In the spirit of Halloween, this is the perfect time to tell you about the most haunted house in Arkansas and the story of why it is haunted. In 2008, it was named the most haunted house in America.

 Paranormal Activity 

The Allen House is located in Monticello, Arkansas was built between 1905 and 1906 by J. E. Allen. Although the current owners haven't said anything publicly about haunting the previous owners have. Mark and Rebecca Spencer bought the house in 2007 and it didn't take long before they started to see and experience things in the house.

This hauntingly beautiful house was featured on numerous paranormal shows. One of those shows was with the Ghost Brothers back in 2019. The Spencers talked about seeing doppelgangers of themselves and their son. They also said they experienced furniture rearranged and kitchen cabinets opening and closing. Some paranormal experts say those doppelganger sightings might have been a spirit trying to make contact with the living. Creepy right?

Who is Haunting The Allen House?

Who is haunting the house? From reports of witnesses, it is J.E. Allen's middle daughter LaDell Allen Her son is also reported as haunting the house.

The Tragic Story of Ladell Allen

LaDell was born in 1894. She married Boyd Randolph Bonner at the age of 20 and they had a child and named him Allen. The marriage only lasted a few years and ended in 1927. LaDell's son died of died of pneumonia in 1945 at the age of 28. Then just a few years later Ladell took her own life on Christmas Eve 1948.

During her mother's Christmas party on Christmas night in 1948, she quietly went upstairs to the master bedroom to drink a cocktail with mercury cyanide. She died almost a week later on January 2, 1949. The papers at the time never said how she died, family and friends knew how she died but no one knew why.

 The New Owners of the House Solve The Mystery Of Why Ladell Killed Herself

Mark Spencer says that one day he had an incredible urge to go into the attic. That is when he found 82 love letters that were under a loose floorboard. The letters were of a secret love affair between LaDell and a man named Prentiss H Savage. 

Love Letters Expose a Doomed Affair

The letters showed that LaDell had rekindled an affair with her first love who was now married. Savage kept promising to leave his wife and marry LaDell, but before Christmas, he wrote to LaDell to tell her it was over and he wasn't going to leave his wife for her.  You can imagine the devastation LaDell felt. Her son's death only three years earlier and now the realization that she would never marry her first love.

More on LaDell and The Allen House in Arkansas

Check out the videos below that tell you more about the history of the house and the episode of The Ghost Brothers investigating the house.

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