Have you tried to sell a haunted house?

[winewolfhowls]

Did you have to declare it on any forms?

Would it put you off a house if you heard a rumour that it was haunted?

Was listening to uncanny podcast on the way home and as we're packing up to move hopefully soon, it got me thinking.

It is actually a question I ask when we view houses - pretty sure the EA doesn’t pass the question along when it’s not the owner!

There's a few here, maybe?!. Old Victorian house. (Yes, that cliche 😄)

There's what really does resemble a dark haired child who peeps at us upstairs sometimes, usually from behind the bedroom door, and of course only from the corner of your eye...

After doing some DIY a gold cross pendant appeared on the floor in another room, a floor which had been vacuumed and mopped several times during and after the work was done. All the usual "no one new had been here to drop it, no one had ever seen it before" etc. Had lived here the best part of a decade by then. I assume it came out of the wall somehow in the other room...but it was weird. There was also old coins hidden in the Victorian stone wall when we uncovered it. They are still here, feels like they should stay.

And half a man, a foggy man downstairs who disappears when you glimpse him. He doesn't move as such, but he looks like he's in motion.

I've heard snatches of a man's deep voice humming and talking, No men live here, and my 50cm thick walls preclude it from being neighbours, I never ever hear them. That one was the only time I've felt unnerved by it, obviously it was in the wee hours and I had to go investigate, and I found all the previously closed downstairs internal doors wide open, but all outer doors still locked 🤣

Friends staying have seen things flitting past in the corner of their eye upstairs while relaxing in the bedroom. And things have moved in extremely illogical ways in the kitchen.

But it's all fine. I don't really believe it's ghosts, maybe some sort of energy or something that we don't understand fully, but it isn't an issue whatsoever, it's their house too lol, they don't seem to use much electricity or toilet roll so 🤷

Christ, ignore me, I'm exhausted and didn't properly read the initial post about questioning selling houses. Ah well, enjoy my spooky and tangential input anyway 🫠

Ah I remember this from my residential property module on my law degree. Buyers can do a pre-completion search on the Register of Hauntings and Apparitions. After a "relevant event" is detected (as defined in the Hauntings and Apparitions (Registration) (No.2) Regulations 1912) the property owner has 28 days to register it. If you buy a property and it turns out to be haunted within 12 months, you can sue the seller if the relevant event was not registered.

FAOD this post may be in jest.

I do too! I assumed I was alone 😂

I do an internal psychic ghost check too, I have no idea if my intuition is right or just overactive imagination.

Argh you had me for a sentence or two there!

The people we bought this house from thought it was haunted. Turned out it was flying squirrels and it cost way more to get rid of them than hiring a local priest.

What form do you think it would be declared on?

I’ve yet to see a “paranormal activity” report in the buyers pack.

We nearly bought a house where there had been a murder! unfortunately the sellers decided not to sell! it was a lovely cottage in the middle of nowhere and I always got amityville vibes! i often look to see if its back on the market

What about the one where you say what fixtures and fittings you’re leaving? ‘Leaving washing machine, carpets, light fittings and a poltergeist that throws root vegetables and bangs doors’?

Well has anything happened there?

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking OP but when we viewed our house for the first time I had the overwhelming sense that it wanted us to be there.

I can’t explain it. And now that I live here, I still have the feeling that the house is happy that we’re here - even though it’s still a bit of a building site. It’s hard to put into words but the house feels at peace.

I don’t think it can be explained by finding a house that I wanted to buy. I absolutely loved my last house but I never got this same impression either at the viewing or when I lived there.

Actually, in my last house there was a built-in cupboard in one of the bedrooms that gave me a really “off” feeling if it was opened. Again, no explanation but just felt wrong, uncomfortable. If I ever fell asleep downstairs at my old house, sometimes I’d be awoken by someone shouting in my ear - but no one was there.

Due to home circumstances, I often need to work through the night (self-employed) so I regularly fall asleep on the sofa still, usually with my laptop open on my knees 😂🤦🏻‍♀️ I never wake up to someone shouting my name in my ear in this house.

I am well-aware of how woo and bonkers I sound 🫣😂

Actually, in my last house there was a built-in cupboard in one of the bedrooms that gave me a really “off” feeling if it was opened. Again, no explanation but just felt wrong, uncomfortable. If I ever fell asleep downstairs at my old house, sometimes I’d be awoken by someone shouting in my ear - but no one was there.

A family we knew bought a house and once they moved in their daughter then aged around 12 started having a recurring nightmare in which she saw two men fighting, one with blood all over his face and head.
Her parents told her it was just a horrible dream and to try to forget about it.
Then one day when her mother was putting away clothes in her dd’s bedroom, the coat hangers and cupboard doors started rattling and shaking and one door burst open.
It turned out that the cupboard was where in Victorian times the backstairs used to be - where two grooms had had a terrible fight in which one was killed.

@greenrollneck
'It was only one room in the house that would be strange, noises, smells and activity.'

I think based on this, it may be that our toilet is haunted... 😱

I’d quite like a ghost cat. It would be more than welcome here.

Id probably not want the ghost of some poor soul who died tragically or violently though. Although I suppose as long as they didn’t have it in for me we could learn to live with each other.

We went to view an absolutely lovely property a few weeks ago, it was the perfect location for us and a really good price too. I was so excited about it when I'd read the details on Rightmove. But when we got there, it was just an immediate NO. Everything was lovely and perfect but I just felt it was wrong, and so did DP. It was really odd as we're quite practical people really.

@Firealarm1414 Yes.

I think its Lowes COttage, Upper Mayfield Derbyshire. Bizzarely I was reading about it yesterday

I think its Lowes Cottage, Upper Mayfield Derbyshire. Bizzarely I was reading about it yesterday

@SpidersAreShitheads that happened to me too. Walked in the door and realised I was home. (Mainly Victorian cottage but parts dated WAY before that, original floor was about 500 years old and was in Domesday book).

We did have at least one ghost but she was largely fine, mainly pacing footsteps across the room above the sitting room, my kids saw high buttoned boots once (THAT detail really got to me as they were too young to have heard of button boots). I only got scared once. I was alone with two toddlers and was pregnant. I was half listening out for the dryer to finish and went up to look. The dryer was switched off, door was open and clothes thrown EVERYWHERE. (I did the only sensible thing and scooped up the kids, rain into the garden and phoned my mum). I had three babies in that house and activity ramped right up when I was pregnant or had a new baby.

My best memory is of going into the kitchen to make supper. I had a stairgate because of the Rayburn so was alone but could see the children. I felt completely frazzled and stressed but felt a woman lay her hands on my shoulders and tell me that I was one of a long line of women who had felt like in the house. It was so loving.

It broke my heart to leave that cottage.

No. Because haunted houses do not exist.

We are selling at the moment. There's a man that hangs out in the hallways, stairs and bedrooms. Sometimes you see movement out of the corner of your eye as he walks up the stairs, or moves along the hallway. But, he can be quite scary sometimes and the atmosphere feels more oppressive. Strangely if we have been away for a bit, or on holiday, when you get back it's like he's angry you left the house so he broods and stands in the doorways watching. We haven't said, not everyone believes so we may just sound mad.
New house though, we both felt immediately welcome and calm, hoping that's a good sign!

Based on this, it’s my kitchen when I’m cooking 😳

Absence of proof isn’t proof of absence hun 🙄