I would live there if I was a southern vampire.
Definitely no ghosts in there
You know I was just thinking how it’d be really cool to buy that house, live in it, and slowly and fix it up. That’s literally how horror movies start.
Go to renovate the basement, knock out a wall. “Huh, there’s an extra room back here!” Weird paintings and stuff on the walls. Stone floor that fades into dirt in the back of the room along the rear wall that is far older than the rest of the house. Boom. Indian burial ground.
When I was very little, we lived in a house like that, except not in bad condition. Long story, but we were quite wealthy, and then very suddenly, never again. Lol.
Anyway, my brother and I decided it would be fun to sled down the stairs one day, and toward the bottom of the stairs one of us hit one of those little metal strips that held the carpet down on the stairs with the edge of the sled. When my dad was fixing it later they discovered that the stairs lifted up Munsters style, and there was an entire room down there, under the floor, with a tunnel that lead God knows where.
Turns out it wasn’t satanists, but was in fact part of the underground rail road, and was used by folks smuggling slaves up north. Ridiculously cool to thing to have in your house
Built decades after slavery was abolished, actually seems out of place for its size and style.
Do you mean plantation era…? Because it doesn’t seem like any plantation era house I’ve seen. More like a pretty standard Victorian, imo, which tracks for when it was built. I’m just a lay person, however, and certainly no architect, so I could be wrong.
You’re really going to sit there and tell me this is nothing like a southern antebellum style house?
That its spacious parlour and large number of rooms doesn’t reminisce of a time of servitude in the USA?
I mean, yeah. It’s just a different style altogether. Parlors and room number has nothing to do with what the house looks like and the architectural era it belongs to.
It would be more accurate to say that it smacks of the gilded age (a time of the greatest wealth disparity in our history) than of the civil war era, even though that still isn’t quite right, as the Victorian era is its own thing outside of the Edwardian era.
The US has had more than one age of servitude beyond just the obvious slavery era, sorry to say. It’s kind of our brand.
Definitely haunted
Finally some roommates, gonna get the ouija board and force them to pay rent.
