Although listed at little more than half of its price from six years ago, a magnificent historic lakefront home in Lake Forest can’t seem to buy a buyer.
That may be due to its possible connection to the afterlife.
That means it may be haunted. For $9.95 million, you can have a haunted mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan.
The home, with 28 rooms, 10 beds and 13 baths, was built in 1917 for Laura Shedd and Charles H. Schweppe as a wedding present from Shedd’s father, chairman of the Marshall Field & Company. When Mrs. Schweppe died, she left a mere $200,000 of a $10 million fortune to her husband, prompting his suicide in 1941.
The home has only had one owner since, a couple who divorced and allowed the home to enter foreclosure.
