Real estate agents rarely lead with the line “Soooo, the house is
haunted.” In fact, unless every horror movie ever made got it entirely
wrong, homeowners tend to get a bit peeved once they find out their
dream home is also occupied by some form of the undead — who doesn’t pay
rent.
But then there’s the Sallie House, which is
currently for sale by owner in Atchison, KS and defying all scary movie rules by openly advertising the rich — and haunted — history of the property to any and all comers.
“The value of the home is as an attraction,” says the current owner
of the Sallie House, which isn’t owner-occupied but instead rented by
the hour or, for the bravest, overnight.
Not a bad business, since, far from staying away, “people come from
all over come to stay and investigate the home.” And that’s what the
current owners are selling it as — not necessarily a tidy little home to
move into (though, like many haunted houses, the Sallie House looks
deceptively innocent — even charming!), but as an attraction to rent
out.
Which shouldn’t be a problem, since the Sallie House has gained and kept a national spotlight after it was featured on the show
Sightings,
which investigated the home in the early 1990s in response to a series
of inexplicably odd, and even dangerous, events. The Sallie House
actually made such an impression on the crew that they
made a movie about their visit.
The home’s history
Before the hairs on theback of your neck stand up any further, we’ll
satisfy the burning question: What’s actually wrong with the home? Or
who is knocking around inside it?
Well, that’s where it gets a little confusing. Not that the home
hasn’t shown a definite propensity for … expressing itself. There have
been full-bodied ghost sightings, framed pictures turned upside down,
even (and most famously) a prolonged episode of physical harm (which at
one possibly contrite juncture, did involve the presumed “ghost”
returning a misplaced remote control).
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