A Washington state contractor did not believe in the paranormal until he was hired to remodel a charming little blue house in North Tacoma that held a dark secret: notorious serial killer Ted Bundy at one time had called it 'home.'
While working on the 1,400-square-foot, four-bedroom house last year, contractor Casey Clopton said he experienced some unnerving and unexplained things that had him writing Bible verses on the walls and summoning two priests to bless the residence.
In the course of the renovation, which got under way last fall, Clopton and his crew members were said to have seen a plea for help appearing on the basement window, doors and cabinets opening seemingly on their own and heavy pieces of furniture falling over.
Clopton tells The News Tribune the person who bought the house last September with the intention to fix it up and resell it at a profit had no idea that Ted Bundy had lived there as a child with his mother, stepfather and four brothers and sisters beginning in 1955, when he was just nine years old.
Two decades later, Bundy would go on an epic four-year, 11-state killing spree, claiming at least 30 lives and eventually leading to his death in the electric chair.
Clopton, the Washington contractor, visited Bundy’s childhood home for the first time in October, taking his 11-year-old daughter along to help him take notes on the building project, but the girl burst into tears.
'She said she felt weird,' he told the News Tribune. 'She didn't like it there.'
Clopton's daughter felt so uncomfortable in the house that they left, but he returned the following week with a demolition crew, one member of which also reported feeling uneasy on the property.
As work on the house progressed, strange things started happening inside the former Bundy residence, but initially Clopton dismissed them as his workers’ macabre practical jokes.
One time, he told the paper, he and the workers unlocked the house to find every door and cabinet drawer ajar.
On another occasion, Clopton's crew were draining the flooded basement when the noticed the words 'help me' scrawled on the window. According to some accounts, Ted Bundy’s old bedroom was in the wood-paneled basement.
At a later time, the word 'leave’ was discovered written in dust on the floor of another bedroom in the house, according to Clopton, although there were no footprints around it.
Other unexplained occurrences included a heavy dresser toppling over in the upstairs hallway and the workers’ electronic devices losing power at random.
When Clopton finally learned from neighbors about the property’s dark past, he invited a pastor to come over and bless the Bundy house.
Two clergymen answered the call and went from room to room, saying blessings. They also suggested to Clopton and his crew to write Bible verses on the walls and listen the Christian music during work hours.
Despite the string of bizarre incidents, Clopton was able to complete the renovation and hand the newly painted, updated home of the infamous serial killer to real estate broker James Pitts III, who said he was shocked by its history, but also excited.
The house recently sold for $335,000, $10,000 over the list price, according to a Facebook post from Pitts.
By all accounts, Bundy never killed anyone inside the Tacoma home, although he was a suspect in the disappearance of his 8-year-old neighbor - a crime he denied years letter in a letter to the victim’s mother.
Bundy earned the dubious distinction of becoming one of the deadliest serial killers in US history who confessed to murdering more than 30 women. He was executed in 1989, aged 42, after being convicted of killing two Florida State University sorority members and a 12-year-old girl.
For years, his mother, Louise, staunchly maintained his innocence, proclaiming in 1980: 'Ted Bundy does not go around killing women and little children!'
Her support for her eldest son wavered somewhat after he made a series of death-row confessions, although in his final moments, Mrs Bundy told Ted in their very last phone conversation: ‘You'll always be my precious son.’
The name Ted Bundy is synonymous with serial killer after the shy and attractive psychology major embarked on a killing spree in the 1970s that left more than two dozen women dead. There is speculation he could be responsible for up to 100 murders.
In 1974, witnesses saw a young man, who introduced himself as Ted, approach two young women at Seattle State Park and ask for help with his sailboat. They were never seen alive again and became his first known victims.
It was in the same year that several young women disappeared from college campuses in Washington and Oregon - including a 21-year-old radio announcer called Lynda Ann Healy.
Later that year, Bundy relocated to Utah to attend law school in Salt Lake City. In November, Carol DaRonch was attacked by a man she described dressed as a police officer but escaped.
She gave the first clear description and a blood sample from her jacket. Miss DaRonch also told police that he was driving a tan VW Beetle. As Miss DaRonch was giving her statement, 17-year-old Debbie Kent disappeared.
A short time later, hikers found the bones of missing women in a Washington forest. A rough sketch was drawn - a tall, thin attractive man who approached young, white women looking for help and called himself 'Ted'.
Police also noted common factors among the victims - they were all thin and had long hair parted in the middle. All the women were targeted in the evening and bludgeoned with blunt objects. The victims had also been raped or sodomized.
At the beginning of January 1975, Caryn Campbell vanished from a Colorado ski resort. Her naked body was found a month later in a ditch by the side of the road. Five more women were founded murdered in a similar manner in the following months.
In August, police pulled Bundy over for a driving offense. When Miss DaRonch picked him out of a line-up, he was charged with attempted kidnapping.
He was sentenced in 1976 to 15 years in prison and later police connected him to the murder of Caryn Campbell.
On December 30, Bundy escaped from prison and turned up in Tallahassee, Florida renting an apartment near Florida State University under a false name.
On January 14, 1978, Bundy struck again. He broken into the Chi Omega sorority house and bludgeoned and strangled to death two women, raping one of them and viciously biting her body.
He almost murdered two others by beating them over the head with a log before a roommate interrupted his spree.
Almost a month later on February 9, Kimberly Leach, who was 12, was kidnapped and mutilated by Bundy. The serial killer was picked up a week later while driving a stolen car before witnesses placed him at both the sorority house and outside Kimberly's school.
Charged with three murders - killing the two sorority women and another Kimberly LaFouche - Bundy believed he could beat a guilty verdict and turned down a plea bargain of three life sentences. He went on trial in Florida on June 25, 1979, found guilty and sentenced to death.
Prior to his execution, Bundy gave the details of the murder sites of more than 50 women. He also said that he kept the heads of some women at his home to engage in necrophilia.
Bundy was electrocuted on January 24, 1989 at 7.13am.
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I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't knowingly buy such a house, after experiencing similarily eerie occurrences in a townhouse I lived in as a kid. The fact that this house is located in Tacoma, the Surrey B.C. of Seattle, would probably be enough to scare me away in of itself! 
