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

For those saying houses don’t have vibes have you never been to see a house and not liked it for no reason or because it didn’t feel like the one? Or gone anywhere and it’s felt a bit odd, or met a person and feel the same?

I don't think I would. Not superstitious at all. I just wouldn't like living with the thought of what happened there!

When I was a child we lived in a house where someone murdered his wife and children and committed suicide. It was never really mentioned or talked about, but I'm glad we only lived there 5 years (it was the last army quarter we lived in before my Dad retired from the army).

I visit many homes due to my job never come across one yet with a bad vibe. Even though I'm a believer in the other side etc.
One place the previous owner killed himself and I never picked up anything to do with that.

Yes I would.

The thing is all kinds of horrible things that didn't result in a bloody death could have happened in your house prior to you owning it. Unless you buy a fresh new build. But unless the perpetrator was caught/convicted you would never know.

When I was flat-hunting a few years ago, Dennis Nilsen’s flat was up for sale. I noticed it because I recognised the street name and it was well below normal price for the area. The EA had put a veiled note on the property description like, “Potential buyers are advised to research the history of this property”. The flat had been completely refurbished and reconfigured as I recall, but clearly the history still had a massive impact on the price.

I wouldn’t go near such a property, but if it didn’t bother you, you could definitely snap up a bargain.

For all those saying you can’t pick up on energies….

I viewed a house with my sister. We went upstairs and I felt uneasy, I can’t explain it but I felt the presence of a young male and he was unhappy. It was just very weird. I told my sister and I said I would feel uneasy buying it based on this strange feeling.

she questioned the estate agent why the guy was selling the property and he had only had it 2 years, turns out his son had killed himself in the house and he couldn’t take the sad memories anymore.

As you can imagine we were freaked out!

No, I really don't think I could.
In fact, I definitely couldn't.

My parents first house was cheap because the previous owner had been murdered in the dining room...this was 1962 and the house was reduced to £2,100 from about £2,300...but more than enough for my dad!

He did check if my mum was superstitious but she was just happy to have a house. She did apparently comment that the previous occupant had been a messy eater as she was scrubbing the dining room walls!

They both loved the house, fantastic neighbours but moved because my mum got bored, something she did lots so we moved fairly frequently.

Don't forget that the land our homes are built on will have seen plenty of history and much of it would have been pretty brutal . Wars, child sacrifices, pagan rituals, witchraft etc.

I visited Flodden battlefield in Northumberland a few years back. I have some border reivers in my family tree, on both sides of the border, and I wondered if I would find it "woo." I didn't feel or sense anything . It is just a little field tucked away in a huge country estate (Ford and Etal, if you're interested). It seemed so pleasant and ordinary in the early October sunlight, trees, pheasants, sunlight.

I think most of the time we are unaware. That said, though a murder in the 90s would spook me a bit. Wouldn't want to live there.

I used to work in LA Housing and there were several "unusual" deaths of tenants, often sadly just through substance or alcohol abuse and I don't recall there being any particular problem re-letting the properties, although many of them were on "hard to let" estates.

Weirdly, one that sticks in my mind is where an elderly tenant had died while staying with his daughter hundreds of miles away. His house was offered to a young mother and she wouldn't accept until I swore to her that he hadn't died in the house. I then made it worse by saying any house older than about 50 years (this was in the 1990s) had probably had someone die in it, she was horrified.

She just couldn't bear the thought of living in a house where anyone had died, which I found a bit strange but I suppose I had more experience of death at the time.

There is a huge difference between someone dying in a house and someone being violently killed. As many have said on this thread loads of houses will have been the scene of a person's death, my mum died at home while sitting on her settee. So much better than dying in hospital, she was with her best friend who had come over to visit due to my mum being unwell. We had no problem selling the house and I would have no issue buying a home where a natural death had occurred. A cruel and violent murder is totally different.

Yes, it wouldn't bother me.

Murder is horrific but I don't believe in spirits, ghosts or houses holding energy.

I would be concerned about the re-sale value given the thread bit if I knew it was a permanent move, no issue.

I think if it was a very infamous front page headline murder case, I would be concerned about "woo tourists" and paranormal obsessives constantly knocking on the door. The village I grew up, a schizophrenic man living so his mother stabbed her to death during an episode. It made a small column in the local news. Terribly sad and horrifying story but not notorious . That said I would probably feel uneasy in that house, because I would be thinking about it . I get quite spooked as it is because of my history (traumatic childhood, no actual murder but plenty of not nice things happened in my own childhood home. I just want to live a peaceful life. That said I do find threads like this fascinating in a morbid sort of way!

Yes

I wouldn't discount it.
People are right to mention resale value though. Also consider "tourists".

I do think places absorb energy but I think that they can also be bought back to life iyswim? I don't think there will always be a predominantly bad energy.

British houses can be old. There will have been all sorts of nasty stuff and unhappiness happen in them.

No. Definitely not. Psychgeography etc.

Interestingly, a lady committed suicide in the house next door to my mum's. This was in the 60's and mum saw her body being taken out which haunted her. Ever since then she's referred to it as 'the Unlucky House". Nobody who has moved in since has stayed there very long and/or have suffered some misfortune (divorce, domestic violence, ill-health etc.).

We know that at least three people died in their beds in our house (over the many years the family lived here from the 1880s on). My DH has been restoring the house for the past 5 years (it was derelict when we bought it) and he says he has not heard from them at all in that time despite being there every day (he doesn't believe in anything like that so I ask him as a joke!). He did find an old coin under the floor. Nothing else of note!

On the subject of the thread, no I wouldn't live in that house. Not logical but I just wouldn't.

If it was a ‘case closed’ and the house was perfect then yes.
If however it was at all likely to attract ‘tourists’ (case unsolved/ so notorious netflix make a documentary/so well known locally it’s the first thing people say) then no, I wouldn’t.

I've been inside Nielsens flat in Cranley Gardens (after he was caught). There was a real sense of foreboding in there. Especially at the time I went in, there was still the bare minimum of furniture in there. Whether it was actually his or not, I couldn't comment, but the fact that it WAS there, was also enough for me to get the hell out

I don't think so. Natural death yes but a murder I'm not sure...