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Moving house - one room feels off?!

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itsnotallrainbows · 20/10/2019 00:07

We currently rent and went to look at a more family home, more space and bigger rooms perfect! We viewed the property and we loved it. Except one thing has been playing on my mind I felt normal throughout the whole viewing but one bedroom to the rear of the house I just had a bad feeling, I felt sick just generally off! And what’s weird is downstairs I felt the same in the kitchen (below that bedroom!) I’m trying to shake the thought off because we are going for the house and my partner thinks I’m going mad! Ha! Anyone had anything similar? The bedroom i have mentioned will be my sons room which makes me more nervous! But no explanation why

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cherryblossomgin · 20/10/2019 00:43

If you do take the house sage it and cleanse the energy.

Justaboy · 20/10/2019 00:46

Listen to your gut

Cant help it, bloody curry earlier on;(

Thats baad vibes:(

I'll get me coat .. jim jam,s actruially nite sleep tight:)

Beware of things that go bump in da naite

HarrietSchulenberg · 20/10/2019 00:48

Ask if you can view it again and see if you get the same feeling. If you do, then you know the house really isn't for you.

blackteasplease · 20/10/2019 00:48

Don't go for it! Why on earth would you?

One of the bedrooms, and the kitchen, makes you feel sick! Why would you, the adult with the choice, choose that house?

There will be other house without rooms that make you feel unwell / out of sorts.

HasThisSoddingNameGoneToo · 20/10/2019 00:48

So it’s only a rental? You’re not buying it? I guess you could try it hit 6 months. But imagine how awful every day of those months will be if you can’t even go in your i I WM kitchen without feeling sick or weird. How often do we go into our kitchens? About 20 times a day!

Member377005 · 20/10/2019 00:48

Don't take it, you will end up dreading going in your own front door! If you are renting somewhere else will turn up that feels better, and you will know immediately that you did the right thing.

HairToday79 · 20/10/2019 00:49

We once had a house that felt 'off' ...we split up...I moved and we got back together (now together 20 years) ....every couple who lived in that house split up, totally unexplainable but awful atmosphere that I've never had in any home ever other than that.

Trust your senses...go where you feel happy.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 20/10/2019 00:54

Nope

Justaboy · 20/10/2019 00:55

House near here on a hill top several people have died there with various cancers no one seem to know why.

Bloody great power lines go right over the house!

Concidence?.

JeffreyJefferson · 20/10/2019 00:59

Don’t buy it

BarbedBloom · 20/10/2019 01:08

I have been in a few rooms like this. One of them had slightly weird angles and the light fell strangely and I just thought, I really don't like being in here. If you feel like that about the kitchen too I really wouldn't take it as you tend to spend so much time in there.

Pumpkintopf · 20/10/2019 01:09

Ask if you can view it again and see if you get the same feeling. If you do, then you know the house really isn't for you

This is what I'd do.

CherryBathBomb · 20/10/2019 01:19

Trust your gut! Id look elsewhere.

BadSun · 20/10/2019 02:06

Don't go for it! Why on earth would you?

Lol. Why on earth wouldn't you?

OP, what exactly do you think is going to happen? Your child is going to start seeing ghosts and try to kill you in the night?

Charley1988 · 20/10/2019 02:13

Have a think and make an active decision about what's best for you

LatinLanguage · 20/10/2019 02:34

Our last house had a history- someone had been killed in a violent dispute. We had no idea - only found out a week before we moved away when a neighbour mentioned how lovely it was that the house felt like a happy place again. We’d lived there several years and would probably be there now if we hadn’t needed to relocate for work.

When looking for our current house, it came down to a straight choice between two. Both were good in different ways. We plumped for the one we’re in now. The other was later sold to someone fairly prominent locally, who was murdered on the doorstep a couple of years later. It was a targeted killing, but it does give a weird feeling whenever I drive past it.

steff13 · 20/10/2019 02:52

OP, what exactly do you think is going to happen?

She'll feel uncomfortable every time she's home? Would you want to live somewhere that made you feel uncomfortable?

Derbee · 20/10/2019 03:30

Even though I think all this stuff is bollocks, if you feel like that then don’t take the house. You’ll wind yourself up and be miserable. Don’t do it

safariboot · 20/10/2019 03:45

I just had a bad feeling, I felt sick just generally off! And what’s weird is downstairs I felt the same in the kitchen (below that bedroom!)

That'd be reason enough to not take it for me. I don't believe in 'woo' myself but there's plenty of mundane reasons for rooms to feel bad - subtle noises, vibrations, odours, that kind of thing.

lborgia · 20/10/2019 04:05

Just not worth it. When I was 9 we went to look at a house that should've been our dream home. I wad so excited, rang in and out of all the rooms, and then went in a room that just felt wrong. Hackles up on my neck, completely spooked. I remember standing in the lovely garden waiting to leave and just wishing we didn't have to live there. My mum felt the same way but brushed it off. Fortunately they were outbid at auction.

40 years later, complete atheist/ no such thing as "meant to be" etc etc, and I still don't want to ever go in a room like that again!

MyOtherProfile · 20/10/2019 04:11

If it was to buy I would go for it. Then I would redecorate the room and make lots of happy memories in there. I'm not up for letting a bad feeling make my decisions when I can do something about it.

If it's a let then it depends on whether you could do the same.

A bad feeling can easily be changed to something more positive. And who cares if something bad happened there? Something bad happened in masses of houses but it doesn't mean something bad will happen to you.

GoBrookeYourself · 20/10/2019 04:42

I wouldn’t take it either; there will be other houses and I think if you talk yourself into it you’ll regret it!

lavenderbongo · 20/10/2019 04:57

I live in a house I didn’t want to buy. When we viewed it it had been empty for 6 months. It felt empty, bleak and unloved.
However my DH loved it from the moment he saw it. We have lived here almost 7 years now and lavished the house with love and care. I now can’t imagine living anywhere else. I feel safe and cosy the moment I step through the door. This place is ours and it’s home.
My DH could see through the sadness and emptiness. I think we managed to completely change the atmosphere of the house and it’s now ours.

SnowsInWater · 20/10/2019 05:04

You really need to go back for another viewing and if you still feel the same for goodness sake don't buy it, why would you choose to live somewhere that makes you feel sick?

BBInGinDrinking · 20/10/2019 05:48

If you have a choice OP then I wouldn't take the house. We had the experience of being relieved to finally leave a dream house because of feelings like this. They began the first night and continued off and on until we left. One room in particular we shut off and didn't use at all, which seemed to improve how things felt generally and luckily we had the space to be able to do that. Another room - a DC's bedroom, unfortunately - felt fine, even lovely, most of the time but at other times suddenly it felt really not ok. We had lots of unexplained incidents, noises and uncomfortable even frightening feelings in that house. Even our pets seemed aware of something being off at times. I am not saying it was woo but it was certainly not nice. I really can't believe that I'm posting this and if you knew me you'd know I'm far from the skittish sort, but then as now I shake my head and think WTAF was going on there. You might feel ok on a second visit OP and that certainly sounds sensible but the feelings in our house came and went and came back again. I hope it works out for you, whatever you decide.

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