Here is a Hallowe'en themed challenge for you. Where, and what, is this "haunted house"?
mwahahaha!
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Yeah, Colt's wife did keep adding on untill she died. Then people got scared cuase they would hear construction and foot steps even thought they were alone. That what I thought when I saw it- Nice call Larry,
Posted by: Jack Napiare | June 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Bingo! This was the main building in Bennett Jr. college, which folded in the mid 1970s. I'd give it another decade before it starts to look like the bare walls and chimneys of Crown Point...
Posted by: Tim Abbott | November 03, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y. It closed about 30 years ago and no one knows what to do with it.
Posted by: Terry Cowgill | November 02, 2008 at 01:03 PM
A good guess, Larry, but no. It is within a one hour radius of my home in NW CT tho...
Posted by: Tim Abbott | November 02, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Is that the house that was owned by the widow of wealthy manufacturer like Colt? I remember a story about a widow that kept on adding on to a house to confuse spirits that might be present there because the Colt guns killed so many people.
Posted by: Larry | November 02, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Man, what a shame. Just look at that old "cottage." I don't even want to think of all the interior work that's just rotting away.
Posted by: Jim | October 31, 2008 at 01:05 PM