Built in 1890, the house didn’t become “haunted” until nearly a 100 years later in 1984. That was the year that Wayne Sealy opened the Mystery Manor at 716 N 18th Street. It quickly gained a following with crowds anxiously waiting to get inside. They would line up around the building and down 18th to Burt and beyond. Features included three story slide, the tunnel which gave you the sensation that the room was spinning, a robotic Frankenstein and a clown room. among others. Despite the stories, there is no evidence that a grizzly murder took place in the house.
As the surrounding houses and buildings were demolished, Wayne received offers for the property. He turned them down because didn’t care how much he could get for the land, he just wanted to entertain the paying customers that returned to his house which sat on the edge of the Creighton campus year after year. Wayne passed away in 2022 and its likely that it closed as he was the driving force behind the haunted house. Creighton bought the property for $425,000 and will use it as a part of its expansion.
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