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How AAA Windows
Siding Roofing made a homeowner’s dream come true
By Karen Castelein
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[May 01, 2023]
What happens when a lover of Halloween who is a fan of all things
ghoulish, gory, and ghostly buys an 1894 built home that is reported
to be haunted? We won’t leave you in the “dark” for very long, she
makes it a reflection of all she loves by going black.
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 Karen
Priddy purchased the home in Petersburg in 2013. She and her son
Chaske Rencountre moved in right away, looking forward to soaking in
the history of the home and becoming a part of the old house’s
legacy.
The home was built in 1894 and owned by a local veterinarian known
to the community as “Doc Burt.” It is reported that Doc Burt’s son
killed himself in the home, and since that time, some very strange
things have been known to happen there. Priddy said after Doc Burt,
there was a renter who lived in the home for a short time but soon
moved out, in the middle of the night no less.
Priddy is the manager of the Boo Crew in Rochester and runs a
full-time cleaning service. She is a Nordic Pagan ordained minister
for the past 20 years and she buys and sells oddities. In accordance
with her love of dark mystery and spooky happenings, she owns a
black bus and two black hearses that are so long she had to bump out
the garage of her home so they would fit inside.
Priddy is clearly in love with Halloween and all that
goes with it. So it should not come as a surprise that her dream was
to make her home a reflection of herself. She said that she has
always wanted to see the home painted or sided in black but was not
confident that she could get it done the way she wanted it.
A couple of years ago, Priddy contacted AAA Windows Siding Roofing
in Lincoln for some window work. The company installed new windows
in the house including a garden greenhouse window that she dearly
loves. Priddy was particularly happy with the work the company did.
She said she had wanted to work with a smaller, family-owned
business. She said AAA was so easy to work with, the crew was very
courteous and respectful of her property and did a wonderful job
cleaning up.
When she decided to go for the black, she went back to AAA to see if
they could make her dream come true.
At first she said they came back with an alternative to black
because it would be less expensive and easier to get. But after
seeing that Priddy was a little disappointed that she might not get
the black, AAA went back and sharpened their pencils and came back a
second time with a real black quote but said she may have to wait
five or six months for a special order. She was so excited AAA made
it affordable for her dream to come true.
AAA ordered the black siding and within a week or so the siding was
delivered. Karen said she was so happy she could hardly contain
herself. Work began on Monday, March 27, 2023, and the week after
Easter, AAA was finished with the project.
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Priddy is happy that AAA was able to do for her what
she asked them to do. She is looking forward to enjoying the stage
the new dark home sets for her lifestyle but does have one concern.
Priddy believes there are spirits living in the home with her and
her son. She noted a time when she left the house knowing full well
that all the lights had been turned off. When she returned home all
the lights had been turned back on. She said that her son Chaske has
seen a little girl in the house and Priddy herself has seen an older
man that she thinks could be Doc Burt. Both have heard people
talking in the house and have seen objects in the home move without
visible help.
Priddy does not want the spirits to be upset about the drastic
change in the home and is hopeful that they too will enjoy the
novelty of living in a black house.
The finished product looks amazing. The black house is accented with
white window casings which keeps it from being an all-black canvas
with no details that stand out. The house has a new personality and
a new future with Priddy and her son.
LDN is planning on making another visit down Petersburg way, maybe
in the fall, around Halloween, so readers can know how Priddy and
her ghostly apparitions are enjoying their spooky lifestyle in their
new black house.
So, at the end of the day, what it comes down to is
that Karen Priddy wanted to have a home that was a reflection of who
she is and what she enjoys. She had a dream…and AAA Windows and
Siding in Lincoln helped that dream come true.
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