This is a story about the ghosts of past and “presents” in haunted Winterwood Gift and Christmas Shoppe. Back in the day when I was a correspondent for the Cape May County Herald, South Jersey’s weekly newspaper, I wrote an article about Winterwood, New Jersey’s oldest Christmas shop. Winterwood is a magical…
744 Knapp St., Tonopah, NV 89049 $65,000 Sold on September 2, 2021 for $45,000 c.1908 Starter Home in Haunted Tonopah, NV $65K OHU50K NOTES If you enjoy enjoy ghost stories, then Tonopah, Nevada, may pique your interest. This sweet Victorian era cottage was built in 1908, just a few years after Jim…
This is part of Haunted House series for Halloween month. Note: This house is NOT for sale. Considered to be the “most haunted house in Ohio,” Franklin Castle in Cleveland, Ohio, may well deserve that label ….. or perhaps not. The imposing stone Queen Anne Victorian was built in 1881-1883 by the successful Cudell and…
Since it is Halloween Month, and this is a sad tale of opulence, suicide and hauntings, I thought I’d share my experience with Pepperidge Hall. I grew up in the neighborhood known as Idle Hour in Oakdale, New York. It was called that as the homes were built on the grounds of William K. Vanderbilt’s…
The Haunted House of Conrad Aiken Forty-two percent of Americans believe in ghosts, according to a Harris Poll. As this is Halloween month, this story is for them. (Note: This home is not for sale.) Family Background Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken was born in 1889, the eldest of four children born to wealthy parents…
Atchison’s Sallie House may be considered the most famous haunted house in Kansas. We delve into it in this, the fifth in our Halloween series of haunted houses. (This house is NOT for sale). Finney History Built between 1867 and 1871, the brick home was the residence of Michael, a native of Ireland,…
411 N Wentz St, Macon, MO 63552 $99,500 SOLD for $100,ooo OHU50K NOTES In our Halloween tradition, here is a haunted house that sold for $100,000 not too long ago. History Talk about irony. Eddie Munster, played by Butch Patrick in the 1960’s TV series, “The Munsters,” owned a haunted house in Macon, Missouri. Patrick purchased the property…
The Amityville Horror House is part of our Haunted House House series for Halloween month. This house is NOT currently for sale and certainly never cost under $50K. Ronald DeFeo Sr. purchased the beautiful Dutch Colonial on the canal for $75,000 when the address was 122 Ocean Avenue. I have driven past the…
In celebration of Halloween month, we offer a haunted house story. (Note: This house is NOT for sale). After Old Houses Under $50K featured a couple of cheap old homes for sale in Alton, Illinois, readers let me know than the community is considered to be one of the “most haunted small towns in…