Would you buy a house that somebody had been murdered in?

[lucy889]

Around 12 years ago, an awful murder involving a child and parent happened a few miles from our house, it was such a shock and the house has been empty ever since.

It's now on the market, I personally could never buy it or live there and I feel sad every time I drive by.

Would you buy it given the history if it was perfect for you?

I'm big into spirits and energies and it's a no from me. A violent death releases a huge energy and especially with kids, that kind of energy will linger and it will just be super sad and hard to live with

No

Absolutely no way. I pick up on the energy of people and places so it just wouldn't work. And I'd be thinking of the poor child constantly.

couldn’t buy it, so tragic that a child and their parent were murdered in that house and like others have said I would think about it a lot. Would be different if a person had died in a house of natural causes but to know a child was murdered in that house would put me off massively.

How morbid

There was one near me, a son brutally killed his parents. It went up for a sale about a year later, someone did buy it and live there now. I would struggle personally but I know many wouldn’t.

This is off the subject but it reminded me of an incident that happened in my state(inUSA). There was a pediatrician who was abusing his patients. The town where he lived didn't even try to sell his house after he went to prison. They tore it down because so many people in that close knit community had taken their children to that monster and they were traumatized looking at that house.

I wouldn’t, but strangely sensitive to energy in buildings - I didn’t like the ‘feel’ of one of the old houses I grew up in and spent as much time as possible outside!

Knowing this horrible and sad incident would dwell on my mind also.

The house I grew up in was cheap because the previous owners died in a very tragic accident. The accident didn't take place in the home but it put a lot of people off.

I'm a bit taken aback that you'd consider buying it so that you could profit from the fairly recent, violent death of a child on the property.

Agreed. Wow.

I wouldn't buy either if my dog refused to go into the house. Animals can tell if something isn't right about a person or place.

Yes. No issue at all. The house didn't determine the situation.

It's true and I didn't even think about it until this thread.

Hmm first instinct would be to say no, but then I got thinking about the house next door to me. About 10 years ago my next door neighbour died from a drug overdose, I literally saw his body being carried out of the house. His house was sold, and then sold on again to my current next door neighbour. I regularly pop in, and I feed her cat when she goes away, which is fairly often, so I’m alone in the house. I can’t say that I have ever connected what I know happened there with the house it is today - other than the carpets everything in the house is different to how it used to be. It’s literally never crossed my mind to feel freaked out, the house has a very different vibe. And I’m quite woo and prone to going down that line of thinking generally.

It sounds like a really sad and awful story in the house. Knowing a child suffered at the hands of their parent in that house makes me think I wouldn’t buy it.

There’s always a chance someone could have been murdered in any property if it’s an old one.
Id imagine people might have been in mine.
I know many were sentenced to death or amputations etc in mine as court sessions were held here. I don’t know if the cellars were jails, they may have been and people could easily have been left to rot down there.

A friend felt creepy feelings in the old court room but I don’t feel anything.
It doesn’t bother me and if I knew that someone had been murdered here or in any house it wouldn’t stop me buying it

The house I live in now is the house of an ex colleagues relatives (didn't know this when bought the house wasn't working at the company at the time). The colleagues relatives died suddenly in the house in the middle of the Living room. When we moved into the house I would get a feeling if someone watching me as I would have my breakfast (I get up at 4 everyday). We then started getting paranormal activity in the house 12-18month after buying it, my wife decided to get an investigation done. Turns out we had "guests". Investigator did their work and paranormal activity has decreased. I still feel occasionally like there's a small child running around the upper floor at night sometimes (mine are asleep at this point). It doesn't cause objects to have a life if their own so not too bothered by it (unlike the "guest").

In a nutshell would I buy it my head says yes but also says no because of past experience l. Maybe if price was right it could be a bit to let investment

I read about a home demolished today, where a family of 4 were murdered and one selfish lowlife died by suicide.

It got me thinking, yes, a terrible unimaginable event of depraved evil happened there, but the years prior, it was a home with an adoring loving mother, 3 wonderful boys, full of love and memories.

One selfish man destroyed that.

I'd hope the household held those feelings of happier times too.

I have a friend who is in estate agent. She said that some homes just have a weird vibe or you feel like your being watched

I don't think I could. There's a house here where a whole family were slaughtered. I wouldn't want to live in it.

Completely missing the point of the thread...
Someone said they wouldn't if their dog wouldn't go in. That's fair enough and I think I'd probably agree with that (if for no other reason than I wouldn't want to fight with him/her to get them in after every walk!) but unless it's a service dog, please don't take your dog to house viewings.

I don't think I would. It's true the bad things can happen in any house that you just don't know about, but in this case, I would absolutely know and I know I would think about, even if just in passing, every single day.

Yes I would. Especially if that made it cheap.

It wouldn't bother me unless it had happened multiple times in the same house for example theres a house by me thats had a murder, suicide and two accidental deaths in it. I wouldn't want that one.

But out of curiosities sake anyone saying no, if you found out your current house had previously been a house someone was murdered in would you still live in it?