Pliny tells of an Athens house let cheap because of its ghost; the philosopher who took it found a chained skeleton in the yard

Kind 2: what Pliny writes in letter 7.27, told "just as I heard it". A large house in Athens had a bad name. At night tenants heard chains, then saw the ghost of a thin old man in fetters. Tenants lost sleep, fell ill and died, and the house was left empty. The owner put up a notice that it was to be let or sold, hoping for a tenant who did not know. The philosopher Athenodorus read the notice and asked the price. Its cheapness made him suspicious; he heard the story and took the house anyway. He sat writing at night until the ghost came and beckoned. He followed it to the courtyard, where it vanished, and marked the spot with grass and leaves. The next day magistrates had the ground dug. They found a skeleton in chains. The bones were buried at public expense, and the haunting stopped. About 300 years earlier Plautus's comedy Mostellaria had a slave invent a haunted-house story to keep a father out of a house where his son had been partying. Classicist Debbie Felton's study of these texts asks whether resident ghosts lowered property values and whether sellers had to disclose them. She says improper burial was the most common cause of a haunting in ancient stories. The house is not identified.