{"id":1441467,"date":"2020-10-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1441467"},"modified":"2021-10-04T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:20:38","slug":"5-of-the-most-haunted-houses-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-of-the-most-haunted-houses-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Haunted Houses in Literature You Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Want to Live In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/103019hauntedhousesMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My mom used to be a real estate agent, and she once had these clients who were desperate to sell their house because they claimed it had ghosts.&nbsp;They said they&#8217;d heard weird noises at night and kept coming home to find the furniture had been moved around, but the last straw was when their five-year-old kid told them a faceless man had tried to tell him a bedtime story. Yep! Okay! Sounds reasonably haunted! I&#8217;m leaving, good-bye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one ever showed up to the open houses. Locals knew about the alleged ghost, and they weren&#8217;t exactly lining up to move in with it, so sometimes after school I&#8217;d head over to keep my mom company. She would read a book on the porch while I explored the house, desperate for a spectral sighting. Did I get one? No. The only thing of note that ever happened was the time the toilet flushed of its own accord.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while I&#8217;ve never actually seen a ghost, I may have heard one flush a toilet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the following fictional houses are WAY more haunted than THAT, so let&#8217;s talk about them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom used to be a real estate agent, and she once had these clients who were desperate to sell their house because they claimed it had ghosts.&nbsp;They said they&#8217;d heard weird noises at night   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[22461,628,2335,2551,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441467"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445304,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441467\/revisions\/1445304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}