The story
The Riddle House was built in 1905 in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, a slim Victorian 'painted lady' that stood across from Woodlawn Cemetery and served over the years as lodging connected to cemetery work — gaining the nickname 'the gatekeeper's house' — and later as the home of city manager Karl Riddle, whose name it keeps; local history records that a man who worked for Riddle died by suicide in the attic in the 1920s, a real death at the heart of the house's later legend, told here without detail and with respect. Saved from demolition, the house was dismantled and rebuilt at Yesteryear Village, the historical park at the South Florida Fairgrounds, where it became famous: television investigations popularised accounts of an attic presence hostile to men, objects thrown, figures at the windows, voices and cold spots, and village volunteers have added quieter stories of moved items and footsteps. These accounts should be presented as television-era and volunteer telling around a documented tragedy, hedged throughout. The village's opening times and house access should be confirmed from official pages before publishing.