Would it bother you to live next to a graveyard?

Tupins

My house looks directly over a graveyard. I personally couldn't care less but I was suprised that some people, when visiting the house for the first time mentioned that they would never live next to a graveyard or saying it's 'creepy' etc.

To be honest neither myself nor my husband batted an eyelid when viewing the house the first time, possibly as neither of us are religious. We find it very peaceful and quiet and I'd prefer living next to a graveyard than having a load of noisy neighbours or next to a main road anyday.

Just wondering what do others think? If it would bother you - why?

Turd Ferguson

Considering my lifestyle (I'm a professional munter) it would probably work out for the best if I lived near a graveyard.

Gran Hermano

I'd rather a graveyard than a methadone clinic or halting site.

DevilsBreath

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Considering my lifestyle (I'm a professional munter) it would probably work out for the best if I lived near a graveyard.

So how much dose this pay?

I think i know a few people who would be interested.

Turd Ferguson

DevilsBreath wrote: »

So how much dose this pay?

I think i know a few people who would be interested.

Its pro-boner work

Sharpshooter

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Considering my lifestyle (I'm a professional munter) it would probably work out for the best if I lived near a graveyard.

Aye, the spirit is willing.

AnonoBoy

Do you have kids OP?

If so you can have great fun. Some night show them the Thriller video, then show them Dawn of the Dead, then Return of the Living Dead and then tell the kids you're going out for the night and make sure to mention there's planks of wood in the garage just in case they need to board up the windows for any reason.

Tupins

Ha ha, no kids but good plan all the same!

I suppose that's what people are afraid of on some level - that the dead will climb back out of their graves and get them :eek:

connundrum

I live about 50 yards from a graveyard. Took approx 3 months of living there to actually cop that the graveyard was there in the first place though :rolleyes:

No problems with it though, as someone said earlier rather that than countless other things i.e. methodone clinic, bank etc.

starflake

The house I grew up in in Kilkenny is on a graveyard. When my parents were digging foundations 20 odd years ago they found thirty odd human skeletons, one with fully formed foetal bones in her belly. as this was the late 70s /early 80s and there was no sign of foul play.. it was never really investigated further. the bones were carbon dated at the time to be about 1300's there or there abouts.. there are still hundreds of skeletons around the house and garden and around the land around us. I've been there on my own, we've camped out in the field, we even have a hip bone in our bedside locker nw in Maynooth. and my uncle has a cranium on his mantle piece in Glasgow... never gave us any bothers no spooks, nothing! scrae the **** out of the dogs tho...

Mr.Lizard

I'd love to live next to a graveyard. There's nothing worse than noisy neighbours.

ejmaztec

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

I'd love to live next to a graveyard. There's nothing worse than noisy neighbours.

I'd rather have live noisy neighbours than moaning zombies beating a path to my door in the middle of the night.

Earthhorse

Tupins wrote: »

I suppose that's what people are afraid of on some level - that the dead will climb back out of their graves and get them :eek:

Way I see it, if you're a good neighbour yours will be the last house they visit on their relentless killing spree.

Biggins

Wouldn't bother me. Rather that than a pub or noisey/troublesome neighbours, etc.

Dartz

Why would it bother anyone?

Sure we'll spend enough time in one anyway.

ejmaztec

Looked over a converted church in a village near Stratford upon Avon in the UK years ago. It came complete with graveyard and you weren't allowed to touch it. We did toy with the idea of buying it and using the top of a tomb as a picnic table, but then declined and bought a proper house a few miles away.

Zillah

I think it'd be pretty cool actually. Awesome for house parties. Right now we have a horse stables behind us. They don't smell or anything but they throw up a lot of dust during the summer. Take a field of tombstones over that any day.

Disease Ridden

Dartz wrote: »

Why would it bother anyone?

Sure we'll spend enough time in one anyway.

I wont. I'm the 2nd coming of Christ.

Oopps, secret out.

Clinical Waste

Actually, I'm in the market for a house in a graveyard!
What better place to await the zombie uprising I know is coming.

oh and if it had rooftop access and a fecking huge gun rack that would be nice.

Rented Mule

Had a garden apartment next to a graveyard for many years.

Luckily the neighbors never bothered us.

faceman

I wouldnt have a problem with a graveyard. At least you'd know that the site will always be there and not turned into a chipper or apartment block!

And as me Granny always says, "Its the living you need to worry about, not the dead"

Acacia

No, i'd love it. preferably somewhere quiet and remote.

sam34

wouldnt find it creepy at all.
the thing that would bother me would be the parking situation when there are funerals on, the road could get kinda busy and you could have people blocking in your drive etc.

i know im heartless, and they're grieving, but still..... if there were 2 or 3 funerals a week i'd say it'd get pretty annoying

Degsy

I get an odd vibe around graveyards...hospitals and prisons too..it feels like there's traces of the people in the area still,not just the corpses but the mourners too..like the grief has been soaked into the stones.
Its very hard to explain and not everybody gets it but i wouldnt be able to live near a graveyard for that reason.

stovelid

Degsy wrote: »

I get an odd vibe around graveyards...hospitals and prisons too..it feels like there's traces of the people in the area still,not just the corpses but the mourners too..like the grief has been soaked into the stones.
Its very hard to explain and not everybody gets it but i wouldnt be able to live near a graveyard for that reason.

Mystic Deg?


Don't think I could live right beside one either.

Snowie

it wouldnt bother me at all...

Professey Chin

Itd bother me a little cause I know id end up gettin drunk then goin dancing on random graves. Spooks and zombies wont appreciate that......

....CAUSE THIS IS THRILLER!!!!BEEN A LONG NIGHT!!!!AND NO-ONES GONNA SAVE YOU FROM THE BEAST ABOUT TO STRIKE!!!!

Degsy

stovelid wrote: »

Mystic Deg?


Don't think I could live right beside one either.

An ex of mine used to live in phibsboro and everytime i slept in the house i'd have horrible,vivid nightmares,really terrible stuff that i'm not prone to at all.
Ages later i remember noting that the house backed almost up against the wall of mountjoy..it must have been 170 years of negative energy or something was bleeding into my subconscious.Nasty.

Nevyn

So Degsy's 'sensative', that certainly explains a few things

Degsy

Thaedydal wrote: »

So Degsy's 'sensative', that certainly explains a few things

I very much doubt it!:)

Nevyn

No need to be so sensative about it. :P

thebigcheese22

There's a graveyard just down the road and i've never thought about it, might keep me up tonight tho!! :pac:

In fairness twud be worse living near a church with the real living dead, those old biddies going to mass!

getz

Degsy wrote: »

An ex of mine used to live in phibsboro and everytime i slept in the house i'd have horrible,vivid nightmares,really terrible stuff that i'm not prone to at all.
Ages later i remember noting that the house backed almost up against the wall of mountjoy..it must have been 170 years of negative energy or something was bleeding into my subconscious.Nasty.

let them have a ;dig; at you, but seriously i often feel vibes when entering a old building or place nothing that is to scary but in feb i was living in a old cottage in wicklow[dated 1600 ad] and i saw two young girls appear next to the fire place--back to the toppic next to a chuch yard it would be dead quiet even in the dead centre of town

Degsy

A friend of mine was in art college in waterford and was showing me around o ne of the studios.The minute i walked into the (large) room i got a terrible feeling of misery and dispair..i asked him did the building have any "history" and he told me it was a former magdelene laundry.

lost marbles

did yous know that .
any people who live beside a graveyard cant be buried in that graveyard .
reason

there not dead yet

Tupins

lost marbles wrote: »

did yous know that .
any people who live beside a graveyard cant be buried in that graveyard .
reason

there not dead yet

Ha ha, def going to use that next time someone mentions something about me living next to a graveyard - thanks!

Degsy

lost marbles wrote: »

did yous know that .
any people who live beside a graveyard cant be buried in that graveyard .
reason

there not dead yet

They're not dead yet.

That joke shouldve been laid to rest long ago..a very grave attempt at humour...i'm so angry i've had a coffin fit.

Degsy

lost marbles wrote: »

did yous know that .
any people who live beside a graveyard cant be buried in that graveyard .
reason

there not dead yet

Gravely unfunny.
I'm so angry i had a coffin fit...dont tell any morgue jokes like that.

starflake

Degsy wrote: »

A friend of mine was in art college in waterford and was showing me around o ne of the studios.The minute i walked into the (large) room i got a terrible feeling of misery and dispair..i asked him did the building have any "history" and he told me it was a former magdelene laundry.

Is that you Derek Acorah?

Degsy

Gravely unfunny.
You should lay that joke to rest.
I'm so annoyed i just had a coffin fit and i'd ask you not to tell any morgue jokes like that.

stovelid

Degsy wrote: »

A friend of mine was in art college in waterford and was showing me around o ne of the studios.The minute i walked into the (large) room i got a terrible feeling of misery and dispair...

Art colleges are probably stuffed with emos?

Lobelia Overhill

Degsy wrote: »

A friend of mine was in art college in waterford and was showing me around o ne of the studios.The minute i walked into the (large) room i got a terrible feeling of misery and dispair..i asked him did the building have any "history" and he told me it was a former magdelene laundry.

You should have your own TV show!

stovelid

In fairness, the ghosts are more likely to be hanging around the places that they lived, or stalking their ex-partners and mates, than hanging around a graveyard.

mrsdewinter

starflake wrote: »

The house I grew up in is on a graveyard. When my parents were digging foundations they found thirty odd human skeletons, one with fully formed foetal bones in her belly

Really? I'm not even an expert in CSI Miami but I thought that tiny infant's bones - so most likely foetus' bones also - were so light in calcium that they decomposed much more quickly than adult bones... wasn't that why Garda forensics couldn't put much stock in the absence of babies' bones when they failed to find them in the Shankill House of Horrors garden?

alexandros

I lived right next to a church for 9 years of my life.
I would rather have lived IN a graveyard and slept ON a grave.

Degsy

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Really? I'm not even an expert in CSI Miami but I thought that tiny infant's bones - so most likely foetus' bones also - were so light in calcium that they decomposed much more quickly than adult bones... wasn't that why Garda forensics couldn't put much stock in the absence of babies' bones when they failed to find them in the Shankill House of Horrors garden?

Not only that,"fetal bones" wouldnt be still in situ in the mother's belly.
The act of digging them as well as post-mortem movement of the soil would have disarticulated the skelatons and it would be very difficult to see what bones belonged to whom.
Unless his parents were trained archeologists...
I call shenanigans on that assertion.

yellowcurl

Even though i'm easily terrified (really bad with horrors/thrillers) i don't think it'd bother me. It'd be the people who would keep telling you different storied that would bother me so much. Like they aren't the ones living beside a graveyard, so why should it bother them! :P

starflake

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Really? I'm not even an expert in CSI Miami but I thought that tiny infant's bones - so most likely foetus' bones also - were so light in calcium that they decomposed much more quickly than adult bones... wasn't that why Garda forensics couldn't put much stock in the absence of babies' bones when they failed to find them in the Shankill House of Horrors garden?

I'll post up photos next time I'm home... every single word is true, i swear! Well, My mam and Dad are both in the medical proffion, and doubt they would have told me that story about the baby bones as a kid, if it weren't true.... unless they were very sick... and i dont think there are any 'experts' in CSI Miami tbh

starflake

Degsy wrote: »

Not only that,"fetal bones" wouldnt be still in situ in the mother's belly.
The act of digging them as well as post-mortem movement of the soil would have disarticulated the skelatons and it would be very difficult to see what bones belonged to whom.
Unless his parents were trained archeologists...
I call shenanigans on that assertion.

It's all true, every word, you're more than welcome to come investigate in Kilkenny if you wish... my Dad would love to know what went on there... oooh and they were al buried from east to west or maybe the other way around. they all were perfectly intact, perfect teeth etc... one or two of them had their heads between therir ankles other than that they were totally intact there was only one womman the rest were males... im not fibbing about the baby bones i promise

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Hey Degsy...

starflake wrote: »

you're more than welcome to come investigate in Kilkenny if you wish...

Road Trip?

starflake

Yer more than welcome! lol