Old house from 1746 I'm working in. ( spooky stuff )

[Faine]

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My dad And I are working in this house in CT that was built in 1746. We put columns in the basement to hold up the house and make it more structurally stable, and putting in a new bay window/skylights and other stuff.
The house is so old the walls and floors are all sagging and out of wack. I can go in one room and just bouce the floors up and down haha.
This house has some interesting history... First it was built by a man who had 7 daughters and he would have big dances there so he can have his daughters find a man she could marry. Everyone from all over would come my horse and carriage. Theres a dirt parking lot across the street. THEN after that family passed away and was gone, they used the house as a funeral home for a longg time. ( the room which they had the wakes in is pretty creepy) And now today it's occupied by a family.

This house is REALLY creepy to say the least. My dad and co-workers will be outside and my dad will tell me to go in the house and grab a tool or whatever... I'll go inside and its just like a movie.. a door will open on its own, close on its own. I'll hear the floor creak and make noises, i'll hear things upstairs blah blah. and one time, I shit you not, My dad and I were having lunch in their dining room and We both watched a door open slowly and stopped.. my dad jokes and goes " IF YOURE IN HERE SHOW US A SIGN" and we laughed then the door closed and we both looked at eachother like " OH SHIT !?!? " Now I know the house is old and these things happen on its own, and theres crappy carpentry back in the day so theres drafts and things.. but I eventually told my dad and he said " well look in the basement, go through the crawl space, theres people buried in there" OHHH HELL NO

So of course I went down the basement, I found the tiny crawl space just large enough for me to crawl into ( they mustve buried the people down there then built the wall afterwords) and sure as shit I found a few coffins encased in stone. Along with tombstones so old I cant really see what they say.




Its hard to tell unless you were there.. But if you were standing there in person You would feel the incline in the floor and see that the grandfather clock is ready to fall over haha.




Old floors.




You can see the stairs are completely out of wack and look like they want to fall over as well...



All original doors too... this is the basement door.



A mouse I found in a wall we demo'd



And heres one of the coffins I found.. Sorry for the crappy picture, there was a tiny window with a little light. Its hard to walk in there too I was all hunched over. It's not any kind of structural support for the house cuz I looked all around and theres nothing that holds up the house around these things and I can walk all around them.




I'll add more pictures tomorrow when We go back. I'll take more pictures of the tomb stones and other stuff.

[IB-studjent-]

Guess you wont be sleeping alone for a while

[Nonservium]

Awesome. Creepy houses are always fun. I lived in one for a long time out west. Makes for some interesting evenings.

[avenger]

I cant see the coffin? Where is it in the picture?

[Faine]

Originally Posted by avenger

I cant see the coffin? Where is it in the picture?

They were encased in stone. My guess is so they arent disturbed by animals or something? I guess that way they wouldnt have to actually bury them in the basement floor, they were just sealed in stone.

[Sicarius]

>talks about bouncy floors
>freaked out by doors opening on their own

old house is old, man, it's probably nothing except settling and you guys walking around causing the stuff happening.

also, that could be a well that's been covered, since Colonialists weren't really want to be buried in a sarcophagus under their homes :/

[Faine]

Originally Posted by Sicarius

also, that could be a well that's been covered, since Colonialists weren't really want to be buried in a sarcophagus under their homes :/

My guess is the guy and his family that built the house. It was a funeral home. They have a few of these down there, and theres tomb stones.

[GhostsofAcid]

Interesting. I used to paint house interiors and such, and worked in a few creepy places. Nothing that cool though.

[BIG ND SWEATY]

you should make a guitar top out of the scrap wood if theres enough(if there is any).
i love old houses but iv never been in one that old before, does it have an attic?

[Faine]

^ haha like a 1/4" top piece with a serious amount of lacquer/clear coat??

[BIG ND SWEATY]

^ precisely but only from a good cut of wood

[Faine]

lol technically my guitar would be like 300 years old.

[Metal_Webb]

Originally Posted by Faine

lol technically my guitar would be like 300 years old.

Oldest electric guitar ever!

It's pretty crazy how a building that's that old has managed to stay in (fairly) good nick. Must have been built properly to begin with.

[Faine]

Yeah it's pretty decent but I wouldn't wanna live there haha. But you should see the barn. Goddamn. Can't even walk on the second floor. It'll fall in

[mr_rainmaker]

great thread OP.



tag for the WFTPTRSLLG
(waiting for the poster to run screaming like little girl)

[niffnoff]

Originally Posted by Faine

Yeah it's pretty decent but I wouldn't wanna live there haha. But you should see the barn. Goddamn. Can't even walk on the second floor. It'll fall in

You're not on Hershell's farm are you

[Splinterhead]

Badass! I love old creepy houses. My grandmother used to live in a house that was built in 1812. I loved visiting her. The house was huge with all sorts of wacky trapdoors and passages.

[Faine]

Originally Posted by niffnoff

You're not on Hershell's farm are you

haha I dont even know what that is.

[BlackMastodon]

Originally Posted by Faine

haha I dont even know what that is.

But...But your avatar is even from The Walking Dead

[Faine]

haha ohh right. I watched that movie a longg time ago and was enjoying the effects of alcohol. lol
Besides I thought you were talking about hillshire farms like the food. lmao

[niffnoff]

Originally Posted by Faine

haha ohh right. I watched that movie a longg time ago and was enjoying the effects of alcohol. lol
Besides I thought you were talking about hillshire farms like the food. lmao

[Faine]

I'm at work right now on break. So I took a few pictures and here you go!






An urn?? And one of the tomb stones




Old fireplace where they baked bread in the basement and stuff



House on the outside that whole sunroom and second floor addition was built by us my dad and I


Where they had the wakes

Basement

[caskettheclown]

Why are you fixing it up if it has all these issues?

[Xaios]

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said everything was old and saggy. While it's nothing short of amazing that it's held up for 266 years, it's gonna take some serious renos to bring it up to snuff.

[Faine]

this is or third time here. We're always adding more things to make it more structurally stable. And yeah it's pretty good!

Here's the additions we did so far




^ getting new skylights that's why there's a hole!



Pictures takin with an Iphone 4