10/29/2021
Does this give you the spooks? Did you know that in the seller must disclose if they believe a house is ? For over 20 years, Helen and George Ackley and their children called this eerie house in the photo “home.” In 1977, Helen went to the Reader’s Digest to relay some odd occurrences they had experienced over the years. When the taxes became too much, Helen was forced to sell her unique home, much to her dismay. She didn’t mention the haunting to her buyer, Jeffrey M. Stambovsky, who had agreed to purchase it for $650,000. He put down a $32,500 deposit. However, he soon discovered that the house was supposedly haunted after a local architect said to him: “Oh, you’re buying the haunted house…” (This information was pretty public due to the feature in Reader's Digest.) Jeffrey took Helen to court in an attempt to get their deposit back. The New York appellate court declared that the house was haunted “as a matter of law.” Ultimately, Jeffrey settled for half of his deposit back and left the haunted mansion for good. Helen had no problem selling her house afterwards. This is now known as "The Ghostbuster's Ruling."
