Halloween and the election are just weeks away now, but new research suggests ghosts and ghouls aren’t what scares Americans most. It turns out, while a lot of people believe in the supernatural, they’re more spooked by political tensions these days.
A new survey of 1,000 U.S. adults by Real Estate Witch Reveals that 42% of Americans would rather live in a real haunted house than next door to outspoken conservative Republicans, while 36% would rather live in a haunted house than next door to outspoken progressive Democrats.
- More than half would prefer living with ghosts than in a house with frequent power outages (58%), or with constant construction noise (56%), or that has bad cell reception (48%).
- Three-quarters believe a house can be haunted and 37% have experienced unexplainable events in their home.
- Another 14% believe they’ve even lived in a truly haunted house and 89% of them had no idea it was haunted when they moved in.
- So, how did they discover the house was haunted? They heard strange noises (66%), felt like they were being touched or watched (52%), saw strange shadows around the home (47%), had eerie or haunted feelings in certain rooms (43%) or even had ghost sightings (40%).
- Nearly two-thirds (65%) wouldn’t feel comfortable living with ghosts, but 72% admit they could be swayed to buy a haunted house if the price was lower.
- Only 22% of Americans say that rumors a house is haunted would be a dealbreaker for buying it, compared to 67% who say the same about living near a nuclear waste facility.
- But 46% of Americans who haven’t lived in a haunted house wouldn’t buy one under ANY circumstances.
Source: Real Estate Witch
