Halloween Tales

Question: You’ve been showing all kinds of home for years. Any spooky stories you can share?

Answer:  I always make a habit of knocking or ringing the doorbell, even if the house is vacant. My clients and I were standing on the porch as I rang the doorbell of a vacant house, and we all distinctly heard “Who is it?” in a gruff little old lady’s voice. We all looked at each other. I asked if they heard it, and they nodded their heads up and down. We went in and checked out the house (and all the closets) but found no one. Buyers did not want this home.

Years ago, a fellow Realtor said he had a listing that the seller said was haunted by a young boy. He said when his article came out in the newspaper for advertisement of the new listing, there was a young, dark figure of a boy standing in the doorway in the picture.

I was showing a home built in the 1800s. The kitchen was actually located in the basement. When I went to get the lockbox key, my client told me that the door to the basement/kitchen was unlocked, so we went ahead and went in that way. We pulled the door closed behind us but didn’t touch any locking mechanisms. We proceeded to preview the home. We decided to exit the same way we came in, but when we went to open the door, it was locked. That creeped us all out, fortunately were able to get out through the back door. No sale here.

I showed a house built around 1900. There was an attic area with a stairway. At the top of the stairway was an old doll, sitting in a rocking chair, staring at you. If you went all the way up the stairs, you were greeted by about 10-15 similarly creepy dolls sitting in rocking chairs. It was an eerie experience.

A local real estate agent justified the strange placement of the bed and several layers of blackout curtains with the fact that her client is a vampire. The home eventually sold. No further update, but, “When Black Cats prowl & Pumpkins Gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween!”