Chair from haunted Wolfe Manor up for auction

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wolfe Manor served galore purposes during its 92 years of existence.

Built adjacent Clovis and Santa Ana successful 1922 ,it was archetypal a backstage home.

After the archetypal proprietor died an untimely death, it was turned into a infirmary and sanitarium, past a nursing home.

Eventually, Todd Wolfe bought the spot successful the precocious 90s and took it from haunted estimation to attraction.

Even earlier Wolfe purchased the manor, galore believed the spirits of those who died successful the gathering inactive haunted the halls.

"I bought it for a Halloween attraction called 'Scream if you can' that we ran for galore years and I was a large skeptic then, I ne'er believed successful ghosts," said Wolfe.

Wolfe operated the haunted attraction until the metropolis of Clovis forced him to unopen it down successful 2004 implicit neighbors' complaints. Then the location and its spirits took connected a caller life, Wolfe welcomed successful shade hunting shows and psychics.

"Like I said, the Halloween attraction closed, but past the TV shows started calling," said Wolfe. "From determination it conscionable got insane with each the antithetic networks calling me, trying to get successful to bash an probe astatine the Wolfe Manor."

In 2014, the manor was torn down aft the metropolis decided the aged gathering was a nationalist nuisance and not up to code.

Before a wrecking shot took down the aged walls, Wolfe took immoderate items from wrong and the souls said to beryllium tied to them, including an aged upholstered seat that erstwhile belonged to a pistillate named Mary.

"From what we were told, she was a patient," said Wolfe. "My spot connected Clovis Avenue is and was the Clovis Sanitarium... We would beryllium successful Mary's country and you could conscionable consciousness her presence.... I judge she's nice. You know, we person not had immoderate antagonistic experiences."

Wolfe enactment the seat up for bid connected eBay by Friday day and bids had reached implicit $6,000. For whoever buys the chair, Wolfe has 1 warning.

"She is with the chair," said Wolfe. "That's wherefore connected my eBay auction, I enactment I'm not liable for immoderate attachments."

If you privation to invited Mary and her chair, bidding continues done Sunday afternoon.

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