Haunted House

This is one of my favorite photographs from the summer; I don't know anything about the house (other than that it's in Wylliesburg, Virginia -- which is where I took the picture of the Paul Carrington roadside marker). Anyway, I wanted to post it because I really like this -- but I don't have much to say about it, other than perhaps this: is it haunted?  If not, it sure ought to be.  It surely must go back to the antebellum era, which I think is a key variable related to degree of haunted-ness, and it isn't inhabited by anyone who's alive.  The clincher, of course, it that it's in the rural south, too.  I'm going to show this to my students when I teach Stambovsky this fall -- because I think the mere appearance of this house would put a reasonable buyer on notice that it might be haunted!

What a gorgeous house it once was -- and perahps might be yet again.

Comments

[Orin Kerr]

Very cool picture.

[Kim Krawiec]

Definitely haunted.

[Alfred Brophy]

Thanks, Orin -- I got lucky with this one. It was about twilight. And Kim, glad to know that your opinion at a southerner confirms what I had suspected.

[Jeffrey Harrison]

Al: Yes, I can confirm that it is haunted. But, as it turns out, photographing tends to extend the haunt. I have seen it so many times. Please destroy the film by burning and then sacrifice a toad and you may be ok but I cannot guarantee it. In any case, to not walk near anything made of zinc.