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WOULD YOU BUY A HOUSE IF....

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Grumpy Cat

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Grumpy Cat here. I'm in bed knitting and listening to Coast to Coast AM on the radio and they are talking about hauntings and house buying/selling. Would you buy a house if a tragedy had happened there such as a violent murder? (Ex. would be the Sharon Tate house.) I believe most states require that you disclose if a murder happened in the house and some require you disclose if you believe the house to be haunted.
 
I would buy it...for a friend. :D
But conveniently forget to tell them the place is haunted. :P
Joking.

Though that sounds like a pretty good idea for a horror story. :P
 
I'd buy it, but only if some kind of murder of significance happened there. The Sharon Tate house would be one

I don't really believe in superstitious stuff, so the idea of a haunted house.. meh. But for historical value of having a house where something happened; yeah sure. But along those same lines, I'd probably also buy a house if it was the set for a tv show, such as the house from Breaking bad. So for me it's more about the "iconic" value rather than the idea of it being haunted.
 
King_Oni said:
I'd buy it, but only if some kind of murder of significance happened there. The Sharon Tate house would be one

I don't really believe in superstitious stuff, so the idea of a haunted house.. meh. But for historical value of having a house where something happened; yeah sure. But along those same lines, I'd probably also buy a house if it was the set for a tv show, such as the house from Breaking bad. So for me it's more about the "iconic" value rather than the idea of it being haunted.
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King Oni, if they told you that you could have a free house over here in Iowa with everything paid - even water and electricity along with lifetime upkeep, would you take a house like this -

The Villisca Axe Murder House

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It looks innocent enough - just a nice old farmhouse. Except.......

These 2 adults and 6 children were all viciously axed to death - one right after the other - found dead in their beds. Must have been a real bloodbath. And how no one woke up during the murders I have no idea. The house was small and several slept in the same rooms. The house is extremely haunted and has been on several ghost hunter shows.

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Could you sleep in the original master bed where the ax marks can still be seen on the ceiling from the murderer's swings?

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All eight had come home on Sunday afternoon after church and the killer was hiding out in the small attic - for hours he stayed in that attack until all had gone to sleep and then the massacre began.

It's a historic place. Could you still live there after knowing who was murdered, how and where?
 
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Oh, I might... the house isn't really my style, but meh... if I need a place to live, sure thing. I'll see about those spirits haunting that house. I might give them a run for their money
 
King_Oni said:
Oh, I might... the house isn't really my style, but meh... if I need a place to live, sure thing. I'll see about those spirits haunting that house. I might give them a run for their money
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Wear some of your goth stuff and you may just scare them off! :p

You are unique, King Oni. You truly are unique. :)
 
Personally I wouldn't want to know the details of the house's previous residents (unless they hadn't paid their electricity bill). After all, t's not the house's fault if murders happened to take place there - they could just as easily have taken place in the neighbour's or any other house. A house is just a house - I wouldn't want to be prejudiced against it. If I found out later, it would make me feel uneasy, especially if the murderer hadn't been caught, but I don't know if it would be enough to make me think about moving.
 
What would be the point in haunting a house with an autistic person in it?o_O

"BOOOOO!"
-- no response....
"I said, BOOOOOOO!!"
-- still no response
"MOAAAANNNNNNN!!"
-- no response, flat affect
"@#$*#$&@&*&#!!" <chains rattling furiously>
-- no response, flat affect, delves deeper in hyperfocus in book on special interest
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I freakin' GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!! Haunt yourself! I am OUTTA HERE!!"

Ghosts: You have not been ignored until you have been ignored by an aspie!:D
 
Grumpy Cat said:
Would you buy a house if a tragedy had happened there such as a violent murder?
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No, not if it involved a violent murder. But a death itself...might depend on the nature of how the person passed. Of course a house is just a structure. Paranormal activity whether involving violence or not can extend to the grounds or involve a past structure that no longer exists. Or occur in a place or building with previous paranormal activity.

Then again in some cases you have sellers who are trying to capitalize on an alleged haunting which in fact, may have never taken place. So there's a wide variety of issues when making such considerations in the first place.
 
Would it be poss to make it so that the photo with the dead children in it is hidden unless a person clicks to view it?
 
At first I thought 'of course, I don't really believe in ghosts, etc..' But after thinking about it for 10 seconds or so, I would say what was I thinking. No, definately not. I already can spook myself with overactive imagination, just going into a dark place, etc. :eek:
 
Grumpy Cat said:
Grumpy Cat here. I'm in bed knitting and listening to Coast to Coast AM on the radio and they are talking about hauntings and house buying/selling. Would you buy a house if a tragedy had happened there such as a violent murder? (Ex. would be the Sharon Tate house.) I believe most states require that you disclose if a murder happened in the house and some require you disclose if you believe the house to be haunted.
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One word, NO. Or two words, hello no!

Regardless of whether hauntings are real or imaginary, I would personally find the 'feel' of the place to be uncomfortable & creepy.

In the US at least, such houses lose marketability in that it takes them an inordinately long time to sell & they sell for less than an otherwise comparable but untainted property. They also attract gawkers & tourists.

Yeah, GC, would you please remove the above picture of the children? That falls under "gore" & is really disturbing to sensitive people. Thank you. ;)
 
Vinca said:
Would it be poss to make it so that the photo with the dead children in it is hidden unless a person clicks to view it?
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I deleted the picture but it deleted all the pictures and I don't know how to get the others back.

King_Oni said:
Oh, I might... the house isn't really my style, but meh... if I need a place to live, sure thing. I'll see about those spirits haunting that house. I might give them a run for their money
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Could you help King Oni get the other stuff back minus that one picture?
 
I wonder how many houses have had no deaths in them at all. I've lived in houses that feel creepy, and lived in houses that feel clear and neutral. Right now I live in a house that 100 years old. Before I bought it I sat on the back porch for a while and told the talkative realtor that I needed to think. She wandered off around the corner. I decided that I like the place despite it being full of whatever history it has. So far, all is well; if there were ghosts then my moving in must have moved them out. Like the scene in My Neighbor Totoro, where all the little black soot spirits stream out into the evening winds.
 
Free of charge, utilities paid? Where do I sign? The house didn't kill those folks (e.g., via deadly mold or gas leak), an axe murderer did. Why should that concern me?

I don't believe in haunting, but the legend would probably keep the neighbors away, which would be a nice bonus.
 
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