Post by Harsh on Jan 6, 2008 23:23:42 GMT -4
Does anyone have more info on this house. It sounds like a really interesting place and one that has the history of real and bonified haunting. This a copy and paste of a newspaper article i find.
Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 3:00 am
Homes for sale in the Emerywood section of High Point rarely stay on the market long. Stately houses with decades-old character that just happen to be in the choicest of neighborhoods are a prized commodity.
For more than three decades one Emerywood house, however, has repeatedly been on the market. Rarely has anyone called it home for more than a few nights.
At least no one who is living.
I wrote about this house five years ago when an electrician told me about his unnerving experience of working in the basement of the two-story stucco-and-stone house.
The electrician, like so many others in the neighborhood, had heard stories of the otherworldly activity in the house. Homeowners awakening to the sound of pots banging in the empty kitchen at night. After overcoming the stone-cold terror of investigating the noise, the homeowners would find knives standing on pointed end in the floor.
And the stories, unbelievable as they may seem, actually make some sense. Anyone who drives by the house regularly knows that families move in only to stay a night or two before putting the house back on the market. The only owners who have kept the house for any length of time have been furniture companies that put their market guests there twice a year.
So when this electrician was hired to do some rewiring in the house's basement, he was naturally curious. His curiosity was quickly overtaken by fear. Working in the basement unnerved him. He felt as if someone was watching him -- looking over his shoulder, even though he was working alone.
This electrician completed his job but vowed that he'd never go back, even after being called to do more work there.
Turns out he's just one of many who won't go back into the house.
Henry, a 72-year-old native of High Point who grew up near this house and now lives a few blocks from the address, called to share his tales of the place he knows as the "Haunting House."
Back when Henry's son Mike was a student at High Point Central High School -- 25 to 30 years ago -- Mike had a friend whose family bought the Haunting House. The family, who had been living in Emerywood Forest on the west side of Westchester Avenue, bought this house and moved in.
But two nights in the house was all they could stand.
"After sleeping over there, they went back to their Emerywood Forest house and took it off the market," Henry says.
Overcome by curiosity, Mike asked his friend if the house was indeed haunted. His friend's answer, however cryptic, was frighteningly clear.
"I will not talk about the house," the teenager said, refusing to discuss his family's experience there. "I will not talk about that house," the young man reiterated. "I'm afraid of that house."
Henry has heard rumor after rumor about this Tudor-style house. Some long-time neighbors have seen an older woman clad in a nightgown walking by the windows at night.
Why is that so unusual? Remember, the house has been unoccupied for most of the past two decades, Henry explains.
Then during one of several periods of renovations and construction at the house during the past two decades, Henry says a construction crew was working in the basement.
Midday, the crew left their tools on the basement floor, locked the house and went to lunch. When they returned, what they saw made them pack their tools and leave -- job unfinished.
A hatchet that had been with the crew's tools, had been driven up from the basement through the floor of the main level so that the blade was visible when they walked back into the house.
"They picked up their tools and left," Henry says. All of their tools except the hatchet, that is.
Who haunts this house? Henry has an idea. A family who lived in the house when Henry was a child stayed there longer than anyone in Henry's memory. He believes the specter might be the woman of the house. The woman who raised her children there and lived there into her old age. After all, in Henry's 70-some years, she and her family are the only people who have been able to call that house a home.
Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 3:00 am
Homes for sale in the Emerywood section of High Point rarely stay on the market long. Stately houses with decades-old character that just happen to be in the choicest of neighborhoods are a prized commodity.
For more than three decades one Emerywood house, however, has repeatedly been on the market. Rarely has anyone called it home for more than a few nights.
At least no one who is living.
I wrote about this house five years ago when an electrician told me about his unnerving experience of working in the basement of the two-story stucco-and-stone house.
The electrician, like so many others in the neighborhood, had heard stories of the otherworldly activity in the house. Homeowners awakening to the sound of pots banging in the empty kitchen at night. After overcoming the stone-cold terror of investigating the noise, the homeowners would find knives standing on pointed end in the floor.
And the stories, unbelievable as they may seem, actually make some sense. Anyone who drives by the house regularly knows that families move in only to stay a night or two before putting the house back on the market. The only owners who have kept the house for any length of time have been furniture companies that put their market guests there twice a year.
So when this electrician was hired to do some rewiring in the house's basement, he was naturally curious. His curiosity was quickly overtaken by fear. Working in the basement unnerved him. He felt as if someone was watching him -- looking over his shoulder, even though he was working alone.
This electrician completed his job but vowed that he'd never go back, even after being called to do more work there.
Turns out he's just one of many who won't go back into the house.
Henry, a 72-year-old native of High Point who grew up near this house and now lives a few blocks from the address, called to share his tales of the place he knows as the "Haunting House."
Back when Henry's son Mike was a student at High Point Central High School -- 25 to 30 years ago -- Mike had a friend whose family bought the Haunting House. The family, who had been living in Emerywood Forest on the west side of Westchester Avenue, bought this house and moved in.
But two nights in the house was all they could stand.
"After sleeping over there, they went back to their Emerywood Forest house and took it off the market," Henry says.
Overcome by curiosity, Mike asked his friend if the house was indeed haunted. His friend's answer, however cryptic, was frighteningly clear.
"I will not talk about the house," the teenager said, refusing to discuss his family's experience there. "I will not talk about that house," the young man reiterated. "I'm afraid of that house."
Henry has heard rumor after rumor about this Tudor-style house. Some long-time neighbors have seen an older woman clad in a nightgown walking by the windows at night.
Why is that so unusual? Remember, the house has been unoccupied for most of the past two decades, Henry explains.
Then during one of several periods of renovations and construction at the house during the past two decades, Henry says a construction crew was working in the basement.
Midday, the crew left their tools on the basement floor, locked the house and went to lunch. When they returned, what they saw made them pack their tools and leave -- job unfinished.
A hatchet that had been with the crew's tools, had been driven up from the basement through the floor of the main level so that the blade was visible when they walked back into the house.
"They picked up their tools and left," Henry says. All of their tools except the hatchet, that is.
Who haunts this house? Henry has an idea. A family who lived in the house when Henry was a child stayed there longer than anyone in Henry's memory. He believes the specter might be the woman of the house. The woman who raised her children there and lived there into her old age. After all, in Henry's 70-some years, she and her family are the only people who have been able to call that house a home.