Would you buy a murder house?

Dughorm · 05-12-2015 12:15PM #1

So a friend of mine is looking at a house and it turns out that a house in a good area which is perfect for her was the scene of a murder about 10 years ago. Now she's not so sure. I asked why but she can't really put her finger on it and I'm the same.

What would you do in this situation?

Poll on its way...

eviltwin · 05-12-2015 12:17PM

Once it's not a mecca for ghoulish sightseeing then I'd have no issues.

Frynge · 05-12-2015 12:17PM

Lightning doesn't strike twice.

She better hope.

Dozen Wicked Words · 05-12-2015 12:18PM

The jilted jockey murders?

El Guapo! · 05-12-2015 12:18PM

I don't think the murderer comes with the house.

biko · 05-12-2015 12:18PM

Every house is a murder house if it's old enough.

screamer · 05-12-2015 12:19PM

Problem is if she bought it and then wanted to sell it would anyone else want to buy it? Not me bad vibes around such places even if it was 10 years ago........

cantdecide · 05-12-2015 12:21PM

Morning, Dear, Cup of tea?

RobbingBandit · 05-12-2015 12:22PM

Less likely to buy for economic reasons. I'd buy it for the laugh and offer tours.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 05-12-2015 12:22PM

As long as I wasn't stepping over the corpse to make a cuppa, then sure. I'd be using it as a bargaining chip too

"ah jaysus, I dunno, the resale value would be feck all, you probably haven't much interest from anyone else, so you haven't.. maybe if the price was a bit lower...."

Guy:Incognito · 05-12-2015 12:25PM

I'd insist on it. If the estate agent is dedicated enough to his job he'll make it a murder house if it wasnt before.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 05-12-2015 12:27PM

rizzodun · 05-12-2015 12:27PM

I'd just murder the chance to be able to buy my own house

Baybay · 05-12-2015 12:28PM

Our house wasn't where a murder took place but a previous owners mode of transport was stolen to move the body. It was years ago, long before we bought & we've lived in it for nearly twenty years. We knew this when we bought. I think of it occasionally but that's about it.

nullzero · 05-12-2015 12:28PM

"Ahhhhh, purple drapes".

Fr_Dougal · 05-12-2015 12:56PM

biko wrote: »

Every house is a murder house if it's old enough.

Death house maybe, but not a murder house.

Medusa22 · 05-12-2015 12:57PM

I wouldn't buy a murder house, but mainly because I think for me it would be ''tainted'' before I even moved in, I know it sounds a bit ridiculous and I'm not superstitious but somehow I'd just take it as a bad omen and I wouldn't want to start a new life in there. I guess I'd also be thinking about the person who was murdered and the fear and the terror they must have felt and gone through before they died and I doubt I'd be able to get it out of my mind, and I just wouldn't feel safe or comfortable somehow.

suicide_circus · 05-12-2015 12:58PM

I'm a torso!

Mesrine65 · 05-12-2015 01:00PM

Four walls, a roof, electricity/gas/water...I couldn't give a fuck if it's Jeffrey Dahmer's gaff

La Fenetre · 05-12-2015 01:01PM

biko wrote: »

Every house is a murder house if it's old enough.

Since when ?

Whitewinged · 05-12-2015 01:06PM

When we were buying our home, we were going to look at one but found out that there were two tragic deaths that occurred separately within a short amount of time. Like others have said, I just felt it would be tainted. Also even now when I hear a noise in my own house and if get a bit irrationally scared for a minute then I always think I'm glad we didn't buy that house.

cantdecide · 05-12-2015 01:07PM

Someone bought my third class teacher's old house and he was a convicted and jailed pedophile. I suppose Paddy really does love a bargain.

Dughorm · 05-12-2015 01:10PM

Medusa22 wrote: »

I wouldn't buy a murder house, but mainly because I think for me it would be ''tainted'' before I even moved in, I know it sounds a bit ridiculous and I'm not superstitious but somehow I'd just take it as a bad omen and I wouldn't want to start a new life in there. I guess I'd also be thinking about the person who was murdered and the fear and the terror they must have felt and gone through before they died and I doubt I'd be able to get it out of my mind, and I just wouldn't feel safe or comfortable somehow.

This.

It's weird isn't it, even though logically, there's probably no reason why living in a murder house would put you at higher risk of "evil" than the next door neighbour!

It's almost as if the house is "unclean".... is that superstition or something more?

Imagine walking into the kitchen to grab a cuppa and while you're standing there waiting for the kettle to boil you look into the middle distance and see with your minds eye at what could have happened across from you in the same room... shudder!!

The Pheasant2 · 05-12-2015 01:11PM

Yeah I'd buy it - I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious

Custardpi · 05-12-2015 01:15PM

What makes a house grand
Ain't the roof or the doors
If there's love in a house
It's a palace for sure

Tom Waits

So long as the area itself is ok to live in I don't see the issue. Unless of course the murderer is still on the loose. Once the blood has been cleared up, the heads removed from the fridge etc the house can move on, regardless of what has happened there before. If you're superstitious about its past you can get a priest/shamen to do a blessing/drive the evil spirits out etc.

biko · 05-12-2015 01:17PM

La Fenetre wrote: »

Since when ?

Since you killed that spider in the bathroom

Brindor · 05-12-2015 01:19PM

Whats their to fear?
A ghoul and some Tourists who might take a picture every once in a while?
Of course, I would probably feel uncomfortable for the first few days living there, and every drop of water would sound something dropping to the ground.
But meh, you would get used to it after a while.

La Fenetre · 05-12-2015 01:19PM

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Yeah I'd buy it - I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious

I wouldn't, and I'm not superstitious either.

Who's wants to relax on the patio with their family, where Eamon Lillis bludgeoned his wife to death, when there are plenty other houses for sale elsewhere ?

I wouldn't buy a house where people were burned to death in either.

Who wants to be reminded from time to time, such an event and details occurring in their home, and who wants to set up home in such a house ? Who wants to be forever known as a cheapskate ghoul for buying it ? Add to the fact it'll never be worth it's full value in living memory, if you ever go to sell again, it's simply a bad investment. Maybe you could buy such a house to rent out, but I doubt if I'll ever be that desperate.

the evasion_kid · 05-12-2015 01:23PM

ive rented in a murder house,never knew until i was a few months living there and never felt uneasy after being told.ive been in a house were there was two suicides though and that felt eerie

Eugene Norman · 05-12-2015 01:26PM

I lived in a Georgian building built late 1700's in England. Rebuilt and modernised on the inside. Quite a few people died there I imagine. Probably in my bedroom.

No evidence of murder, not that I looked up the history.

Dughorm · 05-12-2015 01:28PM

Custardpi wrote: »

If you're superstitious about its past you can get a priest/shamen to do a blessing/drive the evil spirits out etc.

That's interesting you say that because I don't think I'd be affected by the thought of evil spirits still living in the walls or anything like that, which would be superstitious in my opinion, it's more the fact that *this bad thing happened here in my kitchen*.

I've read stories about the feeling people get when they visit the nazi concentration camps and so on - I wonder is it a bit like that?

Hmm I wonder do German auctioneers selling nearby properties to these places emphasise the "stunning views of a historical monument" or the likely fact that people working in the concentration camps probably lived there?!

Edit: And yet who gets an errie feeling visiting say the Tower of London or Dublin Castle where thousands of people have been tortured and killed over the centuries?! Strange isn't it!

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