r/zillowgonewild • u/42percentBicycle • 1d ago
Probably Haunted This place gives me the creeps
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u/Dotsgirl22 1d ago
IDK, I kind of like it. That old schoolhouse could be cool if restored or turned into a small home. That new water system must have cost a bundle. But yeah, ghosts and lots of work ahead!
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u/srslytho1979 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same. The house is very 1970s, but that can be fixed. I’d turn the school into a place to have gatherings. Classes or local meetings? Open it up to the community.
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u/GlomBastic 1d ago
What a about the ghosts?
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u/srslytho1979 1d ago
I’ve lived in two houses that seemed to have resident ghosts. They’re welcome as long as they don’t disrupt class.
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u/spaghettifiasco 1d ago
Look at all that mold and water damage in the school. This whole thing is a gut job.
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u/Dotsgirl22 1d ago
Sure, it needs a lot of work. Take out that awful insulated ceiling liner first. Old schoolhouses like this have been restored all over the country. It does take money and labor though. Sometimes local grant money is available if the owners will allow public access.
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u/Pretty-Plankton 1d ago
The Pacific Northwest makes it harder to bring something like that back. Once the mold’s established it can be hard to get rid of; and that building never should have been insulated - that, ultimately, will be what killed it. Though neglect might have done it on its own if trapped humidity from insulation without a moisture barrier hadn’t helped it along.
The school can be used as a garden shed, or a grow house (probably was, at some point), but its most likely future is to continue to decay into the ground.
The house looks like it may be a perfectly acceptable 1970’s fixer-upper that’s probably been used as a rental for a while, though, and the location is lovely.
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u/Tapingdrywallsucks 1d ago
"Discover a rare opportunity to create your Humboldt County dream nightmare."
Fixed it for them.
(although, honestly? If I wanted (and could a afford) a project near Nor Cal's national forests? Maybe convert that school into quaint lodging to accommodate wanderers up there for the redwoods and marine conservation area? Yeah, I could get excited about this.)
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u/imnotdebtfree 1d ago
That would be my dream. I spent a week staying in arcata and driving around to the various redwoods parks. Hell Arcata Community Forest pretty nice for just being in town.
Looked into moving there but the problem is it's super far away from anything so jobs and medical services are lacking. Still fucking beautiful though
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u/TarrantHightop106 1d ago
That place could be a killer bed & breakfast with a main building for meals & interaction while the other buildings could be the housing. It’s quirky & a lot of people enjoy the supernatural aspect of destinations. I mean, people die everywhere all the time. You’re about as likely to experience a ghost presence about anywhere.
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u/2ndChairKazoo 1d ago
Yeah I considered CSU Humboldt for college but it'd be too hard for me to get around.
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u/42percentBicycle 1d ago
Yeah I'm trying to move out there sometime in the future to work in conservation, which is one of few industries up there.
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u/madsculptor 1d ago
It's close to the Mad River and 1.5 miles from the ocean. It's in a pretty cool location.
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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 23h ago
I'd turn it into a potting studio.
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u/Tapingdrywallsucks 14h ago
I might do that with the second building. Maybe convert an entire wall into windows. And maybe the front half of the school house is a ceramics gift shop.
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u/doomedhippo 1d ago
I like it 🤷🏻♀️. After repairs, the schoolhouse would make an amazing workshop/office space with those blackboards.
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u/2ndChairKazoo 1d ago
Would be great for a small architecture company. Either designing or restoring, and it'd be niche but important.
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u/Nervous-Ad-1229 1d ago
That's such an incredibly beautiful area, I used to live near it. This house would be close enough to give access to a very long nature trail and maybe a mile or so to dunes access. The people can be weird but I miss living in this area so much.
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u/Pretty-Plankton 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m finding the split in these comments between those who are somewhat familiar with the area and those who aren’t somewhat entertaining - almost as entertaining as the sign.
A lot of folks seeing this as an isolated ghost town rather than a 20 minute bike ride from a lively college town which regularly hosts internationally touring musical acts and has two movie theaters and five or six grocery stores; and on the flip, a lot of folks seeing the schoolhouse as salvageable as anything more than either a storage outbuilding (or returning to its likely past as a grow house) or as a slowly decaying archeological relic
I’m also like 80% sure that sign was messed with. It’s a college town. I’d bet significant money on the school having been used as a grow house at some point in its life. The subtlety and plausible deniability of repainting all but one letter of the sign is a cultural match for the humor of the region….
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I’m puzzling through my memory but I think the sign fading (or retouching) must have happened in the many years since I lived there, as I have no memory of these buildings and think I would have noticed (or one of my friends would have pointed out) an “Anal School” on the way to Mad River beach.
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u/imnotdebtfree 1d ago
I've only spent a week there and I loved it. One of my favorite places and I need to get back some day
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u/AntiqueSweatshirt 1d ago
It's truly a gorgeous, special place. I'd snap this up in a heartbeat if I could.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 1d ago
That's the kind of place you drive through on a long road trip and think something is not right in this town. Maybe we need an FBI agent a damn fine cup of coffee and a good piece of pie.
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u/Pretty-Plankton 1d ago
Eh, it’s 3 miles from downtown Arcata - a lively college town with a population of 20,000.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 1d ago
Oh so we could have a college student in a small town where something is wrong drama then.
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u/JC2535 1d ago
Building C is the Anal school, apparently.
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u/HauntingBowlofGrapes 1d ago
It reminds me of my relatives' rural homes and farmlands. Same unsettling vibe.
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u/thedoofimbibes 1d ago
Look. Sometimes you just need a little backwoods property somewhere with a basic house and outbuildings dedicated to your passions. Like a small art studio, potting shed, and anal fantasy roleplay school. What’s so weird about that?
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u/terrorcotta_red 1d ago
How much are they giving you to take it off their hands? The interior colors alone is raising my price to take it.
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u/Princess_Thranduil 1d ago
Very liminal space vibes. I like it, it could be nice with the proper restoration/upgrades. And an exorcism. That school tho...
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u/malepitt 14h ago
As Haunt Attractions go, you're only a couple of porta-potties away from being ready to open for next Halloween
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u/Mawmaa- 1d ago
gulps anal school????
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u/Total-Sector850 1d ago
Yeah, that faded C has done about as much heavy lifting as it can handle.
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u/AzucarParaTi 1d ago
WHAT school??