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modern ghosts haunt abandoned bowling alleys instead...

OoOoOoOoO.... I can't leave... Do you know what type of interest loan I have? OoOoOo

I can't find a picture to post but recently the building fad in my country for single family homes is cubes. Literally, cubes. The houses are made of grouped cubic structures. No rounded surfaces, no decorative details. A bit like watered down brutalism.

Can't imagine those houses aging well.

Meanwhile, old stone houses just look... good. Renovated, awsome. Abandoned, creepy. No ghosts though.

Am I the only one or does that picture look kind of uncanny?

I can't place it... It looks uneven and wavy.

I smell burnt toast.

Haunted houses are old. There's no way McMansions will last long enough for ghosts to sprout.

It's because it's now dead malls that are getting haunted. To know what's worth haunting today we'll need to wait about 30 to 50 years to see what sorts of architecture is considered spooky.

I honestly don't understand the houses going up in my neighborhood - it's getting gentrified and what is being built is so ugly. Who is buying these ugly ass houses for 1.5 MILLION dollars? If that was my budget I'd build something beautiful with a big porch like this picture, but all the "luxury" homes are boxes with big garages in front. I look at them on Zillow and they aren't even pretty on the inside.

Say, isn't that the old Henderson place? I heard they never could find a buyer after what happened.

All I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house...*shudders*

We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many "ghosts" were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.

If we go by the logic in some media where the ghosts are bound to the house/property, they probably don't want to be stuck somewhere that will eventually just dissolve in the rain.

Small houses can be scary, too! My living room when I moved in back in October (not a joke):

And there's so much more!

"My house is haunted."

"You live in a ranch in the suburbs built in 1983. What kind of white bread ghost stuck around that mess?"

That house looks like it's $3.2 million dollars.

I wonder if older houses seem more "hauntable" simply because they were built to facilitate air flow within them. Before air conditioning, homes had to be built to allow air to naturally circulate. Thought was placed into room, door, and window layouts to encourage air flow throughout the home, windows were designed to fully open, and transom windows allowed air flow even when doors were closed.

The point is that old homes were built to allow air flow. This means that there's more opportunity for doors to randomly close and other things to be disturbed by the wind. Older homes also weren't as sealed and insulated as well. They were designed assuming that some of the structure would get wet and then dry out. Older buildings were designed to undergo constant moisture cycling, while newer buildings try to seal out moisture all together. More dramatic changes in lumber moisture content means more creaks, groans, and other ghostly noises.

Simply because of how buildings science has evolved, it's possible that older homes just more readily produce "haunting" sounds than modern ones.

Turn out haunting a house also cost some ghost buck and inflation makes haunting unaffordable.

You have to own the house to have it be haunted. So boomers are kinda the least generation of people to be haunted.

Fucking ghosts better chip in paying for the upkeep, property taxes, and everything else. No one gets to haunt for free.