Weird Real Estate

When The Things Go Bump in the Night – and Day

By Adlene Neely Dealey / October 30, 2019 /

The Wednesday WTF has long been known to bring on the most questionable of homes, but have you ever had a listing where things go bump in the night — even to the point of calling in “spiritual advisers?”

You Should See What’s In the Bloody Basement

By Adlene Neely Dealey / October 23, 2019 /

After an eventful weather day like Sunday’s, sometimes I wish my home had a basement, something that’s a rarity in Dallas homes. But then I read about poor Nick Lestina and realized, that no, I do not wish to have a basement anymore. I’ll take my chances with the linen closet. How did Mr. Lestina’s Iowa…

The One Where It’s Charming Until It’s Not Charming and You Die

By Bethany Erickson / September 11, 2019 /

So, about 20 awesome readers of the Wednesday WTF sent me this listing for this uh, charming abode in Australia. So obviously, it’s this week’s column, right? I mean, I’ll be honest, at first this rock house seems like a real historic charmer. It has a clawfoot tub, for chrissakes, which everyone knows means it’s…

Let’s Open Up the Weird Wednesday WTF Mailbag, Shall We?

By Bethany Erickson / July 10, 2019 /

When you’ve spent almost two years writing about the weird (and sometimes wonderful) things in the world, you get a bit of a reputation. And then because of that reputation, people send you emails with suggestions of things to write about. And suddenly, you’ve become a hoarder of WTF. Your virtual mailbox becomes this thing…

Oh, Tell Me Where You Are, Where You Really Really Are

By Bethany Erickson / July 3, 2019 /

This week’s Wednesday WTF is a reader submission who says she really has questions about two things in this listing, which almost doesn’t qualify it for WTF status because typically, we are used to having so many questions. So many.