I know a place like that too. It is put down to bad design (too disjointed, too many stairs, pokey rooms, poor lighting).
Each reno and sale improves some aspect.
The last sale wad over $2m.
We have two houses in our street that also used to sell regularly due to badly designed renovations, losing the flow of the original houses. But there has never been any story about them being haunted. They were simply badly designed by amateur renovators
. Both have now been extensively renovated to fix the earlier badly done renovations.
But this "haunted" house that my friend knows very well has none of those issues, and most buyers don't last long enough to do a reno
.
One day if I see it up for sale (and that will probably not take too long going on the previous history of regular sales), I'll go in and see if I "feel" anything.
My friend knew the family that stayed a few years and did the reno. They knew there was a presence in the house, and simply lived with it. My friend used to visit the mother but felt so uncomfortable in the house that she stopped going in and would chat in the yard.
This same friend with the presence in her own house is quite unfazed by it, doesn't feel threatened at all, but her kids would not use that one room where strange things would happen (curtains billowing when no windows were open).
Someone reading this would think perhaps she is a bit nutty, but she is quite normal.
Common sense says this is all nonsense, but I'm not so sure I'd want to stay alone there for even one night to test it out.
