Ghosts and old buildings

Memorable Hearses  Past:

 

For today:

When I was about3-4 years old I was supposed to spend the night with Uncle Oscar and Aunt Ruby. They lived about one block from us. I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to go home. I crossed one street to get home and on that corner was an old abandoned church.                            Of course no one locked their doors back then and I went on in. Going in I woke mama, I told her I had walked home by myself She asked me if I was scared walking back by myself?  I said ‘No, except when I passed the ‘hainted church’.’

Carothers Funeral Home built nice brick building in Belmont. They were very successful in business for about 40-50 years, then closed and never reopened in Belmont.

Leaving a very nice large brick building with a large parking lot. As a builder I speculated that someone would buy the building and break it up into apartments or someone would choose it for an assisted living unit. BUT it remained on the market for probably 6-8 years (maybe more).

I have heard folks say I would not live in that building. I have asked those folk if they believed in ghosts, NO……….. but so many dead bodies were there, my uncles and aunts were lay in-state there. TOO many memories in that place.

Now someone has bought it, completely remodeling it, even painted the beautiful brick.

I did not think folks would hold it against the building, but evidently they do.  This group who bought it are planning to rent office space, that might work, but then that might not either.

I am sure in every town there are locations that have been café’s, bike shops, etc. but every business has gone belly up. I heard a realtor say once those are ‘SNAKE BIT PROPERTIES’. I hope this old funeral home is NOT. Someone will lose a lot of money if it does not make a go of it.

Do you believe a building can be possessed or haunted?

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