Page 32 2023 Spring Home and Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS April/May 2023 By Karen Hargis Castelein What happens when a lover of Halloween who is a fan of all things ghoulish, gory and ghostly buys an 1894 built home that is reported to be haunted? We won’t leave you in the “dark” for very long, she makes it a reflection of all she loves by going black. Karen Priddy purchased the home in Petersburg in 2013. She and her son Chaske Rencountre moved in right away, looking forward to soaking in the history of the home and becoming a part of the old house’s legacy. The home was built in 1894 and owned by a local veterinarian known to the community as “Doc Burt.” It is reported that Doc Burt’s son killed himself in the home, and since that time, some very strange things have been known to happen there. Priddy said after Doc Burt, there was a renter who lived in the home for a short time but soon moved out, in the middle of the night no less. Priddy is the manager of the Boo Crew in Rochester and runs a full-time cleaning service. She is a Nordic Pagan ordained minister for the past 20 years and she buys and sells oddities. In accordance with her love of dark mystery and spooky happenings, she How AAA Windows Siding Roofing made a homeowner’s dream come true owns a black bus and two black hearses that are so long she had to bump out the garage of her home so they would fit inside. Priddy is clearly in love with Halloween and all that goes with it. So it should not come as a surprise that her dream was to make her home a reflection of herself. She said that she has always wanted to see the home painted or sided in black but was not confident that she could get it done the way she wanted it. A couple of years ago, Priddy contacted AAA Windows Siding Roofing in Lincoln for some window work. The company installed new windows in the house including a garden greenhouse window that she dearly loves. Priddy was particularly happy with the work the company did. She said she had wanted to Continued --
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