Question: Have you had any haunted experiences showing vacant homes?

Answer: A colleague of mine told us this story of what happened to him earlier in his career. He was doing an open house in a vacant home built in the 1940’s. The previous owner had recently died. The family was selling the estate. At the conclusion of the open house, he began shutting off the lights. He was alone — or so he thought. As reached the main level, he saw a dark figure walking towards the main bedroom. 

A chill ran down his spine because he only had two people show up to the open house, and he saw both drive away. He went into the main bedroom, and no one was there. He checked every room in the house. There was nothing.

He said he was a bit shaken because he knew he saw something. As he went to the door to leave, it was locked, and it would not open. By this time, he was very concerned. As he went to the other door, the dark figure of that slumped man walking away reappeared. The dark man disappeared down the hall. 

He attempted to open the other door and it too was locked. He said he never locked any doors because it was an open house. He tried windows and they would not open.

He said he then heard a crash from the other bedroom. His fear made him follow the noise that sounded like a vase had fallen and broken. 

When he reached the bedroom, he felt a cold chill in the air. Written on the wall of the bedroom in a very eerie looking print, was the sentence: “This is my house.”                                                                       

He said he did not see these words on the wall when he walked through the home many times previous.

As he went back downstairs, he checked the door again. This time it opened. He went to the other door, and it too was now open. He left the home quickly and saw that black figure of a slumped man walking outside towards an outbuilding.

The owners said they did not come to the open house. There was something wrong and he wanted no part of it. He eventually dropped the listing. He said the home never sold and still stands vacant and in badly deteriorating condition.