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Step into the shoes of Michael Jubie, co-owner of Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses, as he gives an inside look at what it's like to run one of the largest haunted houses in the nation._  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 23, 2015 9:41 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 23, 2015 9:41 PM UTC A new app promises to tell you whether someone died in a house before you buy it, so you know what kind of spooky shenanigans you might be signing up for. [DiedInHouse.com](https://www.diedinhouse.com/) will search for murders, suicides, suspicious or natural deaths that occurred at a particular address, as well as meth lab activity or fires, starting at $11.99 for a single search. That can help you decide whether you need to be actively worried about ghosts or not. The database has 4.5 million houses in it so far, according to Bloomberg Business, and customers have bought 30,000 house searches. Most people would want to know if someone had been murdered in a house they’re about to buy, but many states have lax laws about disclosing deaths and crimes to future buyers. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts law don’t require disclosure of former crimes on the property, and [Massachusetts law](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/this-startup-tracks-america-s-murder-houses) even says that “alleged supernatural phenomenon” don’t need to be disclosed in a real estate transaction. By contrast, South Dakota and Alaska require would-be buyers to be appraised of any murders or suicides on the property in the last 12 months, according to [Bloomberg. ](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/this-startup-tracks-america-s-murder-houses) In some high-profile cases, addresses are changed to conceal the morbid history of a home. That was the case with 755 15th St in Boulder Colorado, which was changed to [749 15th St ten years after 6-year old JonBenet Ramsey](http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/jun/25/features.magazine37) was murdered there in 1996\. But a representative from DiedInHouse says it has updated both addresses, so that future buyers know the history of the home. ## Transcript I'm gonna be in your trunk or your car when you get to it. I'll be in your bedroom tonight when you get home. You take it with you when you leave. My actors will never say get out of here unless you got to get out of here. [ MUSIC ] Flag it with a flat tire, correction a tractor. [ MUSIC ] We have a flat tire down at Set one. Is it completely flat, Mike? We bought the property with the exclusive idea of doing a hayride and we started out with 35 actors, and today, we have over 350. [ MUSIC ] We are located on 45 acres, and we use every inch of it. We have six haunted houses. We have a tractor and a wagon that goes out every two minutes. When they get on the wagon here [ INAUDIBLE ] [ MUSIC ] And then the wagon'll stop, stop right here. [ INAUDIBLE ] And this is where they get the rules of the road. [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] We got a phone call about this hospital that was abandoned and the kids were going in there and they wanted to get it empty as soon as they could Took two days and about four or five trailer fulls of stuff out of there. We've got operating room lights, X- ray machines, crash carts, birthing tables. We're pretty fortunate with that. [ NOISE ] This is an old sixties era motel. We went as far as to find the man walks on the moon newspaper. 1969 Calendar. The McCalls. Magazine, 1933. In the old machines, in the old radio. [ NOISE ] And just past the main road, turn left, and [ INAUDIBLE ] Follow the horse corral up. You're welcome. She just got hired yesterday. There wasn't as many haunted houses around when I was young, growing up like there are today. We've been in this business 21 years, and we were really at the starting point of it. Now we're going into the Jack the Ripper part of the the story. He dismembered women and these are actually from The Jack the Ripper story this is how he would dismember some of them and leave their body parts on. Their stomachs. I firmly believe that the quick pop out scare the quick startle [ MUSIC ] Still is the best scare. But I guess they're looking for Hollywood quality, sets, and scares. Here they're part of the movie, and they really wanna have some eye candy to see you know some, the wow factor. I'm out on the property but I'm also up in the office. I hear the crowd and, and that's what it's all about. If we can't make you scream, we can make you laugh a little bit or laugh at the person you're with. 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