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I've been told by a certain lady that my home on Avenue A in the 600 block was rumored to have been haunted by an old woman, that a fire had broken out upstairs after my parents and I had left it, and that certain renovations were being made.
There was an older woman who had lived in the house before us and who had died before we had to leave. Her son who'd owned it wanted to sell it after she'd died. Long story short, the guy who came in after
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us in June of 1983 apparently overshot. He wanted to renovate the house a bit more than he really needed to in order to restore it to an earlier time,
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but he had no support, and he was getting burned-out, and it was taking too much time away from his job. All that plus the fire breaking out and the rumors among some of the neighbors of it being haunted by an old woman, I guess, led to him abandoning the place in less than three months! The house still looked the same for years on the outside, but it apparently became a lot worse than we had left it. Nobody lived there again for five years. Submitted by
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