Would you buy a house that somebody had been murdered in?

Either 195 Melrose Avenue, or 24 Cranley Gds, Muswell Hill. I do remember an article in one of the Sunday Supplements years ago, on people who lived in houses where terrible things had happened, and one of the addresses was Cranley Gardens .
I wouldn’t buy a house with a violent history as it would always be on my mind. My house is 200 years old and there will have been deaths but as far as I know nothing violent.

I would be more inclined to buy it than a similar house without no crime past. It would be a hell of an icebreaker when having friends around, wouldn't it?

Yes. Wouldn't bother me.

I don't think it would bother me if the price was right.

Forty years ago, when I first moved to this town, I rented a room in a house where someone had taken their own life just four years earlier. Someone fairly well known actually. I didn't know that at first but found out after I had been there a few months. Honestly, it never bothered me.

In recent years I believe it has been known for fans to turn up outside this house on a sort of vigil cum fan trail thing. Now I am glad that hadn't got started when I still lived there as that would have bothered me a bit.

112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville came up for sale a few years back but my husband said no!! We couldn't afford it anyway. And we are in England so it would've been a long commute. I was still gutted though

What was its history?

I was going to ask who the hell takes their dog to a house viewing? My dog has absolutely no say whatsoever in any house I might buy - if she refuses to enter it's more likely that someone has spilled something that she objects to the smell of or that it smells of another, much bigger and more aggressive, dog.

They say 'animals always know.' No, they don't. Mine can barely respond to her own name, I'm certainly not trusting her in the business of buying a home.

No, but I have experienced some things that make me believe in spirits of people who have passed away lingering or visiting. Things that can't be explained away by natural causes. I wouldn't want to live in a house where someone had met a violent death, but I'm absolutely fine with living in a house where people have passed away. I grew up in a house where doors would open/close (and still do) I remember being concerned as a child and my Mum said 'Its only old John, Dorothy, next door said he was a lovely man' He was the first person to live, and die in the house when it was build, so I got used to it. I recently moved back into my family home, after my Mum, and before her, my Dad passed away there too. I hadn't mentioned anything to my Kids, but they soon noticed the doors as I had as a child. I feel close and protected by 'Old John' and now by my Mum and Dad too, but I do feel it depends on the type of person you are. If someone does not believe or isn't open to spirits, I don't think you would notice them, which is why some people think it's a load of rubbish! 😂

I know, I was being light-hearted.

I love the thought of your mum tutting at youths and their messy habits and fretting about them going out without coats or eating their five a day etc 😊

Yeah, @Mydogisamassivetwat , but the pp was talking about murders that had taken place hundreds of years ago...

I dunno, where I live, there are generational gossips and no fucker ever leaves and half of them have nothing else to do! I’m often bored to the point of tears by someone at school pick up taking about some crime that was committed in the 50s and how proud they are their great uncles, wife’s cat was the ringleader.

They all couldn’t wait to tell me about the murder that happened in my house when I moved here a few years ago. They relished every second.

But you'd have no way of knowing if a murder had been committed there so long ago.

It wouldn't bother me unless it had happened multiple times in the same house for example theres a house by me thats had a murder, suicide and two accidental deaths in it. I wouldn't want that one.

But out of curiosities sake anyone saying no, if you found out your current house had previously been a house someone was murdered in would you still live in it?

Yes I would. Especially if that made it cheap.

I don't think I would. It's true the bad things can happen in any house that you just don't know about, but in this case, I would absolutely know and I know I would think about, even if just in passing, every single day.

Completely missing the point of the thread...
Someone said they wouldn't if their dog wouldn't go in. That's fair enough and I think I'd probably agree with that (if for no other reason than I wouldn't want to fight with him/her to get them in after every walk!) but unless it's a service dog, please don't take your dog to house viewings.

I don't think I could. There's a house here where a whole family were slaughtered. I wouldn't want to live in it.

I have a friend who is in estate agent. She said that some homes just have a weird vibe or you feel like your being watched

I read about a home demolished today, where a family of 4 were murdered and one selfish lowlife died by suicide.

It got me thinking, yes, a terrible unimaginable event of depraved evil happened there, but the years prior, it was a home with an adoring loving mother, 3 wonderful boys, full of love and memories.

One selfish man destroyed that.

I'd hope the household held those feelings of happier times too.

The house I live in now is the house of an ex colleagues relatives (didn't know this when bought the house wasn't working at the company at the time). The colleagues relatives died suddenly in the house in the middle of the Living room. When we moved into the house I would get a feeling if someone watching me as I would have my breakfast (I get up at 4 everyday). We then started getting paranormal activity in the house 12-18month after buying it, my wife decided to get an investigation done. Turns out we had "guests". Investigator did their work and paranormal activity has decreased. I still feel occasionally like there's a small child running around the upper floor at night sometimes (mine are asleep at this point). It doesn't cause objects to have a life if their own so not too bothered by it (unlike the "guest").

In a nutshell would I buy it my head says yes but also says no because of past experience l. Maybe if price was right it could be a bit to let investment

There’s always a chance someone could have been murdered in any property if it’s an old one.
Id imagine people might have been in mine.
I know many were sentenced to death or amputations etc in mine as court sessions were held here. I don’t know if the cellars were jails, they may have been and people could easily have been left to rot down there.

A friend felt creepy feelings in the old court room but I don’t feel anything.
It doesn’t bother me and if I knew that someone had been murdered here or in any house it wouldn’t stop me buying it

It sounds like a really sad and awful story in the house. Knowing a child suffered at the hands of their parent in that house makes me think I wouldn’t buy it.

Hmm first instinct would be to say no, but then I got thinking about the house next door to me. About 10 years ago my next door neighbour died from a drug overdose, I literally saw his body being carried out of the house. His house was sold, and then sold on again to my current next door neighbour. I regularly pop in, and I feed her cat when she goes away, which is fairly often, so I’m alone in the house. I can’t say that I have ever connected what I know happened there with the house it is today - other than the carpets everything in the house is different to how it used to be. It’s literally never crossed my mind to feel freaked out, the house has a very different vibe. And I’m quite woo and prone to going down that line of thinking generally.

It's true and I didn't even think about it until this thread.