Adele and its ghosts scare buyers from a house, accuses an owner

Lock House is a former convent nestled in the green countryside of West Sussex in England. However, the owner of this magnificent home listed as a world heritage and built in the middle of a park housing “deer, mature oaks, cedars, sylvestre pines and lime trees”, failed to sell it for years. And, according to him, this failure has a manager: the singer Adele who rented her and lived there for six months in the early 2010s.

The star did not commit any irreparable material damage but she would have dissuaded potential buyers by revealing in an interview with CBS that the vast residence was full … Ghosts!, Reports the “Guardian”. “This house is a bit cliché, in fact. All of this is really scary, “she said to the television team, adding a reference to the cursed” Shining “hotel. The “Sun” had pushed the point home with an article ensuring that the artist permanently heard noises that made her jump.

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A single serious buyer, frightened by the specters …

Far from being an argument of sale, this obsession mentioned by Adele would have “devastated the property”. In 14 years, the owner who bought the house in 2003 and has done major work there, would have had only one serious offer in 2020. But the buyer, according to him, learned that he should share His accommodation with specters.

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The owner therefore decided to transform the immense manor which has “a cinema, a billiard room, a swimming pool, a tennis court and a summer pavilion” In a residential set made up of three houses and a cottage.

To initiate these important work on a historic building, he had to request an authorization from the District Council which granted it, apparently convinced by its supernatural arguments. But the possibility that the price requested by the seller could have been more frightening than a cohort of ghosts does not seem to have been taken into account …