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To ask if you'd live in a house where someone was murdered

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:22

Just finished watching 'White House Farm' and wondered to myself what happened to the property. Did someone buy it and now lives in it or has it remained empty? I know a google search would prob tell me but my question is, would you live in a house where a murder had taken place? I'm not religious but I think that I'd be scared to be alone in a place with a violent past, in that I'm sure it would harbour sinister vibes.

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Honeybee85 · 12/02/2020 23:24

No way I would. Heard far too many scary ghost stories about such places.

If I had absolutely no choice, I would ask the local priest (I’m a Catholic though rarely ever go to Church) to come to the house and bless every room with Holy Water.

Anychance123 · 12/02/2020 23:24

No I wouldn’t, I think houses carry vibes. My imagination would run wild in the night too.

LoseLooseLucy · 12/02/2020 23:25

Ann (the cousin) and her family live in the fsrm, they moved in not long after the trial.

I wouldn't want to live in a house where someone was murdered, no.

Emijen · 12/02/2020 23:25

DH asked me this when watching White House farm tonight, and no I definitely couldn’t.

WalkingDeadTrainee · 12/02/2020 23:26

I would. Would there be a discount?Grin

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:28

LoseLooseLucy I didn't know that the cousin moved in, I suppose seeing as she loved her aunt and uncle she perhaps feels closer to them by living there. I still couldn't though.

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Aureum · 12/02/2020 23:28

I’d worry about being able to sell it on but if it was a bargain I’d overlook that. Someone has died in most places, I’m not superstitious.

Thedogscollar · 12/02/2020 23:28

Absolutely no way not even if it was my dream house. As pp said the cousin did move into White House Farm shortly after the murders. I just couldn't have, knowing what had taken place.

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:29

walkingdeadtrainee Even if they gave me the house for nothing I still wouldn't live in it!

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LoseLooseLucy · 12/02/2020 23:31

Her children apparently didn't like it TheCatsBlanket, I know I wouldn't have either, as a child or now.

MelanieFrontage · 12/02/2020 23:31

I would, years and years ago a house was for sale near us after a poor occupant was murdered in it ☹️
But being entirely unemotional about it the new owners got it at a rock bottom price and I expect that it’s changed hands many times since then.

Saracen · 12/02/2020 23:31

I would. It would bother me ever so slightly though. I would hope never to discover all the gruesome details.

Think I would want a discount on the price.

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:31

Aureum I'm not talking of a normal death in a house, more a violent death (although I always ask if anyone has died in a house when I've bought in the past, because it gives me the heebeegeebees)

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AutumnRose1 · 12/02/2020 23:32

I have done. No issues. And it was recent, the murder I mean, and yes the rent was a bit lower than it could have been.

A friend lived in a house where there’d been an old murder - I think I was the second tenant after the murder - but hers was years back. She moved in with no knowledge. Some odd happenings in the house convinced her it was haunted. I think she had to ask the local uni library for microfiche records? Sure enough, there’d been a murder.

She tried to get out of the contract before six months but the landlord wasn’t having it!

Is White House Farm still a residential property then?

AutumnRose1 · 12/02/2020 23:33

OP “ although I always ask if anyone has died in a house when I've bought in the past,“

Now I’m wondering if you saw Inside No 9 this week Grin

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:33

MelanieFrontage I wonder if you live close to me as there was a local property for sale where a murder took place, it was bought, then renovated and has sold again since.

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:35

AutumnRose1 No I haven't seen No 9 this week, should I? ( I don't even know what No 9 is by the way)

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Shinycat · 12/02/2020 23:35

Wouldn't bother me at all. Then again I live at number 13, and got married on the 13th, and my birthday is the 13th. We got our house 10% cheaper than No. 11 next to door (which sold 6 months before we got ours,) and it was the same.

Apparently people don't like the number 13!

recklessruby · 12/02/2020 23:35

I have lived in a house built on a murder site but i didnt know it at the time.
We tried to be happy but there was a very weird vibe. It was always cold even with the heating on, ds age 7 said he could hear whispering at night, dd 1 never slept a night in her room and dp and I split up very nastily.
On paper it was a dream house but i was so glad to move after 6 years. Even my dm who is not woo at all said she felt she was being watched in the garden.
The couple who moved in after we left split up too.
Apparently nobody has been happy there.

ColourMyDreams · 12/02/2020 23:35

I do. The previous owner murdered his wife here.
He murdered her in the master bedroom before dragging her through the house and hiding her in the cellar.
I don't feel uncomfortable or weird.

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TheCatsBlanket · 12/02/2020 23:36

Shinycat The number 13 in my mind is a tad different to mass murder

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GlummyMcGlummerson · 12/02/2020 23:36

Wouldn't bother me

Shinycat · 12/02/2020 23:37

Yeah No 13 is different to a mass murder, but I was just trying to illustrate that I am not superstitious, so wouldn't be put off a house if there had been a mass murder there.

MelanieFrontage · 12/02/2020 23:37

@TheCatsBlanket I doubt it, I’m talking about the mid 1980s.

I bet loads of us are living in houses with dodgy histories. When we bought our last house we got a huge pack of paperwork with it going back to when the land was bought in 1903 to build the house. It was absolutely fascinating, it even contained all the death certificates of everyone who had died in the house (at least 6). When we sold I made sure that I passed it all on to the new owners.

AutumnRose1 · 12/02/2020 23:38

OP

Inside No 9 is a sort of short stories on TV thing

Let’s just say that in this week’s episode, someone said “do you mind if I ask, did your mother die in this house” and the following scene was side splittingly funny.

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