Kevin Bacon has opened up about his creepiest experience with buying a property after someone refused to sell him some land unless he tore down the 'haunted' house that was on it.
The Hollywood star, 65, revealed he bought the property back in 1983 but the previous owner almost didn't sell it to him unless he promised to comply with some very unusual requirements.
Speaking on Rob Lowe's Literally podcast, the Footloose star revealed that he had been buying parcels of land across a few years in the hopes of one day owning a horse, but one sale came with some creepy conditions.
He explained: "One of the pieces 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."
He continued: "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?'"
At this point, the owner finally revealed exactly why he didn't want Kevin to have the house that lay on the property, as he believed it was haunted and worried that he would "get possessed" or that an entity would "do some serious damage" to the young actor.
That's quite the bombshell to hear, but weirdly enough it didn't actually put Kevin off wanting to buy the land in Connecticut regardless.
He and the owner came to an agreement that if Kevin buys the property, he must destroy the old house within a month of owning it, which he agreed to do.
Rob asked Kevin if he'd ever been tempted to "spend a night" in the abandoned house before tearing it down, but Kevin revealed that he never had.
"Not only did I not do that, but I went up there and there were some beautiful old pine boards and a banister and I said to [my wife] Kyra [Sedgwick], 'We’ve gotta take those out'", he revealed. "And she's like, 'No you're not. You're not putting those f***king things in our house.'"
Kevin explained that the previous owner had believed the house was haunted as she claimed a Native American had been murdered on the site by a colonial soldier in the 1700s, and had even called out professional ghosthunters to try and help the spirit move on.
And while that might be enough to have anyone else running for the hills, Kevin revealed that he has never yet seen a ghost himself - but hopes that one day he might.
Whatever floats your boat, Kevin, but we'd have pulled out of that purchase right at the start if we thought it came with ghosts.