# Has there ever been a "you must spend a night in a haunted house" clause in a will?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-you-must-spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house-clause-in-a-will/736705 "2015-11-05T13:45:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-you-must-spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house-clause-in-a-will/736705/1 "2015-11-05T13:45:02Z")

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Or something similar?

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-you-must-spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house-clause-in-a-will/736705/2 "2015-11-05T13:59:22Z")

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Username OP combo!

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-you-must-spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house-clause-in-a-will/736705/3 "2015-11-05T16:48:43Z")

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Not that I can find.

The weirdest stipulations in wills I can find are:

[Leona Helmsley - sons get their share only if the visit their fathers’ grave every year.](http://www.forbes.com/sites/investopedia/2011/04/12/10-strange-will-and-testaments/2/)

[John Bowman - keep up the mansion and have servants serve dinner every night in case we come back from the dead.](http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/financial-planning/9-strange-last-wills-and-testaments.htm#page=6)

Nothing at all like spending a night somewhere.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-you-must-spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house-clause-in-a-will/736705/4 "2015-11-05T22:48:23Z")

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I started a thread on a similar topic once:  
[In your Last Will and Testament, how much can you screw with your heirs?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=541096)

The winning response was [the Great Stork Derby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby)