johnnybix38 wrote:
I thought Walt had BUILT the mansion as a retirement home for ghosts from all over the world. Cmon, how simple is that? Why are you all complicating it so much? I know "back stories" are fun, etc....but really, the truth is a lot simpler.
The imaginative universe of the HM as presented has to go back earlier, since Connie's portraits are explicitly dated to the 19th c., and we are given to know that she married the owner of the house.  You've got little choice!