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

[Potnoodledoo]

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

Bit outing possibly, but a house that used to belong to my family, is on YouTube as a v amateurish 'ghost hunt' with sundry 'experts' finding misery and murder at every corner. As far as anyone can tell, all the tales are complete fiction (the house is now derelict, so looks the part...)

Why not? Are you a bit Woo? wiggles fingers

potentially triggering - abuse

When my mum’s dad died we had to go to the house where she grew up. He had died in the house after becoming a hermit, but that didn’t bother me. My mum had told me how she was physically and sexually abused in that house, as were her brothers. It was hard to look around and I just wanted to get out.

Before I went I was determined that I didn’t feel any “woo” about this stuff but the house felt evil, like his presence was embedded in the house. It probably didn’t help that it was in disrepair and I had a personal connection to the abuse, but everyone who had visited who wasn’t family said it had an oppressive feel to it.

In human history deaths - whether natural, murder or suicide - have happened basically everywhere. I like to think I would be rational but it would be difficult to not think about a murder or abuse, particularly if details were in the news. A suicide - I think that’s a personal thing and whilst sad it wouldn’t be connected with the house for me

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

This^

Our house was built in 1772 and was the original Poor House ( I have to be careful how I say that, someone thought I said "Whore house" once).
Anyway, thete would have been masses of deaths from all sorts of nasty diseases, poverty etc.. and indeed quite a few babies and children, quite a few buried in the garden too.
It is a beautifully serene house. I have brought up 3 children, up in the nights, spent time here alone. It is lovely.
No such thing as houses retaining tragedy.. Take heart.

I would. The house I grew up in, there was a bloke stabbed to death in the garden during a drunken bbq scuffle and my parents snapped it up no bother - I’m not very “woo” to be honest, so if the house was perfect for us, but someone happened to have been murdered in it, it wouldn’t necessarily bother me.
I might think twice if it was something like the Amityville house, where multiple people were murdered in a really sinister way, and I don’t think I could buy a house that belonged to a serial killer. For example, I learned the other day that John Wayne Gacy’s house in Chicago has been remodelled and sold It may look pretty now....but it doesn’t change the fact that the remains of 20+ young men were found in the crawl spaces

A house in my street had a multiple murder / suicide. The dad and mum were estranged, he came back one evening murdered his wife, her mother, 2 kids then lay in wait for the older girl, killed her then himself.
The house was occupied pretty quickly afterwards as it was a council property and in demand, the family who moved in have lived there happily for over 40 years since.
I’m not sure I’d be happy to move in but then I’m daft like that. You have to do what makes you comfortable.

At university i had a friend whose mother was killed by her father. they had a lovely big house (he was a banker), where one morning he beat his wife to death with one of his childrens baseball bats and then went out cycling, returning home to find the wife dead and ring the police. He was rumbled, however only got 4 years oddly (irrelevant but still surprises me). ANYWAY, this was 18 years ago but a few months ago I ran into the friend as our children are now at school together and we discussed going for coffee. She invited me round to hers....the old address where her family had always lived.

I have no problem with a house where someone had died but your own mother? Im unsure if she ever sees her father (we didnt discuss it at all) but imagine him coming round for christmas in the house where he killed your mother.

When my parents were looking for a new house 35 years ago, there was one they particularly liked. It had been newly decorated, was huge and was also very, very cheap. Mum thought something wasn’t quite right so she actually asked the estate agent how long it had been empty. Turned out there had been a fire and two children had perished by hiding in a wardrobe. She couldn’t contemplate buying the house. We don’t live far from this house now and although I know which road, I don’t know which house. She does. It affected her deeply and even now she can’t explain it.

longway yes. I can understand it to some degree when it's their deceased pet because imo it would be much nicer to think of them still being around as happy ghosts than simply being gone, even if I don't believe it's anymore than wishful thinking. But I've heard many people that do believe in woo shit say it about random animals.

Apparently we have ghost horses, by sheer coincidence only ever spotted in large fields with varied pasture/ terrain/ trees/ hedges etc. And never during the day. Never in small, flat paddocks where there's nothing but fencing and relatively level grass. Simply seeing a dark shape or a patch of mist and subconsciously deciding it must be a ghost horse.

Also had a woo acquaintance 'feel' a cat we'd lost a year before. Apparently he was happily chasing leaves and sleeping in his basket still and generally being cute. When in fact if his ghost self was present it would be the first time he'd slept in a basket or chased anything, and his attitude was more 'hello peasants' than 'Look how cute I am'