The home of the mysterious phantasm, Boo Radley, the Radley Place is just down the street from the Finch Family home in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. It is the most discussed home in Maycomb and one that few people visit--to be avoided by children and adults alike.
Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I never saw him... people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions. A Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked... Radley pecans would kill you. A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked.
It was a house full of "misery," of which the doors and shutters were always closed. No one walked to the Radley porch to say "He-y" on Sunday afternoons. The old house was always the same, "droopy and sick," and it was just these attributes that created the aura of mystery that was a sure-fire lure to Jem, Scout and Dill.
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