@@ryanspangler4569 I'm a "To see is to believe person". Real ghosts are just another form of demons but people should be more discerning rather than believing in gossip stories or legends. If Im bored, have time and money, I would buy a "haunted house" if it's not really haunted at all and fix it back to it's glory. 🤣
@@ryanspangler4569 I believe in an afterlife and that there can be occasional encounters with those who have passed (like when my mom was ill in the hospital and saw her deceased father standing in her room), but it's nothing to be afraid of. "Ghosts" haunting places and trying to scare people? Nah
I wouldn't if its one of the moveable ones I'd have it set on the beams and report as a shed as for the castle I'd file for the land patent which was before deeds and states you as the owner now and forever are the sole owner and no other entity has any interest rights or claim to the property in question. And only give copies never the original to anyone
I actually personally know Chris mark and have been inside the castle. It’s not abandoned and really incredible. My lifetime friend lived in the large house on the same property which you can easily see from the air to the left of the mansion facing it from the road. Sadly it burned down a few years back. The taxes really aren’t all that crazy in Woodstock CT and Chris mark himself lives there currently with his family
I just bought a 6bd 4b stone home in the country near the northern border. It was built in 1834 and thankfully has been kept in excellent condition by the people who have owned it. It stayed in the family for over a hundred years. Renovations have taken place and great care has been given. I could only afford it because of its location. The floors could use a sanding and resealing and the gardens are a bit overgrown, but it is in excellent condition. It has a history with the Underground Railroad. Their are names carved in the attic rafters. The tunnel collapsed long ago. Im not sure why this dream was able to come true but I know it is imperative that my gratitude is shown by giving back to the community we've joined and the world in everyway I can.
That sounds amazing! I'd love to see pics of that! Also sounds like the PERFECT place to do some metal detecting...who knows what cool stuff you would find.
3:36 Ann Starrett Mansion $1,500,00 6:00 "Not haunted" $99,950 6:33 Foreclosing fortress $60,000,000 8:55 $1,000 home 11:13 Peterson's folly $2,500,00 13:23 Carleton Island Villa $495,000 16:19 Minxiong Ghost House $474,901 18:00 Haunted house on the house 19:40 SK Pierce Mansion 22:28 Granite Loma If I had the money, I would gladly buy any one of these homes and fix them up...alright, maybe only half of them.
Owning a home like these is strictly for the wealthy. I own a 120 year old wooden house, and the problems are amazingly expensive. The chimney is leaning because the underlying foundation has previous termite damage. $45k. The upstairs floor joists are dry rotted and the floor is sagging, leading to the downstairs room having a sagging ceiling, which has caused the drywall and molding to crack. To fix it is another 28k. The metal roof is leaking above the kitchen, causing water damage to the ceiling rafters and the kitchen ceiling. $8k. I have the money and I will pay for the repairs, but I can’t find a contractor to do it. They’re all making money building new homes and dealing with the labor shortage . If I actually do get someone out to give me an estimate, it’s outrageous. I guess I’ll keep dealing with the problems until we hit a recession and I can find someone licensed who wants the work.
I'm sure there's someone who would have tge skills to do this. a semi retired person, or someone so passionate about old homes. a history buff who is an engineer. it would be incredible to do & get this done. I know some1 who could do that kind of work. he in ontario canada & I bet he would. there must be others.
I'd find a way to get help by setting it up for homeless people who are clean from addiction or get clean and find a safe place to live as a well done, any way I could, I watched 2 Drs talking about their near death experiences, this life according to 100s of people is something we chose for a reason, watching them changed my perception of everything humans believe to be important, once you find who you really are and why you're really here the rest will just...fall into place, trust your gut ❤ 💙 🙂👍🇦🇺.
@@megs4193 homeless people aren’t free labor. Most homeless people don’t have the skills needed to redo the problems he mentioned. Not to mention if you let in homeless people, who do lie about addictions, they could trash the house before he would have to legally evict them. Letting people into your home is problematic in its self.
99% of the homeless would only trash them. Besides, these homes arent located where homelessness is a particular problem. Would you suggest they be moved to accommodate the inner city homeless using taxpayer money? Where would they be placed? On property also at taxpayer´s expense? How would they be maintained? Who would pay for the running water, electricity, etc?
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The city owned an old home across the street from a property my sister owned. We learned they were going to tear it down and just sell the lot. So she looked into just moving it across the street. She got a bid and moving a house a few hundred feet was $20k. I wasn’t really too shocked it peaked my curiosity of what such services cost. I talked to the contractor and he explained that the cost goes up fast when you start having to make arrangements with municipalities to move power lines for a day etc. It’s an art of the path of least resistance and not something any chump could take on. I’m glad I got to talk to someone who did it I was fascinated by it.
My house is about 300 years old. It had been abandoned for 17 years before I bought it cash, fairly cheap. Three stories, in a 700 year old town in not quite rural southern France, 15 rooms. Needs a lot of work but I do live within it's thick stone walls.
While haunting is given as the primary reason some of these places are unsellable, I suspect that it's more likely that the price is too high for what you get. Most of them will require costly renovation/restoration in addition to the sales price.
Bob I agree its the money not the imaginary ghosts. Rich people like to buy new stuff, the ones that would actually be interested can't afford the price, they dont give a crap about the ghost stories, so the houses just sit and rot away.
I actually remember my dad showing me that last one a few years ago. If I'm perfectly honest, the taxidermy could easily be stored away and the decor isn't really that bad. Though, that depends on who you ask, but I don't think it's terrible. If I could afford it, I'd live there since the main issue seems to be the interior design and I personally don't really care about that sort of thing.
@@robinwalderhaug2842 it’s been there for years and years and never been an issue. It’s right on Lake Superior which doesn’t really rise in water levels
Kinda like the people who poopoo a house because they don't like the paint colour inside (or outside). It's paint. You can repaint it any colour you like.
I have been in love with the Starrett house every since I first saw it in a video years ago. The history, the architecture... all of it! I ever win the lottery, she will be my first purchase, and I will honor the ghosts of her first family. ❤
I would totally live in one of the haunted mansions. They are beautiful. Even if I couldn't live in those mansions if I were a millionaire I would buy the haunted mansions and use them as a Halloween attraction or charge ghost hunters for investigating those places 😎
Being a researcher of the paranormal I would definitely buy a haunted house, as long as it wasn't like poltergeist where they built the house over a graveyard and didn't move the bodies, who's brilliant idea was that?
rmeber...they lied about tht... rmeber in the end whn all was going dwn..& the realtor(also his friend..)pulled up, whn evrythng was going dwn right in frnt of him...& the dad grabbed him & said..."you lied, you lied to me...u moved the stones but not the bodies...u left the bodies here...!!!"...yeah poltegeist rocked..!!..anyhow, they was supposed to move the whole grave site...*caskets & the headstones..but they ddn't...
For the SK Mansion, I've seen the episode of Ghost Adventures where they investigated the mansion, and interviewed the owners, who you mentioned in the video, and the hauntings are attributed to all the deaths that occurred inside it, including a WW2 veteran who supposedly died from spontaneous combustion, and the fact there was a tunnel in the basement that connected to SK's factory across the street. The tunnel had closed off entrances on both sides and has since collapsed. And because it's collapsed, it may never be known what occurred in that tunnel. Who knows, there could be bodies buried under it. And no one can explain the little boy that is the most seen ghost in the house is. It's not a member of the Pierce family, that they know for sure. But all the death and illegal activity that took place inside the mansion, yeah, no one would want that house. But because it's historic, not just because of the ghosts, it can't be torn down, unless it poses a potential safety hazard. So it could sit abandoned for many more years, and yet, it will always be taken care of to appease the spirits that still call it home.
I have a passion for victorian mansions, so watching this certainly sparked my interest! I recently purchased the 7,500 square foot, Norvell mansion, in southeast Texas, along with all the original, beautiful, and ornate, antique furniture, and I certainly wouldn't mind adding a few more to my collection! I'm a psychic medium, so haunted properties are no problem for me❣️👻 As a matter of fact, after watching this, I immediately looked up the Ann-Starrett mansion, to see if it was still on the market, but it was actually purchased in 2023. There are still many, stunning victorian homes available though, so my eyes are, certainly, always open!! Im currently looking into the Jungsen mansion, in Illinois, which I find to be quite beautiful, and priced very affordably, as well. I'm a cash buyer, and always looking, so if anyone happens to have any good leads, then feel free to send them my way!❤
For the first one (with the house) I wonder if instead of a using it as an apartment, if she could turn it into a B&B and run it as a business. It would then possibly fit the zoning laws as commercial possibly. I guess my question is how did the elderly woman get the house moved to that location in the first place if it was zoned as commercial?
I can tell you that it was moved from the residential to the commercial edge of the city. She was quite the lady, she had a collection of antique cars that were amazing! She would let me come in and look at them when I was about 10-ish and I loved them! They were model Ts, and she had about half a dozen of that vintage.
This one of your best videos yet! In spite of the ghosts, the interiors are to drool over. I've been lucky enough to spend summers with two relatives who've had the houses since they were built (1900 and 1925, respectively) and all those times were blissful, learning the eccentricities of old house design and exploring the treasures in the basements, attics, bookcases and storage cupboards. Where else could you find kits for patching kidskin (an early kind of whitewall) tires or 1910 era extracts for making birch beer? And spices in their original 1930s packaging stored in a zinc-lined icebox converted to a cupboard? And then there's a set of pewter charms to be baked into a cake. Whatever was in your slice told your fortune ... provided it didn't chip a tooth or lodge in your windpipe.
I’m living in a 1925 house owned for decades by my friend’s family. It’s Arts and Crafts style. Although it is bigger than my grandparents’ house, it is of the same age nd style, so I feel so comfortable here! I love the laundry chute, the cut glass windows, and the huge front porch!
@@juliebragdonarmstrong4191 Some of those porches have been used as sleeping porches, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. The house I lived in when I was in college had half the third story fitted out as a sleeping porch. Instead of windows, all sides were window screens. It was heaven to sleep there, even when it was snowing outside. And yes we all had electric blankets -- the most-requested care package ever! Nowadays converting to a sleeping porch would require burglar bars as well as screens. How things have changed since I was in college 60 years ago!
No matter where I live, or even just visit....it is ALWAYS haunted. I honestly, truly , cannot think of one single place that I've ever spent time where the past energy and/or people do not still reside and show themselves(to varying degrees). I have a large, beautiful, loving family and I'd 100% pay a discounted price to live in a large, lovely, likely haunted home. An abundance of $ is one thing I have not been able to provide my 6 kids and 3 grandkids...it's ALWAYS been my dream to have a home where my growing family can come and stay anytime. Most spirits are simply confused people. It us not difficult to show them compassion and respect. It is very possible to help them move on or even peacefully share space.The more difficult ones, in my experience, don't find much strength at all when you ignore them... I loved this video. Going to look for my dream home.
One normal person thank you I had an experience in my appartment when the previous owner had suicide I learned it after 3 years and we just help him to move on spirits don't have much power unless you are to idiot to give them
There's a house in my home town that I fell in love with as a kid. It was built by a banker in the 1900's and later on it became an apartment complex and back to being a regular house. I don't remember how many square feet it is but its pretty big. It's been renovated, mostly, but they kept the original woodwork on the inside but it needs a LOT of work. In the summer, it gets hot and humid since there's little to no airflow and I can't even imagine how much it would cost to keep the rooms cool/heated on top of the sale price. And the basement... original stone foundation, crumbling to literal mounds on the floor. Definitely needs a HUGE overhaul. All at the asking price of $180K. It was $220K at one point. Far as I know it's not haunted, probably. If I had the money and some to overhaul it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
My house is a 6 bedroom Victorian farmhouse that was built in 1865. The locals have told me some scary stories of it being haunted but my family (husband and 2 kids) and I have never heard/seen anything. I do have to admit that we have all heard things, like somebody walking up/down the stairs when we're home alone but we just assume it's one of our animals. 🤷♀️ Who knows.
I grew up in a haunted house! No problem. I would love that house in Michigan. It doesn’t look to hard to freshen up, get rid of the animal decorations too! It’s a lovely home or a bed and breakfast !
I deal with a lot of anxiety and sometimes have panic attacks... I watch these videos when my anxiety is at its strongest and I need something to completely take my mind off my misery... watching these is kinda like therapy for me too. I almost always end up calming down enough to feel normal again.
And the best thing is that Be Amazed actually does proper research. Because over 90% of fact channels don't even do proper research and sometimes make up things.
If I were wealthy (and I’m not!), I might consider the last house on the lake with all of the acreage. Turn it into some sort of resort. Maybe build some little cottages, pools, tennis/pickle ball courts, etc. I enjoyed this video. Thank you.
My pick in this video would be the William O. Wyckoff mansion, Carleton Island Villa. I'd have it torn down, and save everything that could be reused, then have it rebuilt. On the other hand, it has no electricity or running water. I assume it's impossible to get those things, so the whole project would be for nothing.
The house on lake superior has serious structural issues. It's totally amazing, but the repairs would be astronomical. I watched a special and they talked about it. It's a shame because it's really cool.
That house is something I 100% envisioned in my writing about the house where they are housing people with depression & other mental illnesses. I'm suffering from MDD & BPD, that house looks like a very perfect place for someone like me. All I need is money lol
I recognize a lot of these homes from the UrbanX photography community. I personally love the natural deterioration and find it so beautiful when nature takes over.
As someone who doesn’t believe in ghosts, I would 100% buy some of those. Fix the creaking foundations so the furniture stops moving, find the holes in the roof and insulation that are causing the “voices” and patch them up, and locate all the “chilly” spots and determine what’s causing them. Easy peasy lemon squeezy
I have stayed in an old Victorian Manor Estate. Four floors above ground, with a full basement and full attic. Half wrap around porch, that connected to a side porch where the staff would go in and out of near the kitchen and near the pantry. Off to the side they had built on to house the washer and dryer and other utilities they added on later to go inside the home. The details were so beautiful and the decor was lavishly done as though the original home owners would have had it back in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s before the Great Depression. The bed room I slept in for several days was called the Rose Room, and my parents stayed in the room that was connected to the same bathroom as mine which was called the Lavender Room. I don’t remember where this house was located, but it also had a large parking area for guests. Wish I could have something like that one day.
I lived in a haunted house in my childhood, no problems with the ghosts at all, they started to appear after a house fire that really barely affected my siblings and I emotionally at all since we weren't there at the time and insurance paid for a stay in a nice hotel. So none of that trauma making us see stuff shit. My older brother, grandmother and I as well as one of our friends and my mother's boyfriend also saw one of the ghosts, but my mother who has fairly high prescription glasses saw nothing. Everyone but my grandmother saw a dark silhouette of a man in a trench coat, she one the other hand saw two young girls playing skip rope in Victorian dresses, which kind of makes sense because she was sleeping in what used to be a play room while we were in normal rooms. We talked to one of the neighbors who had lived in the area for his whole life and he pulled out an old photo of one of the previous owners. The ghosts didn't harm any of us or make threatening moves, but the person who caused the fire said he felt an oppressive feeling and never stayed long in the house after that which was as far as I care a Blessing from our protective ghostly friends. So don't dick around in the house and the ghosts should treat you alright.
I'd take any one of them! Nobody lived in my current home for years before I bought it because it's haunted. Before I moved in it was a church and there had been many funerals here and on the other side of the field behind it is a HUGE graveyard. I know they are here, my Partner knows they are here and eventually he got used to them and sometimes guests experience things too. I have psychic abilities (clairaudience) and once we "understood each other" they quit the harassment and we sort of just became roommates. Unless you have demons there is nothing to fear from a haunted house.. they are usually just trying to scare you off. So many people would crap down their leg to know how many haunted houses are out there.. nobody has to have died in your home for it to be haunted.. the Spirits can literally follow you home from the grocery store.
I lived in a haunted house for 22 years. We moved there when I was nine. At first, I was terrified. By my teen years, I was inviting friends over to freak them out with the ghosts. I got the point where I'd yell at the ghosts if they got too annoying. Lol
That's just it...demons are a nightmare to deal with. I'm an intuitive empath, HSP and claircognizant so I'm a beacon for spirits. Most human spirits are tolerable but then damn demons ...I ignore it now and it leaves me alo e but it's still there...it's exhausting having abilities
0:36 $0...WITH A CATCH 3:35 ANN STARRET MANSION 6:32 FORECLOSING FORTRESS 8:54 $1,000 HOME 11:13 PETERSON'S FOLLY 13:22 CARLETON ISLAND VILLA 16:18 MINXIONG HOUSE 18:00 HAUNTED HOUSE ON THE HOUSE! 19:42 SK PIERCE MANSION 22:27 GRANOT LOMA
The young couple who own it have done a remarkable job of restoring it. It's not haunted as far as I know. I live a block from it. This is my hometown and we are 6 generations from here. I would've heard if it were haunted. It's for sale as a B&B now. And it's VERY expensive.
As a city planner, I find the decision of the planning committee, unfathomable and short sighted. As for turning it into an apartment complex, that is commercial and only 6 parking spaces would be required for three units.
Petersons Folly (Sway Tower), was known as the first concrete man-made structure that the Victorians said would not stay upright, It has always shown interest to me as a landmark when I walk in the New Forest. A girlfriend's great grandad was one of the locals who had built the dome
I was raised and still live in Syracuse NY and have seen the $1000 house quite often in my daily travels. It is a shame that it sits unattended as it could be a beautiful restored home. I wish I could buy and restore it but I'm currently working on restoring a different 120 year old Victorian home I purchased in the area.
The Kaufman house is an awesome estate. The problem about the home is how close to the lake and losing land. I have visited the estate many times and if I had the money I would buy it.
I knew Chris Marks growing up. My parents were friends with him. We used to go over his house all the time (not the one in the video, but when he lived in MA). He was definitely an eclectic character. Not much of a talker. His long time GF at the time, she was super nice. I remember the animals and the different things he had in his house. He used to have an African Serval cat inside the house. He'd always have it locked in an upstairs bathroom, which I thought was weird. He didn't have any of those weird rooms in the basement but he had a room full of miniatures that he would paint and make dioramas out of. He was really into the medieval stuff. I remember he had an authentic full suit of armor in his entry way and swords hanging on the wall. He had a horse too, named King Richard. He had camels (we used to have camel rides), zebras, emus, various bird species, zeedonks, etc. I remember he built like this mini Taj Mahal outbuilding behind his house. He had plans to get a lion and that was going to be it's enclosure. Not sure what ever came of any of it because I left home when I graduated. Dude was definitely.... out there. And so much money, didn't even know what to do with it.
Thanks for sharing. He sounds so interesting. I think it’s great when people who have money are eccentric like that. Like if you have enough money to do whatever you want and you just have a basic expensive house, it shows a real lack of personality and imagination.
Regarding the Chris Mark castle in CT: That “cage” hanging in the pole dancing room: NOT a cage! It’s a Lyra. Another form of aerial art like pole dancing & trapeze. The most common Lyra (or gymnastics hoop) is just a hoop. I have one in my backyard & I LOVE it!!! I certainly can’t say WHY he has that room in his castle or what he used it for, but it looked like there were also silks (another aerial art) hanging in a corner. And’s the cage looks like something they’d use in a magic show, or rather the ones where someone has to get out of some form of captivity. (Could explain the binding things, especially if they’re in that room! Just sayin.) Regardless, I’d love to own a room just for all that! And if I had a castle, you can BET I’d have my own aerial arts room! And that one looks just like an aerial arts room should. PS. I looked the house up to see where it is: it’s only a half hour from me!!! Will never afford it in this lifetime unfortunately, but I will absolutely go check it out as soon as I get a chance!!! (Copying & Posting this as a general comment for everyone else as well. Just wanted to be sure anyone who commented on that house specifically got a chance to see this message.)
Okay maybe this might sound funny but if the Addams Family existed in real life I could imagine them getting the house for 1.5m.... Just alone the fact that they love haunted and mysterious things, would make it attractive to them.
Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see as a glance of wealth, a great career, and purpose is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who is reading this will be successful in life.
I want to compliment you, you have said it all. I am a little business owner and I really want to expand my business to the next level by making myself an investor but I really don't know how to go about it..
CORRECTION: NOT EVERYONE wants to live in a mansion. Some of us are actually pragmatic and recognize the value of enjoying and experiencing a moderate life that rings true to themselves vs. slaving away in the interest of competing or keeping up with the Jones'. 1) Literally NO ONE needs a mansion and excess almost NEVER equals happiness. 2) Virtues and vices are distinguished as such for good reason guys.
Even Elon Musk sold his real estate holdings to live in a tiny house put up on the corner of one of SpaceX's launch pads in Texas. I'm plenty happy with my 90 yo small block house in the country.
Imagine the cost on heating and cooling those mansions too. Yeah, my 1400sq ft house is small but I can afford to have it at 80°F in the dead of winter and 69°F in the dead of summer if I so desired.
Ahhh Syracuse. I bought my abandoned house 3 years ago in good ol cuse and fixed it up. There are so many abandoned beautiful houses but in areas that I would never set foot in
I actually know someone who moved their house, built in the 1800’s. And her husband and contractor adult sons restored the house themselves and the couple lived there for a few years. It was beautiful. Then they sold it for over a mil. netting a nice profit. So it can be worth it if it is the right property and you do the restoration yourself which saves a lot of money.
My house is so haunted, the ghosts are scared of the ghosts. My house is so haunted, the ghosts have seances. My house is so haunted, the Munsters were too scared to live there. My house is so haunted, the Addams family were the previous owners. My house is so haunted, it made the cover of Better Haunted House and Garden Magazine. That's all I got. 🤣
In general, when buying an old house on the cheap it really comes down to renovation costs. The difference in renovation costs are structural vs cosmetic. It's one thing to redo decades old, mixed gaudy décor by replacing counter tops, flooring, cabinets, toilet-tub-tile-sink, linoleum and removing wall paper vs a herculean effort to repair or replace multiple things like failing floor and ceiling joists, warped out floors and stud walls & faulty foundation issues. Buyer beware...
I've been to the Min Xiong house in Taiwan. It seems a single banyan tree has taken over the whole place. I didn't experience anything paranormal but it was truly creepy.
The mosquitoes in the wild brush around the mansion are way worse than any imaginary ghosts. The "ghost house" cafe next door is OK; I wonder if they own the mansion property as well.
You can co - habit with unexplained things in a house. I live in a house that has been passed down in my husbands family since 1684, and the oldest part of the house is strange. Very strange. Footsteps, unexplained electrical failures, sounds and smell of someone cooking over open fire in the preserved fire place and so on. I decided to _respect whatever it was. I started to knock before entering the rooms, im saying "hello", I talk to "nothing" telling the house that we will have visitor's before our guests arrived, etc._ Just like you do with a roommate. The atmosphere has changed 180 degrees and we feel welcomed home every time we have been away. It isn't that hard. Things still happen, but it's on a lower more seldom level, I feel totally safe here, and the house is very, very beautiful. 😍
I grew up with the granddaughter of the Ann Starret mansion, we even visited it, with her grandmother. I wonder what she thinks about the house being abandoned and on these videos. Btw the staircase is amazing.
C’mon Be Amazed! You completely missed the joke about the Chris Mark castle not having any ghosts but having a lot of dark secrets! You should have said, “while it doesn’t have any ghosts, there are plenty of SKELETONS in the closets!” or something like that 😂 Loved the video, though ❤️❤️
There is a house in Alpine, Utah on South Main Street that was built by my family in 1855. It is a 4 bedroom, one bathroom house, with a 3/4 acre lot. It is still in very good condition as well. It stayed in the family until 2020. We sold it for $1,500,000 to a company that wanted to have it as some kind of photo place. But somehow the private school next door bought it after that and wants to tear it down to be a lame parking lot for them. The city fought back so it would stay and be put as a historic location. The main reason the city fought back to get it is because it was the first house out of the Alpine fort, and the first general store in Alpine. With what I have heard, the city did not win it back and it will be torn down soon.
"Peterson's Folly" more generally known as Sway Tower is a much beloved landmark in the New Forest It's great it got renovated, but yeah it would be brutal to live in.. but the views must be amazing. I have lived only about 3 miles from there all my life. As a listed building I believe it does have some protected status. I hope it finds a guardian because it is culturally and architecturally important
My daughter has been wanting me to go on holiday with her (I'm a home body). I would very much like to go to the haunted home you can stay in. Totally willing to sign whatever. I'll bring a few great chickflicks and we can make a weekend out of it =)♡ Here in Canada, I have to admit I have never heard of anyone not buying a home or leaving a home because it's haunted. Maybe our winters are so cold we don't turn anyone away? 💛🤣😂🤣😂
I also did not believe in ghosts. But then I lived in a house where we would hear footsteps, voices, latched doors opening in front of us, and I had constant nightmares. We looked up the history of the home and 3 out of the 5 owners prior to myself had committed suicide in the last 10 years. When I moved out and into my new house I did not experience anything at all and had no more nightmares; I have not in the 3 houses I've lived in since and still haven't experienced anything like it. If ghosts are not real, then I don't know why we would have experienced those things. (We did not know of the suicides prior to the experiences so we were not influenced by that knowledge, it was something we learned after looking into the history of the home after the many occurrences). If you do not believe in ghosts then I am happy for you because then you did not experience what we did. I would rather be homeless than live there again. It is possible that we all lost our minds living in that house and immediately came back to our senses as soon as we moved, but that also seems unlikely. My goal isn't to convince anyone, it's just nice to share my experience with others who may potentially be able to relate. A lot of people can be condescending about this topic so I don't bring it up to anyone I know.
They're absolute money pits.... considering the price for relocation, requalification, permits, restoration and upkeep on some of these... truly scary!!
I'd get that Carlton island mansion if I had the money. You can't tell me that wouldn't be a great anti-zombie refuge! Some solar panels or other green energy generation and evaporation pools for fresh, potable water would make things pretty nice. Plenty of land to possibly farm too.
The second house is so beautiful that I got the chills looking at it. That’s my dream house. I don’t mind the haunting. I want it! And the only thing sinister and unnerving about Chris mark castle is the 60 million price tag 😅 maybe I’ll end up buying it if amc squeezes really good 😅
Apparently that For Sale sign in Clifton TN isn’t the only sign of that type in Tennessee. I was going home from Cardiac Rehab and saw a house just up the street from where I was living and it had a sign just like that. It stayed up about 2 months but it took another year I think before the house sold. This was in Chattanooga in a very nice neighborhood!
I would totally take the cabin at the end, or some of the other ones ( not the ones that require so much work and should just be torn down ) I'm not afraid of paranormal activity because I believe in a higher power that can get rid of that problem.
The Minxiong Ghost House (16:26) I think it would be better to find the blueprints and REBUILD from Scratch and that way you have your plumbing and electric up to code and the place can look exactly as originally intended. And if you rebuild elsewhere then hopefully you could eliminate the hauntings with a new location and new structure. IMHO
Moving houses/buildings was a common practice in Toronto in the 80's and 90's. I honestly thought until 12 when I actually moved that moving house literally meant just moving your house to a new location lo
The first one sounds like a tempting offer, if i owned a patch of land big enough for that house and enough money to relocate it there i'd definitely take it
Hell i would take it right now if it wasn't up north. Cheaper to rezone the land than it is to move the house. But I have enough snow and cold to deal with in Missouri, I need a free house like that farther south where it stays warmer.
If I had the cash I would love the log cabin on Lake Superior. Our family spent every summer in Marquette, MI until Mother passed. Could only use as a summer home tho. Too cold in the winter for me.
Very interesting video. I've been to the Minxiong "ghost house" several times; in fact, I have a geocache hidden there. Luckily, I don't believe in ghosts, and nothing has haunted me there except for all of the mosquitoes in the area.
Horrible yes. Only if my whole family and friends were living there too. Houses aren't meant to have tons of empty rooms doing nothing with no life in them.
It's not all it's cracked up to be. It can be downright scary at times. Tho I didn't live with a ghost I lived with a demon. Probably still hanging around but in sleeper mode I guess as it doesn't mess with me as much anymore
@@berlyngrey9242 I'd believe demons are real, There's a spiritual conflict and the shit I've heard and seen the past couple of years. The only way to explain some of it is demons ripping at people to do crazy things. I'm sorry you went through your experience and I hope it never comes back. It wouldn't be fun to constantly be on edge.
The sign on the TN house saying "not haunted", some states require real estate agents and owners to disclose if the house is haunted. Stambovsky v. Ackley, in other states the realtor may put it up as humor, or as a way to prevent a lawsuit.
I think the neighborhood I grew up in might have been built over a burial ground or something. I know of several houses on my block alone that were haunted. One house 2 doors down from mine was definitely haunted, no one ever stayed there longer than a month or two, ever. Another down the street where I had friends was haunted because one day while playing after school in their house all the cabinet doors in the kitchen started opening and slamming shut on their own - I freaked out and wouldn’t go back inside, ever. We were the only ones there that day, their parents were still at work. The house beside mine on the corner caught fire about 5 times while I lived there. I lived there the first 22 years of my life and my mom went through high school living in that house and she said that house caught fire many times before I was even born. That was just my little 600 block (22 houses) of that division, I can imagine that whole area experienced things.
No. Never really dreamed of only a mansion. For one the issue isn't with owning one it's more about maintaining one large buildings don't clean themselves not including you pay a whole lot more in taxes on a large building and the utility bills on Mansions are extraordinary as well. So I wouldn't exactly put only a mansion high on most people's want list not that I wouldn't want to have the money it cost to buy and maintain one plus let's kind of define a mansion is it 10 rooms makes it a mansion is it 20 rooms making a mansion I've been to Graceland and you can barely call it a mansion.
Actually there was this rundown creepy crackhouse in my neighborhood that people thought was haunted, but still somehow a couple bought it and the house was put on a house flipper show and looks brand new now
I have the same orange counter as the 1st house! If I had 20 mil to spend on a property, and the money to support and maintain it, I would live in the last one.... maybe convert part of it to a retreat destination.
I've only watched the first part with the first house, so far, but how could you say that $350K ($200K to move it and $100K to renovate it) is substantially less than the median $450K house price in the area if you're not even including the cost of land? Is that the new math?
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*It's the COST of repair/ restoration that's actually HAUNTING, not the ghosts.*
The fact that adults believe in ghosts is absurd
@@ryanspangler4569 sell your house and buy a nice cheap haunted house then
@@ryanspangler4569 I'm a "To see is to believe person". Real ghosts are just another form of demons but people should be more discerning rather than believing in gossip stories or legends. If Im bored, have time and money, I would buy a "haunted house" if it's not really haunted at all and fix it back to it's glory. 🤣
such a waste of beautiful homes as a result of small town gossip :(
@@ryanspangler4569 I believe in an afterlife and that there can be occasional encounters with those who have passed (like when my mom was ill in the hospital and saw her deceased father standing in her room), but it's nothing to be afraid of. "Ghosts" haunting places and trying to scare people? Nah
I don't think anyone realizes that even if you buy these at really low prices, the property tax costs would kill you.
Especially the Chris Mark castle. Its in Connecticut, USA. That state has very high taxes. Crooks!!
I wouldn't if its one of the moveable ones I'd have it set on the beams and report as a shed as for the castle I'd file for the land patent which was before deeds and states you as the owner now and forever are the sole owner and no other entity has any interest rights or claim to the property in question. And only give copies never the original to anyone
That' s what I was thinking and all the other bills too!
Property Taxes are theft.
I actually personally know Chris mark and have been inside the castle. It’s not abandoned and really incredible.
My lifetime friend lived in the large house on the same property which you can easily see from the air to the left of the mansion facing it from the road. Sadly it burned down a few years back.
The taxes really aren’t all that crazy in Woodstock CT and Chris mark himself lives there currently with his family
I just bought a 6bd 4b stone home in the country near the northern border. It was built in 1834 and thankfully has been kept in excellent condition by the people who have owned it. It stayed in the family for over a hundred years. Renovations have taken place and great care has been given. I could only afford it because of its location. The floors could use a sanding and resealing and the gardens are a bit overgrown, but it is in excellent condition. It has a history with the Underground Railroad. Their are names carved in the attic rafters. The tunnel collapsed long ago. Im not sure why this dream was able to come true but I know it is imperative that my gratitude is shown by giving back to the community we've joined and the world in everyway I can.
That sounds amazing! I'd love to see pics of that! Also sounds like the PERFECT place to do some metal detecting...who knows what cool stuff you would find.
Good for you! I’m buying a 1910 ish small farmhouse in NW Arkansas on 2 acres
I'd take it
I love ghosts
Can I come over I’m really funny I promise not to eat to much and ghost really like me
The Ann Starett mansion is now an Airbnb. It's absolutely gorgeous.
Good to hear. Port Townsend is a beautiful town.
One of my aunts once owned a house that was built in 1777. It was super haunted but yet still lived in it for decades.
She was probably like "pffft. Screw the ghosts, this is MY house and I'm staying in it."
@@ameliaterry1240 Pretty Much
Just co existing with the ghosts....they probably liked her.
Not all of them are dark and can even be protective.
Like England lol
3:36 Ann Starrett Mansion $1,500,00
6:00 "Not haunted" $99,950
6:33 Foreclosing fortress $60,000,000
8:55 $1,000 home
11:13 Peterson's folly $2,500,00
13:23 Carleton Island Villa $495,000
16:19 Minxiong Ghost House $474,901
18:00 Haunted house on the house
19:40 SK Pierce Mansion
22:28 Granite Loma
If I had the money, I would gladly buy any one of these homes and fix them up...alright, maybe only half of them.
You’re my hero
Well I'm not quite worthy of the Justice League or the Avengers...
@@matthewwells2520 That’s right. Combined yes…
Don't forget the $0 house at the beginning. I still want to know why it was moved
@@judybaird7842 It is at the beginning so I didn't feel like time stamping it. Sorry if that made it harder for some of you.
Owning a home like these is strictly for the wealthy. I own a 120 year old wooden house, and the problems are amazingly expensive. The chimney is leaning because the underlying foundation has previous termite damage. $45k. The upstairs floor joists are dry rotted and the floor is sagging, leading to the downstairs room having a sagging ceiling, which has caused the drywall and molding to crack. To fix it is another 28k. The metal roof is leaking above the kitchen, causing water damage to the ceiling rafters and the kitchen ceiling. $8k.
I have the money and I will pay for the repairs, but I can’t find a contractor to do it. They’re all making money building new homes and dealing with the labor shortage . If I actually do get someone out to give me an estimate, it’s outrageous. I guess I’ll keep dealing with the problems until we hit a recession and I can find someone licensed who wants the work.
Wow. If I were closer. I’d negotiate.
I'm sure there's someone who would have tge skills to do this. a semi retired person, or someone so passionate about old homes. a history buff who is an engineer. it would be incredible to do & get this done. I know some1 who could do that kind of work. he in ontario canada & I bet he would. there must be others.
I'd find a way to get help by setting it up for homeless people who are clean from addiction or get clean and find a safe place to live as a well done, any way I could, I watched 2 Drs talking about their near death experiences, this life according to 100s of people is something we chose for a reason, watching them changed my perception of everything humans believe to be important, once you find who you really are and why you're really here the rest will just...fall into place, trust your gut ❤ 💙 🙂👍🇦🇺.
@@megs4193 homeless people aren’t free labor. Most homeless people don’t have the skills needed to redo the problems he mentioned. Not to mention if you let in homeless people, who do lie about addictions, they could trash the house before he would have to legally evict them. Letting people into your home is problematic in its self.
Experts believe a recession will be coming very soon, so you'll be able to get the help in no time
It’s a shame that houses are abandoned when there are so many people without a place to live.
Yeah,that's what I was thinking too. Very sad!
That's what happens when you let people treat real estate as an investment commodity.
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¨Let¨ people treat their own property as they deem fit? The utter gall! LOL!
@@jaelge read their comment again.... I think you missed a very important part..
99% of the homeless would only trash them. Besides, these homes arent located where homelessness is a particular problem. Would you suggest they be moved to accommodate the inner city homeless using taxpayer money? Where would they be placed? On property also at taxpayer´s expense? How would they be maintained? Who would pay for the running water, electricity, etc?
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The city owned an old home across the street from a property my sister owned. We learned they were going to tear it down and just sell the lot. So she looked into just moving it across the street. She got a bid and moving a house a few hundred feet was $20k. I wasn’t really too shocked it peaked my curiosity of what such services cost. I talked to the contractor and he explained that the cost goes up fast when you start having to make arrangements with municipalities to move power lines for a day etc. It’s an art of the path of least resistance and not something any chump could take on. I’m glad I got to talk to someone who did it I was fascinated by it.
Piqued.
My house is about 300 years old. It had been abandoned for 17 years before I bought it cash, fairly cheap. Three stories, in a 700 year old town in not quite rural southern France, 15 rooms. Needs a lot of work but I do live within it's thick stone walls.
That sounds awesome!
It would be awesome if you showed us a house tour on TH-cam.
@@christinamartinez8132 I was thinking the same thing. I would love to see it!
15 rooms as in including the living rooms, dining rooms, kitchen, laundry room, bathroom etc or 15 rooms for the bedrooms alone?
You are getting ppl interested. Can you please make a video of your beautiful home???
While haunting is given as the primary reason some of these places are unsellable, I suspect that it's more likely that the price is too high for what you get. Most of them will require costly renovation/restoration in addition to the sales price.
And for the "castle", the second most important reason after the price tag is probably that it's utterly tasteless.
That's where Spiritual Cleaners come in. There is power in the name of Jesus!
@@darlenealexander5547 also sage and just general intention setting with or without a deity
@@murphychurch8251 no. Poor people don’t give a single fuq about that shii.
Bob I agree its the money not the imaginary ghosts. Rich people like to buy new stuff, the ones that would actually be interested can't afford the price, they dont give a crap about the ghost stories, so the houses just sit and rot away.
I actually remember my dad showing me that last one a few years ago. If I'm perfectly honest, the taxidermy could easily be stored away and the decor isn't really that bad. Though, that depends on who you ask, but I don't think it's terrible. If I could afford it, I'd live there since the main issue seems to be the interior design and I personally don't really care about that sort of thing.
exactly sell at an auction or give it away
I'd burn the taxidermy. I personally think it's creepy to have dead animals on the walls and displayed around the home.
I would be more concerned with rising water levels.
@@robinwalderhaug2842 it’s been there for years and years and never been an issue. It’s right on Lake Superior which doesn’t really rise in water levels
Kinda like the people who poopoo a house because they don't like the paint colour inside (or outside). It's paint. You can repaint it any colour you like.
If I lived in the US and had enough money I would 100% buy the Ann Starett House in a heart beat! It has fully stolen my heart ❤️
It is beautiful
Agreed
I have been in love with the Starrett house every since I first saw it in a video years ago. The history, the architecture... all of it! I ever win the lottery, she will be my first purchase, and I will honor the ghosts of her first family. ❤
I would totally live in one of the haunted mansions. They are beautiful. Even if I couldn't live in those mansions if I were a millionaire I would buy the haunted mansions and use them as a Halloween attraction or charge ghost hunters for investigating those places 😎
As long as the ghost(s) wouldn't try to kill me, I would bottle up my fear of ghosts just to live in a cheapo mansion.
I would charge the ghosts and since they don't have jobs their gonna have to leave the mansion
Smart xD
I’d call the ghostbusters
Lol
Don't be afraid of ghosts ... be afraid of people who are still alive. THEY are the ones to watch out for.
Exactly!!!
My mom said the same thing! lol
@@lynnrinaldo6795 Ikr?? Give me a haunted mansion for a buck, those ghosts will be out of there the next night running for their "lives"...
😂😂😂
Being a researcher of the paranormal I would definitely buy a haunted house, as long as it wasn't like poltergeist where they built the house over a graveyard and didn't move the bodies, who's brilliant idea was that?
rmeber...they lied about tht...
rmeber in the end whn all was going dwn..& the realtor(also his friend..)pulled up, whn evrythng was going dwn right in frnt of him...& the dad grabbed him & said..."you lied, you lied to me...u moved the stones but not the bodies...u left the bodies here...!!!"...yeah poltegeist rocked..!!..anyhow, they was supposed to move the whole grave site...*caskets & the headstones..but they ddn't...
from where i come its normal to build a house in cemetary without moving any skeletons left. you'd hear someone always you after 9pm but its normal. 🤣
Don't go towards the light, there is danger in the light.
Anyone who doesn't believe in that sort of thing. Or doesn't care, one or the other....
That really happened somewhere
For the SK Mansion, I've seen the episode of Ghost Adventures where they investigated the mansion, and interviewed the owners, who you mentioned in the video, and the hauntings are attributed to all the deaths that occurred inside it, including a WW2 veteran who supposedly died from spontaneous combustion, and the fact there was a tunnel in the basement that connected to SK's factory across the street. The tunnel had closed off entrances on both sides and has since collapsed. And because it's collapsed, it may never be known what occurred in that tunnel. Who knows, there could be bodies buried under it. And no one can explain the little boy that is the most seen ghost in the house is. It's not a member of the Pierce family, that they know for sure. But all the death and illegal activity that took place inside the mansion, yeah, no one would want that house. But because it's historic, not just because of the ghosts, it can't be torn down, unless it poses a potential safety hazard. So it could sit abandoned for many more years, and yet, it will always be taken care of to appease the spirits that still call it home.
I have a passion for victorian mansions, so watching this certainly sparked my interest! I recently purchased the 7,500 square foot, Norvell mansion, in southeast Texas, along with all the original, beautiful, and ornate, antique furniture, and I certainly wouldn't mind adding a few more to my collection! I'm a psychic medium, so haunted properties are no problem for me❣️👻 As a matter of fact, after watching this, I immediately looked up the Ann-Starrett mansion, to see if it was still on the market, but it was actually purchased in 2023. There are still many, stunning victorian homes available though, so my eyes are, certainly, always open!! Im currently looking into the Jungsen mansion, in Illinois, which I find to be quite beautiful, and priced very affordably, as well. I'm a cash buyer, and always looking, so if anyone happens to have any good leads, then feel free to send them my way!❤
For the first one (with the house) I wonder if instead of a using it as an apartment, if she could turn it into a B&B and run it as a business. It would then possibly fit the zoning laws as commercial possibly. I guess my question is how did the elderly woman get the house moved to that location in the first place if it was zoned as commercial?
I can tell you that it was moved from the residential to the commercial edge of the city.
She was quite the lady, she had a collection of antique cars that were amazing!
She would let me come in and look at them when I was about 10-ish and I loved them!
They were model Ts, and she had about half a dozen of that vintage.
@@monkeynumbernine sounds like she was a cool grandma
@@universeguy4771
🎉😂 Definitely!
@@monkeynumbernine what is that next door it also looked a bit like a house except for the weird chimney funnel thing
It didn't cost that much to move a home back when she moved the house & we don't know how much money her grandmother had at that time
This one of your best videos yet! In spite of the ghosts, the interiors are to drool over. I've been lucky enough to spend summers with two relatives who've had the houses since they were built (1900 and 1925, respectively) and all those times were blissful, learning the eccentricities of old house design and exploring the treasures in the basements, attics, bookcases and storage cupboards. Where else could you find kits for patching kidskin (an early kind of whitewall) tires or 1910 era extracts for making birch beer? And spices in their original 1930s packaging stored in a zinc-lined icebox converted to a cupboard? And then there's a set of pewter charms to be baked into a cake. Whatever was in your slice told your fortune ... provided it didn't chip a tooth or lodge in your windpipe.
That's brilliant. My home is from the 1880s in the U.K. Unfortunately many of the original features where removed before me, not all tho.
@@clareharrison3361 Keep looking. They can't have gotten everything out of the attic, the basement, waaaay back on shelves or behind kitchen drawers.
Awesome
I’m living in a 1925 house owned for decades by my friend’s family. It’s Arts and Crafts style. Although it is bigger than my grandparents’ house, it is of the same age nd style, so I feel so comfortable here! I love the laundry chute, the cut glass windows, and the huge front porch!
@@juliebragdonarmstrong4191 Some of those porches have been used as sleeping porches, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. The house I lived in when I was in college had half the third story fitted out as a sleeping porch. Instead of windows, all sides were window screens. It was heaven to sleep there, even when it was snowing outside. And yes we all had electric blankets -- the most-requested care package ever! Nowadays converting to a sleeping porch would require burglar bars as well as screens. How things have changed since I was in college 60 years ago!
No matter where I live, or even just visit....it is ALWAYS haunted. I honestly, truly , cannot think of one single place that I've ever spent time where the past energy and/or people do not still reside and show themselves(to varying degrees). I have a large, beautiful, loving family and I'd 100% pay a discounted price to live in a large, lovely, likely haunted home. An abundance of $ is one thing I have not been able to provide my 6 kids and 3 grandkids...it's ALWAYS been my dream to have a home where my growing family can come and stay anytime. Most spirits are simply confused people. It us not difficult to show them compassion and respect. It is very possible to help them move on or even peacefully share space.The more difficult ones, in my experience, don't find much strength at all when you ignore them...
I loved this video. Going to look for my dream home.
One normal person thank you I had an experience in my appartment when the previous owner had suicide I learned it after 3 years and we just help him to move on spirits don't have much power unless you are to idiot to give them
I would like to have tea and a chat with someone like you!
@@annahappen7036 absolutely anytime!!♡♡
There's a house in my home town that I fell in love with as a kid. It was built by a banker in the 1900's and later on it became an apartment complex and back to being a regular house. I don't remember how many square feet it is but its pretty big. It's been renovated, mostly, but they kept the original woodwork on the inside but it needs a LOT of work. In the summer, it gets hot and humid since there's little to no airflow and I can't even imagine how much it would cost to keep the rooms cool/heated on top of the sale price. And the basement... original stone foundation, crumbling to literal mounds on the floor. Definitely needs a HUGE overhaul.
All at the asking price of $180K. It was $220K at one point. Far as I know it's not haunted, probably. If I had the money and some to overhaul it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
My house is a 6 bedroom Victorian farmhouse that was built in 1865. The locals have told me some scary stories of it being haunted but my family (husband and 2 kids) and I have never heard/seen anything. I do have to admit that we have all heard things, like somebody walking up/down the stairs when we're home alone but we just assume it's one of our animals. 🤷♀️ Who knows.
A big old Victorian farmhouse sounds amazing. I’m so jealous!
Sounds like a beautiful home, and not to worry, ghosts do not exist, they are just trying to scare people.
You can't tell animal from human steps?
I grew up in a haunted house! No problem. I would love that house in Michigan. It doesn’t look to hard to freshen up, get rid of the animal decorations too! It’s a lovely home or a bed and breakfast !
good thing that you loved it because if it was a demon I don't think it'd be so much fun
Not gonna lie, Be Amazed is my therapy, not only because the videos are awesome it's because it's all facts.
How cool are the edits...very well done
I deal with a lot of anxiety and sometimes have panic attacks... I watch these videos when my anxiety is at its strongest and I need something to completely take my mind off my misery... watching these is kinda like therapy for me too. I almost always end up calming down enough to feel normal again.
Hi sugs 💜 i agree so much tho, hes my therapy too
And the best thing is that Be Amazed actually does proper research. Because over 90% of fact channels don't even do proper research and sometimes make up things.
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If I were wealthy (and I’m not!), I might consider the last house on the lake with all of the acreage. Turn it into some sort of resort. Maybe build some little cottages, pools, tennis/pickle ball courts, etc. I enjoyed this video. Thank you.
if i won the lottery I'd buy that house for sure
My pick in this video would be the William O. Wyckoff mansion, Carleton Island Villa. I'd have it torn down, and save everything that could be reused, then have it rebuilt. On the other hand, it has no electricity or running water. I assume it's impossible to get those things, so the whole project would be for nothing.
The house on lake superior has serious structural issues. It's totally amazing, but the repairs would be astronomical. I watched a special and they talked about it. It's a shame because it's really cool.
That house is something I 100% envisioned in my writing about the house where they are housing people with depression & other mental illnesses. I'm suffering from MDD & BPD, that house looks like a very perfect place for someone like me. All I need is money lol
@@ViolaLenoraAvelon plenty of off the grid options nowadays if you had the money.
I recognize a lot of these homes from the UrbanX photography community. I personally love the natural deterioration and find it so beautiful when nature takes over.
Personally, I feel a sense of disappointment and loss. Maybe it reminds me of what will happen to my body when I leave it.
As someone who doesn’t believe in ghosts, I would 100% buy some of those. Fix the creaking foundations so the furniture stops moving, find the holes in the roof and insulation that are causing the “voices” and patch them up, and locate all the “chilly” spots and determine what’s causing them. Easy peasy lemon squeezy
I have stayed in an old Victorian Manor Estate. Four floors above ground, with a full basement and full attic. Half wrap around porch, that connected to a side porch where the staff would go in and out of near the kitchen and near the pantry. Off to the side they had built on to house the washer and dryer and other utilities they added on later to go inside the home. The details were so beautiful and the decor was lavishly done as though the original home owners would have had it back in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s before the Great Depression. The bed room I slept in for several days was called the Rose Room, and my parents stayed in the room that was connected to the same bathroom as mine which was called the Lavender Room. I don’t remember where this house was located, but it also had a large parking area for guests. Wish I could have something like that one day.
I'm just praying for a tiny house on a little piece of land.
I lived in a haunted house in my childhood, no problems with the ghosts at all, they started to appear after a house fire that really barely affected my siblings and I emotionally at all since we weren't there at the time and insurance paid for a stay in a nice hotel.
So none of that trauma making us see stuff shit.
My older brother, grandmother and I as well as one of our friends and my mother's boyfriend also saw one of the ghosts, but my mother who has fairly high prescription glasses saw nothing. Everyone but my grandmother saw a dark silhouette of a man in a trench coat, she one the other hand saw two young girls playing skip rope in Victorian dresses, which kind of makes sense because she was sleeping in what used to be a play room while we were in normal rooms. We talked to one of the neighbors who had lived in the area for his whole life and he pulled out an old photo of one of the previous owners.
The ghosts didn't harm any of us or make threatening moves, but the person who caused the fire said he felt an oppressive feeling and never stayed long in the house after that which was as far as I care a Blessing from our protective ghostly friends.
So don't dick around in the house and the ghosts should treat you alright.
Spooky
Shut up. Like literally your experience means nothing. If ghost actually exist I’m sure they don’t all act alike
Nice story. Thanks for sharing.
Cool
I'd take any one of them! Nobody lived in my current home for years before I bought it because it's haunted. Before I moved in it was a church and there had been many funerals here and on the other side of the field behind it is a HUGE graveyard. I know they are here, my Partner knows they are here and eventually he got used to them and sometimes guests experience things too. I have psychic abilities (clairaudience) and once we "understood each other" they quit the harassment and we sort of just became roommates. Unless you have demons there is nothing to fear from a haunted house.. they are usually just trying to scare you off. So many people would crap down their leg to know how many haunted houses are out there.. nobody has to have died in your home for it to be haunted.. the Spirits can literally follow you home from the grocery store.
I lived in a haunted house for 22 years. We moved there when I was nine. At first, I was terrified.
By my teen years, I was inviting friends over to freak them out with the ghosts.
I got the point where I'd yell at the ghosts if they got too annoying. Lol
That's just it...demons are a nightmare to deal with. I'm an intuitive empath, HSP and claircognizant so I'm a beacon for spirits. Most human spirits are tolerable but then damn demons ...I ignore it now and it leaves me alo e but it's still there...it's exhausting having abilities
0:36 $0...WITH A CATCH
3:35 ANN STARRET MANSION
6:32 FORECLOSING FORTRESS
8:54 $1,000 HOME
11:13 PETERSON'S FOLLY
13:22 CARLETON ISLAND VILLA
16:18 MINXIONG HOUSE
18:00 HAUNTED HOUSE ON THE HOUSE!
19:42 SK PIERCE MANSION
22:27 GRANOT LOMA
Unfortunately historic homes often lack insulation causing very high utility costs. Updating them is a major undertaking.
I love the origin story behind the 2nd mansion. Shame people are too scared to buy it.
I know rt!?
Same! It is absolutely stunning and the story behind it is so sweet. ❤
Port Townsend is such a lovely town too
The young couple who own it have done a remarkable job of restoring it. It's not haunted as far as I know. I live a block from it. This is my hometown and we are 6 generations from here. I would've heard if it were haunted. It's for sale as a B&B now. And it's VERY expensive.
As a city planner, I find the decision of the planning committee, unfathomable and short sighted. As for turning it into an apartment complex, that is commercial and only 6 parking spaces would be required for three units.
But why destroy a beautiful old house to make a ugly apartment building
There not destroying the house. She wants to turn the existing house into an apartment.
@@envyandgreed15 its better than abandoning the house.
@@Wasteland88 yea that is considering theres not many big beautiful houses anymore. Houses with charecter
The Starett home is totally worth it. I’m sure the “ghost” problem will take care of itself once the paranoid guests scaring everyone are all gone
It’s just so one of a kind and the original story on how it was built is just beautiful
I’m such an architecture nerd. These houses are BEAUTIFUL.
A castle with poledancing setup and cages is a dream. It's definitely the $60 million price tag that scares people away.
that and horrible looking exterior. I've seen old castles that looked nicer.
Very true!
Its also the location of it! Lots of info on this house out there. His daughters are on TikTok. You can rent it for projects.
@@777SilverPhoenix777 i love it! it looks like a fantasy castle. everything now is so boring and boxy, like a utilitarian night mare
Whose dream? Not mine.
Petersons Folly (Sway Tower), was known as the first concrete man-made structure that the Victorians said would not stay upright, It has always shown interest to me as a landmark when I walk in the New Forest. A girlfriend's great grandad was one of the locals who had built the dome
El Vira...
My❤ belongs to Elvira
So sad to see these beautiful buildings deteriorate
I was raised and still live in Syracuse NY and have seen the $1000 house quite often in my daily travels. It is a shame that it sits unattended as it could be a beautiful restored home. I wish I could buy and restore it but I'm currently working on restoring a different 120 year old Victorian home I purchased in the area.
It's NY taxes that kill it, for most. When your monthly tax bill is more than your mortgage.
The Kaufman house is an awesome estate. The problem about the home is how close to the lake and losing land. I have visited the estate many times and if I had the money I would buy it.
I knew Chris Marks growing up. My parents were friends with him. We used to go over his house all the time (not the one in the video, but when he lived in MA). He was definitely an eclectic character. Not much of a talker. His long time GF at the time, she was super nice. I remember the animals and the different things he had in his house. He used to have an African Serval cat inside the house. He'd always have it locked in an upstairs bathroom, which I thought was weird. He didn't have any of those weird rooms in the basement but he had a room full of miniatures that he would paint and make dioramas out of. He was really into the medieval stuff. I remember he had an authentic full suit of armor in his entry way and swords hanging on the wall. He had a horse too, named King Richard. He had camels (we used to have camel rides), zebras, emus, various bird species, zeedonks, etc. I remember he built like this mini Taj Mahal outbuilding behind his house. He had plans to get a lion and that was going to be it's enclosure. Not sure what ever came of any of it because I left home when I graduated. Dude was definitely.... out there. And so much money, didn't even know what to do with it.
Thanks for sharing. He sounds so interesting. I think it’s great when people who have money are eccentric like that. Like if you have enough money to do whatever you want and you just have a basic expensive house, it shows a real lack of personality and imagination.
Regarding the Chris Mark castle in CT:
That “cage” hanging in the pole dancing room: NOT a cage! It’s a Lyra. Another form of aerial art like pole dancing & trapeze. The most common Lyra (or gymnastics hoop) is just a hoop. I have one in my backyard & I LOVE it!!! I certainly can’t say WHY he has that room in his castle or what he used it for, but it looked like there were also silks (another aerial art) hanging in a corner. And’s the cage looks like something they’d use in a magic show, or rather the ones where someone has to get out of some form of captivity. (Could explain the binding things, especially if they’re in that room! Just sayin.) Regardless, I’d love to own a room just for all that! And if I had a castle, you can BET I’d have my own aerial arts room! And that one looks just like an aerial arts room should.
PS. I looked the house up to see where it is: it’s only a half hour from me!!!
Will never afford it in this lifetime unfortunately, but I will absolutely go check it out as soon as I get a chance!!!
(Copying & Posting this as a general comment for everyone else as well. Just wanted to be sure anyone who commented on that house specifically got a chance to see this message.)
Okay maybe this might sound funny but if the Addams Family existed in real life I could imagine them getting the house for 1.5m....
Just alone the fact that they love haunted and mysterious things, would make it attractive to them.
The "Not Haunted" for sale sign is actually really funny
What stops someone from taking the land, destroying the structure, and then building their own home on free land?
My exact thought
They don't want to invoke the evil spirits of the man who died there
Is this a riddle.......
Kinda like those villas in Italy that cost $1, there is a whole lot more to it than the land. Usually upkeep or property tax is hard to manage
@@Iknowyoumadnow yes, figure it out
Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see as a glance of wealth, a great career, and purpose is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who is reading this will be successful in life.
I want to compliment you, you have said it all. I am a little business owner and I really want to expand my business to the next level by making myself an investor but I really don't know how to go about it..
imagine investing in Btcoin earlier.... You could have been a multi millionaire precently
@@geralyncainglet2626 You are right. Been thinking of going into gold and cyptocurrency
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You’re right but a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance
I don’t care how broken or haunted that house in the thumbnail is, GIVE IT TO ME
Same lol. I like a challenge 😊
CORRECTION: NOT EVERYONE wants to live in a mansion. Some of us are actually pragmatic and recognize the value of enjoying and experiencing a moderate life that rings true to themselves vs. slaving away in the interest of competing or keeping up with the Jones'. 1) Literally NO ONE needs a mansion and excess almost NEVER equals happiness. 2) Virtues and vices are distinguished as such for good reason guys.
Even Elon Musk sold his real estate holdings to live in a tiny house put up on the corner of one of SpaceX's launch pads in Texas. I'm plenty happy with my 90 yo small block house in the country.
Imagine the cost on heating and cooling those mansions too. Yeah, my 1400sq ft house is small but I can afford to have it at 80°F in the dead of winter and 69°F in the dead of summer if I so desired.
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I was going to say the the same thing
Mansion = just more to clean. Who wants 6 bathrooms if you have to clean them? I'd be happy with a small 2 bedroom and bit of yard.
Ahhh Syracuse. I bought my abandoned house 3 years ago in good ol cuse and fixed it up. There are so many abandoned beautiful houses but in areas that I would never set foot in
I actually know someone who moved their house, built in the 1800’s. And her husband and contractor adult sons restored the house themselves and the couple lived there for a few years. It was beautiful. Then they sold it for over a mil. netting a nice profit. So it can be worth it if it is the right property and you do the restoration yourself which saves a lot of money.
I legitimately hope Barb can get some help on that house. It's absolutely gorgeous, and a shame it's been put in such a dire circumstance.
That last bit was a great idea, you should move all those houses to one location and make it into a community for the gothic and the strange. :3
My house is so haunted, the ghosts are scared of the ghosts. My house is so haunted, the ghosts have seances. My house is so haunted, the Munsters were too scared to live there. My house is so haunted, the Addams family were the previous owners. My house is so haunted, it made the cover of Better Haunted House and Garden Magazine. That's all I got. 🤣
Lol
In general, when buying an old house on the cheap it really comes down to renovation costs. The difference in renovation costs are structural vs cosmetic. It's one thing to redo decades old, mixed gaudy décor by replacing counter tops, flooring, cabinets, toilet-tub-tile-sink, linoleum and removing wall paper vs a herculean effort to repair or replace multiple things like failing floor and ceiling joists, warped out floors and stud walls & faulty foundation issues. Buyer beware...
I've been to the Min Xiong house in Taiwan. It seems a single banyan tree has taken over the whole place. I didn't experience anything paranormal but it was truly creepy.
As long as you are not easily startled by anything you would be fine staying in any haunted place, ghost cant kill you, but heart attack can
The mosquitoes in the wild brush around the mansion are way worse than any imaginary ghosts. The "ghost house" cafe next door is OK; I wonder if they own the mansion property as well.
You can co - habit with unexplained things in a house. I live in a house that has been passed down in my husbands family since 1684, and the oldest part of the house is strange. Very strange. Footsteps, unexplained electrical failures, sounds and smell of someone cooking over open fire in the preserved fire place and so on. I decided to _respect whatever it was. I started to knock before entering the rooms, im saying "hello", I talk to "nothing" telling the house that we will have visitor's before our guests arrived, etc._ Just like you do with a roommate. The atmosphere has changed 180 degrees and we feel welcomed home every time we have been away. It isn't that hard. Things still happen, but it's on a lower more seldom level, I feel totally safe here, and the house is very, very beautiful. 😍
I grew up with the granddaughter of the Ann Starret mansion, we even visited it, with her grandmother. I wonder what she thinks about the house being abandoned and on these videos. Btw the staircase is amazing.
Wow
Is it on sale????????
But like was it haunted when you visited?
@@ameliaterry1240 no clue! It was a long time ago. I'd say I'm not interested in finding that out personally 😏
@@ameliaterry1240
No it's not haunted. And it's for sale as a beautifully restored B&B. Very expensive. This channel is NOT telling the truth.
C’mon Be Amazed! You completely missed the joke about the Chris Mark castle not having any ghosts but having a lot of dark secrets! You should have said, “while it doesn’t have any ghosts, there are plenty of SKELETONS in the closets!” or something like that 😂
Loved the video, though ❤️❤️
dang, how'd I miss that?! 🤣
@@BeAmazed Well, we can’t ALL be perfect, now can we? Lol!
#1: easy solution - take the house, convert it into a small commercial office. Completely eliminates the need to rezone or relocate the building.
Rip for those mansions that are completely abandoned
Ikr
What does IKR mean
@@vadamiller9851 I know right
@@vadamiller9851 lmaooooo welcome to the internet
There is a house in Alpine, Utah on South Main Street that was built by my family in 1855. It is a 4 bedroom, one bathroom house, with a 3/4 acre lot. It is still in very good condition as well. It stayed in the family until 2020. We sold it for $1,500,000 to a company that wanted to have it as some kind of photo place. But somehow the private school next door bought it after that and wants to tear it down to be a lame parking lot for them. The city fought back so it would stay and be put as a historic location. The main reason the city fought back to get it is because it was the first house out of the Alpine fort, and the first general store in Alpine. With what I have heard, the city did not win it back and it will be torn down soon.
I love the orange countertops, I love original retro house features.
"Peterson's Folly" more generally known as Sway Tower is a much beloved landmark in the New Forest It's great it got renovated, but yeah it would be brutal to live in.. but the views must be amazing. I have lived only about 3 miles from there all my life. As a listed building I believe it does have some protected status. I hope it finds a guardian because it is culturally and architecturally important
"Sway Tower" huh.... I can imagine it might not be a fun place to hang out on a very windy night.
The Starrett Mansion just sold in 2017. It is listed on Airbnb as well for nightly stays.
My daughter has been wanting me to go on holiday with her (I'm a home body). I would very much like to go to the haunted home you can stay in. Totally willing to sign whatever. I'll bring a few great chickflicks and we can make a weekend out of it =)♡
Here in Canada, I have to admit I have never heard of anyone not buying a home or leaving a home because it's haunted. Maybe our winters are so cold we don't turn anyone away? 💛🤣😂🤣😂
There's a town in Arizona ,which has a hotel open that is diffinately haunted.
@@mickeymarchwick4752 what’s it called?
Check out Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. You can spend the night or just take a tour.
I also did not believe in ghosts. But then I lived in a house where we would hear footsteps, voices, latched doors opening in front of us, and I had constant nightmares. We looked up the history of the home and 3 out of the 5 owners prior to myself had committed suicide in the last 10 years. When I moved out and into my new house I did not experience anything at all and had no more nightmares; I have not in the 3 houses I've lived in since and still haven't experienced anything like it.
If ghosts are not real, then I don't know why we would have experienced those things. (We did not know of the suicides prior to the experiences so we were not influenced by that knowledge, it was something we learned after looking into the history of the home after the many occurrences). If you do not believe in ghosts then I am happy for you because then you did not experience what we did. I would rather be homeless than live there again.
It is possible that we all lost our minds living in that house and immediately came back to our senses as soon as we moved, but that also seems unlikely. My goal isn't to convince anyone, it's just nice to share my experience with others who may potentially be able to relate. A lot of people can be condescending about this topic so I don't bring it up to anyone I know.
They're absolute money pits.... considering the price for relocation, requalification, permits, restoration and upkeep on some of these... truly scary!!
HGTV should start a series on fixing up some of these types of houses, lol
Might even be too expensive for them. Even their dream/sweepstakes houses are cheap looking, especially compared to what they were in the 90s.
I'd get that Carlton island mansion if I had the money. You can't tell me that wouldn't be a great anti-zombie refuge! Some solar panels or other green energy generation and evaporation pools for fresh, potable water would make things pretty nice. Plenty of land to possibly farm too.
i stayed in the Starret house in 1995. No ghosts sightings whatsoever. it was a lovely experience.
The second house is so beautiful that I got the chills looking at it. That’s my dream house. I don’t mind the haunting. I want it! And the only thing sinister and unnerving about Chris mark castle is the 60 million price tag 😅 maybe I’ll end up buying it if amc squeezes really good 😅
Not haunted. It's been restored and is a B&B.
Apparently that For Sale sign in Clifton TN isn’t the only sign of that type in Tennessee. I was going home from Cardiac Rehab and saw a house just up the street from where I was living and it had a sign just like that. It stayed up about 2 months but it took another year I think before the house sold. This was in Chattanooga in a very nice neighborhood!
I’ve lived in and visited haunted houses before, if I had the money, I’d live in these places hands down, they’re gorgeous 😍
Literally like everything looks good.
I would totally take the cabin at the end, or some of the other ones ( not the ones that require so much work and should just be torn down ) I'm not afraid of paranormal activity because I believe in a higher power that can get rid of that problem.
The Minxiong Ghost House (16:26) I think it would be better to find the blueprints and REBUILD from Scratch and that way you have your plumbing and electric up to code and the place can look exactly as originally intended. And if you rebuild elsewhere then hopefully you could eliminate the hauntings with a new location and new structure. IMHO
It all depends on where you would want to move it to I mean that location might be haunted as well
Moving houses/buildings was a common practice in Toronto in the 80's and 90's. I honestly thought until 12 when I actually moved that moving house literally meant just moving your house to a new location lo
Chrismark Castle is in Woodstock, CT. The beautiful estate sadly had a huge fire a few months back.
The first one sounds like a tempting offer, if i owned a patch of land big enough for that house and enough money to relocate it there i'd definitely take it
Hell i would take it right now if it wasn't up north. Cheaper to rezone the land than it is to move the house. But I have enough snow and cold to deal with in Missouri, I need a free house like that farther south where it stays warmer.
If I had the cash I would love the log cabin on Lake Superior. Our family spent every summer in Marquette, MI until Mother passed. Could only use as a summer home tho. Too cold in the winter for me.
Very interesting video. I've been to the Minxiong "ghost house" several times; in fact, I have a geocache hidden there. Luckily, I don't believe in ghosts, and nothing has haunted me there except for all of the mosquitoes in the area.
Would absolutely buy that. Great for collections making films scenes etc. Plus the grounds for horses.
The chrismark castle is stunning !!! It’s off the market now & I believe they use it for weddings and events.
Don’t call me weird but I would hate to live in a mansion
Weird. There. What are you gonna do about it?
Horrible yes. Only if my whole family and friends were living there too. Houses aren't meant to have tons of empty rooms doing nothing with no life in them.
Sometimes I'd want a haunted house. The spirits could provide comfort for me. Okay, I want a house that is haunted by my grandma. I miss her
Aww, that's so sweet. I'm sorry you miss them... the cookie man... sounds wonderful.
As a student of parapsychology, I would jump at the chance of living in a ‘haunted’ house. What an opportunity.
It's not all it's cracked up to be. It can be downright scary at times. Tho I didn't live with a ghost I lived with a demon. Probably still hanging around but in sleeper mode I guess as it doesn't mess with me as much anymore
@@berlyngrey9242 I'd believe demons are real, There's a spiritual conflict and the shit I've heard and seen the past couple of years. The only way to explain some of it is demons ripping at people to do crazy things. I'm sorry you went through your experience and I hope it never comes back. It wouldn't be fun to constantly be on edge.
The sign on the TN house saying "not haunted", some states require real estate agents and owners to disclose if the house is haunted. Stambovsky v. Ackley, in other states the realtor may put it up as humor, or as a way to prevent a lawsuit.
I think the neighborhood I grew up in might have been built over a burial ground or something. I know of several houses on my block alone that were haunted. One house 2 doors down from mine was definitely haunted, no one ever stayed there longer than a month or two, ever. Another down the street where I had friends was haunted because one day while playing after school in their house all the cabinet doors in the kitchen started opening and slamming shut on their own - I freaked out and wouldn’t go back inside, ever. We were the only ones there that day, their parents were still at work. The house beside mine on the corner caught fire about 5 times while I lived there. I lived there the first 22 years of my life and my mom went through high school living in that house and she said that house caught fire many times before I was even born. That was just my little 600 block (22 houses) of that division, I can imagine that whole area experienced things.
No. Never really dreamed of only a mansion. For one the issue isn't with owning one it's more about maintaining one large buildings don't clean themselves not including you pay a whole lot more in taxes on a large building and the utility bills on Mansions are extraordinary as well. So I wouldn't exactly put only a mansion high on most people's want list not that I wouldn't want to have the money it cost to buy and maintain one plus let's kind of define a mansion is it 10 rooms makes it a mansion is it 20 rooms making a mansion I've been to Graceland and you can barely call it a mansion.
Actually there was this rundown creepy crackhouse in my neighborhood that people thought was haunted, but still somehow a couple bought it and the house was put on a house flipper show and looks brand new now
So far, I'd love to have the 1st 3 homes! The Starret mansion was 😍
I'm betting you can't afford it. Look at it's website.
SK Pierce mansion sold in 2016. It has a website as well as a Facebook page. Available for overnight rental and tours.
I have the same orange counter as the 1st house!
If I had 20 mil to spend on a property, and the money to support and maintain it, I would live in the last one.... maybe convert part of it to a retreat destination.
Omygosh I LOVE the mini be amazed mascot with the mustache and magnified glass. His eye looks SO BIG.
Also, does he have an official name yet?
I've only watched the first part with the first house, so far, but how could you say that $350K ($200K to move it and $100K to renovate it) is substantially less than the median $450K house price in the area if you're not even including the cost of land? Is that the new math?
If I had the money, I'd love to have an old victorian mansion! Couldn't care less if it was haunted or not.
Granot Loma is BEAUTIFUL!! All locals dream of even just visiting it.
18:53 lmfao. Those people. "Gerry the ghost is at it again" "I know honey, just ignore it"