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House history

39 replies

Helprequired5 · 13/12/2023 23:26

If you found out that someone had committed suicide in a house you were interested in buying, would it put you off?

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UnfriendMe · 15/12/2023 13:31

Not at all, especially if the price was reduced to compensate.

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:02

@Pemba it was the builders. We had to call the police (not that they good do much) and they called the coroner to ascertain the age of the Skeleton and what happened. Obvs it was so old that it was no one to do with us.
It was quite exciting though!

We don't live there anymore unfortunately

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:07

But we did later have a troupe of ghost hunters call at the house. It's one of the older houses in the village and they omelet asked if they could look around. I let them in and they got their little meter out and it was beeping away. Then they asked if they could hold a sort of seance which they did-they kicked us out of the room but when they came out they said they had been contacted by a young girl called Annie who once lived there and came to a violent end, and that she liked us and especially liked watching our dogs playing!
I'm sure they had just read up about it all and took their 'information' from
There. (Well I'm 99% sure ) but it was quite fun for the DD's and I. After that we wished Annie good morning and good night every day just in case she was knocking about, and we hung her a sticking at Christmas for good measure!

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:08

Stocking! Sorry my hands are cold and it's making my phone typing awful.

Pemba · 15/12/2023 14:15

@piscofrisco Wow, what a fascinating thing to happen! And did the 'Annie' story fit in with what the coroner found as regards sex and age of the skeleton, do you know?

I was thinking it could have been the remains of a horrible wife beating man, whose wife bashed him over the head one night in Victorian times and managed to get away with it, claiming he had gone missing. Only happy ending scenario I can think of with the undiscovered body.

'Annie' is a tragic story though (if indeed the ghost hunters got that right, it was probably made up like you say).

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:41

Yes they did! The house was formerly a pub so they said it was something like she was a landlords daughter who got in trouble and the Father of the trouble dispatched her before it became obvious! Which I guess is plausible. And will be the plot of my book when I write it

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:42

The ghost hunters said that, not the coroner. They just said it was a young female!

Pemba · 15/12/2023 14:43

Get writing @piscofrisco !@piscofrisco. I'd read that!

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:43

For added interest the house also had a secret passage! I loved that house!!

Pemba · 15/12/2023 14:46

Shame you had to leave.

CountryCob · 15/12/2023 15:52

No, I think houses can change and older places will have seen many people come and go. I would think about the feel of a house and its atmosphere but agree that it isn't as straightforward as a suicide destroying that. I would think a house that held an abusive relationship for decades for example would have a worse feel. Its just that a suicide is high profile

SuddenlyOld · 16/12/2023 18:04

piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 14:42

The ghost hunters said that, not the coroner. They just said it was a young female!

Was the coroner's findings published before or after the seance? Fascinating.

VegeBurgers · 16/12/2023 18:09

piscofrisco · 14/12/2023 09:00

A (very old) skeleton was found bricked into the back of our fireplace. It seems
Likely it was a murder victim from the injuries it had sustained but it was at least 150 years. We didn't mind it-it was an old house and it sort of added to the atmosphere. We planted a tree in the garden for the person.

That’s sad.
Planting the tree was a lovely idea.

thedukeofbuckinghamshire · 16/12/2023 18:12

Not at all. I have a Victorian house and probably all sorts of crap happened here. It doesn't matter now.

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