Real estate agent Tera Jones said she showed the house to a prospect two weeks before the Robertsons bought it.
At the time she was working for BJ Smith Realty of Hot Springs.

"It was one of those days that had big heavy clouds," she said. "I’d been showing this guy property, [And the ghost ] was on the porch. He wasn’t like a ghost like you see in a movie." Jones said the apparition caused her to run out of the house.

Averitt said she saw the apparition of a skeleton in a house she was showing several years ago.

"I could just see a lady sitting in this chair; of course, she really wasn't there. My buyer went over to pick [the chair ] up and move it. His hair just shot up," she said. "He said: 'There is something in that chair — there’s a ghost in it !"' Real state agents are bound by law to disclose deaths or events in or around a property that might potentially affect its marketability. Before any house is sold, a seller fills out a legal document called a disclosure form that makes an agent aware of any unusual events related to the property.

But, ghosts aren't necessarily a part of the clause.

Tim Grooms, a real estate lawyer for the Arkansas Realtors Association, said a "ghost-buster bill" prevents buyers from suing sellers and their agents on the grounds of paranormal activity.

The 2003 law, Arkansas Code 17-10-101, protects real estate agents for failing to disclose "any fact or circumstance or suspicion of the existence of any fact or circumstance that indicates that the real property is psychologically impacted." The law defines a "psychologically impacted" property as one that "was at any time suspected to have been the site of a homicide, suicide or felony." Jeb Joyce, a lawyer with the Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow law firm, said "psychological impact" covers hauntings.

(Source : NWAnews)