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\u00a9 Corinne Botz. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n

My sister and I always heard our names called. My father always said it was the wind, but the wind don\u2019t say your name. I didn\u2019t like going up on the third floor, that\u2019s where I saw a man sittin\u2019 in an easy chair. Sometimes it sounded like people were walking around the house and running down the halls. When we first moved there the floor in the back room was all cluttered with love letters. Maybe that guy died there or somethin\u2019. That place made me feel so weird. My mother died in the house the day we were moving out; I feel like a part of her is still there. It was always cold in the house so my mother was happy we were moving to a warm place. The moving vans had just left, she was finally gettin\u2019 out of the house and she never got out. As bad as I wanted to leave cause it\u2019s creepy, I miss it. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s true but I heard that the man who bought it won\u2019t stay there \u2019cause it\u2019s haunted. The place has been empty for a long time.<\/p>\n

\u2014Cheryl, who lived with her family in the house from the 1950s until the 1970s<\/p>\n

Corinne Botz<\/a> is a Brooklyn based photographer. A solo exhibition of\u00a0her work opens in July at RedLine Gallery<\/a> in Denver. She will be exhibiting <\/em>Haunted Houses in a group exhibition at Museum Morsbroich<\/a> in Germany this fall. To see more haunted houses or to hear ghost stories, visit the Haunted House project<\/a>.
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