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 used to live in a house that was built in the 1890s, my dd always swore that she saw a woman in the back bedroom and there was an old man who would climb the stairs in the middle of the night.

We moved out 5 years ago and I recently bumped into our old neighbours, who told me that the house was "still" haunted and that the house had been sold 3 times since we moved out.

When I enquired what they meant by "still" haunted they said it was well known that a woman was killed by her husband in the back bedroom and they thought I knew 🤷‍♀️

How do you know you're not living in a house in which someone was murdered? Our house is over 170 years old, we don't know!

Ghosts aren't real.

There's some really interesting answers here, with perhaps almost 50% of people saying it wouldn't bother them, and as much as I know houses are simply bricks and mortar, I just wouldn't feel at ease to know a brutal murder had taken place. I work in an estate agent and not long ago we were selling a house where the poor owner had died of natural causes and no-one realised until he began to decompose and melted into the floor boards (along with thousands of flies buzzing around). Fortunately I never had to attend a viewing, but my colleague did. She said afterwards that there was a dreadful smell throughout the house and it had an awful atmosphere. Eventually it sold to a developer who knocked it down and rebuilt a lovely shiny new house. Even so, I'd still not be willing to live in it. I'm obviously a big old scaredy cat at heart.

Well, you’re looking at it professionally, as an estate agent who’s got something potentially difficult to shift on her books. And for heaven’s sake, a house that smells of decomposing corpse is never going to have a ‘nice atmosphere’, but there’s an obvious reason for that.

I know the family who lived at White House Farm before the Bambers.

If it was a family member who had been murdered, yes, I think I could. Think I would feel closer to them.
I'm pretty sure there was an elderly couple in my house just before I moved in, and I'm pretty sure they both died in here. Also pretty sure that at around 1 and a half years old Ds2 saw the spirit of one of them, and then a few months later I saw it too.
Quite a few odd things happened when Ds2 was between the ages of 1 and 2. Nothing really since or before. When I told my friend about Ds2 and my experience she said she had always hated staying at my house (before I met dp and had ds2) and could never sleep glad she never told me at the time 😂

There’s a Premier Inn close to where I eork in which an estranged husband throttled his wife.

Not sure which room it is!

@Bunnyfuller

Eeek, which Premier Inn? I stay in them a lot!

6 or so years ago there was a horrific quadruple murder in my town. The father's business partner broke into the house, killed the father, his wife and their two young girls, who were 12 and 8. They were being stabbed to death whilst calling 999.
The house was back on the market within 6 months. It would take a very heartless person to live there.

I know the family who lived at White House Farm before the Bambers.

They must be pretty old as Nevill and June Bamber moved in in 1951.

My parents have always lived in old houses, so there is always going to be a history.
One house, we knew someone had committed suicide at the foot of the stairs. It was a wide house, front door opened into the hall with stairs going straight up in front, one reception room to left and one to right.

In the living room at night we often though we heard footsteps on the stairs, but just though it was cats/creaking pipes/old house etc.
But after we moved out, the next family had MASSIVE problems with being haunted, they thought we had deliberately kept quiet about it, and they were traumatised. Not sure what they did in the end.

I think it depends. While I do believe that strange things can happen in a house, I also think that knowing what had happened there could almost certainly lead to an over active imagination where you thought that x and y were the victim of the murder and so on.

I think if you don’t know then it’s not likely to have that much of an impact. After all, most houses have a history, or if they don’t, then the land they were built on does.

I wouldn’t want to live in a house where a high profile murder had taken place and you were likely to get grief tourists rocking up to see the place where the murder happened etc. That’s why IIRC 25 Cromwell street was demolished.

It would take a very heartless person to live there

It's just bricks and mortar! The house has done nothing wrong - or the neighbourhood. Wouldn't change a thing if they demolished it and built another. Hardly heartless.

There’s a Premier Inn close to where I eork in which an estranged husband throttled his wife.

There's one in Greenock, Scotland, where a mother and her young adult daughter killed themselves by stabbing themselves in the abdomen.

It's not uncommon at all for people to end their lives in hotel rooms.

I wouldn't. And I wouldn't even like having to go in a house where I know someone has died (I have though). But I have no problems going to funerals (besides obviously being upset), or going to the cemetery to visit graves of my family. In fact I find it comforting. I know it sounds like a contradiction.

For people who mentioned discounts etc I had to deal with this rather unpleasant man.

Different property, but gives you a different view.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290838/amp/Landlords-wife-stabbed-death-husband-childrens-inheritance-cash-clean-bloodstains.html

I would have loved to have taken over my brother's flat after he died. Unfortunately his debts were such that I couldn't afford to anything but sell it. That he died in it just made me feel closer to him, when I had to live there one and off while sorting it out.

I found out a few months ago that a murder had happened in the first house I bought a few years before I bought it. I found out by chance looking at a post linked to a news articles that someone shared in Facebook. The article was about how a man murdered his mother in the bathroom dismembered her and put her in the outbuilding. I saw it had happened on the road I’d lived on and looked it up and found it was my actual house. I then had a dawning realisation that the red paint stain in my outbuilding probably wasn’t red paint.
Thankfully I sold up a few years ago as it really shook me. DP actually admitted he’d known when he met me as the murderer had been one of his teachers at school and he’d realised it was that house the first time he came to pick me up but didn’t want to say anything if I didn’t know. I’m very glad he didn’t while I still lived there! I always said the house felt unsettled and I was glad to move out and I’m sure that’s why!

If someone had died from natural causes it wouldn’t bother me. Otherwise not so sure.

I wouldn’t mind...but I can say that for certain that no one has died or was born in my house!! It’s 2.5 yrs old and we built it so we’re the first owners!! Phew...

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Unless said murderer was still living there then it wouldn't bother be in the slightest. Why would it matter?

In the mid 1980s, a woman on the next street picked up a guy in a club and brought him home, he strangled her and set the house on fire. Her 12 year old son was asleep upstairs.

My friend bought the house and got the local vicar round to check it out, he said there were no nasty vibes and the house was very peaceful. She lived there for over 20 years.

My dd was murdered in a flat we owned, although she was found outside.
My nephew, partner and baby now live there.
I've only been back a couple of times since.