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To ask if a house is haunted before I buy it

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pineapple7peach · 18/04/2023 13:13

As the title says. Irrational childhood fear which I never grew out of. I don't know if I even believe in the paranormal but my worst nightmare is buying a house I'm too frightened to live in.

Would I be an embarrassment if I asked the estate agent/seller this question?

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Sleepyquest · 22/04/2023 22:42

I don't think it's unreasonable because I too have this fear. I bought a new build and I sleep way better at night. However, I don't think they'd be honest with you.
I believe in America they have to tell you if someone has been murdered in the house

Xavier234 · 22/04/2023 22:48

I'm pissing myself. My house is well old so people must have died WHERE I VERY SIT and I used to live next door to a legit famous murder house and still nothing spooky has happened, so wouldn't stress too much. I like old houses and am quite taken with the idea of a ghoul.

Horsedoglover59 · 23/04/2023 08:20

sewerrat · 22/04/2023 22:24

the typical things you'd hear in movies. doors slamming, noises of people running up the stairs when no one else home. then I had the wine glasses smashing one by one in the kitchen with no explanation. was harrowing

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Did you move, or did the exorcism work well enough for you to stay?

tatteddear · 23/04/2023 09:13

I used to live in an old Inn that was built in 1475. I asked the vendor if there was anything 'unusual' about it. She said lots of other people had said so but she hadn't experienced anything herself.

I never felt anything but a weird sense that I should definitely live there and so I bought it.

I later found out the vendor was selling it because she had felt gradually more and more terrified in the house and eventually had to move.

Over the years we have had workmen refuse to work alone in certain rooms because they felt 'weird' and odd things like small items going missing for weeks then showing up in obvious places where they certainly weren't before.

There was some work done on the house in the 70's and a skeleton was found bricked into the back of the chimney. So there might have been something in it all.

Point is-how does the house feel to you OP?

Cas112 · 23/04/2023 19:39

MatildaTheCat · 18/04/2023 13:16

In a word, yes.

Maybe you need a new- build?

I live in a new build and I would definitely say it's haunted.. I didn't even believe in that stuff till I moved here so that won't help😂

FranksOcean · 23/04/2023 19:44

happyumwelt · 18/04/2023 13:24

We rejected a house in a converted Victorian mental asylum because it felt odd (not haunted - don't believe in ghosts - but the ceilings were too high for the room sizes, as they'd put in stud walls, etc and it gave it a really odd Alice in Wonderland feeling). We bought a new build on the same site and later found out it is built on top of an abolished wing of the hospital and opposite the graveyard (no stones, just grass)! Good job it wasn't the potential for ghosts that put us off.

I'm not sure there is any point asking op - they are unlikely to tell you even if they think it is!

Fairfield ?

JusthereforXmas · 27/04/2023 09:56

DaSilvaP · 22/04/2023 20:20

You mean the real Cane Hill Hospital in Coulsdon, south of Croydon? Not the fictional Cain Hill from he 2017 movie?

As a former psychiatric hospital, it's got a good potential for harboring ghosts.

It stood empty for year, was a Mecca for urban explorers. Finally been demolished and turned into a housing estate.

Anyone living there to report strange happenings?

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Ive never seen a movie with it in, I remember seeing photos though... it looked like everything had been left in place as if people just instantly vanished.

Must have been fascinating to look round but I heard they knocked it down to build flats of something. I think it should have been preserved as it seemed a perfectly intact example of history.

I'm not scared of ghosts but would love to go look around those types of places, Id be too scared of getting arrested for trespassing though.

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