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

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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.

I probably would. Multiple murders would have me think twice, mainly because of the negative attention from locals wanting to tell me all about what had gone on. I don't believe a building can hold negative memories, that's just down to people.

Recklessruby was it an ancient murder site or recent and how did you find out?

I'm involuntarily giving myself the shits now with my topic and thinking of houses with nasty vibes !

AutumnRose1 I will look for it on Youtube

Years ago I visited Ypres in Belgium (very interesting place btw). Walking trough the trenches gave me cold shivers and my dog, a Jack Russel terrier who loved jumping into everything, was terrified of unseen things there. Since then I definitely believe that places where a lot of violence/ death happened can ‘hold memories’.

Nope. I’ve seen “Ju-on” too many times to make such a silly mistake.

Living in a house next door to a murder terrified me when I was young (the man stabbed his wife to death and tried to kill himself).

We were at home when it happened and it gave me nightmares for years.

A 'normal' death occurring in a house wouldn't bother me, murder definitely would.

Presumably in many cases you wouldn't know? Our current house is 200 years old. Anyway, it wouldn't bother me.

(Maybe those who would worry about it could start a murder register to be searched as part of the conveyancing process )

I spent a year living in a fairly remote house where the two previous owners had committed suicide together in the kitchen — I knew their son, who’d gone travelling. No issues, but then I’m not superstitious. He lived there for several years after and its lived in by a family now.

Watch 'Inside No.9' episode 2 on iPlayer, it's all about this. Dark, so dark, but very very funny.

OP it’s okay I’ll show you

Fans of Inside No 9, if you haven’t seen it this week, look away now!

It went like this

New occupant of house: if you don’t mind me asking, did you mother die in this house?

Old occupant of house: well, yes. But I don’t think of her that way. I think of her as...full of life.

Then this plays as the next scene

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ProclivitiesMcManus I think that local searches in conveyancing will bring up certain things like murder, if it's recent? In my line of work I communicate with conveyancers and found out not long ago that a couple withdrew from a house purchase as the searches uncovered a macabre past that wasn't disclosed by the seller.

I wouldn't have a problem living there. I would be reluctant to buy unless it was heavily discounted because there are so many irrational people about and I'd be concerned about resale.

I might want to move if a murder happened somewhere I was living, though. To get away from all the visual cues that would bring it to mind constantly.

Thecatsblanket we lived there in the mid 90s but the murder happened 1950 ish. Two children were killed by their mother who then killed herself. The flats there at the time were in bad repair and demolished soon after.
The house we lived in was quite new and I only found out when I moved here and got talking to some older people who remembered it when I said where we had moved from.
I really did get the shivers then.

autumnRose1 Oh yes, I love those two, used to be The League of Gentlemen - Tubbs are you a local and all that? I will now have to watch the whole thing on Youtube

Ah, I’m talking about rented cases so I don’t know about that

But standard conveyancing is mostly about searching the land and so on isn’t it?

I would buy if I knew they’d been a murder. Tbh hauntings could happen for any number of reasons.

This is a good thread as we near the witching hour! 😂

I wouldn't personally.

I’m not sure, but I don’t think local searches encompass ‘has anyone ever been murdered here’, so maybe you need to look into it more.

Oddly enough we live in a Victorian house now so people must have died in it but there s nothing sinister here and it s very cosy and relaxing.

Yes, I have! I have also lived in places where suicides have taken place. There's no guarantee that a 'natural' death is a good one at all. Rather silly, how people adore period properties when it's almost inevitable that at least one and possibly many died very unpleasant deaths in them ('natural' conditions like diphtheria, for example, are horrible ways to die) but balk at one that may have had a murder or suicide.

The only thing that would put me off living in a house where a murder had taken place is gawpers and lookie-loo ghouls.

It's the living you have to fear, not the dead.

I did! I lived in a council flat where the previous tenant stabbed someone. It always felt like a nice place...no weirdness at all and I'm pretty imaginative!

Maybe the conveyancers carry out more thorough searches near me ! I'd pay extra to get them to do a 'violent death/murder' search if I ever move house again.

I feel like I'd end up convincing myself that every little noise or strange occurance was something paranormal so no, for my own sanity!

Absolutely no way.

I wouldn't. I know you said murder rather than someone dying, but when my family moved when I was in my teens I started suffering from sleep paralysis. I had never experienced it before and it was put down to the stress of moving 200 miles away from my friends. During these experiences there was always an old lady trying to pull the duvet off me. I found out much later that the mother of the previous owner had lived there, that was her bedroom and she had died in that room.