Chicago woman went on an open house tour in an allegedly haunted property. Then, a door slammed mid-tour: ‘I know the Spanish word for demon’

Tessa (@tessa420_) from Chicago was curious about a nearby apartment complex built on land that once held an abandoned church. During the open house tour, she alleged that she and her partner witnessed paranormal activity in one of the apartment units.

“There are four haunted homes on my street directly in a row because some building company knocked down a spooky, haunted, old, and abandoned church,” Tessa told TikTok. She said that four luxury apartment buildings were built on the land, and that the company is having difficulty selling the property because of alleged paranormal activity.

For years, she said, her neighborhood had a rundown, abandoned church across the street. Tessa alleged that she has seen multiple businesses attempt to buy the property, demolish the church, and make it their own. However, Tessa claimed that these businesses have never been able to complete even a single project in years because they couldn’t keep construction workers on site. She believes the construction workers have been experiencing “weird, haunted” things happening even during the day, causing them to abandon their job.

“I know the Spanish word for demon. And when I see four, grown a** men running outside of a building, and the only word I can pick out in the sentence because they’re so frantic is ‘demonio’—’demonio’? Yeah, no, that place is haunted,” Tessa said. She doesn’t believe that the construction workers have been ditching their job through the years. Despite the struggle to demolish the church, Tessa said the building company succeeded and established four luxury apartment complexes.

The creepiest apartment open house event

She said one of the homes they built is move-in ready. Additionally, the company has been doing open houses since June. Over the weekend in October, they did another open house. Out of curiosity, Tessa told her partner that she wanted to go to the open house. When they went to the open house, Tessa said she and her partner were the only attendees.

“Literally me, my partner, and the realtor, and that’s it,” she claimed. She told the realtor right away that they lived in the area but were curious to see inside the apartment. Even though Tessa said they couldn’t afford the apartment, the realtor shrugged it off and happily accommodated them for the house tour. Tessa said they got all the way through the tour until they reached the master bedroom.

“This is where the haunted s*** happens in the middle of the day in the open house tour that I’m on,” she said. Tessa drew a diagram to explain the home’s layout. The master bedroom has a double-door entrance. At the back of the entrance is a his-and-hers walk-in closet, separated into left and right sides. They aren’t conjoined, but each walk-in closet has its own door leading to the master bathroom. In total, there are six doors.

Someone else was touring the apartment with them

“Last thing to know: there are two sinks in the bath, okay? One vanity is right off of the his closet, and one vanity is off of the hers closet. So, there are two mirrors facing each other,” Tessa claimed. She added that each vanity also had its own sink. Tessa and the rest of the group were in her closet, heading to the master bathroom. But before they could go any further, they heard the door to his closet close. Tessa said they heard the door shut clear as day, and that they assumed someone else went in because it was an open house event.

While they were in her closet, the realtor told whoever it was to come over because they were already farther into the apartment. Tessa said nobody replied, but the realtor assumed the person was hard of hearing, so he went to his closet to accommodate the other person who had presumably entered the apartment.

“When the realtor gets into the master bedroom with me and my partner still in the hers closet, the sink on the his vanity turns on,” Tessa alleged. Spooked, she and her partner immediately walked out of the her closet into the master bathroom. They saw the sink open, and the realtor was allegedly still in the his closet. Tessa presumes that the faucet “magically” turned on. When the realtor opened the door from the his closet, he stood and stared at the open faucet.

“It’s a little creepy, no?” Tessa told the realtor. She said the realtor looked disappointed and frustrated. Then, the realtor allegedly started talking about his issue with the apartment while staring at the sink.

Even the realtor allegedly admitted that something was amiss

“You know, I’ve been trying to sell this house since June. And what can I say? There’s a bunch of unexplained quirks that just keep happening,” the realtor allegedly told them. Tessa asked if it often happened. The apartments may be new, but they seem to be keeping people away, like this home built on top of a gallows hill.

The realtor allegedly replied, “This and 30 of its cousins.” He allegedly explained that in every open house in the apartment complex since June, something has always happened. The man allegedly claimed only two open houses had occurred without anything strange happening. Tessa alleged that the realtor knew the house so well that there were times he would start the tour with the door open, and when they circled back, the same door would be closed.

“So, in conclusion? The real haunted houses in America, yeah, s*** is happening during the daytime. It is broad daylight, 2:00 p.m., cookies on the counter, fruit punch for an open house, and sinks and faucets turning on and doors closing by themselves,” Tessa said. But not everybody tries to avoid the haunted. One woman and her friend visited the Haunted Warren Museum in Salem, only to regret it in the end.

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