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* CameFromTheSky: The alien substance which has assimilated the house originates from an enzyme contained inside a meteorite.

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* CameFromTheSky: The alien substance which has assimilated the house originates from an enzyme contained inside a meteorite.meteorite.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: Luther, the alcoholic squatter. He thinks that the house is God, and that "it's hungry."



* MadScientist: Abrams, at the behest of Genodyne Biochemical, [[spoiler:was experimenting was a dormant enzyme found inside a meteorite. Abrams took the meteorite home with him and continued his experiments even after Genodyne was shuttered by the EPA.]]



* PlayingWithSyringes: [[spoiler:Abrams, the previous owner of the house. At the behest of an amoral chemical company, he exposed the enzyme from the meteorite to various chemical reactions, which ended up bringing it to life.]]
* SapientHouse: An AlienKudzu lifeform created from an enzyme extracted from a meteorite has been slowly overgrowing an abandoned mansion, effectively becoming a living house in the process. It eats people by absorbing their biomass into itself.

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* PlayingWithSyringes: [[spoiler:Abrams, the previous owner of the house. At the behest of an amoral chemical company, he exposed the house, was experimenting with a dormant enzyme from the found in a meteorite to various chemical reactions, which in his own home. He ended up bringing it to life.activating the enzyme, which then infected the house and ate him.]]
* SapientHouse: An AlienKudzu lifeform created from an enzyme extracted from a meteorite that crashed down on Earth has been slowly overgrowing an abandoned mansion, effectively becoming a living house in the process. It eats people by absorbing their biomass into itself.

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* CameFromTheSky: The alien substance which has assimilated the house originates from inside a meteorite.

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* CameFromTheSky: The alien substance which has assimilated the house originates from an enzyme contained inside a meteorite.



* SapientHouse: An AlienKudzu lifeform that crashed down on Earth has been slowly overgrowing an abandoned mansion, effectively becoming a living house in the process. It eats people by absorbing their biomass into itself.

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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Abrams, the previous homeowner, disappeared mysteriously 6 years ago.
* PlayingWithSyringes: [[spoiler:Abrams, the previous owner of the house. At the behest of an amoral chemical company, he exposed the enzyme from the meteorite to various chemical reactions, which ended up bringing it to life.]]
* SapientHouse: An AlienKudzu lifeform that crashed down on Earth created from an enzyme extracted from a meteorite has been slowly overgrowing an abandoned mansion, effectively becoming a living house in the process. It eats people by absorbing their biomass into itself.itself.
* SecretRoom: Mitchell discovers a hidden door leading to a secret laboratory while scanning the wall for paranormal activity.
*ShoutOut: Fans of TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons2ndEdition will recognize the house as a House Hunter Mimic, right down to its [[spoiler:weakness to alcohol.]] Fans will recognize that it also possesses features of a Living Wall.


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*WeaksauceWeakness: Turns out that [[spoiler:ethanol]] is extremely toxic to the house. So much so that it [[spoiler:cannot absorb drunken humans.]]
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* BigNo: The excavator's reaction when the chandelier reaches out to grab him.
* CameFromTheSky: The alien substance which has assimilated the house originates from inside a meteorite.
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* TreacherousSpiritChase: The main plot concerns a house "infected" by an alien substance. Not only does the house absorb people into its structure, it's able to regurgitate {{Doppelganger}}s of those people to lure in their friends and loved ones when they come searching for answers.

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* TreacherousSpiritChase: The main plot concerns a house "infected" by an alien substance. Not only does the house absorb people into its structure, it's able to regurgitate {{Doppelganger}}s of those people to lure in their friends and loved ones when they come searching for answers.answers.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Ghosts. Haunted houses. Many maintain that such concepts have no place in our computerized twentieth century reality. But until man conquers death, one inevitable question will always linger within the recesses of the human mind: What lies beyond?


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-->'''The Control Voice:''' What lies beyond? For each of us, the answer awaits at the end of life's journey. Until then, we must live with the ghosts that dwell, not in some musty basement, but within the recesses of the human soul.
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A woman whose son disappeared asks a supernatural debunker to investigate a seemingly haunted house where her son was last seen.

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A woman whose son disappeared asks a supernatural debunker to investigate a seemingly haunted house where her son was last seen.seen.

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* AgentScully: The physicist Dr. Leviticus Mitchell is a debunker of the paranormal who is presented with evidence of its existence in the form of a house which absorbs people.
* GeniusLoci: This episode has a mansion that would ''eat'' unsuspecting people. Since the story was partially based on ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'', alcohol was like acid to it.
* LivingStructureMonster: The house, which turns out to be alive rather than haunted.
* SapientHouse: An AlienKudzu lifeform that crashed down on Earth has been slowly overgrowing an abandoned mansion, effectively becoming a living house in the process. It eats people by absorbing their biomass into itself.
* TreacherousSpiritChase: The main plot concerns a house "infected" by an alien substance. Not only does the house absorb people into its structure, it's able to regurgitate {{Doppelganger}}s of those people to lure in their friends and loved ones when they come searching for answers.
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