Kevin Baconhas shared plenty of screen time with unsavory characters andoccasionally some malevolent forces. It seems that he almost came up against some in real life too, when a property he bought to expand the farmstead he owns with wife Kyra Sedgwick was reportedly said to be haunted and the previous owner reused to sell it unless the house on the land was torn down to avoid Baconbecoming possessed.
Yes it does sound like it would make a classic Blumhouse movie, but apparently it is all true. While speaking to Rob Lowe on hisLiterally podcast, Bacon recounted the strange sale that led to him buying the land on the proviso that the old property that came with it would be torn down within a month of the sale completing . He explained:
“One of the pieces that we bought had an old house in it and [the owner] didn’t want me to own the house. It was an abandoned house that he had grown up in. We kind of went back and forth on it for a while and then, eventually, I said, ‘Listen, you can’t sell me a piece of land but not sell me the house that’s on it. Like, that’s just weird. What if you sell it and there’s somebody that’s just living, basically, right up in the backyard?’
He said, ‘I can’t sell it to you because it’s haunted and I’m afraid that you’ll get possessed and, you know, do some serious damage.”
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Kevin Bacon Avoided Possession By Destroying the “Haunted” House.
In the end, the sale was agreed with Bacon and Sedgwick agreeing that the house would be demolished soon after they took charge of the land. It seems that Sedgwick in particular has no issues with doing that. When asked whether he spent any time in the house before tearing it down, Bacon replied:
“Not only did I not do that, but I went up there and there were some beautiful old pine boards and a bannister and I said to Kyra, ‘We’ve gotta take those out.’ And she’s like, ‘No you’re not. You’re not putting those f—ing things in our house.'”
When it comes to exactly what or who was alleged to be haunting the old house, Bacon recalled some brief details that he was told by the owner, including the fact they had called in some paranormal investigators at one point to try and exorcise the spirits.
“It was a long story that had to do with a Native American who, in the 1700s, had been murdered by a colonial soldier,” he concluded. “[The owner] had had ghostbusters there. It was a whole long thing.”
Thankfully, Kevin Bacon and his wife did not end up going ona murderous rampagethanks to being possessed by ancient spirits of evil. Instead, Bacon has continued to be the cinematic icon of a generation, with a recent appearance in the MCU’sGuardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, andupcoming roles inThe Toxic Avenger, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foleyand horror sequelMaXXXine.
