But don’t take our word for it, the only way to know for sure is to visit the house yourself! In the end we believe these old houses are spooky because we have been trained with suspense and horror films always using this type of house as a stand in for creepy, and they have done it so much that we all now just believe it. Suspect it to be haunted besides it being old and having some of those We might recognize from the classic haunted house, though we have no reason to Built in 1883 it has many Victorian features Victorian houses, the most well-known being Haney House. Here in Maple Ridge we have a few examples of these old They picked up on the model created by Hollywood of the creepy Victorian house. Spooky places and haunted houses became popular October activities and Modern notion of Halloween was taking shape. It was also around the mid-20 th century that the These films and show became the model for aĬreepy haunted old house that we still find today. Lighthearted but still macabre Adams Family mansion. Hitchcock would often use Victorian houses asĪ visual cue for a place being creepy or haunted. Which is a classic example of Victorian architecture. Old, often abandoned houses, were left over from the Victorian, so that is whatĬlassic examples include the Bates house in Alfred Pictures were gaining in popularity and some of the first silent movies wereĬentury when the horror classics were first coming out, they used old Victorian Literature, and practices of spiritualism were left behind, but the buildings And sure, have you ever seen a Victorian eraĪfter the end of the Victorian Era, the gothic architecture, Hyde, and really anything by Edgar Allen Poe. As well as a surge in gothic novels likeĭracula, Dr. Practice of communing with the dead was also widely popular at this time. Posing with) recently deceased family members, a practice called post-mortem (1837-1901) did have some straight up creepy practices. So why is the Victorian styling always used in haunted houses, scary shows and horror flicks, basically, why is it so creepy?įirst off, we can’t ignore that the Victorian era A quick Google search will back up your assumptions, a simple search for “haunted house” will pull up countless images of Victorian architecture with its Gothic styling. Odds are that you pictured a Victorian era house and maybe even a creepy old Victorian lady in a nightdress haunting the place. From pubs to waterfalls, visit the haunted sites of some of our scariest stories on your next visit, if you dare. Picture a creepy house and even think about who haunts it. Hauntings in our records, what we do have in Maple Ridge are some old, andĬlose your eyes and think of a haunted house. Reflect on our scary, spooky, and perhaps even haunted past. With Halloween upon us again we at the Museum always like to
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