Episode 145: How to Sell A Haunted House

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 8 a.m.

In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn't go as planned. 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.”

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