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The first house, from 1856, was very sturdy and very well built- with those types of Lath and Plaster walls. There were also the original pocket doors that separated the living from the dining rooms, a large bay window in the dining room, and a huge picture window in the living room that was six feet by five feet, and both the bay windows and picture windows were topped with the ornate leaded glass decor. The windows were all original rope pull, lead glass windows in the house-but they were eventually replaced. However, the dimensions of the originals were kept, even with the expense of the sheer size of them (they were taller than most modern windows, and therefore much more expensive to replace).
They had kept the iron caps within the central chimney so that the bedrooms upstairs could choose to use wood burning furnaces and tap into the main chimney stack for the exhaust. The original claw foot tub was upstairs as well. Even haunted, I miss that house. I did go by it a few years ago, still standing strong even if the people that own it now tore out all of the landscaping (I'm talking about grapevines that were planted when the house was built, among other things) and they did change a lot of the interior decorating-but I never did go back inside.
There were many things that happened in that house; from waking up with brusing around my neck, arms and legs to missing eye glasses (later found in the cast iron wood burning stove in my bedroom, or the walk in closet up on a shelf), moved glasses of water or soda bottles I had finished the night before but didn't want to wander into the kitchen at 3 am to put it in the sink, to seeing figures walk past me in mirrors or the TV (on or off, didn't matter), hearing heavy foot falls (like someone wearing very heavy boots) walk from the upstairs bathroom, down the hall to the attic access halway, then back to the stairwell, half way DOWN the steps, and back up again, to hearing someone whisper in your ear. In part, it was so much that it was half of the reason why I never selpt. When you lay in bed hoping not to be woken up with something choking you again, it's kinda hard to sit back and relax. Even worse when it happens and you can kinda-sorta see the line of a face over you, but nothing else. Literally. That one happened before I even went to sleep- I was laying there reading, finally put the book aside to Try and get to sleep. Turned the light off (the curtain was open, so I could see the inside of the bedroom with the street lamp at the corner of the block shining in), rolled onto my back and BAM- hands on my throat and no one in my room.
I didn't sleep after that for a day or so until I ended up going to a friend's house and stayed there for the weekend.
@DarwinsMishap - This is the first time in my life I get to know somebody who experienced something supernatural. I always thought these were just "rumours"... This is so crazy. I think I could have dealed with stuff disappearing but to see some kind of shadows of people or feeling their hands around my neck... I guess I would have freaked out! Thank you for sharing this great story. I love it.
One of many from that house; as well as others I've been to and lived in-and you're welcome. People didn't believe me when things like this started (I was very young, around 9 or so, when I started noticing 'odd' things), so I rarely talked about it until my twenties. When I did, I finally got to realize that my siblings have experienced things as well growing up there. Our parents never acknowledged things like the kitchen cabinets and drawers all open when mom got up on the morning (They always got up really early-old school)-they just blamed me (since I am a Parasomniac and rarely slept, they thought it was me pulling a prank), or if things went missing they blamed my brother (pick one, lol).
Trust me, that time I did freak out. I just did it in a calm, quiet manner and got the hell outta there for a few days. lol
But... what happened in that house after the new people moved in? Still haunted?
Honestly, I don't know. One of our cousins bought the house after our parents put it up for sale; once I found out what they had done to the old orchard and the black walnut trees that our father planted when each of the last three kids were born (they had someone come cut them down; our father told them not to-because he was going have a company come in and take care of them. So our cousin paid a company about 1500 USD to cut down three trees, and our father lost 10K USD per tree as he was offered money for each of the black walnut trees. Black Walnut trees, if they are thick and straight enough, are worth a good deal of money.) and the other things that she had done to the inside of the house after the remodel- I didn't want to step foot into the house or really even speak to her afterwards.
All I know is that she used the main floor and outside yard, after she ripped everything out and fenced it in, as some sort of daycare. I really didn't like her to begin with- what she did to that house and yard with no regard to what our parents wanted when the house was purchased from them; the removal of the trees, the grapevines, the orchard, and other plantings that my mother had gathered from their trips around the States were supposed to be dug up carefully and replanted to preserve them. She just..........ripped it all out, or had someone do it for her.
If she was dealing with the haunting as well, sorry to say, good.
Ok- of my petty parade. XD
Well, I totally can understand your feelings. Thank you so much for this great story. :-)
I made a short video with this house for my dog grooming business for Halloween. https://youtu.be/UpK-V2_r8Ao
It took about 13 hours for 500 frames. :-)
very cool
I can't say that seeing a knife-wielding maniac in the window would encourage me to take my dog to you.
@WendyLuvsCatz - Thank you! :-)
@Gordig - Haha! You just made me laugh! Actually you are right! This is only a test render and not the final result. For now I have no idea of what kind of silhouette I will put in that window.
A dog with it's tail wagging? :P
Really cute youtube video - I love the dog in the sheet at the end! :D
- Oh! You could put a "ghost" in the window and it turns out to be that dog. heheh
Good idea! :-)
Ok! Here we go! The latest version of the halloween video. It's less scary. What do you guys think? https://youtu.be/DEjYL3MIzMY
Much better!
I didn't think I would work on the interior... but... I started with those stairs... the hardest part I guess... :-)
Stairs almost finished... :-)
Those details are driving me crazy!
you are doing a great job though
The more I am working on it, the more headache I become. I am going trough hundreds of pictures and floorplans, but noone of them makes sense. The only thing that's obvious, it's the foyer with the staircase. Every other room in the house does not fit! Either because there are some steps where they are not supposed to be, leading to Norman Bates elevated bedroom which is actually NOT elevated, or because the rooms are much bigger then the house allows. Very confusing. The insides shootings of the house are definitively fantasy rooms. No way to have them fit the house. I guess I have to use my phantasy and adapt as good as I can.
Never attempt the Overlook Hotel from the Kubrick version of the Shining, then: the geography of the hotel is deliberately nonsensical to create a sense of unease in the viewer.
Oh yes! I got the point! I am trying to fit the round in a square.
Slowly taking form... Can't wait to render it in DAZ :-)
Really nice staircase. Could be used as a vignette scene and pluged into some of the other empty interiorrs around and about.
The house is made of various parts (subsets) that can all be used as pleased. Probably the first freebee version will not have the interior since there is still a lot of work to do on it, so it wan't be ready in time.. I am planing on release the house in a few days so you guys can use it in your Halloween renders. But I will keep working on it and publish all the updates later on. Stay tuned! :-)
Ahhhhhhh!! That sounds AWESOME! YAY! I :D I can't wait!
Happy with it so far... :-)
First interior iray render :-)
Looks fantastic!
@Lothar Weber - Thank you! :-)