The Poltergeist home from the 1982 horror film is now being rented out to the general public – and supernatural exercise has been recorded inside.
The 16,000-square foot property is positioned in Simi Valley, north of Thousand Oaks and Malibu, and was bought by Rachel Powers in October 2024 for $1.28 million.
Rachel invested roughly $165,000 to recreate the set of the film, and is now providing stays through AirBnB, VRBO and Futurestay.
The home boasts 4 bedrooms, two-and-a-half loos, a big swimming pool within the spacious yard, in addition to a round jacuzzi, while the entrance of the property has a three-car storage, a luscious garden and several other timber.
It additionally has a eating room that connects to a kitchen and followers of the film will discover it is nonetheless in its authentic kind however with up to date home equipment.
Shortly after Powers took possession, the property was featured on the two-hour season 29 premiere of Ghost Adventures in April 2025 and through filming investigators found paranormal exercise, together with a Cabbage Patch Doll that belonged to Poltergeist actress Heather O’Rourke who portrayed Carol Anne Freeling who’s focused by the spirits within the movie.
Powers mentioned: “They used a mixture of gadgets, together with an ITC, spirit field, digital voice recorders, Polaroid cameras, Ovilus, cameras, evening imaginative and prescient, thermal imaging, movement sensors, EMF meters, and set off objects like Heather O’Rourke’s Cabbage Patch doll.
“They caught some digital communication, an object transferring unexpectedly, chilly spots, flickering lights, troublesome locks, power drains and exercise across the previous TV.
“The episode tied the historical past of the filming of the film, the actors, the historical past of the land, and the home, specializing in the investigation of the rumoured ‘Poltergeist Curse’.”
‘The Poltergeist Curse’ pertains to the real-life tragic occasions which have affected a number of individuals concerned with the movies.
Mere months after the film was launched, Dominique Dunne – who performed Carol Ann’s sister Dana, was strangled by her deranged ex-boyfriend in October 1982.
In February 1988, Heather – who reprised her function as Carol Anne Freeling within the two sequels to Poltergeist – died from septic shock brought on by congenital stenosis of the gut on the age of simply 12. She handed away 4 months earlier than the discharge of Poltergeist III.
Julian Beck performed the evil Reverend Henry Kane in Poltergeist II: The Different Aspect and he died aged 60 only a few months after taking pictures wrapped on the follow-up in 1985.
Poltergeist was written and produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath creator Tobe Hooper and follows the Freeling household as their idyllic suburban life is turned the wrong way up as they’re focused by spirits together with an evil entity generally known as The Beast.
It was the the eighth highest-grossing movie of 1982 and is taken into account to be a basic of the supernatural horror style.