Creepy Houses

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Mrs.Macanudo

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Do you believe in ghosts?

-Could you live in a house that someone was murdered in?

-If you already lived in a house and then found out that someone had been killed there (murdered or accidental death), would you move out? Would the manner of death make a difference to you?

-Could you live in a house that used to be a funeral home?

-Would you move even if it would create a financial hardship?

-Would you remain in a home where your spouse or your child had died in? Or any of your family or friends had passed away in?

Just curious.

I don't think I could live someplace where someone had been murdered. Accidental death?....not sure about that. Just gives me the creeps....
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I don't believe in ghosts.

Living in a house that someone was murdered in would creep me out a little.

If I found out after I had already moved in, it would depend on the circumstances, but I would probably not move out. The manner of death wouldn't matter so much as the motivation (ie, drive by would bother me more than dude offing his wife). I would move w/ hardship if my safety was concerned, not because of being creeped out.

I couldn't live a funeral home, but it would be because of cleanliness concerns.

As to a family member, it would depend on the nature of the passing. If it was a child, regardless of circumstance I would have to move, but a spouse/other family/friends could be different depending on how they died. I had a good friend pass from cancer a few years back, but he died peacefully in his bed. If the situation presented itself, I would not avoid his house.
 
I lived in a house where the previous owner decorated the living room wall with his brains after eating a 12 gauge. When my roommates moved in before me, there was still blood soaked into the carpet. They had to cut it out.
Money was tight, and the rent was cheap, so I didn't mind.
Had some pretty bad nightmares the 2-3 years I was there.

The street address was 1313.
 
I don't live in a creepy house but I'm getting tired of all the post cards I'm getting about "We buy ugly houses". What are they trying to tell me?
 
About 6 years ago my wife and I were looking at a really great house on Perry lane, Just North of 45th St. It was, in retrospect, the last of the reasonable prices over there, before all the crackheads stepped in and started paying $200/sf for cheaply constructed tract homes in Allendale and crestview, but I digress.

This house kicked ***- good materials, builder's house, in great shape, great light, good lot, beautiful backyard with a door and patio off the master bedroom, kickass garage, great kitchen, whole package. 3-2-2, 2300 SF, ~$230K.

So we're looking at the house and the seller happens to be there. I'm reading the disclosure and I get to the part about whether anybody had died in the house- the box is checked yes.

So I ask the seller "somebody died in the house? When?"

Him:"Before I bought it- a retarded adult man lived with his mother, an old woman. The neighbors told me she was mean and highly abusive. Anyway, one day he took a hammer and beat her to death with it in the backyard, right off the bedroom. He went back into the state hospital. I bought the house from her estate."

Me: "Oh. OK"

My Wife: "Do you ever sense anything?"

Him: "What? No."


We didn't buy that house.
 
Forgot...my wife and I lived in her grandfather's house in Travis Heights after he passed away at home. Never bothered me, because he was an awesome person.
 
Do you believe in ghosts?

No.

Could you live in a house that someone was murdered in?

Sure, why not? Unless there was a smell...

If you already lived in a house and then found out that someone had been killed there (murdered or accidental death), would you move out? Would the manner of death make a difference to you?

No and no (unless they died from asbestos or mold inhalation).

Could you live in a house that used to be a funeral home?

Probably not.

Would you move even if it would create a financial hardship?

No.

Would you remain in a home where your spouse or your child had died in? Or any of your family or friends had passed away in?

Probably not and probably

The thing is, death doesn't creep me out, and even though I said I wouldn't live in a former funeral home, I could also see myself living in such a place. As long as it didn't smell of chemicals... Or worse...
 
I believe in Ghost. the paranormal is one of my passions.

I would not want to live in a haunted house nor one that saw tragedy like death or murder.
 
a house that has experienced a murder has very bad ju ju...the energy from that horror will remain and haunt the inhabitants and ways they may not realize.
 
There was a murder across from my window a few years back - a guy shot his ex-girlfriend through her front door (my girlfriend heard the whole thing and had to testify in the trial. I was passe... err, asleep, and missed it all). For a while, the door of the apartment was missing. I guess the police had it. Then there was a new door on the apartment, and then a new tenant. I always wonder if the apartment manager told the new tenant what happened to the last one.
 
Do you believe in ghosts?

Yes, I do. Although, they don't scare me.

-Could you live in a house that someone was murdered in?

If it was a violent murder, it would probably creep me out to the point that I would find it difficult to live there.

-If you already lived in a house and then found out that someone had been killed there (murdered or accidental death), would you move out? Would the manner of death make a difference to you?

Probably not. But, if it was a violent death I might call the family priest to come and bless the house. Ya know, "just to make sure".


-Could you live in a house that used to be a funeral home?

Funny you should ask this. Growing up, my dad was a mortician/funeral director, and we lived in a house that was just across the parking lot from the funeral home. I guess the fact that I didn't know any differently, it never creeped me out. It was just where Daddy worked. As for friends coming over, we always had them come thru the front door, and the yard had a privacy fence that provided a "barrier" between the backyard/pool and the parking lot/funeral home. I never mentioned to them that that was where my Dad worked, and no one asked. Fortunately, we moved before I started dating. I'm sure it could have put a crimp in my dating life, if guys had had to come pick me up from that house.

-Would you move even if it would create a financial hardship?

I doubt it. Again, would just call Father Larry and ask him to bring the holy water and rosary beads.

-Would you remain in a home where your spouse or your child had died in? Or any of your family or friends had passed away in?

It would depend on the way they died. We stayed in the house that my dad died in for a number of years. Of course, he died in his sleep. So there was no violence factor at play there.
 
I made an offer on a home where a woman had committed suicide. A longtime neighbor began talking to me and my agent over the back fence about how much work/expense a young couple had put into the home before moving away to bigger home.

I asked what happened to the next owner. He told us she killed herself after her father died. That explained the hole in the carpet with the bottle of bleach beside it and the odd fact the home seemed to be a foreclosure but wasn't bank owned.

It was a good price and someone beat me with an offer. The home was on the market less than a week.
 
I'm wondering these days about my house. Built almost 60 years ago. Not too long ago, I was in the main closet and happened to look up at the ceiling at a certain angle. There's an entrance to the attic there but it's just a cut-out square of plaster that leads to the crawl space up there. You'd have to push it up, put it aside, and go upwards. There is no pull-down ladder or any way of access whatsoever besides having to drag a ladder into the closet. There were at least a dozen child-sized handprints on the tiny, square attic entrance. I'd have to estimate hands the size of a 6-year old or younger. Did I go up in the attic through that closet to investigate? Hell no. Also, one time when I was alone, I swear I heard the voice of a little girl saying "Daddy?" The other 2 things I've witnessed I won't even mention, will chalk it up to bizarre appliance malfunctions because it's just way too Poltergeist. I don't even know that I believe in ghosts, I just am bewildered by what I've seen.
 
Roundhouse,

That's creepy as hell. Does it lead to the regular attic, or a separate, secret one?

When I was a kid, my aunt had an old house in Orange. Upstairs, there was a secret room. The door was about 3 feet tall and blended right into the paneling. You couldn't see it at all. Us kids used to play together in that room all the time when we were over there. All of us heard voices in that house, including adults, and felt weird sensations. Not a single one of us kids, however, would step foot in that hidden room alone.
 
A guy at work just finished out his attic and included a small room for his kids that is hidden behind a bookcase that slides into the wall. I imagine 60 years from now that might creep out some future occupants.
 
i've eaten at a restaurant in a former house that several people were murdered in. the old cullen davis mansion in fort worth. it was some mexican restaurant, but i don't think it lasted long.
 
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I'd be curious in hearing the reasons why some people who don't believe in ghosts are still creeped out about living in a house where someone had been killed or that used to be funeral home.
 
My wife and I lived, up until last week, in a building where about 15 years ago a prostitute was strangled and thrown out of a window. I got curious when I heard that and found out this was indeed true and got in touch with the police department to ask where in the building this occurred. The interior of the building has been renovated since, but I found she was murdered on the 12th floor and thrown out of a window on the SE corner of the building. Or, in other words, she was tossed out of our living room.

For the next several nights it creeped me out a bit as I wondered where in the apartment she had been killed, but the feeling subsided and then went away to the point where I never really thought about it any more. I never told my wife, as she would have been on the phone with the movers about 5 seconds later, and now that we've just purchased a home and moved out I don't think I'll tell her either.

It was a little creepy when our now 13 month old would stare down the hall looking at nothing and just smile and/or laugh for no good reason. But it really didn't make any difference to me that this person was strangled to death and tossed out of our 12th story living room window. I kind of felt bad about that.
 
in my grandma's house someone died in a fire. well the fire was next door, but the badly burned man managed to get to her house (while my family lived there), but died inbetween the screen door and the real door knocking for help.


the house was haunted. all 9 kids have had experiences in it.

as well as myself and my cousins.


oh and roundhouse... GO LOOK! you might find some kind of creepy cell where some dad kept his kids, like the dude in austria. and their bodies are still there needing to be found.
 
speaking of which, here is a question:

what if the old austrian dude had died of old age, leaving his daugher and grandkids/kids to die in the hidden rooms.

a few years after you move in and find the rooms, with the bodies, would you move out?
 
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