Actually, it had a sordid reputation long before we moved in, and the original owner who built it was the first one and his body was never found, so it's apparently been haunted since shortly after it was built in the late 1800's.
The story goes that he built it for his wife who hated it and moved into the mansion next door at Shadwell, so he stayed there alone until he went missing. There were plenty of others involved who died either there, or because of the place, including the guy we were renting the house from who ran the championship golf course put on the property when it became a country club, which is what we were running it as.
Its reputation for being haunted was well known among the locals, which gave my sadistic ex great opportunities to use the very narrow servants staircase to scare the pants off friends who visited and bragged that they weren't afraid to walk around the upper floors or basement all alone.
And you're of course right about Interview, which just shows I've been away from those books for so long I'm forgetting who wrote what, but I thought it was hilarious that right after I posted that I looked at the TV lineup to find something to watch, and The Shining was the only thing on that was worthwhile. LOL!
Oh, and I almost forgot - the Pallasite arrived yesterday and it is GORGEOUS! It's so sparkly and a nice shade of green, and it's bigger than the ones I was looking at in The Meteorite Man's store in Eureka Springs that cost more. I know for a fact it's got better color than any I've seen there, and it's perfectly clean, and I can't wait to show Steve the Meteorite Man my cosmic score and the cert that came with it next time we got there.
