Kevin Bacon, who starred in sci-fi movies reminiscent of “Flatliners,” destroyed a haunted home on his northwestern Connecticut farm when the earlier proprietor feared he may grow to be “possessed” by an otherworldly entity.
“One of many items that we purchased had an outdated home in it and [the owner] didn’t need me to personal the home. It was an deserted home that he had grown up in,” Bacon stated on Rob Lowe’s “Actually” podcast final month.
Bacon stated he purchased the “flip of the century” rural farm in 1983 to purchase a horse with an ex-girlfriend.
He purchased up plots round his property each few years to maintain the world non-public.
The “Mystic River” actor stated the earlier proprietor, who he didn’t identify, “went backwards and forwards on it for some time” about Bacon shopping for the plot with the exclusion of the constructing.
“Ultimately, I stated, ‘Hear, you’ll be able to’t promote me a chunk of land however not promote me the home that’s on it. Like, that’s simply bizarre,” Bacon stated.
After a lot persistence from Bacon, the land proprietor revealed his horrifying motive for hesitating to promote the plot to the actor.
“He stated, ‘I can’t promote it to you as a result of it’s haunted, and I’m afraid that you just’ll get possessed and, you already know, do some severe injury,’” the “Apollo 13” star recalled.
Bacon and the proprietor later got here to an settlement however below one situation.
“Within the contract, I needed to destroy [the house] inside a month (of buy),” he chillingly revealed.
The upbeat podcast host then requested Bacon if he a minimum of spent a “night time” in the home earlier than he destroyed it.
“Not solely did I not try this,” Bacon stated. “However I went up there and there have been some stunning outdated pine boards and a banister and I stated to Kyra (Sedgwick), ‘We’ve gotta take these out.’ And she or he’s like, ‘No you’re not. You’re not placing these f—ing issues in our home.’”
Lowe — who agreed with Bacon’s spouse on not taking something from the haunted residence — requested if the proprietor had ever divulged the haunted historical past of the land to him.
“It was a protracted story that needed to do with a Native American who, within the 1700s, had been murdered by a colonial soldier,” the “Loss of life Sentence” actor shared.
“[The owner] had had ghostbusters there. It was an entire lengthy factor.”
Bacon stated he has not skilled any supernatural phenomena regardless of proudly owning the land for years.
“Everyone desires to know, properly, have you ever ever seen a ghost? Do you consider in ghosts?” he stated.
“The factor I all the time say is, ‘I’d actually like to, however, as of but, it hasn’t occurred. However I hope sometime it’s going to.’”