The Atlanta blood house

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In 1987 there was a house in Atlanta that is known as the blood house. In October of 1987 Minnie Winston was relaxing in her bathtub the one place she could unwind as she spent much of her time taking care of her husband who was in failing health and on dialysis. When getting out of the tub she stepped in something wet and sticky and she noticed it looked like blood. She was alarmed thinking it could be her husband William but it wasn't. He was fine. They started noticing blood all around the house on the floorboards, walls, and the basement. It was everywhere. They had no clue where it was coming from. They called 911 because they were unsure of what to do about it or where it was coming from. The police investigated and found no bodies. They were puzzled. They started to wonder if it was even blood. The blood was examined and it was determined that it was indeed blood. It didn't belong to either of the Winstons. The blood was type O and both of the Winstons were type A. The Winstons had never experienced anything like this before. There had never been anything suspicious or alarming prior to this incident. In the months after they were bombarded by reporters and people wanting to know everything surrounding their circumstances. Many theories have surrounded this mystery but none with any merit. Some suggested that Willie had access to blood due to his dialysis and that he used this to alarm their grown children so they'd talk to them. Some speculated that since one of their adult daughters was a nurse she had access to blood and used it as a way to scare her parents into a retirement home (or something along those lines I don't remember the full theory of this). There was no way for someone to throw random blood in the home because the doors were locked and their security system was on. If someone was really trying to scare them and use random blood how would they have access to it? 1987 was during the height of the AIDS crisis and blood banks were very guarded. There are many supernatural theories. There's a story about a former occupant that lived there who got into an accident and died shortly around the date leading up to the blood appearing. The Winstons were black in a black poorer community in Atlanta Georgia where racism was more prevalent and people believed something was at work due to the injustice of the deaths in the community. The previous tenant of the house that died was hit in an accident where the other driver was a white man who barely got a slap on the wrist for the accident. There were also a few similar deaths involving white people killing black people that they believe contributed to whatever demonic was at play in this house. It was said that the Winstons had done some sort of ritual to get the house to stop bleeding and it worked and the house never bled again. Willie died just two years after the events unfolded and Minnie lived to the age of 104 and died in 2015. When reporters would call and ask about the house she'd say it was rust or some other non demonic thing. She wanted peace and to be left alone. To this day no one knows why the house bled. There are only theories no one can prove. I myself am not a huge believer in the supernatural but I'm also not an unbeliever. I believe you shouldn't go messing with it. My mom taught me young to never go near an Ouija board and I've heeded this warning. I believe some things should be left as they are. I feel when you play with something like that you're welcoming things into your home. I am very much someone who doesn't deny the existence of ghosts but am not in a huge hurry to find out if they're real or not. I will say that this house has no plausible explanation and definitely would not rule out the possibility of the supernatural. It's just too crazy to be anything that our brains could logically explain.