Your house was built on a cemetary - would you be worried?

JupiterKid

I was watching the 1980s horror film Poltergeist and the house in which the family that were terrorised by evil spirits was built on a burial ground.

If you found out that your beloved domicile was built over dead bodies, would it concern you? There apparently are stories of houses that were built over burial grounds that are haunted by ghosts/poltergeists and such.

Would it bother you? Would it worry you that a horde of rotting, skeletal corpses could smash up through your floor to take their vengeance out on you, your spouse, your 2.1 children and the family dog. What if the family gimp became possessed by evil spirits - would it put a dampner on your kinky sex sessions?

Does it keep you awake at night?

jay phelan

Parents house was built on something similar, I think it was to do with people who died in the workhouse! There was also a few nuns hanged on a tree up from the parents house.

In answer to your question... It scares the fnck out of me when I think about it but I grew up knowing so it has sunk in. Also I don't live with the parents anymore so that could be it too

Jesus Wept

An estimated 1.5 million people have been buried at Glasnevin cemetery.
I haven't heard of any problems.

jill_valentine

It would bother me if I did a lot of gardening...

jimthemental

I'd be more worried about the gardai finding out I built a cemetery beneath my house.

Kylo Ren

JupiterKid wrote: »

I was watching the 1980s horror film Poltergeist and the house in which the family that were terrorised by evil spirits was built on a burial ground.

If you found out that your beloved domicile was built over dead bodies, would it concern you? There apparently are stories of houses that were built over burial grounds that are haunted by ghosts/poltergeists and such.

Would it bother you? Would it worry you that a horde of rotting, skeletal corpses could smash up through your floor to take their vengeance out on you, your spouse, your 2.1 children and the family dog. What if the family gimp became possessed by evil spirits - would it put a dampner on your kinky sex sessions?

Does it keep you awake at night?

Say whaaaaaat?

sam34

no, nice quiet neighbours

Chuck Stone

A Catholics cemetery or Protestant one?

jimthemental

Chuck Stone wrote: »

A Catholics cemetery or Protestant one?

Catholic of course, sure the protestants don't have souls to turn into ghosts:rolleyes:

Pov06

There's a saying in another language that I know which translates into:
"Be afraid of the alive, and not the dead"

johnayo

Sure, isn't the wife under the patio. Shhhhhhh!

stovelid

Good if you have a dog. Set it digging in the back and you wouldn't have to feed it.

--Kaiser--

No, it wouldn't bother me, because I don't think zombie movies are actually documentaries

Nothingbetter2d

The-Rigger wrote: »

An estimated 1.5 million people have been buried at Glasnevin cemetery.
I haven't heard of any problems.

ah glasnevin cemetary.... i remember hearing that alot of people were dying to get in there... 1.5mil though it must be popular.

Sky King

They have these already all over Ireland. They are called Ghost Estates and it stems from the Celtic Tiger when land prices rose so high that people had to build anywhere they could get it, including some graveyards..

(Or such is my understanding)

stargazer 68

Nope. I love those property programmes where they turn a church into a house and they have a cemetary in the garden. Always fancied living somewhere like that. Although I think I would have plenty of lights up the path!!

Sky King

Dovies wrote: »

Nope. I love those property programmes where they turn a church into a house and they have a cemetary in the garden. Always fancied living somewhere like that.

Got 700k?

Come to Kilkenny home slice!

Biggins

JupiterKid wrote: »

I was watching the 1980s horror film Poltergeist and the house in which the family that were terrorised by evil spirits was built on a burial ground.

If you found out that your beloved domicile was built over dead bodies, would it concern you? There apparently are stories of houses that were built over burial grounds that are haunted by ghosts/poltergeists and such.

Would it bother you? Would it worry you that a horde of rotting, skeletal corpses could smash up through your floor to take their vengeance out on you, your spouse, your 2.1 children and the family dog. What if the family gimp became possessed by evil spirits - would it put a dampner on your kinky sex sessions?

Does it keep you awake at night?

Lets be honest, there is probably ancient bodies buried in every bit of soil, all over Ireland.
Bodies there for hundreds, if not thousands of years that long time ago has become one with the surrounding soil.

I would sleep soundly, hoping they too rest in peace.

monkeypants

Now that most TV channels are broadcasting 24 hours, we're not left with white noise for the ghosts to come out through.

SEPT 23 1989

Kane out of Poltergeist 2 is one scary b@stard

You're all gonna die in there! All of you! You are gonna die!

44leto

"you built my house on an indian burial ground, you son of a bitch, you bilt my house on an indian burial ground" That is what i screamed down the builders when l awoke to all my furniture floating in the living room. But it turned out they built it on a flood plain. You see there is always a rational explanation.

Micky Dolenz

It would be a grave situation.

I'll get my coat.

gbee

Problem is that as life shifted around the land, the dead get forgotten and covered over. It's almost impossible for one not to be living over a burial ground.

Funglegunk

Lots of food for my pet worms, wouldn't have to go into town to buy that fancy shite anymore.

jill_valentine

jill_valentine wrote: »

It would bother me if I did a lot of gardening...

What are you growing that needs you to dig down six feet!

Micky Dolenz

Deleted User wrote: »

What are you growing that needs you to dig down six feet!

Corpses.

al28283

The-Rigger wrote: »

An estimated 1.5 million people have been buried at Glasnevin cemetery.
I haven't heard of any problems.

There was a helicopter crash in glasnevin cemetery last week, so far they've found 10,000 bodies

al28283

al28283 wrote: »

There was a helicopter crash in glasnevin cemetery last week, so far they've found 10,000 bodies

You should be asking, where did they bury the survivors?

dilallio

jimthemental wrote: »

Catholic of course, sure the protestants don't have souls to turn into ghosts:rolleyes:

Protestants were better fed though, so your garden would be a lot better if it was over a Protestant graveyard.

NotInventedHere

only if it was a Pet Cemetery

getz

noticed a old man the other week in a dublin graveyard chipping away at a tomb stone when i asked him what he was doing,he said they got my name wrong

Gingernuts31

I suppose I would be worried but not alot you can do if its mortgaged :eek:. After we bought this house we were told 2 old brothers died in it back in the 70's. Where the original fireplace used to be is now a wall and the bathroom door is just opisite it so thats where the chair used to be and we were told they had died in front of the fire. Never thought anything of it untill get started getting a slight smell of stale cigarette smoke.

It would be right in front of the bathroom door, and I mean right in front of it not to the sides f it, you could walk right by and smell it then its gone once you passed the door. Friends of ours have gotten some weird feelings in the bathroom :eek: and the last time one of them was in having a shower and just as she came out she thought the saw someone walking into the room beside the bathroom, she thought it was my wife so she went in to her but there was no one in the room, she said it freaked her out big time.

So in short my house is somewhat haunted but nothing I can do about it and no harm has come to anyone living here so happy days.

I'd feel kinda bad and a little disrespectful for plonking a house on top of people's dead bodies but I don't think they'd haunt me. I'm too nice

flanders1979

I'm renting a house built on land belonging to a former workhouse. The fruit bushes I planted last week are thriving.

castletownman

Not in the slightest. In fact I was trawling through old maps of my locality and discovered that my house is built on the exact site of a 1798 rebel army camp. Pretty cool when I think about it.

ash23

Last office I worked in was a converted house where some poor chap had killed himself a few years ago. We used it as an excuse not to work overtime. Too freaked out to stay there alone at night :rolleyes:

The house I bought is on an old convent, near the cemetary. So i'm sure there are lots of people who were buried outside the cemetary grounds (unbaptised babies, suicide victims etc). Never bothered me.

getz

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

I suppose I would be worried but not alot you can do if its mortgaged :eek:. After we bought this house we were told 2 old brothers died in it back in the 70's. Where the original fireplace used to be is now a wall and the bathroom door is just opisite it so thats where the chair used to be and we were told they had died in front of the fire. Never thought anything of it untill get started getting a slight smell of stale cigarette smoke.

It would be right in front of the bathroom door, and I mean right in front of it not to the sides f it, you could walk right by and smell it then its gone once you passed the door. Friends of ours have gotten some weird feelings in the bathroom :eek: and the last time one of them was in having a shower and just as she came out she thought the saw someone walking into the room beside the bathroom, she thought it was my wife so she went in to her but there was no one in the room, she said it freaked her out big time.

So in short my house is somewhat haunted but nothing I can do about it and no harm has come to anyone living here so happy days.

nothing to worry about,i am a sensitive and i have seen many a visitation, but i have yet to see a resident spirit[even in grave yards],spirits will drop in to visit the places they were happiest when alive,on the smell of smoke i would not expect that to have anything to do with your ghost,it is more likely something to do with years of tobacco smoke being absorbed into the walls and ceiling,when the room temp rises or sunlight hits the area,then you can smell the tobacco,

kylith

Was in the car a while back with my young nieces. It so happened that we passed a house for sale which adjoined a graveyard.

"That's a grand house," said I, "You wouldn't have to worry about noisy neighbours". "Yeah," said my 12 year old niece, "but, you know - Zombocalypse".

Head screwed on right, that girl.

niamhx

I couldn't live in a house near a graveyard never mind a house built on top of one. Totally bull****e but I just wouldn't feel comfortable. Too many yrs of watching Zombie movies. Stephen king has a lot to answer for, I watched Salem's lot when I was 11, dont think I slept until I was 15. I'll still watch a horror movie before a chick flic any day

Temptamperu

Wasnt parts of Tallaght built on a mass grave? Ive definitly seen a few zombie like creatures waiting at the bus stop going up to Glenshane.

Jordan 199

I wouldn't be gravely worried at all.

MonkieSocks

Many years ago, we bought a house in the Country.

It had been a working farm from many years and we wanted to turn into a B&B.

Lots of space and room to add on a couple chalets.

We went through the usual planning permission stuff and had surveyors check out.

It was when we started to do the renovations on the older part of the farm, that strange things started to happen.

One evening every window on the farm shattered and broke at the same time.

The surveyor said it might be due to the foundations moving, but we checked it out and the foundations were fine.

Someone suggested it might have been some form of sound at a pitch Humans can’t hear but of such a frequency it could shatter glass.

After that the plumbing stated to act up, taps turning themselves on and off by themselves.

Then the night-time footsteps followed, we would be in bed, then you could hear footsteps coming up the stairs, down the landing, and STOP outside our bedroom door. Then” KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK”

We couldn’t move or speak as we were so terrified.

Then the footsteps would go to the next room (Where the Kids were) Again we would hear the” KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK” on the door.

The kids started to scream and I ran out on the landing, but there was nobody there.

I told them that as this was an old house, it would make some noises and as we were living in an isolated area, we would be more aware of sounds throughout the night.

The next day we brought the kids to my sisters to let them stay with her.
We told them it was only until we got all the work done and that the house would be much quieter.

The next night we were in bed, we heard scratching sound at our bedroom door.

I got up and grabbed my hurly stick and approached the door slowly.

I carefully grabbed the door handled and quickly pulled open the door.

Our pet Dog was sitting there looking terrified and shivering with fright.

I picked him up and put him on the end of our bed.

A few moments later we heard the footsteps coming up the stairs again, then down the landing to our door.

Our Dog and started to growl in the direction of thedoor……………………………….” KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK”


The Dog ran towards the door and started barking, she wouldn’t come back when I called her so I got up and went towards the door and slowly opened it.

Our Dog ran out and down the stairs to the Kitchen, then down to the basement.

I could hear her barking like mad and I followed her down to the basement.

She was staring at a spot on the floor barking and scratching the ground.

There were loose tiles there, so I prised them open with a claw hammer.

The earth under was soft and wet.

I got a shovel and started to dig.

After about ten minutes or so I hit what felt like wood.

I kept on digging when all of a sudden the part of the floor I was standing on gave way.

Down I went falling about 15 feet into what seemed like a closet of Darkness.

It was pitch black down there and all I could see was the Dog barking from above, looking down.

I called out to my wife to come and help.

She eventually came down and asked me what happened.

I quickly explained and asked her to get me a flashlight.

While she was looking for the flashlight, I felt around in the blackness of the pit which to seemed to surround and envelop me in its dark eerie grip.

I came across what seemed to be like a headstone with letters on it.

I felt along these letters to try to understand what was written there, but it was in a language I didn’t understand.

As I felt around there were more and more of these stones scattered around the place.

Finally my wife came back with a torch and threw it down to me.

Excitedly I switched it on and looked on the carvings on the stones.
They read………………………Maadhav………….. Jadhav……….. Chaarudatt……….. Raghav.






It was only then that I realised our house had been built on an old Indian Burial Ground.

When I eventually got out of the hole we decided to leave at once.

We took whatever we could carry and got in the car.

Just as we were about leave we heard a whistling noise coming from the sky and as we were driving off, a UFO came from above the trees and crashed into the house we had just left.

We stared in disbelief at what we had seen before our eyes, but the Spacecraft was still intact.

I got out of the car to have a closer look and as I was standing there a door opened in the strange craft.

A bright light beckoned me towards the door.


As I went towards the light…………………then again……….that’s another story

PhlegmyMoses

Needs moar Fresh Prince

JupiterKid

Apparently a couple of recently half-built "ghost" estates have allegedly been built on old cemeteries.

Does anyone here remember the 1980s horror film Poltergeist? At the end of the film - after the little girl got sucked into the TV - all the dead bodies on the cemetary the suburban Los Angeles housing estate Cuesta Verde was built on started coming up through the ground.

I wonder if that could happen here? I reckon that it could - some unscrupulous property developer building an estate of happy harmonious suburban homes over rotting corpses who will rise up to take their deadly vengeance on the unwitting denizens of the estate. :-(

jimthemental

Sky King wrote: »

Got 700k?

Come to Kilkenny home slice!

I live about 2 miles from there, some house I'd say, only ten years ago it was an abandoned Church of Ireland building.

charlemont

If were I live had been built on a cemetery then surely even the ghosts/spirits would have left by now due to the junkies and wino's.

44leto

I really could give a damn, I would live in the middle of Glasnevin cemetery if the rent was right. I have absolutely no belief in spirits, ghosts, life after death, none of that crap.

I have camped up on my own in lonely and so called spooky places and i have slept in a supposedly haunted room and i slept like a log.

Except once I had the total bejaysus frightened out of me when i awoke to a presence around my tent, I stuck my head out and my eyes adjusted and it was a big fukcen cow.

Washington Irving

A lot of houses in my area are built on the site of a workhouse, part of which was a graveyard, though there are no houses built directly over the graveyard afaik

Raditub

mmmh i dunno why..but yes! YES YES YES!!!

mikeym

Yes I would be worried because your living on dead people.

Goldfingers

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

I suppose I would be worried but not alot you can do if its mortgaged :eek:. After we bought this house we were told 2 old brothers died in it back in the 70's. Where the original fireplace used to be is now a wall and the bathroom door is just opisite it so thats where the chair used to be and we were told they had died in front of the fire. Never thought anything of it untill get started getting a slight smell of stale cigarette smoke.

It would be right in front of the bathroom door, and I mean right in front of it not to the sides f it, you could walk right by and smell it then its gone once you passed the door. Friends of ours have gotten some weird feelings in the bathroom :eek: and the last time one of them was in having a shower and just as she came out she thought the saw someone walking into the room beside the bathroom, she thought it was my wife so she went in to her but there was no one in the room, she said it freaked her out big time.

So in short my house is somewhat haunted but nothing I can do about it and no harm has come to anyone living here so happy days.

Were the builders Staffords or Fanagans ?