to not want to not want to live in a house where someone has died?

[lola0109]

Ok, we live in a street that we love but our house is just too small and garden doesn't get the sun. That would be our reasons for ever moving. But the house across the road has an extra bedroom, extra living space (oh to have a playroom), a conservatory and a drive! We have a lovely old lady neighbour in this house, really lovely.

Anyway, DP and I always say that we want her house and DP (who has a sick sense of humour) always say well Mrs xxx won't be around forever so we could get her house. This will never happen, she has 9 kids and a gazillion grandkids and great grandkids.

But I've always sais the only way she'll leave that house is in a box. And I refuse to buy a house knowing someone has died in it. DP thinks this is ridiculous as it is possible someone died in our current house, but I don't know that.

Would you live in a house knowing someone had died in it?

Disclaimer: Both DP and I think Mrs xxx is fantastic and wish her a long and happy life!

Agreed Hippo. I was with my father when he died, very peaceful. No restless spirits afterwards.

Now DH and I renovate old houses. We visit many houses and have never felt that a house is imbued with spirit from former owners. Woodworm, ghastly old decorating and forgotten tools in the garden, yes; ghosts, no.

I think it is actually nice to think that someone has lived in your house - and dying is just a natural part of that.
I had 2 of my children at home - so gave birth - would that put any of you off??

I do understand the murder thing though - but i wouldnt want to live in a house where anything horrid had gone on.

I have actually lived in a haunted house. It wasn't that scary tbh. Nopt as scary as living with my previous flatmates!

I always say I prefer to live with the evil dead than the evil living. Your little old lady dosn't sound at all evil though!

I have lived in houses where inexplicable things have happened. I don't know what they were. I really don't.

I have lived in a house that someone has definately died in. DP's best mate died of an overdose in our front room, before I met him. Never felt creepy at all.

Can't say I'd feel that way living where someone like Ian Huntley had lived (and probably murdered Holly and Jessica), but then that's why they knocked his house down, same with Fred and Rose West.

The houses in our street are only 10 years old but my neighbour died in her house this year. I have always lived in old houses previous to this and I can't say it's ever bothered me. Plus in our house we've had a couple of spooky experiences - the same amount i've had in older houses.

Houses are designed to last longer than a single human life! Be it murder, suicide or natural causes it's all equates to the same thing really, the end of a life. I know the circumstances could weird you out, but you can't see it, you weren't there and there's no point in freaking yourself out. It'll happen to us all one day!

As for ghosts, well don't get me started on such utter nonsense!

People die all over the place, as long as the body isn't still there it's all good.

We lived in a house where someone had died, both of them I think - we knew this via the death certificates that for some reason came with the deeds but a medium confirmed it by using nicknames.

Personally it didn't bother me. We didn't stay long because we hated the house, but that was the insane neighbours not old Jack and the missus.

If the house is fantastic, just get it blessed or a cleansing ritual. (I'd get my sis to do one as she's pagan but whatever you believe in).

Try not to spook out too much. Would this lady be happy in spirit knowing that a family were so happy and building their own generations of family in it? Think of it that way.

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Oh, I've lived in loads of places where someone died.

I tried to count it up once, but I'm 39 and since I was 18 I have lived in 24 places.

It's not the death but the energy left behind, and there is energy left behind, it's just that some are more sensitive to it than others, or it's stronger in some cases than others, or a combination of both.

I lived in a house with an odd energy and the neighbours told me that the woman who lived there before had gone slowly mad and then killed herself...it was after the war and her husband had died and other tragedies had hapened to her. Better someone just dying in your home than slowly losing their mind.

I used to hear the same sound of breaking crockery at night...a bit faint like a recording...the exact same noise a few times a week.

When I was little I slept in a bed that my uncle had died of TB in.I think my sister has it now and both my dds have slept in it.

I've never lived in a new house and the house we live in now was lived in by an elderly lady who most likely died here.One of my neighbours was very friendly with said old lady and her kitchen window looks out onto the village churchyard.Neighbour swears that she looked out one day and saw old lady walking across the churchyard,from where her grave was,towards the gates.She said that he was wearing her old coat and headscarf that she always wore.I don't know where she was headed,but I hope it wasn't back 'home'.

Chances are, someone died in the hospital bed you were in.

People die everywhere. For all you know somebody may have died in your house. Big deal

YABU. You can't refuse a house because someone has died in it. There will be a lot of houses where someone has died. Theyt have died and gone thier spirit is not still floating around.

Is there a saying that goes something like, a house is not a home until it's had a birth a death and a marriage?

Can't find it on Google though so perhaps I just made that up?

Wouldn't bother me, although I suspect if one of my kids died in the house I'd want to move.
I like old houses and if someone died years ago in it it doesn't bother me.
If I go into a care home when older many people will have died in my bedroom.
People die, that's life. Many people prefer to die at home if possible.
I don't believe in ghosts.

The teenage son of the former owners of our house died in the room dh and I use. We didn't know this when we bought the house but it's never bothered either of us.

We carried on living in the family home where my Mum died nothing woo! happened at all. One place I lived was a newer property built on a bombsite. A far bit of post war building in the bigger cities may well be because of bombing so there was a pretty good chance that someone might have died at that site.

err fair bit not far bit

The young couple that bought my grandparents house knew my Grandad had passed in it, and they knew him as he was a character in the village. They didn't seem to mind, to the extent that when they had the garden landscaped and came across my Grandads walking stick hanging on the fence they told the gardeners to leave it there.

i live in a very old house,fair few have croaked it in it.

no biggie

Unless you're buying a new-build I'd suggest that the vast majority of properties have had someone die in them.

Probably even the one you're in right now.........

Why the problem with living in a house where someone has been murdered?

Because of the bad energy left behind.

Some people don't sense that/believe in it.

But others do.