Others residents may have sensed the house’s mystical nature, since both beatniks and street mystics have used the Sanctum… as a flophouse. Possibly sensing that the house was better suited for less holy purposes, other residents decided to use it as a secret satanic supper club and a bacchanalian speakeasy or illegal bar. Later, some nuns attempted to turn it into a nunnery but failed. One Puritan witchfinder took up residence in the house and tortured immigrants in the basement. Later, the land became a mass grave or “Potter’s field” for paupers - most of them inmates from New York’s first prison. Once the house was built, it had several bizarre residents who used it for multiple oddball purposes.

Long before it was built, the land was a popular destination for shamans of the Wappinger tribe on vision quests. In Doctor Strange (2015) #2, Strange offers a short history of his house. Related: DC’s Doctor Strange Combined With Marvel’s For The Best Sorcerer Supreme A focal point for supernatural energies, the house and its grounds had many unusual owners even before Doctor Strange took up residence, deliberately drawing on the energies of an existing place of power. In the comics, however, the Sanctum has a much weirder origin and history.

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