A recent study finds that a significant portion of Americans believe they've lived in a haunted house - and that this has a material impact on real estate values.
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Haunted Real Estate: Half of Homeowners Would Sell House Believed to Have Ghosts
Online real estate marketplace Realtor.com commissioned Toluna Research to poll 1,000 consumers about how they would react to finding out they had inherited a “haunted house.” More than half of respondents were spooked by the idea, with 51% saying they would sell the house immediately, and another 6% saying they would have the house torn down. Others said they would try to rectify the situation, as 23% said they would try renovating the house to see if that would make the house less frightful. But 20% said they’d shrug it off and would live in the house as planned.
