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.

Parkhead

The niece got it, the one who found the silencer!

Yes I would - though I think definitely not if a family member

My grandma lived in a house where there had been a suicide (hanging) and attempted murder (stabbing). It was a very old house and I was never comfortable there - not even in the garden.

I live opposite a house where there was a murder. I wonder if the newish tenants know. Haven’t met them and wouldn’t dream of saying anything.
Where I live is around 300 years old so I’m sure all sorts has gone on !

parkhead I’m really sorry to read that.

One of my classmates was teased in school for living in "the murder house" where someone was killed in what was his bedroom. They were forever pestering him with gruesome stories and details, half of them made up I'm sure, but still, it was horrible. People either wouldn't go to his house to play or only went to poke about his room. Kids are mean.

So based on what I saw happen to him, no I wouldn't.

parkhead I'm sorry to hear about your DD, what a terrible thing.

There was a thread on here some years ago and someone was considering buying a home in Harrogate where a man had killed his wife and two of his children with an axe and then killed himself. There definitely didn't appear to be much of a discount. But someone did indeed bring up that living in a stigmatised property where the event was recent would affect the poster's kids, as Knit pointed out, and be hard to sell on possibly. Also that some people might not want to work in it if they planned to redecorate.

I wouldn’t be able to. I found out after we moved out of our last house that someone had hung their self (I know that grammar isn’t right.... 🤔). It creeps me out to think of it, I’m so glad I didn’t find out when we were still there.

My house is 150 yrs old (ish). They'll have been plenty of people born and died here, probably some in less than nice circumstances. Doesn't worry me. The house I grew up in had a gap next door where a house had been bombed in the war, the old chap down the street said a whole family died. Wherever you live, even if it's a new build someone will have died unhappily on the site at some point in the last few thousand years. If spirits stay do they leave when a house is built over the site or is it just recent murders/deaths in the actual building people worry about?

I have,was a flat I rented not a house,and I knew the gentleman who was murdered in a hi how are you kind of way.
Never bothered me in the least as he was a gentle soul in life,couldn't see him being a problem in death and I am really really freaked out by the thought of ghosts.
The only thing I consciously did was not put Dd in the bedroom he was murdered in,I had that room and gave her the much larger room.
I have very happy memories of living there and only moved because mold issues affecting daughters asthma.
The gentleman who was murdered in the flat,his parents had died there also previously.

I was just about to type yes of course I would!
But theres something my mum said about 10 years ago to me that's always stuck in the back of my mind. In the house we lived in at the time, within a few months it felt like our family had changed, everything was dysfunctional, social services involved, police in and out all the time. She said that the neighbours had all been talking about how that house was never happy for anyone who ever lived there, that the people who lived there before, the woman of the couple was beat almost to death by her partner- panic alarm and the door with metal running through it was still in place when we moved in, and the person who lived there before apparently tried to kill herself repeatedly in that house.

Now I write it off as my family just being dysfunctional, but part of me maybe believes in places keeping hold of some of the past.

I could live in a house someone had died in. But probably not murdered. A natural death doesn’t bother me.

I wouldn't!!I lived in a council townhouse as a child. I remember I had a vivid dream a burnt person on all fours approaching me as I screamed for help. Many years later I learned that four children had died in a house fire there.

I don’t think it would bother me

I still live in the house where my husband killed his self

I have one very bad memory of finding him v years of happy ones

But many in my Suicide group sold their house - didn’t go back after finding their loved ones

Some had to stay due to not being able to afford to move etx

I am one of the few who still love there happily

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Ah Parkhead I’m so sorry.

Part of our house is over 300 years old. I’m sure bad stuff must have happened in it. It’s lovely though.

Friend of mine lives in a house going back to the 1400s - most of it 1500 (modern new build extensions). It’s amazing to think what that hide has seen - the good the bad and the ugly. Because it’s ‘historic’ id never think to be worried and haven’t when staying there.

It’s when it becomes recent I’d be a bit hesitant. Thinking about it I think my cut off would be ‘last 50 years’ or so. Anything before eg 1970s feels as though it would have ‘worn off’ a bit and no longer having an effect. Totally don’t believe in ghosts or spirits etc but think maybe I do slightly having thought this !

GiveUsACoffee That is chilling!

@billysboy you're mental 😁

First house I bought had a strange feel to it and always seemed cold , even in the summer. I sold it to a local developer ( lovely man ) and told him , as a joke , that I felt it was haunted. He said that when he was a boy the house caught fire and the family who lived in it all died from smoke inhalation. His dad rebuild it but this time they were going to knock it down. I later found a newspaper clipping : mum, dad and three kids , none over the age of 5. Glad they demolished it.

My Grandma, Granddad and Mum lived in an old cottage where a previous occupant hung himself at the top of the stairs. He stood on a sack of potatoes to reach the noose. My mum says she remembers hearing noises which my grandma said were potatoes rolling down the stairs.
The cottage was demolished years ago and a block of very smart flats stands there now.

I think I would have to see how it felt and whether my imagination started to run away with me. I often get the creeps in the winter. Sometimes if I catch sight of a dark window on the way to bed the thought pops in my mind of someone peering in from outside and it never fails to give me the heebie-jeebies. Usually though once the curtains are closed I can dismiss it. I was a bit worried when we bought our current home as it's a bungalow but I've been fine. My Nan died, peacefully in bed in her 90s about 12 years ago and when nursing once of my children at my parents house I realised I was sleeping in the bed she died in. My parents didn't bother replacing the mattress as it was quite new and it didn't bother me at all. It actually felt quite nice to be lying in the spot where she peacefully slipped out of this world.

my gran was very straight laced no nonsense sort of woman but she told me that by her there was a little cottage a lady lived in it and one night she knocked over the paraffin heater and the cottage burnt down.
gran said many nights if it was quiet you could hear her scream for help. not the sort of thing i expected gran to even think about so makes you think there must have been something in it