Would you buy a house that had a murder/suicide history.

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I wouldnt,even if i got it at a knock down price.I wouldnt be able to relax,knowing someones last moments where filled with terror

You wouldn’t necessarily know.

One of our nicest previous houses had a suicide in DS's bedroom some years previously.

No issue, no atmosphere, lovely house.

Are you watching American Horror Story?

No,im not watching AHS.Just think its interesting.

Hmm I go by the feel of the house. If it felt dark, oppressive, frightening, then no I wouldn't buy it. If it felt welcoming and homely then yes I would.

Why wouldn't you OP? What is it exactly that you wouldn't like about it? Murders / suicides happen everywhere, not just in houses.

No. I don’t believe in ghosts but I don’t think I’d feel comfortable knowing something like that had happened in my home. I’m aware suicide or murder could have happened here anyway, and I just don’t know, but that’s fine.

No, I don’t think I would! If I had lived there already and was happy and comfortable, then found out about a murder or suicide in the house’s past, I don’t think I’d leave though.

No if I knew I couldn't do it, as if would just play on my mind too much.

I would rather not know. As for whether I would buy it knowing it happened, it depends on the house. If I loved it before, maybe I would still love it enough to buy it, but if it was just an okay house, I might search more.

I’m sure that many houses have got sad histories and those occupants don’t ever know

I would. And I'd do a wiji board!!!! And get a weird doll for the ghosts to possess.

But really I wouldn't care unless the murders were because of the area, like lots of armed robberies.

A brutal messy well known murder, perhaps not.

A suicide, well a friend sadly took their life in it and I have since been in the house and it feels alright, no different, no dark sense of foreboding, so no that wouldn't affect me staying there

I probably wouldn't but if it felt OK on viewings I might.

However, some years ago someone I knew was murdered in their home. It was cleaned up and rented out again and one day as I was passing I could hear a child screaming, crying type of screaming not a tantrum, inside. It felt as if the horror was still there and the new tenant probably had no idea what had happened.

So, maybe a suicide but not a murder.

And I'd do a wiji board!!!!

“A wiji board”

Wouldn't bother me.

The house I would never have bought, because of its atmosphere, was being sold after a bitter divorce - the house felt evil and malevolent.

House where there had been a suicide, by contrast, was friendly, warm and welcoming.

My ndn house has an odd history. A developer bought it, did it up, they bought it, they don't know. I'm not going to tell them.

Wouldn't bother me. It's the living you need to be wary of, not the dead.

A suicide maybe, not a murder.

Nope. My BIL’s a police man and he checks!

I looked at and nearly bought a house that was three away from a place where a body was found five years later. Lucky escape!

Iggi, I think you are right. A murder would be harder to deal with, I think.

The lady who committed suicide was, by all accounts, lovely but unwell, and had self-medicated with alcohol.

No.

I have lived in a house where a suicide happened. My boyfriend wouldn’t stay there on his own

With a murder id be more worried about the house attracting ghouls.

There only reason I wouldn't would be if it was a well known case that was likely to attract ghoulish interest.