Suicide House
There is a house near Fayetteville in Cumberland County, North Carolina that has been empty since World War II. The owners have done what they could to rent out the house, but it seems likely that the house will stay empty forever. Let's hope that it does. Because each of the tenants of this house have paid a terrible price.
Built in 1910, the house was a mere shell when the contractor disappeared. The owner tried to find him to pay him for the work he'd done, but never saw him again. Eventually the owner found a new person to complete the job and as soon as the house was ready, a tenant was found. However, within six months the tenant was found dead. Hanging from a rafter in the attic. The reason for his suicide is unknown.
It was then that the house began it's reputation for being a 'death house' and for several weeks the house stood empty. Then a family from Virginia took a liking to the house on first sight. And the low rent sealed the deal. They moved in a few days later. It was only six weeks later that the new renter was found dead. Hanging from a rope at the same spot on the same rafter.
Now I'm not saying I'm superstitious, but if I knew that two people had died it that house in the same year hanging from the exact same place, I'd stay clear. And that's just what the people in Cumberland County did. The house stood empty for 35 years. It was only until WWII that the house gained a new occupant.
The influx of people into the Fayetteville area during the war was incredible. Housing was hard to come by so in July of 1945 the house was rented by a Boston born soldier and his new wife. The deal was the rent was free so long as the couple maintained the house. The first night was when the trouble began. Alarm clocks began going off at the wrong hour, doors they were sure they'd locked were open the next morning and books were rearranged on the shelves. They joked to their friends about what was going on.
Soon, both friends and strangers began stopping by to see the ghost house. The stories of the former occupants made their way back to the wife and the soldier. Both of them were painfully shy, so the attention they were getting weighed on their minds. They stopped answering the door, they began to bicker with the husband telling his wife that he was on the verge of a breakdown.
The military chalked it up to a soldier who couldn't transition from civilian to military life. The coroner ruled it a suicide. It was his wife who had found him swinging from a rafter in the attic. It was said he'd must've been there a while because the rope had made an indention in the wood...
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Does anyone know the location of this house? I would very much like to take some pictures and to try to see if there are souls there that I could help. I'm a medium and I can cast out, too, which it probably needs too . Rev. Deb marshall.debra@ymail.com
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is it still for rent:)
yes it is still for rent it has been passed down to my father and hes looking to sell or rent it
where is it?I would be interested in buying.Is it listed some where? Do you have a contact # ? I live near fay.
Hello my name is Chris Labombard and me and a couple of my friends are really interested in ghost and haunted places and we have started our own club which is just a couple of friends. But we would like to tour and see as many haunted places in fayetteville as we can whether it is hoke or cumberland county. All over fayetteville. If you could contact me at (edited) I would really appreciate it. Thank you
I've edited your comment to remove your phone number. This is to protect both you and me. If you would like to leave your email address that would be fine by me, just no phone numbers. Never know who could come calling. :)
-Jason
my nane is barbara carnley me and my friends would like to joine yall in ghost hunted you email at barbara.carnley@yahoo.com
My brother and I invastigate hauntings.This house is perfect. Who do we talk to??
My bro. and I Investigate hauntings. Is the house still standing? If so where? Who do we talk to For permission?
richie1rich@embarqmail.com is my email. Please contact me about this home. I can't beleave it's still standing.
My name is Kumar, yes that's my real name, and me and a few friends have created an unofficial paranormal investigative team that likes to attack claims like this from a scientific point of view and try and find either a natural explenation to these claims or find physical evidence of a paranormal reason. please contact me at tncpis.Kumar@gmail.com (TNCPIS: The North Carolina Paranormal Investigative Society)
~Kumar
I live in Fayetteville. please email me the address.
jesselyn64@yahoo.com
I've no idea. All the info I have is in the story.
-Jason
danalovesjesus143@yahoo.com
Please email me more information, I'd love to buy the house
The house in the story (or at least, the house I was always TOLD went with this story) is on the corner of Bragg Blvd and Shaw Road.
The surrounding area is NOT a good place to be out at night. The house used to be closer to the road: a large white two story house. It is now owned by someone who had it moved further back from the road because of curiosity seekers, I suppose. It can no longer be seen, obscured by trees. You will see the mailbox and the two-track driveway leading back into the woods. It is private property and you might get pinched by the Fayetteville police if you go onto the premises, so fair warning! :)
I am 47, have lived in Fayetteville all my life, and have heard this same story about that house as long as I can remember.
omg scared the beejeesuz outa of me fo real
you people are idiots. several people DIED in this house, all the same way and you want to LIVE there?! i have been investigating places for 11 years, but i would never live somewhere that kills people. do you want to be next?
I would like to see this house. It sounds so fasanating. I would leave my email but I can't. Someone let me know about who to contact to see it. Please.
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