HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT: Kevin Bacon has shared the spooky stipulation that came with acquiring land next to his Connecticut farm.
'Footloose' star, 65, detailed the "funny" story of the incident on 'Literally! With Rob Lowe', saying that he was prevented from buying the plot until he contractually agreed to "destroy" a house on it.
The Philadelphia native, told host Rob Lowe that the farm which he ended up buying was a “little kind of ramshackled turn of the century farmhouse,” in 1983 when he came across after a search with his then-girlfriend that started as “a goof.”
Ex-land owner feared Kevin Bacon might get 'possessed'
The self-proclaimed 'city kid' said he began buying up the surrounding land to maintain privacy.
“I’ll tell you a funny story,” Bacon said according to People Magazine. “The guy that sold me the house, he lived across the road."
“One of the pieces [of land] that we bought had an old house in it and he didn’t want me to own the house. It was an abandoned house that he had grown up in,” he continued.
“And 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,'" Bacon added.
"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,'” Bacon said.
When did Bacon decide to destroy the old house?
The 'Mystic River' actor said that he and the owner “went back and forth on this haunted house thing” for a while before coming to a mutual conclusion.
“We finally came to an agreement in the contract that I had to destroy it within, I don’t know, a month or something like that,” he told Lowe, who then asked the actor if he ever spent a night in the haunted house.
Did Kevin Bacon stay in the alleged haunted house?
Bacon said he did not. “Not only did I not do that, but I went up there and there were some beautiful old pine boards and a banister and I said to [wife Kyra Sedgwick], ‘We gotta take those out,’ And she’s like, ‘No, you’re not. You’re not putting those f**king things in our house.’ ”
Lowe, who supposedly has a fascination for otherwordly spirits, also asked about the origin of the ghouls.
“It was a long story that had to do with a Native American who in the 1700s had been murdered, I think, by a colonial soldier,” Bacon shared.
According to the actor, the owner even “had ghostbusters there,” before putting it up for sale. “It was a whole long thing,” he said.
Does Kevin Bacon believe in paranormal activities?
Bacon recently disclosed his personal opinion on the paranormal on Peacock's 'They/Them'.
“I always find that when you’re in a scary movie, everybody wants to know, ‘Well, have you ever seen a ghost?’ or ‘Do you, you know, believe in ghosts?’” Bacon said.
“And the thing I always say is ‘I would really love to but as of yet, it just hasn’t happened. But I hope someday that it will,'" he revealed.
The podcast host, who does believe in the paranormal, recalled his “intense” experience filming his ghost-hunting series 'The Lowe Files' with his two sons, which even included a conversation he had with a ghost.
“I wish that I had kept that house up. That would've been a great episode,” Bacon joked. “'Celebrity haunted house.' “I would've been there in a minute,” Lowe responded.
