed to be, the B-29 Raz'n Hell at Castle Air Museum, and the parking spot on the ramp at Pope where 501 departed. A couple of our Herks were also supposed to be cursed if that counts.
 
I have told this before, so I will be brief; I lived in an old house in the woods, surrounded by forest. A young woman, the previous owner, had been beaten to death in the home.

It was difficult to sell, having to disclose the murder to possible buyers. I bought it for $20,000, and lived there at least 40 years. Never once, never, did I see, hear, smell anything "odd".

But most interesting, is that those who visited that were aware of the murder were always the ones "freaked out" by the "vibes" they were picking up on. Yet, those who were not aware, never spoke of any paranormal experience while in my home.
 
My grandmother said that her very own house was haunted. Ghosts included her late husband and my father. I lived there for 10 years and never had any ghost-like encounters.

I had a reoccurring nightmare of some horrible face looking in my window. But one night I dreamed I was outside and I went to check to see if the creep was outside my window. I didn't find him, but when I looked into the window myself, I concluded I was the creep. I never had that nightmare again.

Awful things happened in my grandmother's house that I'd rather not speak of, but they were all perpetrated by my grandmother. I still have nightmares of being back there with that nasty woman. I don't have nightmares of ghosts.
 
Canberra, being a thoroughly planned city, doesn't have haunted houses of the kind you describe. But some friends of mine once shared an older house where supposedly someone had been murdered a year or two prior. Unfortunately they didn't report any weird events.
 
A large farmhouse 3 kilometers from where I lived in the seventies. There was a "white lady" who appeared once a year, and a gong that sometimes flew out from the wall it hang on and then fell down.
 
The first one that I actually stayed in was the Inn at Stonecliffs on Mackinaw Island.

It is a giant old house that has been converted to an inn. The staff will relate stories of hauntings when prompted.

One is of the servant girl who was murdered by the landlord in the apple orchard on the property.

Supposedly ghosts rocking in chairs, or making unusual noises at night.

Creepy, but not dangerous. Beautiful place, if you are ever there, ask to stay in the old house, not in the new hotel area.
 
Anyone who lived on a block in the city, back when your block was your community, before social media, you walked to friend's houses, rode your bike around the block, had a house that everyone on the block said was haunted.

It was usually an old lady or old man that lived there, and when she came outside, you got the hell away, because every time you walked by it, someone would say 'a witch lives there', or 'she kidnaps kids'. I wouldn't say it necessarily was haunted, but it was a dangerous house.
 
Pope130 said:
I've never been in a purported haunted house. However the grade school I went to was said to be. Later several buildings I worked in were claimed to be, the B-29 Raz'n Hell at Castle Air Museum, and the parking spot on the ramp at Pope where 501 departed. A couple of our Herks were also supposed to be cursed if that counts.
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Isn't there a parking spot on the ramp at RAF Mildenhall that is bad juju for 130's as well? Martin Caidan covered that in his book. Raz'n Hell never left CONUS and was put together from the bone yard so there's no reason it should be haunted (except by warbird lovers).
 
When I moved back to mid-Wales a fair number of years ago, I lived in a little village in the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Before I moved I came for a weekend visit with my boss (he had got me the job!) and his two daughters showed me around the village. At the high point in the village was a very old house, and they told me it was haunted, because you could often see a light in an attic window.

While my previous home was being sold, I had to force myself to live in one of the village pubs and I met a fascinating old guy, a retired dentist who had been on teh bridge of HMS Rodney when the Bismarck was sunk.

Turned out that he was a chess fanatic, and used the small room in the attic to practice chess moves. The small room required less heating!

So it was a guy playing chess that caused the two girls to think haunted house!
 
Axxman300 said:
Isn't there a parking spot on the ramp at RAF Mildenhall that is bad juju for 130's as well? Martin Caidan covered that in his book. Raz'n Hell never left CONUS and was put together from the bone yard so there's no reason it should be haunted (except by warbird lovers).
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Actually, part of Raz'n Hell is from the original. She served with the 28th BS, 19th BG in Korea as a RAZON bomber, no casualties while there. The story of the ghost is not that he was a war casualty, but that it is the spirit of a retired Nav who died in Northern California, and found his way back to his old airplane. Reported name is Arthur Pryor. The whole thing is, by the way, BS. I was crew chief on it during assembly at Castle. Most of the reported incidents didn't happen at all, the rest are unconfirmed or exaggerated. It was an interesting experience watching peoples' stories change with each retelling.
 
Rincewind said:
When I moved back to mid-Wales a fair number of years ago, I lived in a little village in the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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A neighbor is from there. She is in her late 70's, but moved here with her husband about 20 years ago. She frequently talks about her, now deceased husband, and how they communicate and that he even moves significant photos and other objects in her home. I don't question, it isn't my business.

What I have gathered, her upbringing was filled with ghosts and ghost stories. The supernatural seems as if it has been a part of her life forever. Is this common in Wales?
 
arthwollipot said:
Canberra, being a thoroughly planned city, doesn't have haunted houses of the kind you describe.
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Just re-read this and I want to clarify. Canberra has supposedly haunted places. I've done a ghost tour. What it doesn't have is the kind described by wasapi - the tall, abandoned old house on the hill with boarded up windows. You know, the standard Scooby-Doo house. That's what we don't have.
 
wasapi said:
A neighbor is from there. She is in her late 70's, but moved here with her husband about 20 years ago. She frequently talks about her, now deceased husband, and how they communicate and that he even moves significant photos and other objects in her home. I don't question, it isn't my business.

What I have gathered, her upbringing was filled with ghosts and ghost stories. The supernatural seems as if it has been a part of her life forever. Is this common in Wales?
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I'm afraid my answer has to be - I really don't know!

I was brought up in Cardiff, the big city as it were, in the Roath district. pretty much all of it was streets lined both sides with terraced housing.

I don't recall any stories about ghosts in the area.

I'm in my early 70's.

(I Actually typed weary 70's! :))
 
There was a house at the end of the block that was occupied by an older woman and then she died and her grandson moved in for a bit. It was run down and the yard was done on a monthly basis to the bare minimum to keep the city from citing them. Overgrown trees, vines all over the house, screen doors off their hinges, junk in the drive and around the yard.

I never thought of it as haunted, but we always stayed clear of it.
 
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