If one door closes, and another door opens, then your house is probably haunted. – someone said.

The Victorian era brought us a lot of creepy stuff. Surgery for show, gothic novel, Jack the Ripper, post-mortem art and photos, and of course haunted houses for entertainment. With the rise in ghostly fiction and a societal obsession with death and the afterlife, haunted homes became a staple in modern conversation. During the Great Depression, some families would turn their homes into “haunted houses” to entertain their children (this was also to keep them off the streets as Halloween became pretty dangerous. See more here.) Now we have a plethora of tales, true and not true, to feed our imaginations when there’s something going bump in the night.