It's October, which ought to really be my favorite month because this is the one month when it's socially acceptable to talk about cemeteries. But instead of posting some more pictures of cemeteries, I'm going to post a picture of a house and ask a key question: haunted or not?
Before answering this, I might note that it sure looks like it goes back to the era before the Civil War. And — and this is key — it's in Southampton County, near the route the Nat Turner's rebellion took in August 1831.
I will also add — and I guess this will surprise no long-time readers of the faculty lounge — that I absolutely love this house.
What's up with the roofing material: it's not original, is it?
And how can this house be haunted when its surroundings are so well manicured?
For what it's worth, my wife disagrees with me and thinks the house is haunted.
She also places tiny pumpkins outside our door during the month of October, so….
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It is clearly haunted.
I'm thinking James is right on this one. I mean, I visited this house in the middle of the day in August and it seemed downright scary.
Along those lines — I saw a house along route 1 on the way home from DC today, just up the road a few hundred yards from "Ye Olde Virginnie Inn" for what it's worth. It also looked haunted. Though I must say it had a distinctly post-war (late nineteenth century) look to it. I didn't have time to stop for a photograph, but I hope to get one next time I'm on the road up to Richmond for some research.
Well in order to know if it is haunted would have to know its history! 🙂 But it sure looks like it ought to be.
Ah well, the first collection, look at home from work at night.