HAPPY HALLOWEEN! If you have been listening to the show for awhile and like the show, please take a minute to rate and review The Home Staging Show on iTunes. That will be super helpful because that will help other people to find this show and allow me to keep finding great guests and keep recording. Today’s show is brought to you by EcoJoe, the eco-friendly St Joseph statue home selling kit. In real estate, there is a tradition of praying to St Joseph for good luck, and we made an eco-friendly made with clay. EcoJoe is 100% natural, he won’t harm the earth. To find out more about the product, visit ecojoekits.com This special episode is all about haunted real estate. Today’s show is also a bit longer than our normal show. We have 2 guests on the show today. The first guest is Susan Powell, who is a home stager based in Chicago and has worked with haunted houses in her staging. She will also talk about what she now carries in her staging toolkit now that she has come in contact with a few haunted houses. The second guest is a good friend of mine, Diana Mercer. She had worked closely with Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are the subjects of the movies The Conjuring and Annabelle. She has a LOT of crazy stories about haunting, possession and I also asked her to share advices if you are suspecting hauntings in your home or what to look for in a potential house that you are thinking about buying. She actually was an atheist, she is going to share the story of why she now is made a believer. Here are some of the stuff we talked about on the show today: -Working in haunted homes -The differences between ghosts v. evil spirits -What are ghosts -When you see your dead grandmother or white apparitions appear vs. dark shadowy figures and foul smells -What may cause a ghost -#1 cause of bringing in evil spirits in your home -How Annabelle got started -Diana’s firsthand experiences and stories from working with Ed and Lorraine Warren -What to do with elemental and fairly harmless ghosts -Not every state has law that requires homeowners to disclose hauntings, so what should you do if you were a buyer? -The Amityville Horror -If someone got murdered in the house, does that make the home haunted? -Spirit photography