The name of the USA Ambassador's residence in Pretoria always makes me smile...

[Trevor]

 

Everyone knows the eerie Robert Wise film The Haunting (1963) with Richard Johnson and Julie Harris ~ the evil, brooding palace known as Hill House both in the film and in the Shirley Jackson book. That is a really creepy film indeed. 

Well, the American ambassador's residence is quite near my house ~ a few blocks up the road in fact ~ and I noticed for the first time the other day as I had to walk to the shops that this beautiful house is called....wait for it.... Hill House! Yikes! 

[Dennis]

Then its doors must always be sensibly closed, so how do people get in to conduct diplomatic business?

[RCMerchant]

Then its doors must always be sensibly closed, so how do people get in to conduct diplomatic business?

...no one can hear him scream...alone...in the dark!

[Rev. Powell]

I guess the ambassador thought "Hill House" sounded more inviting than "The House that Dripped Blood."

By the way, welcome back from vacation, Trevor!

[Allhallowsday]

Whatever walks there, walks alone.  

[Trevor]

Then its doors must always be sensibly closed, so how do people get in to conduct diplomatic business?

...no one can hear him scream...alone...in the dark!

[Trevor]

Whatever walks there, walks alone. 

The residence is at 357 Victoria Street, Pretoria East, by the way: I forgot to mention that.

[Trevor]

Then its doors must always be sensibly closed, so how do people get in to conduct diplomatic business?

I once almost got arrested for loitering outside the residence: all I was doing was resting my feet outside after a 5 mile walk and was told by the guard to take a hike. 

[Derf]

I once almost got arrested for loitering outside the residence: all I was doing was resting my feet outside after a 5 mile walk and was told by the guard to take a hike. 

You should have told him you just did; that's why you were sitting there. 

I'm sure that would have amused him to no end.

[Trevor]

I once almost got arrested for loitering outside the residence: all I was doing was resting my feet outside after a 5 mile walk and was told by the guard to take a hike. 

You should have told him you just did; that's why you were sitting there. 

I'm sure that would have amused him to no end.

 

[Trevor]

I guess the ambassador thought "Hill House" sounded more inviting than "The House that Dripped Blood."
By the way, welcome back from vacation, Trevor!