Would you buy a house, even if it was a deal, if it was supposed to be haunted?. I lived in a haunted house. One problem, I didn't know it was a haunted house. I lived there for two years and already had moved out when I found out that everybody in town "knew" it was a haunted house. The event that inspired the tall-tales was actually so terrifyingly tragic, that I won't go into it here. Still, I never really experienced anything that was terrifying in the house except for my step-moms cooking.