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The Haunting of Heller House, Part 3

“I see dead people!” “Uh-huh. Who doesn’t, these days?”

Jack Herlocker
8 min readSep 12, 2024
Image by Przemysław Trojan from Pixabay

You can catch up with parts 1 and 2:

Or tl;dr: Michaela is the great-granddaughter of Ellie Bland, who bought Heller House from the estate of Lillie Heller. Alas, the house was cursed, so that any owner who was not a Heller would be visited by the ghost of a previous Heller House owner—Lillie Heller, in this case. Who got along great with Ellie, since they were both business woman and successive CEOs of Heller Brands, Inc. Ellie’s daughter, Alice, discovered she could also see Lillie; being a physics nerd, Alice hypothesized that any past or future owner of Heller House could see the ghost or ghosts who were part of the curse. This was supported when Alice’s high school boyfriend, Shawn, could see Lillie, demonstrating that even being a

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Jack Herlocker
Jack Herlocker

Written by Jack Herlocker

Husband & retiree. Author. Former IT geek/developer. I fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches. Occasionally do weird & goofy things.

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