Zac Efron had a `haunted` childhood

Zac Efron grew up living next door to a haunted house.

London: `High School Musical` star Zac Efron had a haunted childhood as he grew up living next door to a haunted house.

The 22-year-old heartthrob, who was raised in California, admits his neighbourhood was a haunted place that people were afraid of. "When I was growing up, the house next door was haunted nobody would go inside. It had all these broken boards and there were all kinds of weird stories about happened there," Efron said. However, despite getting chills from the house, the actor and his friends courageously decided to visit it one day. "One time me and my friends went in but it was really weird like something in `Alice In Wonderland`. We had to hike through a field of tall grass to get to the front porch. There was a smashed window in the back, so we went inside and looked around. "We went up to the attic and heard a bunch of noises. We were like, `What is that?` Then all of a sudden bats just flew out at us - we were sacred and ran away. I`m pretty sure the place is haunted," Efron said. PTI