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

85 replies

Potnoodledoo · 30/09/2019 20:30

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

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Potnoodledoo · 30/09/2019 20:58

@MrsEricBana you just cant leave it there.

Do the Real Estate Agents have to tell you.

I think a lot would depend on how recent it was.Hundreds of years ago,maybe.
Last year, not a chance

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Isitnearlyweekend · 30/09/2019 20:59

@LoonyLunaLoo that’s actually an offence which he can be sacked for. You’re not allowed to check things for your own information. He needs to stop doing that.

TrainspottingWelsh · 30/09/2019 20:59

My house is really old, and a long time ago would have had some live in servants & loads of outdoor workers. It's been in the family a while, so I can say that nobody has been murdered with some accuracy, but with that many people it's possible someone has committed suicide and it was covered up. And I suppose possible someone was murdered with a good cover up.

Plenty of people have died here, and not all peaceful deaths. I can only imagine how far from help it was before cars, and even in the 60's there was a death that would have been prevented with modern vehicles, or if they'd been in a town. Child birth, diseases, infections, illnesses, accidents etc won't all have been peaceful deaths before modern drugs and quick access to them.

And tbh, even if your house is a day old, chances are somebody died on the ground it's built on. Or was murdered.

Saying that though, another relative had a house that had half burnt down 200yrs or so ago, and several people died, some of whom were in the original part of the house that survived. I always felt uncomfortable in the original part of the house, but only because I knew that people had stood exactly where I was screaming and dying.

MotherOfLittlePeople · 30/09/2019 21:02

No I couldn't live in a house where either went on if I knew about it.

saraclara · 30/09/2019 21:02

Natural death, but a problem. A suicide or murder works bother me. It's illogical, but it would.

A friend of mine committed suicide (non-violently) at home more than twenty years ago. Her house still bothers me when I walk past it.

sorrythisusernameisinuse · 30/09/2019 21:04

I would. Wouldn't bother me. I did listen to a podcast about 2 teenage murderers. Separate episodes but it was found out they had both lived in the same house at the times of the murder (decades apart) and they had the same bedroom! Very freaky

Hecateh · 30/09/2019 21:05

Definitely - specially if I got it at a knock down price because of the history.

Even if it did worry me, which it doesn't, people can die in pain and terror from cancer or other illness. Whereas murder could have been done whilst they were asleep. Murder isn't always the worst option in death

Sewbean · 30/09/2019 21:08

The house next door to us (semi) had a family murder-suicide years before we moved there. My parents knew when they bought it I think, I found out when I was about 13 when a school friend said "you live next door to the murder house" then proceeded to tell me all sorts of gruesome details, half of them probably not even true. One of the murders supposedly took place in the room through the wall from my bedroom and I didn't sleep in that room for weeks. It was ridiculous, it wasn't even our house. I convinced myself could see bloodstains coming through the wall and everything.
So having been the hysterical teenager who couldn't sleep because of a decades-old murder in the house next door I wouldn't buy a house where I knew something like that had happened.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 30/09/2019 21:11

Interesting. House I grew up was very old so there must have been deaths but I wouldn’t know if a suicide or murder. Logically it shouldn’t make a difference between that a natural death but somehow it does.

NoTheresa · 30/09/2019 21:12

Wasn’t the house where the Fred West murders took place razed to the ground?

TravelsWithChild · 30/09/2019 21:13

Yes definitely, I love a bargain! Years ago I rented a no. 13 for a bargain price because other people were too superstitious to want it!

NoTheresa · 30/09/2019 21:13

Our house is 17th Century. People have been born here and people have died here. It has the loveliest atmosphere.

MemphisMum · 30/09/2019 21:14

i'm in a new build so all ok....but who knows about the land its built on!

Laiste · 30/09/2019 21:26

If was told about it before hand, no i wouldn't buy it.

GaudyNight · 30/09/2019 21:29

It wouldn’t bother me at all. I used to rent a remote house where there had been a murder-suicide. A married couple had lived there, and the wife had started an affair with another farmer who lived about half a mile away across fields. When her husband found out, he shot the other man dead and then hanged himself in the cowshed. His widow sold the farm and let the house. For a song. Which suited me. It was quiet and beautiful. I had to hitchhike to the nearest town for food, and I wrote my first book there.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 30/09/2019 21:34

Would totally depend on the atmosphere of the house tbh. That said, I'm about as psychic as a concrete block, and would love to view the Amityville house as it's a beautiful property.

GaudyNight · 30/09/2019 21:34

What I mainly remember about that house is that I was so poor I sometimes carried lightbulbs around the house with me from room to room. And I lived on lentils. The atmosphere was more frugal creativity and flatulence than horror!

thegreylady · 30/09/2019 21:50

I live in a number 13. It hasn’t occurred to me to feel superstitious. It is a lovely homey little house.

janj2301 · 30/09/2019 22:03

Apparently some people won't even live next door to cemeteries. I'd love one of those chapel conversions in the middle of a cemetery, oh the peace and quiet, bliss

Jimdandy · 30/09/2019 22:07

No, I sense presences etc sometimes so I’d probably convince myself of one even if there wasn’t.

VictoriaBun · 30/09/2019 22:12

In a town about 15/20 miles away lived a person who committed many terrible murders in a rampage before taking their own life . When their house was put on the market it was completely gutted right down to taking it back to bare brick inside.
It is lived in, but personally I wouldn't want to live there.

ineedanotherholiday · 30/09/2019 22:15

No I couldn't, if I knew about it it would probably put me off even viewing but I am a woos with stuff like that.

Doingtheboxerbeat · 30/09/2019 22:21

Just sitting in my front room, I would imagine that in the history of human kind, someone has died on the very spot I am in at some point. I can't get too sentimental about it, as I don't ask if anyone has died in the hotel room or the hospital bed that I'm sleeping in.

Yeahnahyeah1 · 30/09/2019 22:24

Well, we’re in negotiations to buy a family members house, who’s lived there for many years, and it was in that house that another close family member committed suicide. Horrendous and still sad, but it doesn’t affect the home imo. You don’t catch these things from the walls.

TemporaryPermanent · 30/09/2019 22:29

Sorry but FGS. My dh took his own life about 8 metres from where I'm sitting right now. We also had many happy years of marriage here, brought our son home and raised him here. It's a house, it's my home, it was his home. You would never know anything bad had happened here but bad things happen everywhere.

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