HILL HOUSE
A/K/A
BUCKTHORNE HALL
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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
By: Shirley Jackson
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THE LOOTING OF HILL HOUSE
By: Tzaims Luksus, FRSA
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History
Shirley Jackson was inspired by Buckthorne Hall, earlier known as HILL HOUSE because it was on the hill.
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Bennington is made up of three villages,
VILLAGE OF OLD BENNINGTON
VILLAGE OF NORTH BENNINGTON
TOWN OF BENNINGTON
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in Shirley Jackson's day when she was writing
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THE LOTTERY
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The Town 's people in their way of life, inspired her finding how the were acting this way.
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A yearly sacrifice of one town's person had to die each year. So they formed a lottery of all the women.
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The story was of a town that held a lottery each year and the winner, always a woman, was stoned to death by the town's people.
She was inspired by the Town of Bennington, to write this, when her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman was hired by Bennington College in North Bennington where she and Edgar both lived
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The stories about Hill House in the Village of Old Bennington, that local town's people claimed was haunted, and occippied by two women performing witch craft, compounding drugs and poisons, was also known where two people committed suicide, one, a womam in 1910, the wife of the man who hung himself in the attic in 1935. Also of ghosts and poltergeists.
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So she wrote
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
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Hill House because the village of Old Bennington was the first built on a hill by settlers from places like Salem, Massachusetts in the early 1700s,
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in 1963
The artist
TZAIMS LUKSUS
born in and raised till 18 years old in
Chigago, Illinois
recently from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
bought Hill House, knowing
Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman,
invited Tzaims to a party & reception at their mansion on the main street in North Bennington when
he first moved into Hill House..
Shirley told him his house inspired her to write her short story based on local rumours, how it looked mysterious, dark and haunted, and told him the local rumours still spreading around. Perhaps as a friendly gesture or a philosophical and scholary social anthropology.
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Tzaims was both amused and fascinated but he was surprised meeting Shirley Jackson seeing how unliterary and uneducated she appeared and spoke poorly. Hardly someone who could write seriously.
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Tzaims decided she must have conjured up the basic tale and her husband actually wrote it and The Lottery. Her ghost writer.
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She was short, fat, unattractive facially,and dressed like a woman during the depression of the 1930s in actually a dirty stained cotten house dress appearing at her party looking like the hired cook coming out of the kitchen after a long day slaveing under heavy steam.
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Never the less she was pleasamt, jolly, funny, innocent, unpretentious and laughed loudly at anything said whether funny or not, her fat body bouncing like a bowl of Jello.
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Stanley just stared at her sternly but silently.
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Stanley was thin, elegant, formally dressed like an early 20th century English gentleman, stiff and cold, hardly ever saying a word and never cracking a smile.
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"Jack Sprat who could eat no fat, and his wife who could eat no lean."
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This led Tzims to change its name to
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BUCKTHORNE HALL
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in
1968
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Now that Tzaims lives in Rangoon, Burma
He is writing
THE LOOTING OF HILL HOUSE
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based further on additional ghost stories and what happens to the haunted and cursed looters.
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This should make it another best seller like Shirley Jackson's became.
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This story should continue.
The story should continue.
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They had two boys..and one or two girls as children then.
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Many decades later after Shirley died not long after Tzaims met her, her children grw up into illegal drug dealers and addicted users. Quite openly in the area but never any police action against them.
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At some point the New York Times reported a murder of a boy in new Jersey.
He belonged to a young teen age Satanic clan that worshiped Satan believing if they each died a violent death Satan would give each of them 100 legions of demons to command., and they would join one another to excercise incredible power.
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The first boy to volunteer was brutally murdered by three others. Pictures of them appeared in the NYT.
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It caused an upheaval in America,
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READING THIS Tzaims was led to look into white and black
magic as a scolarly study leading him to a book,
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THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
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Unable to locate one he called Stanley Edgar Hyman, knowing he and Shirley had a vast library of magic books, and asked if he had one and could he borrow it.
Syanley said yes to both questions so that night he went to Stanley's house knocked on the front door, Stanley answered, not inviting him, and handed him the book.
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Stanley said be very cateful with it as it is very old and an original 1700s edition. Return it in exacyly 14 days at this exact same time.
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Tzams read through it, noting the names of Satanic devils, their spiritual devices, logos and methods of conjuring.
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Then he had to stop and realized it was very dangerous, best to stop reading or studying it, forget all of it too
and went to return it as Stanley requested but no one was home for a few days.
Then one day Stanley called, very furious, demanding the book be returned that night.
Tzaims knocked and his daughter answered. Stanley wasn't home.
He gave her the book telling her to give the book to her father, and left. She looked bewildered not knowing anthing about this book.
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That very quiet, dark, moonless night that Stanley chose for the book's return, there was a sudden dynamic bolt of lightning, loud enough to wake up the dead, over all of Bennington valley, mountains and hills, but no wind, rain or storm.
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The morning came, Gene woke Tzaims up and said: "Guess who died suddenlyly last night of a heart attack?"
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Tzaims said:
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"Stanley Edgar Hyman."
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Gene replied"
"YES!.
"How did you know?"
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"The lightening last night."
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GENE ASKED
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"WHAT LIGHTENING?
THERE WAS NO LIGHTNING! "
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Tzaims meditated this calmly and seriously. He handed the Grand Grimoire to Stanley's daughter, Stanley not being there at the appointed time.
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What did his daughter do?
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Bennington Occult
When Tzaims moved to Hill House in 1963 Bennington Collrge was as it was first founded. A woman's Boarding School claiming to be a college, though it allowed a boy or two in dance.
Martha Graham is claimed to have taught there but she never stepped foot on that college's grounds.
One of her dancers also with the first name Martha did by leaving Graham's troop in New York City.
What most don't know and covered up is the college was never an art college.
In the 1930s wealthy families were having autstic girls who embarrassed them in society behaving irratically.
They needed a remote but elegant place in the rural countryside secluded, remote for them to board. It was a boarding school for autistic girls, who all chose black dresses to wear claiming to be witches practicing witchcraft. It became a public signature creating a mysterious rumour.. This was how the now morphed school became an art college.
Autistic morphed into Artistic
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Academic studies were added for the more capable.
About the time Tzaims borrowded the Grand Memoire from Hyman, he was given a deck of Tarot cards about 1970.
One of his parties for Bennington college music, art and dance students with their faculty, he mentioned it to a few students now a coed college claiming he needed someone to explain how to read them.
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One boy said there was a girl student at the college, very wealthy and very autistic who the students consulted like an oracle who read Tarot and suggested taking him to her but first setting an evening and time to meet with her.
A date set Tzaims and the boy and two girls from her dorm room went with him. Tzaims was told this girl was very sensitive, she claiming she was a very powerful black magic witch.
Entering her dorm room she was sitting on a cushion legs crossed Buddha style, throne like, dressed in black with a black female cat on her lap.
Tzaims came about three feet from her and sat on the floor as the other three did beside him.
The cat stood up on all four feet, back arched and back hair raised hissing at him.
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The girl went into a panic screaming and pointing at him shouting:
"I KNOW YOU.
YOU ARE LUCIFER,
THE DEVIL!
GET OUT!
Tzaims and his group immediately left horrified in shock.
They explained this girl really wasn't studying anything and remained in her shared dorm room with the two girls with him. They claiming her parents were very wealthy and powerful administratively of the college.
They were assigned to her dorm and told not to criticize her if acting oddly or saying things not normal, because she chose them after being selected from all the other girls.
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The very next morning Tzaims received a call from the college and told a letter was on its way to him telling him he was banned for life on the campus by order of her parents claiming he threatened her life.
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He never went back but was invited years later by the first woman president to join her for a student opera production during the time he was producing operas on
CAT TV Public Television
weekly funded by his
Vermont Foundation of the Arts.
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The autistic witch long gone, her parents both dead.
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Another odd event not so much of the occult happened in 1976.
Tzaims was late paying his mortgage payments to the 1st Vermont Bank and property taxes to the village and town with a notice to forclose unless both mortgage and taxes were paid in full in 24 hours.
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Armond Lampron, a promenent member of the French Canadians Cult in Bennington, referred to them by townees as Canooks.
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Armand started at the bank as a janitor when a young man, Poor and desirous to live on the hill with the aristocrats of Old Bennington.
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He was uncompromising by not setting a new partial payment plan.
Lampron was set whole heatedly getting Tzaims house wanting the famous beautifully restored house and gardens, Buckrhotne Hal,l to live in with his family.
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Tzaims, never borrowing money, gave in and went to Dr's, Lucien & Jane Hanks, who were dear friends, much older, and were anthropology ptofessors at Bennington College and who were very humaintarian knowing intimately the King of Siam and the Royal family of Thailand, who immediately arranged a non-interest loan, without any repayment conditions for the $9,000 needed.
Tzaims also called his NYC textile agent, who he had been separated from in 1966 when his textile mill was taken from him by the McCulloughs, arranging to show the then top US California fashion designer, a collection of Tibetan silk prints he created to raise money for repayment of the loan.
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On the morning of the day Lampron demaded payment Tzaims paid the $9,000 and that afternoon flew to Paris staying at the Ritz Hotel on Place Vendome.
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The next night Gene called him saying:
Guess who just died suddenly of a heart attack the day you flew to Paris.
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Tzaims immediately said:
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"Armond Lampron!"
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Gene laughed
"Right again!"
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Other stories coming.
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