{"id":226132,"date":"2022-09-23T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?p=226132"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:37:37","slug":"new-houses-are-not-haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/news\/new-houses-are-not-haunted","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to buy new construction homes &#8211; no ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-tag' style='margin-bottom: 35px;'><\/h4><p>There are dozens of reasons new construction homes are better than resale \u2013 modern fixtures, warranties, fresh paint, carpet that hasn\u2019t been walked all over by someone else\u2019s bare feet.<\/p>\n<p>Added bonus? It\u2019s next to impossible to buy a newly built haunted house. It takes years of effort to properly build a haunted reputation, you can\u2019t buy ghosts in a sales centre.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know you\u2019re going to bring up Poltergeist. But technically it wasn\u2019t the housing development that was haunted, it was the burial grounds beneath the new homes that caused the haunted complications. With today\u2019s zoning laws, there\u2019s no way anyone is making that mistake again.<\/p>\n<p>Resale though \u2013 that\u2019s a whole other story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yVX1xItZAOo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The geniuses at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homeadvisor.com\/r\/probability-of-buying-haunted-houses-in-the-us\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Homeadvisor<\/a> cross-referenced public MLS listings with a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housecreep.com\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Housecreep<\/a>. Housecreep is a crowdsourced database of allegedly haunted houses (it also serves as a database for houses where other creepy things have happened, such as murders).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a much-heated debate, our team determined the difference between a \u2018haunted\u2019 house and a \u2018creepy\u2019 house,\u201d the researchers said. \u201cHaunted houses would be based on the number of homes with previous deaths, homicides, and paranormal reports. Creepy houses would be based on the number of homes with crime, damage, drug, and sketchy reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the report:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSome states are certainly spookier than others, but if you\u2019re superstitious and afraid of ghouls and goblins, you\u2019ll want to avoid a few places. We found that, although only the Mayflower state made it into the top five most-haunted shortlist, New England as a whole is filled to the brim with hauntings and ghost stories galore. Aside from Vermont and Maine, all of the states in the region have a haunted house probability of 15% or higher, making them some of the most haunted states in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the northernmost part of the country, New York and New Jersey duke it out for the title of eeriest state on the East Coast. No matter which side of the fence you\u2019re on in the great bagel debate, you have over a 25% chance of winding up in a haunted house in either state. However, with more condo developments and fewer natural attractions like the Pinelands or Long Beach Island, New York\u2019s real estate developers may in fact be driving the ancient ghosts out of their original homes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ghosts tend to steer clear of warmer weather, as our friends in the South remain relatively untouched by the supernatural. In general, the South has the lowest number of haunted houses in America. Both Texas and West Virginia ranked the highest at just under 20% on the haunt-o-meter, while Florida surprisingly only scored 6%. Our guess is that ghosts hate sunshine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HomeAdvisor_HauntedHomes_1_Heatmap.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[226132]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HomeAdvisor_HauntedHomes_1_Heatmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"1560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Some states are certainly spookier than others, but if you\u2019re superstitious and afraid of ghouls and goblins, you\u2019ll want to avoid a few places. We found that, although only the Mayflower state made it into the top five most-haunted shortlist, New England as a whole is filled to the brim with hauntings and ghost stories galore. Aside from Vermont and Maine, all of the states in the region have a haunted house probability of 15% or higher, making them some of the most haunted states in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the northernmost part of the country, New York and New Jersey duke it out for the title of eeriest state on the East Coast. No matter which side of the fence you\u2019re on in the great bagel debate, you have over a 25% chance of winding up in a haunted house in either state. However, with more condo developments and fewer natural attractions like the Pinelands or Long Beach Island, New York\u2019s real estate developers may in fact be driving the ancient ghosts out of their original homes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ghosts tend to steer clear of warmer weather, as our friends in the South remain relatively untouched by the supernatural. In general, the South has the lowest number of haunted houses in America. Both Texas and West Virginia ranked the highest at just under 20% on the haunt-o-meter, while Florida surprisingly only scored 6%. Our guess is that ghosts hate sunshine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or, you could just buy new.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-msg'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are dozens of reasons new construction homes are better than resale \u2013 modern fixtures, warranties, fresh paint, carpet that hasn\u2019t been walked all over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":226134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-09-23T21:26:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"ed978394-e33b-47de-a9b1-4137905d8e07","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-27T15:37:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7ZeDlOM7R96psUE3kF2OBw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/u48r14.digitalhub.com\/sections\/09b86915-7d2b-3acd-915b-b215002d01b7"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11108],"tags":[11211,11163,11002],"coauthors":[10332],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another reason to buy new construction - no ghosts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s next to impossible to buy a newly built haunted house. 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