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

areyawell · 02-12-2012 02:55AM

Yes and then I could blame the house for killing someone I hated

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 02-12-2012 03:11AM

I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in the brain's ability to play tricks on itself.
I've felt spooked the odd time when my imagination got the better of me. I think living in a place like that would make me more prone to it.

hedzball · 02-12-2012 03:17AM

Wired a house before where 2 kids died in a house fire 2 years previous..

The owners to this day tell me nothing funky has happened since..

Wouldn't be my cup.. their room is now his office..

no thanks.

Allyall · 02-12-2012 03:25AM

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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213078/Amityville-horror-house-market-owners-drop-asking-price-1-35m-955k.html

Aciiiiiiiiiiid · 02-12-2012 03:25AM

MadYaker wrote: »

As long as the murderer is gone, sound!

And if he's not gone, a substantial discount should be given on the rent.

Holsten · 02-12-2012 03:46AM

Would be weird but if I otherwise liked the house, yeah I would.

Little Acorn · 02-12-2012 03:46AM

Cydoniac wrote: »

Haha, they remove the corpse after a murder you know...

A lot of superstitious people out there! If you were unaware of any such murder taking place in the house you live in you would have no issues surely? It's a psychological thing...

Oh I agree it would be purely psychological, but not necessary superstitious.
For example if I just moved into a new place and then discovered a person had been murdered there, I would start thinking WAY too much about it.
I would wonder did they try and crawl over there to get away? Was there blood on this part of the floor? Did they lie on this very spot as they died? While they were dying possibly on this very spot, where they thinking about their family? Were they terrified and knew they were dying? Did they have kids? etc.

It might be different if for some extremely weird reason a stranger got murdered in a house you had been living in for years and had already established as your home. It would be horrifying but maybe because of all the happy memories you had built there over the years, these might be enough to counter the one bad one and you might be able to move past the terrible act.

In a completely new house move though it would be much harder, because you would not already have some good memories from the place, all you would have is the knowledge that somebody died a violent death here. I suppose though if you forced yourself to just stick it out and tried your best not to think about it, you could eventually build some new happy memories to have of your new home. I would definitely find it disturbing though for many months at least.

fryup · 02-12-2012 10:23AM

Would you live in a house where a murder occurred??

or would you live in a house where jimmy savile lived??

which would be worse??

Blowfish · 02-12-2012 10:43AM

It depends on the murder. If it was a case of a family member murdering another family member, then personally I'd have no problem with living there.

If it was a burglar who broke in, murdered everyone and got back out without ever being caught, then it's obviously more of an issue as it could happen again.

Lelantos · 02-12-2012 10:53AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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.

Ah sure all you have to do is get Derek Acora in & he'll clean that aura right up for you.

the keen edge · 02-12-2012 11:10AM

There is a house on the property market just down the road from where I live.

Its dark secret: the previous now deceased owner was murdered in the sitting room by his grandson who is now in prison serving a lengthy stretch after being convicted of killing him.

It's located on the main Galway to Limerick road about 30 minute drive from Galway, so at €55K the price isn't too steep.
I suppose you could demolish the house and build a new one on the site; but still that grizzly past with always be there.
Personally I wouldn't purchase it at any price.

Maximus Alexander · 02-12-2012 11:34AM

the keen edge wrote: »

There is a house on the property market just down the road from where I live.

Its dark secret: the previous now deceased owner was murdered in the sitting room by his grandson who is now in prison serving a lengthy stretch after being convicted of killing him.

It's located on the main Galway to Limerick road about 30 minute drive from Galway, so at €55K the price isn't too steep.
I suppose you could demolish the house and build a new one on the site; but still that grizzly past with always be there.
Personally I wouldn't purchase it at any price.

Are you telling porkies? That ad doesn't say anything about a murder!

donegal_road · 02-12-2012 12:02PM

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 did years ago in cork.. I was told by locals that there had been a murder and suicide in the dormar appartment we were living in. It was a very large apt spanning the entire width of the building and thats why i rented it. But we werent in very long when we noticed a bad atmosphere in the place.. Not being superstitious here but there was a sequence of nasty events that occurred during our first six months there that prompted me to leave.

books4sale · 02-12-2012 12:54PM

the keen edge wrote: »

Personally I wouldn't purchase it at any price.

Why not?

Ted_YNWA · 02-12-2012 01:02PM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in the brain's ability to play tricks on itself.
I've felt spooked the odd time when my imagination got the better of me. I think living in a place like that would make me more prone to it.

Ditto, Live in an old house & have seen shadows that were not easily explained.

Sitting in living room & glanced out the door at the stairs & saw a "human shaped" shadow. Was on own in house at time, but also hungover .

Dancor · 02-12-2012 01:03PM

Just get the local priest up to dash some holy water about. It will be grand.

books4sale · 02-12-2012 01:06PM

Yeah I know, nothing worse than them unexplained shadows is there?

There's probably a mass grave under the house with hundreds of famine victims. As a result your house is riddled with dark spirits, best bet is to pack up and leave now before they drive you to a bitter end.

The Big Red Button · 02-12-2012 01:06PM

I'm not superstitious at all. But I still don't like the idea of living in a house where something awful happened.

I just don't think it would ever really feel like a home to me. I can't imagine just chilling out and relaxing and being happy in the same room where someone was murdered. It just seems a bit morbid.

Similarly, I'm not religious, but I still wouldn't have a picnic sitting on top of a stranger's grave. It would feel disrespectful.

It wouldn't bother me, though, to live in a house where someone died peacefully, of natural causes.

the keen edge wrote: »

There is a house on the property market just down the road from where I live.

That house even looks haunted!

books4sale · 02-12-2012 01:15PM

....they mostly come at night, mostly!

Ted_YNWA · 02-12-2012 01:15PM

Dancor wrote: »

Just get the local priest up to dash some holy water about. It will be grand.

Not a big follower of all that stuff, how is holy water for washing things tho ?

books4sale wrote: »

Yeah I know, nothing worse than them unexplained shadows is there?

There's probably a mass grave under the house with hundreds of famine victims. As a result your house is riddled with dark spirits, best bet is to pack up and leave now before they drive you to a bitter end.

never heard of anyone hurt by a shadow, next time ill follow where it goes, could be hidden treasure

shar01 · 02-12-2012 01:20PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Are you telling porkies? That ad doesn't say anything about a murder!

Google Finbarr Fahy, Ardrahan. Looks like the same house to me.

Are estate agents obliged to mention past history or is it a case of "don't ask, don't tell?"

I don't think I could live in a house where a murder occurred. But then if the price and location was right, I probably get a priest, reverend, rabbi, iman to bless the place. Feck it... one bunch of ju-ju is as good as the next!

books4sale · 02-12-2012 01:23PM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

next time ill follow where it goes, could be hidden treasure

...or a trap! Have you checked for a medievel dungeon?

This country used to have up to 8 million people. With Cromwell running rampage back in the day murdering all round him theres mass graves all over this country under manys a house.

the keen edge · 02-12-2012 01:35PM

books4sale wrote: »

Why not?

Have a guess?
I'll give you a clue: it's not that I'm not keen on the wallpaper in the living room.

books4sale · 02-12-2012 01:49PM

the keen edge wrote: »

Have a guess?
I'll give you a clue: it's not that I'm not keen on the wallpaper in the living room.

Your religious?

Religion rules through the use of fear and suspicion, you'd want to start growing up now. There's no such thing as Santa Claus, tooth fairy, spirits or dead people coming back from the grave.

In other words there's nothing in the house, it's just four walls and a roof.

aaronjumper · 02-12-2012 02:06PM

Wouldn't bother me. After I put in new locks.

the keen edge · 02-12-2012 02:07PM

books4sale wrote: »

Your religious?

Religion rules through the use of fear and suspicion, you'd want to start growing up now. There's no such thing as Santa Claus, tooth fairy, spirits or dead people coming back from the grave.

In other words there's nothing in the house, it's just four walls and a roof.

Ok, so you're asking me if I'm religious and then answering for me that I am religiious, and then advising me to also grow up.

For the record it isn't the fear that the tortured sprints of the dead would haunt me; rather that the smell of death on the blood splattered wall wouldn't wash out.

But thanks anyway for your generous offer of pop-psychology, I've learned a lot from it.

Grayson · 02-12-2012 03:05PM

Ush1 wrote: »

The Amityville story was a hoax concocted by Defeo and his lawyer. He murdered his family for insurance fraud. Nothing to do with voices or ghosts.

I read that name in a north side accent.

Personally i'd have no problem. So long as the house had been well searched and there's no bodies hidden in the walls i'd be grand.

cazzak79 · 02-12-2012 05:12PM

My home house is couple hundreds years old people have died naturally can be weird If I thought about it! Murder be different tho might be haunted

upstairs for coffee · 02-12-2012 05:19PM

Hypothetically if it was a house were bankers and certain not so long ago ex taoiseachs were murdered, I'd certainly sleep very easily.

In general though, no.

AnonoBoy · 02-12-2012 05:22PM

Me sitting alone at night in such a house.

A deep booming voice echoes from the walls. "GET OUT!!!!!!!"

Me bangs on wall with broom. "F*cking keep it down in there you dead pr*ck. I'm trying to read a book out here"

Deep booming voice now slightly apologetic, "Sorry."

"That's better."

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

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