History Main / HauntedHouse

-->'''Liz:''' Word of advice: If the will says [[OnOneCondition you have to spend the night in a haunted house]] you better hope that everybody else there is [[BlackDudeDiesFirst black guys]] and [[DeathBySex sluts]].

* Gracey Manor in ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'' (2003) starring Eddie Murphy is a parody. A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion located in the Louisiana bayou, which they soon discover is haunted.

** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', E. Gadd lives in one, albeit one inhabited by much more friendly ghosts than normal, due to the influence of the Dark Moon. When the Moon breaks, the ghosts are driven to mischief and malice and he is forced out. Luigi must go through 5 haunted houses throughout the game to restore the Dark Moon.

* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VII'' had one.

%%* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame''.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has an example in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2740 SCP-2740,]] which is a house whose attic no-one is able to enter. Inhabitants are filled with dread as they approach it, but trying to get into the attic, as well as trying to permanently leave the house, or destroy it entirely, are all met with the same result: failure, and the thing not happening at all, leaving those who attempted it dazed, confused, and further filled with dread. As Mrs. Feldman says, [[spoiler:"There's only so much that hate can build up in a place before it starts hating you back... I don't know what's in the attic, or if there's anything up there at all, and I don't think I want to."]]

* The Bloodstained Labyrinth case from ''Manga/GhostHunt'' features a mansion and one of the properties owned by the former Prime Minister. It's utterly filled with spirits and its nonsensical architecture leads Monk to compare it to the real-life Winchester Mansion. [[spoiler:The spirits haunting the place aren't evil, though. It's Urado that SPR has to worry about]].

* {{VideoGame/DLIRIUM}} gives this an interesting twist. The house it takes place in begins as a normal mansion, but once the protagonist Ada opens a mysterious present from its owner, it becomes a hellish {{Mordor}} haunted by numerous demons.

* The entirety of ''VideoGame/SweetHome'' takes place in one of these, referred to as a "House of Residing Evil."

* 0012 in ''Manga/Cyborg009'' may be the consciousness of a human woman cybernetically transferred to a mansion [[spoiler: and with her brains placed in a CreepyDoll in the middle of said manse]], but for all intents and purposes, this mansion is a haunted house: She can project her voice and a holographic image anywhere in the house; make objects levitate and manipulate the [[MalevolentArchitecture walls, floors, and ceilings]]; and has placed the house in a dark forest when 009 and the others arrive.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Innistrad is known for having a pretty severe ghost problem, and that leads to more than a few spirits haunting houses and the like. [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=233239 Moorland Haunt]], for example, shows a remote manor surrounded by spectral shapes.

* ''ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily'': The family seems to live in one: There's [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/7f/90/d17f908e5692cb896941c657f0934c4c--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg something]] in the cellar and [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b1/28/0e/b1280e92d38364550a2363e22fe4b55a.jpg restless crypt residents]], and we can't forget the Thing...

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaLegacy'' has a challenge that takes place in one. It's called Mournful Manor, and comes complete with two CreepyHousekeepers.

* ''Film/TheLegendOfHellHouse'' (1973, adapted from Richard Matheson's ''Literature/HellHouse'') is "The Mt. Everest of haunted houses". During two investigations eight people died, several from suicide. The latest investigation includes a physical medium (the only survivor of the last investigation), a mental medium, a skeptical physicist and his somewhat unstable wife. In the end [[spoiler: they find the house's incredibly evil owner has willed his spirit to remain in the house, tormenting and killing as he did in life]]

* ''Film/{{Shrooms}}'': [[spoiler:At least, that's what the characters (and the audience) are lead to believe the children's home is at first...]] However, WordOfGod says that the issue of [[spoiler: the story of the home being real or not]] was intended to be vague - hence the brief shots of it at the beginning of the film.

* In ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series, the Dean brothers visit the reputedly-haunted Mansion, but never work up the nerve to go inside. This was a wise decision, as [[spoiler: the house itself is the guardian of a portal between worlds. A very ''aggressive'' guardian.]]

* [[spoiler: Subverted]] in ''Literature/TheGhostsOfCougarIsland'', which features an abandoned, [[spoiler: seemingly]] haunted house. [[spoiler: In truth, the "haunting" is caused by some runaway orphans.]]

* [[spoiler: Subverted]] in ''The Haunting of Grade Three'', where the eponymous third-grade class has relocated to an old house, which has mysterious noises and objects that move seemingly of their own accord. [[spoiler: In truth, the house is sinking, which accounts for the odd noises and movements.]]

* Anne Rivers Siddons' ''Literature/TheHouseNextDoor'' is a very strange example in that the house is still unbuilt at the start of the book, and there's no obvious reason why it turns out the way it does (it's not built on a cemetery, for example). All the same, it's a very Bad Place indeed. [[spoiler: It's the architect that's cursed. All his previous projects were unfinished because someone died or was blinded in a freak construction incident. No reason why it's him, but he was adopted and doesn't know who his real parents were, so that tells us something. After they kill him and are killed by the house, someone finds the plans to that house and it looks like it's going to happen again.]]

** Sam and Dean had encountered a few, particularly in the earlier seasons, when [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] were a more common MonsterOfTheWeek. A couple of noteworthy examples are "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home Home]]", where the Haunted House in question is their own childhood home, which turns out to be haunted by [[spoiler:''two'' ghosts, a vicious violent poltergeist and their own mom]] and "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E11FamilyRemains Family Remains]]" where [[spoiler: it's a subversion, the "ghost" in question is actually two [[{{Mundanger}} living, feral, murderous children]]]].

* In ''The Skinsaw Murders,'' the second adventure in the ''Rise of the Runelords'' adventure path for ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the party explores a very haunted manor [[spoiler: which got that way when the original owner failed to become a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] and infused the manor with his evil spirit]]. Three generations of the [[spoiler: Foxglove]] family have met their ends there, and it's entirely possible for the player characters to end up as its latest victims. There are also at least a few scattered around in [[{{Uberwald}} Ustalav]].

* {{VideoGame/Anatomy}} takes place in and is focused upon a haunted house. It also is notable for not being an instance of a house being haunted by anything in particular, instead, [[spoiler: the house itself being alive, and hating human inhabitants for abandoning it.]]

** What exactly is haunting the Oldest House is unclear. It could be the Hiss, the Board, the Oldest House itself acting as a [[GeniusLoci living entity that does not want to be inhabited]], or potentially even [[spoiler: the former director, Northmoor, whose still living body is the power source of the FBC, with the main power plant being the NSC: Northmoor Sarcophagus Chamber, and readings near the top of the central room of the NSC say that there's movement inside, displaying a person struggling within.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', due to [[spoiler: Bartrand]] keeping a shard from the [[spoiler: [[ArtefactOfDoom Red Lyrium Idol]]]], his mansion ends up becoming an EldritchLocation haunted by demons, ghosts and all manner of "[[BuffySpeak weird shit]]".

** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Dragonborn is asked by a Vigilant of Stendarr to investigate a house suspected of being used by Daedra worshippers. [[spoiler: It turns out the disturbances are because Molag Bal's shrine has been desecrated by a cultist loyal to a rival Daedric Prince and suffice to say, the "[[RedBaron King of Rape]]" is '''not''' someone to upset]].
* The ''[[VideoGame/Fallout4 Fallout 4]]'' DLC ''Nuka-World'' has one in the Grandchester Mystery Mansion, a roadside attraction based on the real-life Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. Both houses (the one in Nuka-World and the one in San Jose) share odd designs, with doors that open to walls and stairways that go nowhere. However, that and the name are about where the similarities end: the San Jose house is (supposedly) haunted by the ghosts that killed by Winchester guns killed (as in, Winchester Rifles) and/or was constructed by Sarah Winchester to escape/fool death; conversely, the Grandchester Mystery Mansion is the sight of Lucy Grandchester's grisly murder of her parents in a Lizzy-Bordon-esque murder, with Lucy escaping from an insane asylum and killing herself in the house years later. In-game, the Grandchester was turned into a roadside attraction a la the aforementioned Winchester Mystery House, and years later after the war, was turned into a murder trap run by an ex-Gunner named Zachariah. As the player investigates the house, they will quickly learn that it is haunted by the ghost of Lucy Grandchester [[note]]who, curiously, is shown as a child and not the young woman she was when she killed herself - probably for RuleOfScary: creepy kids are ''way'' scarier than creepy adults[[/note]], with the player able to catch glimpses of her as they explore the house, read terminal logs from Zachariah about a disembodied female laugh he assumes is coming from one of his robots, and culminating in the player following her into the attic, where she'll giggle and run around a corner - but if the player investigates, they'll find a door with a brick wall behind it.

* ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'' has the Witch's Manor: a twisted building with moving furniture, phantom-like monsters, mirrors that double as portals, and a [[CreepyChild creepy]] [[CuteGhostGirl ghost-girl]]. The "witch" who serves as the boss of this place [[spoiler: is actually Kaim's wife Sarah. The form she takes, and the mansion's sinister nature are all manifested by her despair.]]

** Easily the most famous is the Black House; the charred ruin of a two-story suburban home, demolition crews are too scared to pull it down, and local teenagers regularly dare one another to spend the entire night in the house - and in the last thirty years, nobody's been able to go the distance without chickening out. Anyone attempting to enter by the front door is immediately flung twenty feet in the opposite direction; those who get inside are greeted by ghostly shapes, bleeding walls, tortured wailing, and the house itself trying to kill them. [[spoiler: Lore reveals that it was once inhabited by a benevolent hedge-witch by the name of Carrie Killian - up until she turned down a recruitment offer from the Illuminati, and was made the subject of a community-wide smear campaign as a result. As such, when several children turned up dead not too far away, Carrie got the blame, and her house was burned to the ground by an angry mob.]]

* ''VideoGame/SouthOfReal'' begins in a rather bog-standard one, complete with creepy changing paintings, rearranging furniture, and vicious ghosts. The twist is that [[TheHero Alex]] [[AbusiveParents spent their miserable childhood there]], so it's got a lot of memories. The ''other'' twist is that [[spoiler: the ghosts are the spirits of Alex's siblings...who did not make it out alive.]]

* ''Webcomic/FreakingRomance'': Subverted. Zylith is led to believe her apartment is haunted, but it really isn't. The young man she sees is [[spoiler: actually from a different dimension.]]

* {{Parodied}} in ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'', [[https://www.oglaf.com/open-house/ "Open House"]], where the house agent takes the prospective buyers to the house at night in the name of honesty so that they can see the ghosts too before buying. [[spoiler:Also, the house isn't for sale and she's just another ghost, whereas "The Angry Owner" isn't.]]

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': The Kesandru[=/=]Brie Meighsaton House. At first, the main characters move in and find it's haunted by some ghost(s) whose tragic story they discover. This ends up with their having a ghost housemate who can't move on for some reason. [[spoiler: Later they find out the house is a big ghost trap built by the magician Kesandru; even the souls of bugs that died there stay behind as ghosts, although most get stuck in the ghost well under the house and don't do any actual haunting.]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has an example in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2740 SCP-2740]], which is a house whose attic no-one is able to enter. Inhabitants are filled with dread as they approach it, but trying to get into the attic, as well as trying to permanently leave the house, or destroy it entirely, are all met with the same result: failure, and the thing not happening at all, leaving those who attempted it dazed, confused, and further filled with dread. As Mrs. Feldman says, [[spoiler:"There's only so much that hate can build up in a place before it starts hating you back... I don't know what's in the attic, or if there's anything up there at all, and I don't think I want to."]]

* The titular doom house in ''WebVideo/DoomHouse''. Meaning that... uh... well, at least there's a creepy doll, and it turns out to be built on top of a [[spoiler: terrorist grave camp.]] Also, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext baggies]].

* In ''WebVideo/WhoKilledMarkiplier'', [[spoiler: this ''might'' be the case with Markiplier Manor, although it's also possible that the manor is a form of sentient MalevolentArchitecture.]]

* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' features the Mad Castle level, a Halloween-themed level where most of the {{Mooks}} are zombies, TheGrimReaper is skating around trying to find you to [[OneHitKill kill you in one hit]], a giant monstrous hand is waiting for you to chuck mooks into its clutches, and the bosses are a [[WolfpackBoss pack of werewolves]], a FrankensteinsMonster {{Expy}}, and a [[HornyDevils sexy vampire.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking It's also a good site to play]] [[MiniGame golf!]]

* WebVideo/OutsideXbox's ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' party encounters one of these in "Mind Your Manors", in which they are challenged to spend the night there. It's situated in scenic Necropolis-on-Sea, looked after by an undead realtor turned butler named Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Culchahun III At Your Service and a barely alive hag named Bismuth, and the challenge to spend time there has contributed significantly to Necropolis-on-Sea being ass deep in gravestones. It turns out that it's also Corazón's ancestral home; while he appreciates the knowledge about his family history, he loathes the place itself (although [[TokenEvilTeammate Prudence]] thinks it's [[NightmareFetishist just the best thing ever]]). In a second adventure, "Unreal Estate," it [[GeniusLoci appears to be independently sentient]] and is ''not'' happy about Corazón's attempts to sell it, leading to significant, [[BloodyHilarious if hilarious]], bloodshed.

Compare HauntedHeadquarters, which is any haunted primary setting; OldDarkHouse, which may or may not have a supernatural element; HellHotel, which is its hotel equivalent; and GhostShip, which is this trope placed at sea. BigBoosHaunt is this trope in video games. Will often end up invoking NeverRecycleABuilding, for good reason.

* ''Literature/TheMessengerSeries'': The guest house and annexe that Rose's parents own is reputed to be haunted. Doors stick or open without warning, there are strange musty smells in cupboards for no reason, a stain that won't disappear from the kitchen floor no matter what cleaning agents are used, and feels of despair and dread that descend upon people without warning. Rose's first mission with Favour is to find out why the house is haunted and rid its curse.

** ''Literature/TheDark'': Beechwood, host to murderous occult ritual, sees a phantom repeat thereof.

** In''Literature/TheSecretOfCrickleyHall'', a grief-stricken family's stay in the titular house entails mysterious knocking; unaccountable puddles, "white shadows," and a discreetly manifest silhouetted figure. They learn of a 1943 flood; several BlitzEvacuees, and the children's viciously austere guardians - one of whom died on the night of the flood.

* In Creator/JamesHerbert's ''Literature/TheSecretOfCrickleyHall'', a grief-stricken family's stay in the titular house entails mysterious knocking; unaccountable puddles, "white shadows," and a discreetly manifest silhouetted figure. They learn of a 1943 flood; several BlitzEvacuees, and the children's viciously austere guardians - one of whom died on the night of the flood.

* Music/{{Genesis}}' 1983 song "Home by the Sea" is the tale of a robber who breaks into a house only to find that it's haunted.