The text detailed a remarkable opportunity. A unique one-off property ripe for modernisation, offering adaptable accommodation in a pretty hamlet five minutes from Ashbourne town centre. The home included a sitting room, a second reception room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a half-cellar/workshop, two bedrooms, a large landing suitable for conversion to a third bedroom, a rear garden, a former stable block, a coal store and a garden shed, all for the price of £69,950. However, nowhere in the listing was there mention of the ghosts who were said to live there…
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Rhosphere by Cody Martin
Titan by Cody Martin
Ocean Of Worlds by Stephen Keech
After The Fall by Wicked Cinema
Crooked Man by Wicked Cinema
Dark Places by Wicked Cinema
Extinction by Wicked Cinema
Folkloric by Wicked Cinema
Hollow by Wicked Cinema
Mainframe by Wicked Cinema
Rag Doll by Wicked Cinema
The Lantern by Wicked Cinema
The Rite by Wicked Cinema
The Unexplained by Wicked Cinema
Veil Of Secrets by Wicked Cinema
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