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On the afternoon of August 12th, 1901, a middle-aged medical doctor named Adolf Brunrichter was sitting at his dining room table inside of his house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, across from a young woman that he had just met. Dr. Brunrichter had gone out of his way to make his house feel really inviting. He had opened up all the windows to let in all the natural light. He had turned on all the lights in the house to make sure there was no dark spots in his house whatsoever. And he'd also put some food out on the table, and he'd turned on a record, so there was some cheerful music playing in the background. But even still, Dr. Brunrichter was feeling pretty anxious about this meeting. Because this young woman was here to interview for a job as his assistant, and he was desperate for this interview to go well. Because this was going to be his fifth time hiring for this position. And now, as he was sitting across from this young woman, he kept noticing that she was smiling and talking to him and doing all the things you would expect in an interview. But she also kept sort of looking past him, like she was sort of inspecting the house, looking deeper into the house to see if there was anything else there. But for Dr. Brunerichter, this behavior was not surprising. No one really ever relaxed inside of his house, because his house had a reputation for being extremely haunted. So Dr. Brunerichter's house had been built in the late 1860s by a man named Charles Congelier. It was this beautiful, big, two-story red brick building with a finished basement. And after it was done, Charles and his wife and their maid, they all moved in. And for a few years it was amazing, like they loved the house. And in many ways, it was sort of like the nicest house in the neighborhood and everybody knew it. But then a few years after it was made, so in 1871, we're talking roughly 30 years before Dr. Brunerichter moved in there, Charles's wife had caught Charles cheating on her with the maid that had moved in with them. And they were also in the marital bed. They were in the master bedroom. This is like horrible betrayal. And so in a fit of rage, the wife grabbed a knife and proceeded to hack Charles and the maid to death. And she even cut off the maid's head. And then after they were destroyed, the wife took the maid's head and went and sat on their rocking chair and just rocked carrying this head until the next day when a neighbor found her. And so legend would have it that this house became haunted basically from this point going forward. And it was haunted by the angry spirits of Charles and the maid. And people in the neighborhood, they all reported seeing dark figures in the windows of this house. And people said they would hear screams coming from inside the house.