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Cassandra Peterson, best known as ‘Elvira, Mistress of the Dark,’ warnedBrad PitttheL.A. home she sold him in 1994was “haunted.” But instead of being afraid, she says, he was “very excited” about it.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Peterson discussed Pitt’s immediate fascination with the house, whichhe bought from her for a reported $1.7 million, and justsold after nearly 30 years for about $40 million.
“We were just kind of warning him that a lot of weird things have been going on there in the house since we moved in,” Peterson, 71, recalls to PEOPLE of her sit-downs with Pitt. “And he was very excited about that. He thought that was really cool.”
“I’ve seen people walking around upstairs, for example, real people just walking. One time [a ghost was] sitting downstairs in front of the fireplace, once walking into my bedroom and back out,” Peterson recalls of the spectral encounters. In another instance, “We saw a person floating around at the bottom of the pool, things like that.”
“I know that sounds nutty. I’m Elvira. I know you expect that from me, right?” theYours Cruelly, Elviraauthor says with a laugh, but she insists, “I don’t have hallucinations, I wasn’t high and I can’t explain those things.”
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Peterson said that the spooky events started happening immediately after she and her ex-husband, musicianMark Pierson, moved into the 29-room mansion. (She’s now been in a 21-year relationship with Teresa “T” Wierson, after coming out to her fans in 2021.) The former couple even “had a priest come in to do an exorcism. I had all kinds of things because it was really getting to a point of like, ‘I don’t know if I can continue to live here,'” she says.
“So we were telling Brad all about that and he loved it. I mean, there are not many buyers who that would be a selling point for, but he was like, ‘Oh, that’s so awesome.’ I love that he appreciated the house so much.”
“We got together like three times I think before he bought the house,” the horror icon adds, noting that she was nine months pregnant with her now-28-year-old daughter, Sadie Pierson, when Pitt purchased the home from her. “Brad was just wonderful. And I met his mom and dad at one time. They were such sweet people. He was always kind and sweet.”
Aside from his enthusiasm for potential supernatural squatters, Peterson says Pitt “was just the perfect person to buy it” because “he’s so interested in architecture and this house is just an exquisite house.”
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In particular, she says Pitt loved the living room and dining room, which had solid mahogany wall panels and copper ceilings. “He just couldn’t get over that. We couldn’t either,” she says. “It was just a stunning house.”
A real-estate source previously confirmed to PEOPLE thathe was trying to unload the 1.9-acre propertyoff-market for about $40 million in January.
The home is where Pitt and his ex-wifeAngelina Jolie, 47, raised their six children — Maddox, 21, Pax, 19, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 16, and 14-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. The couple split in 2016.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in March 2014.Ethan Miller/WireImage
In the midst of ongoinglegal troubles with Jolie, Pitt has sparked a new romance with jewelry designerInes de Ramon, 32. Most recently, the pair reportedlyenjoyed a date night in Parisafter the 2023 César Awards on February 24.
The two were firstpublicly linked in November 2022, when they had been dating for a “few months” according to a source.
source: people.com
