Imagine buying the house of your dreams and discovering that it has tenants from beyond. That’s more or less what happened to Kevin Bacon, as he recounted on Rob Lowe’s Literally podcast.
Instead of a haunted mansion in Hollywood, the actor decided to invest in a rural estate in Connecticut. He bought the property in 1983, initially to own a horse. Over time, Bacon acquired more land around his property, until he found a plot that the previous owner did not want to sell.
The reason? A haunted house that was part of the land. After some back and forth, the owner finally broke the news at the insistence of the actor, who did not understand so many impediments to the sale: “I can’t sell it to you because it’s haunted, and I’m afraid that they will possess you and, you know, cause you serious damage”.
Somehow, they reached an agreement. The deal had a peculiar condition: Bacon had to demolish the house within a month. Of course, it is unusual for there to be an anti-ghost clause in the contract, but otherwise there would have been no agreement.
Apparently the house had a darker history involving an 18th century Native American murdered by a colonial soldier. This story was enough for even the previous owner to hire ghost hunters to investigate the property, although it never came to fruition.
And what happened to the house? Well, Bacon demolished it, as the contract stipulated. He even thought about keeping some old boards and railings, but his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, nipped that idea in the bud because she didn’t want “those damn things in our house.” It was a pretty sensible decision.
As for Bacon, he still hasn’t experienced any supernatural phenomena on the ground. But if he ever does, he wouldn’t care too much. According to him, “I would love to, but at the moment it hasn’t happened. But I hope one day it will happen.”
