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David Boreanaz of ‘Bones’: Latest celebrity to claim that house is haunted

by on Sep. 12, 2010, under Ghosts and Hauntings

David Boreanz and his wife Jamie Bergman are having trouble sleeping in their Los Angeles home. It seems that their bed moves in the middle of the night. Allegedly, they aren’t causing the bed to move.

Though “not too sure” about what’s really going on in the bedroom, the couple thinks that the culprit is a ghost.

The “Bones” star bought the house earlier this summer.

Boreanaz explained in a recent interview, “We’re not too sure. We woke up in the middle of the night and we heard this big bang. It felt like the bed literally fell off underneath us. My first instinct is, we’re having an earthquake…turns out, it wasn’t an earthquake. Cut to two weeks later, same thing happens. It’s like something picked our bed up… so Jaime and I think ghosts are here.”

This type of statement made by celebrities always bothers me.

While I think that these types of statements could bring potential real estate problems, others think that haunted homes can turn out to be good business. A couple of weeks ago, AOL News reported the tale of a woman who turned haunted real estate into a profitable “ghost tour” stop. The former owner of the home disclosed that there were plenty of ghosts there. The woman loved the home and didn’t mind. She proceeded with the paranormal purchase.

If David Boreanaz and Jaime Bergman decide to sell their home, they have now disclosed to the media that they believe the home is haunted. They could be obligated to disclose the “paranormal activity” to a potential buyer.

Consider the 1991 case of Stambovsky vs. Ackley in New York.

Jeffrey and Patrice Stambovsky bought a home without any knowledge of the local lore attached to it. The home had been publicized in the media as ‘haunted’ and was even a stop on a local ghost tour. When Mrs. Stambovsky heard that the house was haunted from the neighbors, she was simply too terrified to live in the home.

The couple sued to get out of the contract. Despite losing the first round of their contract dispute, they appealed in 1991, and subsequently won, in the State of New York Appellate Court.

“Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by defendant seller are parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication and the local press, defendant is estopped to deny their existence, and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted.” Justice Israel Rubin, Stambovsky v. Ackley

Celebrities take note, sometimes these little statements made to the press could come back to “haunt” you.

To read my previous rant on this subject from November of 2009, click here: http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2009/11/22/haunted-rentals-advertising-a-ghostly-roommate/

UPDATE 9/13, 10:00am: Boreanaz quote clipped for paranormal entertainment. The story had a non-paranormal punchline omitted by the media. Click here for related post and original interview in full context.


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  • lora

    Yours is a perfect example of bad journalism. That’s why good journalists do a research before writing something.
     Boreanaz’s statements quoted above are taken out of context and they are not complete. He told the WHOLE story in an interview on the Regis and Kelly morning show. If you have watched the interview in its ENTIRETY ( 7-8 minutes ), you would know by now that the “mystery” was eventually solved:  the supports under the bed weren’t fixed. A normal domestic story told in a humorous way ’cause boring interviews interest nobody, so actors usually add a funny spin to these stories in order to make them exciting. There were no ghosts, and he was only joking, so this article is futile and makes no sense.

    • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

      Thank you for your clarification and for your opinion on my writing. The gossip rags have run with this story before I did, only quoting the “haunting” part of the story. My point with this article was that even suggesting this (even as a joke) can potentially hurt them if they plan to sell their home. A good real estate lawyer will point out it was a joke on their behalf if it comes to that.

      By the way, I am not a journalist, I am a blogger. You can call me a bad blogger, if you want. There were about a dozen stories on this before mine, even from media that you might deem “credible”. I used it as an example of why celebrities should not hint at their homes being haunted to the media.

      • lora

        Sorry for my mistake: journalist vs. blogger.  And I get your point.

        The argument though is still valid: a big chunk of the media conveniently choses to quote only parts of a statement or a story and to run with it. Then the internet spreads it everywhere even if it’s not  true, half true or a twisted truth. Either way, it’s still wrong.

        • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

          I get your point, too. Absolutely. I tend to track stories back to the source. I have been so frustrated about that, that I did a story on a related topic last week.. http://tucsoncitizen.com/tc-off-topic/2010/09/09/before-you-share-that-sex-research-article-on-facebook-consider-the-source/ Sometimes it takes hours to get to the original source of something, I simply tracked back to the original story and not to the actual interview.
          This is the first time in a year and a half of blogging that I used an incomplete celebrity quote. Largely because I rarely write on celebrities or television shows! My interest is paranormal topics and celebrity stuff makes me cringe.  Lesson learned, but rather than take the post down, your comment of clarification does point out to the reader that the media did conveniently clip that quote for readership. This isn’t right and it is sad. I would rather that mainstream media (and gossip rags) stay out of the topic because most of those writers have no first hand experience with the paranormal. Most of them just know it is a popular topic and will get them some clicks. Another reason I left it up is that it is relevant now to the topic. It serves as an additional warning to celebrities. This guy innocently told a funny story on a show about his “haunted house”, but the punchline was omitted. With the popularity of the paranormal, it will happen to others. You have pointed out that finding original interviews on YouTube will not only cover myself, but will also add validity to what I am writing about. In fact, maybe I’ll write another post on this and include the video to drive it home. I agree that this is a terrible thing on the internet that also needs to stop. Thanks for clarifying this quote and for your input.

  • bells

    His bed is bad due to all the girlfriends he had over in it while he wife was not home.   If you all will recall he came clean about all his cheating ways on his wife for years.  What do you expect for a worn out bed.  He only told half the story on the talk show.  

    • lora

      They moved in the NEW HOUSE 3 months ago (also an information from the entire interview). No matter the nasty hateful comments, fact is if you move into a new 3 million $ house it comes with NEW FURNITURE. New house, new furniture, new bed, new life. Which makes the above comment ridiculous.

      • buffaloluvsboreanaz

        In response to Lora above, I highly doubt that even celebs, who have unlimited funds, would move into a new house with all new furniture.  They would move just like everyone else does, taking their possessions with them, including their bed.  To think that they would leave all their furniture in their old house is simply ridiculous!  Some of these people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on furniture and decorative pieces for their homes…why would they leave them behind?  Besides that, a persons bed is usually something that they’ve purchased specifically for their own comfort…even if they left some of their furniture behind, I doubt the bed would be one of them, hence the possibility that the bed supports had not been levelled correctly when they moved. 
        And in response to Bells above, what are the chances that he had any affairs within the confines of his home with his wife and children?  Really?  With nosey neighbors and such to watch him entertain someone other than his wife?  I highly doubt anyone who was having an affair would choose to do it in the place they share with their spouse, so I’m sure the bed has only seen one intimate couple in its lifetime of use. 

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  • bells

    If any of you read the stories about his mitresses, the one about the porn star….she said she had been to his house with friends.  No wife there.    

    • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

      Regardless of how his bed supports got out of whack (defective bed/ sex /defective sex)  there was no paranormal cause for it. There was nothing paranormal about it except for the guy’s attempt to create an interesting tale for a talk show. He set himself up. Still, nothing paranormal about it. That’s why I have avoided that entire infidelity  issue. If I were a gossip rag, oh yes, there are so many things we could do with that information. Thanks for your feedback.

  • stern

    Who even cares about this guy.  A lot of my friends didn’t even know who he was until they hear he sleep with Tiger Woods number one mistress.  He admitted he a lier and a male whore.   and by the way read he had the house before he got married so I am sure his bed has had a work out.    The ghost story was probably done that way on purpose to get him some publicicty since all his publicity has been bad news.  Oh yeah and he’s been accused of sexual harr on the job by a few extras…his bad behavor just seems to go on and on.    the wife must think so low of herself to stick around but then again its the price she pays to be a stay home mom and keep spending his money.  she allows the cheating

    • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

      His personal life really didn’t inspire the article. It was the statement that he made about the paranormal and resulting in what the media did to that statement. My statement was about celebrities in general, using this guy as an example. You are right about one thing, you never know what celebrities will do to promote themselves, even their publicists. That’s why I rarely write about them. Thanks for commenting. :-)

  • jacks

    your right who cares Boreanz is a TV actor who for some reason was never able to break into movies.  wIFE A former bunny who made soft porn videos.  this is all publicity for them as far as I can read.  tHE ones I feel sorry for is the kids.  Dad will teach how to lie and cheat and mom can teach how to have no respect for yourslef and be a doormat.  Hollywood kids get messed up and its a shame.    if a ghost was in the house it would have said  “i’m outta here…

    • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

      You could be right about the publicity, but the statement made on the show had a punchline, which wasn’t included in the print articles. This tells me that those who published those articles were after page views. I can’t say for sure, just a guess. I don’t follow celebrities very closely to comment on their personal lives. Too bad the guy is like that. Thanks for your feedback on him.

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