Kevin Bacon revealed a strange condition he had to agree to before he could buy his Connecticut farm in 1983.
During a conversation on Rob Lowe’s Literally podcast, the Footloose star explained how the previous owner made him agree to demolish the abandoned house on the property before selling it to him because he believed it was haunted.
“One of the pieces we purchased included an old house and [the owner] didn’t want the house to be mine. “It was an abandoned house that he grew up in,” Bacon, 65, told Lowe.
He continued: “We thought about it back and forth for a while and then I finally said, ‘Look, you can’t sell me a piece of land but not the house that’s on it.’ “That’s so.” just weird. What if you sell it and there’s someone who basically lives at the top of the backyard?’
The old owner, who Bacon claims “ghost hunters” came to try to drive away the spiritual entities, steadfastly stuck to the agreement with the actor, fearing he would become “possessed” and “cause serious damage.” “.
Spooky: Kevin Bacon, 65, revealed in a conversation on Rob Lowe’s Literally podcast that the previous owner of his Connecticut farm required him to destroy an abandoned house on the property before he would sell it to him Afraid it would be haunted
The Golden Globe winner went on to explain how they “argued back and forth about this haunted house thing” for a while until they finally came to an agreement that both of them could live with: Bacon had to move the old house within a month of the Destroy the purchase of the property.
Lowe had to ask if Bacon was tempting fate and spending “a night” in the abandoned house, but he confessed that he didn’t want to mess with possible spooky ghosts.
“Not only did I not do that, but I went up there and there were some nice old pine boards and a railing and I said I should do it.” [my wife] Kyra [Sedgwick]“We have to get them out,” he explained. “And she says, ‘No, you’re not. You don’t put those damn things in our house.”
It turns out that Bacon was talking to a self-proclaimed supernatural expert.
According to Us Weekly, Lowe claimed he once spoke to a real ghost in June 2017 while filming his series “The Lowe Files,” in which he investigated unsolved mysteries.
“Among the places we visited.” [on the show] “was a closed children’s reform school in Central California that was notoriously haunted,” the St. Elmo’s Fire star told Bacon.
He added: “I saw lights turn off and back on, literally like someone flipped a switch and… and we caught it on camera.”
The former Brat Packer was shocked by the incident and explained: “It was pretty intense.” It sounds crazy when I say it, but they had this device that picked up the frequencies [of ghosts] and translate them into language. … It was funny. The thing kept asking for pizza. It was really super absurd, but also really scary.’
Haunted Tale: The previous owner, who Bacon claims had “ghost hunters” come to try to drive away the spiritual entities, stood firm in the agreement with the actor, fearing he would become “possessed” and cause “severe harm.” arrange”.
Without tempting fate, after revealing to Lowe that he wasn’t interested in spending a night in the abandoned house, Bacon said he “went up there and there were some nice old pine boards and a railing , and I said it.” [my wife] Kyra [Sedgwick]“We have to get them out,” he explained. “And she says, ‘No, you’re not. You don’t put those damn things in our house.”
Bacon, who had just celebrated 35 years of marriage to Sedgwick in early September, finally agreed to demolish the old “haunted house” within a month of purchasing the property as part of a deal with the previous owner in 1983
Supernatural expert: During the podcast with Bacon, Lowe revealed that he once spoke to a real ghost in June 2017 while filming his 2017 series The Lowe Files
Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick met in 1987 on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson’s play Lemon Sky.
They would waste little time tying the knot the following year, in September 1988.
The couple, who also live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, are proud of two children: son Travis, 34, and daughter Sosie, 31.
Bacon made his film debut in the now classic comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) and has since appeared in numerous popular films, including Friday The 13th (1980), Footloose (1984) and Planes, Trains And Automobiles “. (1987), Tremors (1990), JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Wild Things (1998), Mystic River (2003), X-Men: First Class (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and Black Mass (2015) and many others.