A Haunted House Story...


Ask any Realtor who's been in the business a few years and you'll hear a ghost story or two. Here's mine... About five years I was working with some clients buying their first home. We had looked at a number of houses around Como in St. Paul so most of the homes were at least 50 years old. We found a house they loved and wrote an offer. The 1 1/2 story home was an estate left to the son who had grown up in the house. Apparently the elderly home owners had died of old age, within a month or so of one another and the house had been sitting vacant for a few months. The offer was accepted, we did the home inspection and were just waiting for there closing date to come around. The morning of the closing we went to do the final walk through (where you go through the home and make sure everything that's supposed to be there is there, any work that was supposed to be done is done, etc). We did our walk through without any issues and as we walked out the door the buyers said they wanted to tell me about something that had happened.

The buyers told me one of their aunt's stopped by to take some exterior pictures a few weeks prior. No big deal, she just walked around and took some pictures and dropped them off to be developed. When she picked them up she noticed that in one of the pictures there was a couple with a small child in the half story window looking down at her. She knew the home was vacant and that the parents had died so she told the buyers the story. Curious about the child the buyers did a little searching and found that the seller had a brother who died as a toddler. Apparently these were the ghosts of the mother, father and the son who had all died while living in the house.

Freaked out by the story - I asked the buyers, "Do you still want to buy the house?" They said, "Oh yeah, we're good people. We're not worried about some ghosts." I was thinking, "These two are far braver than I am."

Two months later the wife "jumped" out that same half story to her death on the driveway below. A few weeks later the husband was found hanging from the ceiling in the half story. Ok... this last paragraph is fake, but the rest is true. They are still happily living in the house. Not too scary, but pretty creepy.

House of the Week - not haunted (as far as I know). A little spendy, but super nice home near Lake Nokomis