Millionaire Ditches Haunted House
It seems like Halloween may have come early given the ghostly goings-on at one Nottinghamshire mansion.
Now I doubt I’ll be saying this too often, but surely you’ve got to pity the poor millionaire who bought the 52-room pile (for a cool £3.6 million) in the belief he’d be breaking a sweat in the exclusive gym, enjoying the delights of a private cinema and sharing the 17 bedrooms with just his wife and four kids.
But apparently some unwelcome guests (of the spectral variety) weren’t too keen when it came to the new inhabitants, as they terrorised Anwar Rashid and his family for the eight months they managed to stick it out at Clifton Hall.
From eerie voices, to shapeshifting phantoms taking the form of their children, when the distraught family discovered spots of blood on their baby’s blanket they knew it was time to get the hell out of Dodge.
Mr Rashid told The Independent: “That was the day my wife said she’d had enough. We didn’t stay that night. It was the last straw, we felt they had come to attack us. It was really emotional.”
And who were they gonna call? Er- the bank it would seem. They did try some ghostbusters first though, in the form of the Ashfield Paranormal Investigation Network, who agreed that the mansion- which dates back to the Norman conquest- was indeed creepy and haunted.
But Mr Rashid felt that the only way out of the nightmare scenario was to stop paying the mortgage. That was back in January.
It’s now September and the bank has evidently taken the hint and repossessed – oh the irony!- the paranormal property. Knight Frank has been given the job of marketing it.
Good luck with selling that on. Of course, there’s still the ghost of a chance some ghoul-loving moneybags will take on the haunted house. And in the current climate what better ammunition for driving a bargain?
Have you ever fallen victim to things that go bump in the night? Would you willingly move into a property already occupied by some spooky spirits? Would it make a difference if they were friendly (like Casper) or the price was too good to resist? Let us know what you think.
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I’ve heard that it’s a legal requirement to declare a property
is haunted at the time of selling. I don’t know if this is true but I guess it would fit under some law about accurately describing something that is being sold and not knowingly withholding important information.
I suspect you would be laughed out of any court though as obviously it would be impossible to prove.
Perhaps the family have never lived in an old home. They are always filled with strange noises, drafts and smells which could be misconstrued.
There is an explanation for everything in this life,and there are also solutions to every problem in this world, but sometimes we just panic and run from our problems. Ghost do not exist but jins do which are more powerful than the average ghosts people believe in, and yes there is a way of getting rid of them you just need to ask the right people.
I can not see the problem mr rashid has with having ghosts in his house cause if he’s not ridiculing or harming them they won’t harm him or his family. But to be perfectly honest I think he is totaly mad moving out of his house. I live in beaconsfield next to richard hammondand i have a few ghosts and they don’t bother me.