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This is actually not much different than we originally found it. A bit of urine yellow faux paint and matches with the refrigerator.

Ever wonder what's in the Hewitt refrigerator? (note the gallon of stage blood on stove top)

This is the staircase view looking down from the upstairs landing. Of interesting note is the floor level transom/window next to the grandfather clock. It looked down into the "sliding metal door room". It was actually the dining room.

This extension cord hung there the whole time. It powered the fake ceiling fan during shooting. It was also how my assistants and I got electricity up there.

Not seen are the industrial ozone generators I ran whenever the house/set was empty. Otherwise it smelled of mold in there.

This is an example of exactly what we saw the first day we toured the houses with the owners. This is the upstairs west bedroom.

The spindle bed was about 100+ years old when I was there, and it was in excellent condition. Most of the furniture upstairs was very high quality, dark walnut and heavy. All Victorian decor.

On the dresser is a circa 1940s leather shaving kit leather brushes. Note that the leather looks like something LF would wear. But the one in the photo was old dry and crumbly.

This room was very large with 12' ceilings. There were huge storage cabinets built into the wall. An a huge fireplace. The dead possum was in here, along with lots of birdshit. This particular room had seen the most amount of wildlife coming and going. It was gross. I think it had a few broken windows.

The second story of the Hewitt farmhouse was my favorite place in the house. It was my unofficial "office" during all my time there.

Unlike the dark and stuffy first floor, the second floor was bright and sunny. Huge windows in every room. Very open and spacious. Ten foot ceilings. All of them crumbling cement. Lots of the ceiling plaster on the floors. Plaster and bird shit. Lots of bird activity and a dead possum, long mummified.

The second story does not appear in the film.

The house was originally creamy yellow. The very back upstairs room is yellow, and had white wicker furniture. It overlooked the backyard and separate two story garage. This was used as a sunroom by the original occupants. Lots of fancy hat boxes and fashion magazines from the 50's.

But nobody went in there during the filming.

Shown here is one of the Holy Water fonts in the east bedroom at the top of the stairs.

This was my favorite room. I learned how to use my new (in 2001) 35mm camera upstairs in the two front bedrooms. And I took lots of photos in there. This is one of them.

There are four bedrooms and full bath upstairs, but the floor was too weak to accommodate filming.

The back two bedrooms were dangerous to go into due to the floor & ceiling sagging under its own weight.

I found some alternate versions of some of my photos in my old phone. I'll post them as it find them.