Posts Tagged ‘haunted house’

Would you live in a haunted house, whether it was actually documented as haunted or just known for having played one on TV?  Many actors in horror films later state in interviews that they felt a haunting presence around them when they were doing a paranormal movie and that strange things would occur while filming. If this is the case, what might occur to a home where a paranormal horror series was filmed?

American Horror Story might be the darkest and scariest show ever to play on television. Based on a haunted house that has seen horror after horror over multiple decades, each person who meets their demise in the home becomes trapped there as a ghost in a paranormal energetic grid which traps them indefinitely.  Lurking behind it all is a “big bad” invisible entity in the home with a hidden agenda that seems to prod and encourage the ghosts to do more dirty work while it seeks to manifest in full form.

It’s hard to imagine what’s to come in Season Two to bring the heat to compete with the non stop creepy action of Season One. Props to the actors including  Jessica Lange (Constance), who just received the SAG award for female actor in a drama series for the show, which airs on FX.

The six bedroom house perhaps is the unrecognized actor in the show, listed as a historic landmark with vintage decor and Tiffany glass windows completing the perfect setting for a haunted home. This home is not just a set, but an actual mansion known as the Alfred Rosenheim home and according to CBS, the Daily Mail , Huff Po and other sources, it’s going up for sale.

From what I’ve heard, the pilot of the series was filmed in the house and once it was picked up, later episodes were shot in a replica set at another location. Still, most anyone who has seen the show, would get a case of the tingles if they were able to tour the home, especially the basement…

My budgetary restrictions aside, it’s priced at a cool 4.5 million, after seeing the show, I’m not keen on living in this particular home, but if the Adams Family Mansion is on the market, I’d like to take a look.

Regardless, it is a gorgeous home and the slide show available on Huff Po displays over 25 photos of the beautiful dark wood paneling and other distinctive features of the home. See the photos here.  How about you, would you live in this house?

Witches Corner at Korner's Folly in Kernersville, NC

Unlike the Winchester Mystery Mansion in San Jose, California, the Korner’s Folly home in Kernersville, North Carolina was deliberately designed with style in mind. At the Winchester House, Sarah Winchester, upon the advice of a psychic, had carpenters build new rooms in her house twenty-four hours a day until her death. This ongoing construction was supposed to confuse and trick the angry spirits who had been killed by Winchester rifles from locating Sarah Winchester in her home and haunting her.  Inside the Winchester home, doors open to several- story drops below and staircases lead to the ceiling, going nowhere. The entire house winds around like a maze and by the time you’ve walked through it, you’ve walked over a mile. The effect is eerie, confusing and at times maddening.  While Korner’s Folly also has a variety of unique rooms and twists and turns, the effect feels very different; it’s charming and each rooms pulls you into an experience for the senses.

Jule created Korner’s Folly for an entirely different reason and ghosts were the furthest things from his mind.  A talented artist, Korner wanted the house to be a showplace for his work, both artistically in size and scale and to give prospective clients an idea of the various types of interior design that he could create in their homes and buildings.    The house has twenty-two rooms and there’s no easy way to describe them. Each room is unique; some fit for royalty, palatial in scale. There are trap doors, over fifteen different styles of fireplaces, cubbyholes to tuck away in, murals, and a library.

The home has been wonderfully preserved, despite having served as an antique store and also a funeral home. Ring, ring says my psychic warning bell!  What a perfect combination to create a haunted building!  Antiques carry the emotional energies of their owners, and the grief is thick in a funeral home where the dead come to attend their own funeral; Together, it’s a psychic’s perfect storm.

Want to know more about what I found while investigating the haunted history of Korner’s Folly? Read about this story and others in my new book,  Ghosthunting North Carolina.

Ian Poulter getty images

World champion golfer Ian Poulter had a rough day on Friday, May 27th, 2011 playing the Euro BMW PGA Championship, where his performance shall we say, wasn’t up to his usual par. Perhaps he has other things wearing on his mind. According to Poulter’s Twitter account, he is currently living in a haunted house. Beginning in late April, Ian began to take notice of the paranormal phenomena he was experiencing in a home that he was renting in Hilton Head,South Carolina.  He had this to share on Twitter,  “Check this out, we have a ghost in our house this week & I’m not joking we have had some very strange goings on every night,”

He reported locking and dead bolting doors only to find them thrown open the next morning with no signs of forced entry or damage to the locked doors.  At last count, he had experienced this event seven times.  He’s reached out on Twitter to mull over getting a camera to record the ghostly experiences as they continue in the home.

Supernatural experiences of this nature make it difficult to get a good night’s sleep and to rest peacefully. This may have led to increased stress and sleep deprivation for Poulter during his stay in the home, which could have the effect of throwing him off of his game.

Ghosthunting North Carolina by Kala Ambrose

More about Kala Ambrose: Kala Ambrose is an award winning author, intuitive and talk show host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show. Her thought-provoking interviews entice listeners to tune in around the globe! Described by her guests and listeners as discerning, empowering and inspiring, she speaks with world renowned authors, artists, teachers and researchers delving into metaphysical, holistic and paranormal topics. Kala is a highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire. Her new book – Ghost Hunting North Carolina hits the stores in September 2011.

Kala Ambrose

Since my childhood,  I have seen and felt ghosts and restless spirits. Through my many experiences with the supernatural and paranormal realms, I have interacted with powerful beings of light, faced encounters with beings from the dark side and seen ghosts from every walk of life.  I am now sharing my lifetime of experience and training in my new book – Ghosthunting North Carolina, which hits the stores on September 13, 2011 and can be pre-ordered now through Amazon. I also teach workshops around the country where I show people how to become more intuitive, how to connect with the other side, how to sense negative energy in a home or building and more importantly, how to discern whether the energy can be removed and cleansed or whether it is best left alone.

Over the past decade, I’ve seen a rise in paranormal activity, which is corresponding with the veil between the earth plane and the spiritual realms lifting at this time.  I believe that a conscious evolution is occurring on the mind, body and spirit level and as this evolution continues, many people will connect with their intuitive abilities and be able to communicate with the spirit world, including with ghosts, which have remained on the earth plane.

In my book, I share what I see and sense when entering a haunted building and I invite you to take the journey with me as I explore the state of North Carolina. My journey begins in the coastal wetlands of East Carolina where I explore haunted lighthouses, battleships, forts, and the shipwrecked beaches

where Blackbeard and his pirates still roam.  Next I toured the Piedmont area of NC to visit the most actively haunted capitol in the US and interact with the ghost of a former NC State Governor. Next, I headed out west into the Blue Ridge Mountains where the ghost known as the pink lady and her friends await your presence at the historic Grove Park Inn, where many presidents, celebrities and ghosts have stayed over the decades.

I’ve learned a lot over the years of interacting with the spirit world and not every encounter was smooth. I once lived in a haunted house, where the ghosts weren’t friendly or ready to move on into the light. I learned about what the spirit world can do first hand and it was a very powerful lesson. My story about this experience is featured here on AOL’s My Daily.  Read on to see what happened to me when I lived in a very haunted house where the ghosts weren’t friendly…

More about Kala Ambrose…
Kala Ambrose is an award winning author, intuitive and host of The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show (radio and TV). Her thought-provoking interviews entice listeners to tune in around the globe! Described by her guests and listeners as discerning, empowering and inspiring, she speaks with world renowned authors, artists, teachers and researchers delving into metaphysical, lifestyle, and paranormal topics. Kala’s book, 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled delves into the mysteries of ancient Egyptian mystery schools and explains their wisdom teachings. Kala Ambrose is a highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire. Her new book – Ghost Hunting North Carolina hits the stores in September 2011. Kala lectures and teaches on the Ancient Wisdom Teachings and Healing Temples of Egypt, Developing Business Intuition, Working with Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields, Wise Woman Wisdom and Exploring the Paranormal. More info at ExploreYourSpirit.com