BOSTON – The haunted history of Massachusetts homes and hotels is well known. There are the supernatural sightings at the Omni Parker Hotel and Salem, home of the spooky season, and towns like Westwood, where a former schoolhouse has a paranormal past, but what about the homes we haven’t heard about?
Massachusetts’ haunted housing market is so spooky that the state has a general law on the books to help homeowners successfully sell.
“It specifically says that if there’s paranormal activity in the property, you don’t have to affirmatively disclose that,” says Catherine Taylor of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors. Dark disclosure law protects sellers and real estate agents
“People always want to sell their house as quickly and as easily as possible. They don’t want to do anything that might scare off a potential buyer. But if they ask and say, well, is this house haunted or has someone died on this property, you’re obliged to disclose that,” says Taylor.
And according to HomeAdvisor, there’s a good chance you’re buying a paranormal property. The digital marketplace released a spooky statistic in 2022: there’s a 23.5 per cent chance you’re buying a haunted house in Massachusetts.
