The Allen House… Monticello, Arkansas
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The Allen house was built in 1900. It was occupied by the Allen family until sometime in the fifties, at which time it was converted into a set of apartments and rented out. Most of the renters were students from a nearby university who appreciated the low rent and ether didn’t know about or didn’t care about the house’s haunted reputation, which had been a problem since the mid forties, when one of the Allen daughters committed suicide there by drinking cyanide, or an arsenic concoction… reports differ. The hauntings were fairly tame over the years, just a sighting here, a noise there, until the mid eighties when a gift shop was opened on the lower floor of the house, apparently infuriating the ghostly Miss Allen, who apparently didn’t like the shop being in her home. Things began to be destroyed or turn up missing at that point.
Please note that this haunted house is a private propery.
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October 28th, 2007 at 4:40 am
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March 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hi,
It’s always interesting to read different versions of the story of the Allen House. Some of your facts are wrong so I thought I would add a little something here.
The Joe Lee Allen House was built in 1906 by Chicago Architect, Sylvester Hotchkiss. The house was built on the site where Allen’s previous home stood. The first house was moved across the street and is still there today.
The Joe Lee Allen house has many, many stories of ghostly sightings and strange phenomena. These stories started in the 1950s when the house was converted into four apartment units. Renters claimed all sorts of things happened and one even claims to have captured a photo of an apparition. LaDelle Allen, the middle of the three Allen daughters committed suicide in the house in 1949 by ingesting cyanide.
The house is a private residence but is open to the public on Halloween for historic tours. Visit us at: www.allenhousetimelessweddings.com for pictures of the beautiful interior and a couple of the exterior. This grand southern lady is worth the drive if you feel so inclined around the spookiest night of the year.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I was a student in architecture and interdesign when I had an offer from, then friend Dotty Simmons, to move into her home at 705 N Main to help her restore the old thing…I couldn’t resist…it was a dream come true. I didn’t stay long. There was constant stuff going on there…furniture moving, people talking, and much more. My room was in turret on the right side of the house looking from Main St. My bathroom was in the back of the house…if I remember right, there was hole in the ceiling and on many times the lights in the attic would go on when I would take a bath and I could see shadows. Once I went up into the attic and it was filled with “smoke.” It didn’t even hit me that there was no scent to this smoke, but I went downstairs to where I thought Dotty was cooking and said “the fan from the stove is filling the attic with smoke.” She said “I’m not cooking anything.” Thinking that was weird, I went back up and still saw the smoke, but this time it went away right before my eyes…I believe my knees hit my chest as I ran downstairs. I invited a few friends over for a halloween party Oct 1995 and while nothing happened, Dotty’s personality changed like I had never seen her before. She bacame instantly sullen and lurked around corners, spying and creeping up on people, at one point raging and ordering everyone out of the house. People said the most frightening thing about that night was her presence…lol. I still wonder how many ghosts were actually in HER attic. lol She held a claim that the place was not haunted, but while reading up on the new owners conversation with her, she finally admitted it, but said she kept them calm.
I am amazed now by all the media around this house. I’m glad someone got the house that can truly appreciate it and take care of it…it is certainly a gorgeous piece of architecture to which the previous owner could not appreciate. I am also glad they had someone from paranormal investigations check the house out…what they got was small, but worth while.
All that said, I don’t believe in spirits of people haunting houses; but, I do believe in demonic “familiar” spirits residing within a dwelling.