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Aug 2020
33m 35s

How to Sell A Haunted House

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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York at 1 Laveta Place. It didn’t go as planned. There were stories of ghosts, and the house became the center of a case that’s referred to as “The Ghostbusters ruling.” The judicial opinion read: “as a matter of law, the house is haunted.”  We speak to Mark Kavanagh, Cynthia Kavanag ... Show More
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