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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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Sgtmajormummy · 30/09/2019 22:52

The (200yo?) house opposite my parents had three different families over a 10 year period. All three went badly wrong. The adults lost interest in each other, their children, pets and the house, eventually splitting up and abandoning the house and all its contents in a terrible state.
Three times!
My theory is that there was something poisonous in the house, like a fungus or a natural gas leak, that turned lovely people into something completely different.
No way would I have bought that house.
The current retired couple have lived there for a long time and they’re fine. They made a lot of renovations, though...

TrainspottingWelsh · 30/09/2019 22:57

I don't believe in ghosts or presences anyway, but why do those that do only ever seem to believe in the bad side or negative vibes? Nobody ever seems to get a feeling for Mrs Smith, motherly figure that announces her ghostly presence with a smell of baking and a feeling of comfort. It's always about distressed Mrs Jones, or malevolent Mrs Brown.

If any of the unpleasant people that statistically might have lived here are knocking about, they'd be seriously outnumbered by all the pleasant ghosts. And legions of animals.

longwayoff · 30/09/2019 22:57

My house is 300 years old and on the site of an old monastery. It should be haunted, surely? Yet it's very peaceful, a soothing place to be.

Redshoesandtheblues · 30/09/2019 23:02

@Temporarypermanent

You were first message I clicked on. I'm sorry.
But glad you can still enjoy the house and happy memories.

Redshoesandtheblues · 30/09/2019 23:05

I live in new build because DH didn't like the old house I really loved.
I asked him why he fought me so hard about the houses. He was worried about what may have happened in old house.
I'm still angry.

longwayoff · 30/09/2019 23:07

However, I would never live in a flat in one of those now converted ex mental hospitals. There was an enormous one near where I lived in London and the thought of the pain and anguish soaked into the fabric of the building over the years, shudder, no, couldn't do it.

longwayoff · 30/09/2019 23:12

@TrainspottingWelsh, ghosts are supposedly restless and somewhat tortured spirits who have not been able to find the eternal peace granted to the cuddlier kind of dead person, they are sleeping the sleep of the just.

Wolfff · 30/09/2019 23:15

I lived in a flat above a shop over a
local parade. No one who lived in the same parade was ever happy. Rows, domestic violence, general unhappiness. Our neighbour was murdered and the flat
burned down. The buildings adjacent had been destroyed in a V2 rocket attack in WW2. Not sure if there's was bad energy from that.

I know of at least 2 murders and a suicide in the street when I was young. I often feel that my area statistically has a very high murder rate. A famous mass murder site is nearby. I also live very near Grenfell.

However I live in a flat in a house where at least 2 people have died (Times death notices and maybe more) but it has a really good vibe.

ParkheadParadise · 30/09/2019 23:26

My dd was murdered in a flat we owned. She wasn't found in the flat although that's where her life ended.
We did put it up for sale, but the amount of people who came to view it and actually asked about dd made us rethink.
My nephew, partner and baby now live in it. They are very happy there it's a beautiful flat that they would never been able to afford themselves.
I will admit that I have only been back there a handful of times as for me it's too painful to revisit.

TrainspottingWelsh · 30/09/2019 23:28

longway that would be logical, except very often the same people claim to feel benign animal presence. And why does nobody pick up on the ghostly cow/s that weren't particularly delighted to be made into steaks?

It's purely over active imagination.

TheVanguardSix · 30/09/2019 23:33

Oh parkhead that is unbelievably sad. It takes so much courage to share that. Flowers

iknowimcoming · 30/09/2019 23:33

Sorry for your loss - Park Thanks

There was a murder in a house in my road about 20 years ago but before internet news so I doubt the people who own it know, if you google it there's nothing, I only know because I vaguely knew the husband (who killed his wife) although I didn't live here until recently, it was terribly sad

FlyingByToo · 30/09/2019 23:34

I lived in a flat for 2 years and only found out when I was moving out that a very troubled young person had taken their own life there 1-2 years before I moved in. So I didn’t know anything about it while I was living there. Whilst living there I’d had several episodes of sleep walking and doing strange things. One particular episode I remember I saw other people in the flat. The things I did and the people I saw fit in with the story I was told later about the young person. Since leaving that flat 7 years ago I’ve never sleep walked again and I had never sleep walked before.

longwayoff · 30/09/2019 23:40

Yes @Trainspotting, I'm not a believer myself. Do people really say that about animals? I haven't got a lot of patience for woo. Although you've now reminded me, I was once in an old building, had been a butchers shop, now a house, and the owner said 'this hallway was where they used to drive cattle through to the abattoir behind'. My veggie friend blenched, we had to leave.

Welltroddenpath · 30/09/2019 23:51

A murder no. Only because I walk past a house where a young mum was killed in front of her little kids by her husband. I always look at it and feel so sad for her and the kids. Who wants people looking at your house and remembering a murder? It’s being turned into flats now, no one wants to live there. It’s thought of as a crime scene not a home locally. Not appealing when there are so many houses to choose from really

AutumnRose1 · 01/10/2019 00:04

In general, it wouldn't worry me, but if it was mass murder and weirdos would hang around to see the house, then no.

As for people having "horrible last moments", people who died of something natural might have had that.

FrenchFancie · 01/10/2019 06:16

I used to work in probate and did the estate of a husband / wife who had been a murder / suicide. The house was hard to sell and had to be completely redone before we found a buyer - who was going to use it for rented accommodation IIRC.
I only went to the house a couple of times myself. I found it really creepy but it hadn’t been renovated at that point.

Jeleste · 01/10/2019 08:07

I grew up in a house where the daughter killed her abusive father. Murder happened in my room.
No issues, we all loved the house. We never noticed anything.

TheClaws · 01/10/2019 08:17

We bought a house knowing the previous owner had committed suicide inside it. I didn’t bother me, though I often thought of her. She had decorated the house just so; for instance, beautiful Art Deco lights, most of them vintage, were hung throughout the house even though it was a new build. Those types of things became an expression of her personality for me, and I was glad I knew about her so her memory could live on somewhat in the house she built, IYSWIM?

WineOrGinOrBoth · 01/10/2019 17:26

Flowers parkhead

Waxonwaxoff0 · 01/10/2019 17:40

I would. There's not an ounce of woo in me, I don't believe in the supernatural, "bad vibes" or anything like that.

Ruby2065 · 01/10/2019 17:43

A couple of years ago I was looking to buy and went to view a house. The estate agent asked if I was interested in viewing another cottage in a nearby area that was quite desirable. She then mentioned that a notorious murder had occurred there probably 15 years ago. I couldn’t remember it at first until I consulted google. It was covered very heavily in the press as it involved a young mother and her young son being killed by her boyfriend - really tragic but particularly chilling because of his subsequent behaviour. The estate agent said that no one liked going there alone as it was also quite isolated. I actually pass it quite a lot in the car now- someone did obviously buy it and renovated it too, but as far as I can tell no one lives there.

labazsisgoingmad · 01/10/2019 17:44

many houses that are scenes of crime are demolished; the last house Myra Hindley and Ian Brady committed murder in was demolished; the house where April Jones' killer lived was demolished; Cromwell Street where Fred West lived was taken down and many more

mindproject · 01/10/2019 17:50

I don't really believe in ghosts, but I still wouldn't, even with a 50% reduction. I am very sensitive to atmosphere. I would think about it too much and probably have nightmares.

Sowingbees · 01/10/2019 17:55

I know for certain that people living in a house on my parents street have no idea about its history so I guess we all might be living in such a house
I'm like a pp not bothered unless it reflects the area.

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