A quick story from the 1500s house I visited this week.

Written by Sammy Mack UK. I visited a house this week for work. Here in England most of our houses

are built in the late Victorian to early 20th century period.

But sometimes older houses are still standing.

Occasionally I'll see an 18th century. standing.

Occasionally I'll see an 18th century house, and once I did a job on a remote island in the English Channel,

where the farmhouses had parts which dated from the late 17th century.

Now I've been doing my job for a long time.

This week I was scheduled to inspect the oldest house I've ever worked on, built in the 1500s.

The owner is there to let me in and after a quick chat she leaves me to get on with my job.

The house is vacant and no one has lived there for a few years or so.

Lovely bright sunshine and in the middle of a hot afternoon.

I start to look around the ground floor and the small basement.

The house is detached on a big plot,

but there are other houses and people around. And this is a nice suburban

neighborhood that I'm very familiar with. I go upstairs and try to get into the lot in the end deciding that the floors are too

uneven for my ladder and that I don't want to move the owner's furniture in order to get up there.

So far, no spookiness.

Bear in mind that I'm in empty houses all the time, old empty houses, and I almost never feel anything

weird. I'm not one of those people that think that they can commune with the dead or anything.

Open the curtains and open the windows of most of these haunted houses and the scare factor is removed.

Anyway, after about 40 minutes I'm nearly ready to go and I finished my job before I realized that I haven't been in the

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