The Whaley House was built in 1857 on land that formerly held gallows.  It is not only the most haunted house in America, it was even haunted before it was built.  The first ghost to roam the area where the rooms would be built was that of James “Yankee Jim” Robinson.  But we’ll get to [...]

In May of 2010 the internet was crawling with articles about a fantastic mansion, inn, marina, restaurant, and private beach for sale in Massachusetts.  The property (kit and kaboodle) once belonged to the Bancrofts and the Barrons – Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal heirs.  Later, a smart and very rich investor named Peter Roy [...]

If you have an extra million bucks, and you don’t mind the possibility of hurricane-spawned oil seepage, it might be a good time to consider moving to coastal South Carolina.  No, seriously.  I suspect that many people in the coastal parts of the Southeastern United States are heading west as BP continues to fail to [...]

We all love a little celebrity gossip – and on this site we especially love an inside look at celebrity homes.  Face it.  They’re rich, so they can afford really nice homes and home furnishings, and it’s fun to see how the other half lives.  Take, for instance, Sheryl Crow’s fabulous New York loft that [...]

Francis Bannerman was obviously a pretty rich guy.  After all, he had enough money to buy 90% of the Spanish-American War’s army surplus (the US side, at least).  And then, because his Manhattan surplus store didn’t have the storage space (and because his neighbors weren’t wild about having a whole lot of ammunition on the [...]