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i have had thise idea for some time.
a haunted house with a history of: murder, suicide, madness, accidents, and just tragedy. anyone who lived their, their spirit is trapped their.
help he flesh it out.
(i know thare is a evil house already. but these is diffrent, their are more ghost)
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Gryphon Hill Manor is filled to the brim with ghosts.
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Funny. I'm poking about similar idea. As you can see I got the bones, but I'm still waiting on Burke and Hare for the rest..
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Yes, several haunted houses in canon or fanon seem to fit the bill. As previously mentioned, Gryphon Hill is perhaps the most iconic or Ravenloft's soul-collecting evil houses. In fanon, there is the Lockwood Estate from the Kargatane's Book of Sorrows, that has quite a few ghosts statted out/detailed.

To distinguish a new evil house, one might ask:
1) What is the evil house's agenda? Does it prefer a certain type of victim?
2) What sort of pattern do the deaths follow in the house's history?
3) What sort of methods does the house use to "recruit" more ghosts?
4) What does it do with the ghosts once so captured?
5) How do the different ghosts react to house's actions/agenda? Are they even aware?
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Are we talking American Horror Story: Murder House type hauntings?
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Drinnik Shoehorn wrote:Are we talking American Horror Story: Murder House type hauntings?
never seen the show. the house and grounds at first just had bad mojo/ cursed, a psychic imprint that affects the living. it is getting worse.
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The House of Lament is good for this one.
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Amityville Horror anyone?
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some spook ideas, sorry for the bad names

well ghost: a young boy/girl fell in to the old well, it was a long time to die. feral and crazed, thay have never meant kill (in fact most of thare victims disappear to the living) , thay are just lonely but the spirit of thary targets never stay with them in the well.

the brothers: sibling rivalry and a bloody one at that. both believe to be wronged by the other (thay both have blood on their hands) thay killed eche other in a duel.

bad dad: a man driven mad by the house (or had his evil grow) killed his family and others before he was found out and hung. he is a unhinged sadist bully

the vampire: a undead that "lived" the graveyard for a time, he was staked by a hunter. due to the strangeness of the place he did not meet his end but is stuck in his coffin a stack in his hart sealing him. he can astral project to try to communicate.

the hunter: a hunter and explorer, became obsessed with the exotic (think grate wight hunter) one of the souls that did not die on the property but in the wild. this makes him perceive things differently, believing he is stile out there in the wild.

the first son: shameful secret of a noble family, was born deformed and mentally impard, he was keep locked in the basement, he escape on a few occasions (he brock his chains and the door hinges) and was seen by people as a monster. was blamed for three murders (he was home in the basement for the last one) he did kill seven of the mob that came for him before his father shot him dead.
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