Video: Jennifer Connelly Says Park Slope Mansion Was Scooby-Doo-ish, Creepy

Aha! The mystery of why actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany fled from Brooklyn, leaving a beautiful Prospect Park West mansion to take up residence in a Manhattan penthouse was revealed last Friday night. Connelly was on the Tonight Show and told Conan O'Brien that frankly, the house, as much as she loved it, was spooky, "It was a little big...frankly, it was a little like Scooby-Doo, creepy, you know, like the haunted mountain mansion." Zoinks!

Then Connelly added/joked that she was worried that Children's Services would call on her, because her kids were too scared to sleep in their own rooms and instead slept in sleeping bags on her and Bettany's bedroom floor. Now, safely ensconced in Manhattan, the children sleep in their own rooms.

The "spooky" house at 17 Prospect Park West was bought by a Google engineer and his wife, who found Soho very stroller unfriendly. Maybe they should stock up on sleeping bags—or some real-life ghostbusters.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 8, 2009 9:45 AM

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something died in that house.

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...and her kids' hopes of growing up normal...

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So Google has begun mapping the netherworld? Will GawkerStalker follow with Elvis, Michael, and Jesus sightings?

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Currently, Google engineer and his wife are employing several thousand construction workers to exorcise Scooby from that mansion. Seriously, the work going on in that house is astonishing.

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So nice to know that even as hundreds of families are losing their homes, Hollywood entertainers boast about disposing of homes like Ikea furniture on moving day.