Here we are at the start of another week and who knows, you may be on the look out for a new home.
Anyway today we looked at a property which initially caught the eye of a lady from Hertfordshire, on the look out for a flat to rent in the French town of Reims.
Whilst looking for accommodation, Louise Wiseman a 23-year old English lecturer from Hertfordshire who’d been working in Reims, France, was attracted by an advertisement for an apartment advertised as “cosy”.
And very cosy it was indeed as the all-in-one kitchen/bathroom/bedroom was available to rent for a mere €200 (£169) a month.
Located in the heart of the traditional site for crowning French kings, the property didn’t exactly exude pomp and splendour. Loosely described as a ‘kitchenette’, the tiny 9m² flat came complete with a bunk bed and a cooking plate.
Given the flat’s unorthodox interior layout, tenants are afforded the luxury of being able to go to the toilet whilst still cooking their dinner, although food hygiene might be an issue.
In spite of its obvious charms, I’m pretty certain that Louise turned her attention elsewhere.
Meanwhile closer to home a property that has regularly changed hands, came back on the market last October, and if you’re wondering quite why this might be, well here’s a hint.
It’s reliably reported to be haunted – and when I say haunted – I mean haunted BIG TIME!
So would you consider purchasing this desirable property – with many spirits potentially thrown in for free?
For this is “THE CAGE”, a semi-detached house located in St Osyth near Clacton.
It is reputed to have a somewhat morbid history as a former village lock-up used to imprison “witches” who sat waiting to be burnt (unlikely in Essex) or more likely, hanged.
A lady called Vanessa Mitchell purchased the house in 2005 for £144,000, but her stay there was short lived as she claimed to have witnessed the ghost of a man disappear into an eerie mist, found blood on the floor, and said she’d been shoved to the ground while heavily pregnant.
But for her the final straw came after she spotted the image on CCTV of a satanic goat wandering around!
Because of its terrifying reputation of paranormal activity, it took 12 years to effect the sale of the property, but it was finally snapped up in 2020.
But after just 4 years of occupation, the new owner of what maybe Britain’s “most haunted house” put it back on the market last October at a price of £250,000.
The estate agents charged with marketing the property, did so not so much as a home, but as “an enticing opportunity for a cosy and eccentric holiday let!”
And it seems to have worked as an Australian couple have just snapped it up and are planning to renovate the property and make it a “safe space for spirits.”
Whether it’s safe for anyone else, I guess only time will tell.
On that that, I’ll leave you to ponder and hope to have your company once again tomorrow,
Scott
