Would you live in a house where a murder (or murders) occurred?

The Amityville house was occupied after the murders and reported hauntings. Personally I would not reside in a property where such violence occurred.

Where To wrote: »

Unless it was the actual house that committed pre meditated murder it wouldn't bother me at all.

Ditto, or maybe unsolved with a hint of local about it. Although, I'd probably draw the line at the house committing murder at all, premeditation would keep me out if that city.

A house is a house is a house. Who knows what happened in the brand new place people are in - could be a body burried in the foundations

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The Amityville house was occupied after the murders and reported hauntings. Personally I would not reside in a property where such violence occurred.

The amityville house is just a wee bit different now though, isnt it? In the amityville case the eldest brother heard voices inside his head and took it upon himself to massacre his parents and half a dozen younger brothers and sisters in their sleep with a shotgun.
Thats stuff of horror films,not a one off shooting or stabbing like the op is describing.

bb1234567 wrote: »

The amityville house is just a wee bit different now though, isnt it? In the amityville case the eldest brother heard voices inside his head and took it upon himself to massacre his parents and half a dozen younger brothers and sisters in their sleep with a shotgun.
Thats stuff of horror films,not a one off shooting or stabbing like the op is describing.

Different how? It was murder wasn't it? It really happened the eldest son who was 23 at the time killed his parents and siblings. The young man in the Amityville case was obviously mentally disturbed, but whats the difference in that and somebody losing the rag one night and murdering a man or woman in a house.

Doesn't the property still retain the aura of violent death.

As long as the murderer is gone, sound!

I don't think so.
Can you imagine what it would be like to try & sleep in that house after a massive drinking session? Not only would the rats be in the bed beside you but so would the murdered corpses.

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Just out of curiosity.

Recent murder, no.Decades old, maybe. If it was a clean, one off stabbing or shooting then i would consider it. No dismembering, decapitation or disemboweling though or if the victims were children (12 or under)

I'd be alright with dismembering and disemboweling, not sure on decapitation, but quartering would definitely be a deal-breaker, not to mention hanging and drawing.

flipflops on 5th ave wrote: »

God no. Years ago, my aunt told me that her friend was renting her basement suite, if I wanted to move in but that a girl was gang raped there.

That was enough to put me off

That kind of story would put me of living in a place even moreso than what the op described (quick "clean" murder). I probably would not like to live in a place where anybody was killed nomatter how quickly or cleanly they were killed, but I know I would DEFINITELY never knowingly live in a place where I knew a person had been tortured or tortured then killed. A girl being gang raped? Yeah, don't think I could ever see a place where something like that occurred as 'home'.