The Haunted House of Muscat

When I first moved here I was talking with a woman who I had just met, I would say that she was the first friend I ever made in Muscat, and she mentioned to me about the haunted house.

I asked her what she was talking about because I was just fresh off the plane and had no idea and she said the house opposite Shining Shatti, now Bareeq Al Shatti.

I can't remember for the life of me why the house was brought up, what we were talking about or anything, I just remember her saying there was a haunted house. I was immediately interested and checked out the house each and every time I drove by it. You could say that I am in fact stalking this house in particular.

After I drove past the house and looked at it, knowing now that people thought it was haunted I remember that I had looked at it before and thought that it was an odd looking house for this part of the world.

It has no balconies, no fancy screening, the windows are not reflective like most houses, as in you can see the curtains through the windows, it's perfectly symmetrical on all sides, and it stands alone.
A few nights ago I was at dinner with some friends who happened to have a friend visiting from Asia who had lived in Muscat for 11 years and seemed to know everything about everything and was willing to dish.

After some time and some chit chat, the haunted house was mentioned by one of the ladies.

Since I had been stalking the house for 2 years, I asked for the low down.

Apparently, the house was built on a cemetery (which seems like you're asking for trouble if I remember my horror movies correctly), the owners do not live there, they have moved to another country and when they do come home to visit, they stay at the Intercon because they cannot bear to be in their own home.

I know that the house does not sit empty because I have seen lights on inside the house, and I have seen the curtains in different positions, presumably they employ caretakers or rent the house out.

Now if it were me who had built a house on sacred, perhaps special ground, depending on your view of things, and it turned out not to be in my favour, and I couldn't sell the house because everyone knows about it's reputation, I might be inclined to turn it into a touristy-stay-in-a- haunted-house-for-a-night thing or I might just burn it to the ground, ask forgiveness from the spirits and move on.
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Post note:having just Googled *Muscat's haunted house* I found this blog post from the ultra religious Andy In Oman (his name is like my name!), warning his post contains Bible-ish things, and if you read the comments, Muscati (whose blog I won't link to because he doesn't write one anymore) who also seems to know everything about everything has set the story straight.

So - who is to be believed? Both seem very credible.