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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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PurpleFlower1983 · 13/02/2020 00:01

No I wouldn’t but I love that house and perversely I did wonder if someone got a bargain!

AcrossthePond55 · 13/02/2020 00:01

I would be fine with living in a house where there was a murder, provided it wasn't 'notorious' and people drove by it all the time to gawp.

I've know of one house that was the scene of an infamous murder decades ago and they ended up changing all the house numbers on the street and altering the street 'type' (Ave, Drive, Place, etc) a few years later to make it harder for people to find.

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TheCatsBlanket · 13/02/2020 00:06

Hangingoffyourcloud Almost blew out my sphincter there reading your post

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thecatneuterer · 13/02/2020 00:07

I would. In fact, come to think of it, I do (as someone was murdered in my porch long after I'd moved in - and in fact while I was watching). And when I came on to this thread to reply as was only going to say 'I would' as it had slipped my mind that in fact I already do - so that's how much it bothers me.

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:07

Plenty of places in some areas, Edinburgh in particular, are also built over old burial sites. I mean, until relatively recently, people died at home and death was not infrequently an unpleasant, painful and even violent process, death in youth was no infrequent, either; how does that not leave any better 'vibes' than other modes of death?

TheMotherofAllDilemmas · 13/02/2020 00:08

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.

I try to see it as yes, people may have died in my house, but I’m sure many were born here too. Smile

thecatneuterer · 13/02/2020 00:08

@HangingOffYourCloud I think you'd be hard pushed to find a bedroom in an average Victorian/Edwardian house that someone hasn't died in.

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:12

It was also in the past far easier to get away with murder. It's not hard to surmise that someone whose loved one was already suffering may have hastened the end or even actually kill someone (including an unwanted baby) in a location and have never been found out.

LoseLooseLucy · 13/02/2020 00:12

Almost blew out my sphincter there reading your post GrinGrin

Me too, I've had sleep paralysis and reading that before bed has made me not want to fall asleep 😬

AutumnRose1 · 13/02/2020 00:15

Whoever mentioned diphtheria has got me thinking about “The
Little Stranger” now....ll😱

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:28

Ah, but there was no ghost in 'The Little Stranger'. The doctor was the one causing poltergeist activity. Not likely he'd have given the girl diphtheria, either, as a child. Wink

AutumnRose1 · 13/02/2020 00:30

Euro - ooh no, disagree but massive spoiler, maybe ask MN to take it down?!

FallenAngel01 · 13/02/2020 00:32

It's a house!!! FFS! Bricks and mortar. That's it.

I have someone following me, from house to house, it doesn't matter where I live. It's not only me that's experienced it. I have two independent witnesses to this. It wasn't the house, although it helped x it's not bricks and mortar x I think x

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:32

Why does MN need to take it down? Overkill and ridiculous. You can find that out online anywhere Hmm. Read the last chapter again and again, it's patently obvious.

AutumnRose1 · 13/02/2020 00:34

“ Overkill and ridiculous.”

Oookay

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:34

VERY cool, Fallen! Where do you think you picked the someone up? Or was he/she always there? I've heard of this happening.

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:37

When we toured some vaults in Edinburgh, one of the guides apparently had an uncle following him that some other seer could discern and who was protecting him on the job.

zaffa · 13/02/2020 00:38

Ohhhhh I'm with you OP. No way would I live in such a house. There is a house on my street where a violent murder took place in the 70s (husband killed whole family with axe) and when we bought this house I discovered the story and spent ages researching to locate the house and ensure it wasn't mine (luckily it wasn't!)

I think I would have pulled out - had it been.

Mummyrowland · 13/02/2020 00:40

I live in a house where someone hung themself in the garage. Wasn't declared when we bought it and only found out from the guy who came to fit our kitchen. Doesn't bother me tho as the past is the past and ghosts don't exist

NotMeNoNo · 13/02/2020 00:40

White House Farm is owned by the Henry Smith charity, the farmers are tenants. I can see why the family stayed as it was their livelihood and business with extended family nearby. Its not like a house on a street you can take or leave.

Nat6999 · 13/02/2020 00:41

There is a flat in the block I live in where 2years ago a man strangled his partner & dumped her in the bath, tried to kill himself but chickened out, one of the neighbours rang 999 because she had heard an argument, the police came, rang for an ambulance, looked round the flat but never looked behind the shower curtain until the morning after. Someone else is living there now & I often wonder if that person knows that a woman had been murdered there.

WorraLiberty · 13/02/2020 00:42

Houses are just bricks and concrete.

'Vibes' are all in the heads of humans.

Just because someone hasn't been murdered in your house, doesn't mean someone hasn't been raped, miscarried babies, developed cancer or any other host of awful, dreadful things.

If we were privy to every tragic detail of the history of our homes, we'd never settle anywhere if we let it bother us.

Aloe6 · 13/02/2020 00:43

No I couldn’t. I don’t believe in ghosts but my imagination would run wild thinking about the suffering someone experienced on that spot.

EuroMillionsWinner · 13/02/2020 00:43

A tenant of the house where we now live hanged himself out back. I have no idea how I knew that, but I did and also knew his forename and the year he ended his life. Was confirmed by other neighbours and friends. I'd be more afraid of a place where someone had been, say, running drugs or involved in a gang or been stalked, that some crim would come to do harm.

OneHanded · 13/02/2020 00:43

Yeah wouldn’t bother me in the slightest - the dead are dead that’s why successful suicide is a comforting idea