Kevin Bacon had to destroy haunted house on his farm after previous owner thought he'd get possessed
In order to purchase part of his farmland, Kevin Bacon said he had to agree to destroy a 'haunted' house on the property because the owner was afraid he'd get 'possessed' and 'do some serious damage.' https://t.co/By4uSliE0S
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) September 22, 2023
"One of the pieces [of farmland] that we bought had an old house in it and [the owner] didn't want me to own the house. It was an abandoned house that he had grown up in," Bacon explained. "We kind of went back and forth on it for a while and then, eventually, I said, 'Listen, you can't sell me a piece of land but not sell me the house that's on it. Like, that's just weird. What if you sell it and there's somebody that's just living, basically, right up in the backyard?'"
As Bacon recalled, "He said, 'I can't sell it to you because it's haunted and I'm afraid that you'll get possessed and, you know, do some serious damage.'”
"It was a long story that had to do with a Native American who, in the 1700s, had been murdered by a colonial soldier," he recounted. “[The owner] had had ghostbusters there. It was a whole long thing."
Bacon eventually agreed to destroy the house. “I went up there and there were some beautiful old pine boards and a bannister and I said to Kyra [Sedgwick], 'We've gotta take those out.' And she's like, 'No you're not. You're not putting those fucking things in our house.'"