Ok, now I have a new template in my mind for "haunted house." This place looks terrifying during the day, I wonder what it would've looked like under the light of a full moon. Scary, that's what. At least I can rest assured that it's no longer standing. Or is it???

I see lots of easy potential with this place! Mow the lawn, re-shingle the roof, give it a fresh coat of paint and it would look hundreds of times better! Of course, a friend once joked with me that I would buy a house with no roof if I thought it had enough potential! (this was after I showed him pictures of a gutted 1948 Chevy I was considering buying as a daily driver)

I think this was the inspiration for the film "The Money Pit."

When this house was new, maybe in the 1870s or '80s, and had a fresh coat of paint in probably three colors, it would have been a sparkling gem. And with a riot of color in the flower garden in front. When they got old and worn out, they were demolished by the millions, like so much trash. You can't build 'em like that any more!

and their dog Scooby assisted the Globetrotters in ridding this place of spirits back in 1973.

Sorry if this sounds too dumb to ask, but I've always wondered why those old-style houses were not built at ground level, but rather high.

[The floor of a frame house is elevated to keep it from rotting. And in a cold climate, the earth is a heat sink. The house will be much easier to keep warm if the floor isn't sitting on the ground or if it has a basement under it. - Dave]

I'm fairly sure termites aren't so much of a problem way up north, but mice and other rodents sure are.

This fixer-upper only needs a for-sale sign out front!

I know a bit about this town not much as being lumberous but it is the oldest town in the Iron Range. The Iron Range is an area with very much iron ore.

You couldn't build a creepier looking place on a movie set! Looks like Norman Bates's summer cottage!