Dead Air Valley: "The Haunted House That Is Just a House for Sale"

A Kingston mansion built in 1773 is for sale the ordinary way, with a listing, a local real estate agent, and a price a buyer learns at the end of the tour. It is also the latest stop on HGTV's Would You Buy This Haunted House?, where psychic Steffi Hill tours the first floor, works her dowsing rods, and treats the house as haunted. Silas Van Wyck works the double life of one property: what a 1773 date means in the town that became New York's first capital and was burned in October 1777, what New York's stigmatized property law actually requires a seller to say, what the 1991 Ghostbusters ruling in Nyack settled, and how a market prices a reputation that no appraisal form has a line for. The valley keeps the story. The buyer gets the keys.