WOULD YOU BUY A HOUSE IF....

[Vinca]

I deleted the picture but it deleted all the pictures and I don't know how to get the others back.



Could you help King Oni get the other stuff back minus that one picture?

Thanks for doing something about the photo

I don't think I'd be able to live in a house where I knew someone had been murdered as I have an over active imagination. Even in a 'non-murder' house, if it had a cellar, I think I'd have a problem, as I've seen too many films where something bad happens in the cellar.

 

[wyverary]

If it lowered the selling price, hell yeah! Then again, I am a scientific skeptic and don't believe in "hauntings"...so it's up to you. I hold absolutely no stock in anything that is said on Coast to Coast AM..but, again, that is opinion.

 

[Tia Maria]

Thanks for doing something about the photo

I don't think I'd be able to live in a house where I knew someone had been murdered as I have an over active imagination. Even in a 'non-murder' house, if it had a cellar, I think I'd have a problem, as I've seen too many films where something bad happens in the cellar.

A lot of older houses have "cellars" ... they provided a cool (in temperature) space for people to store all their canned foods etc ... I love old houses & don't mind cellars BUT I also would NOT want to live in a house where a murder took place. Not worried about ghosts, but just too creepy for me. I like a happy vibe.

 

[Grumpy Cat]

I hold absolutely no stock in anything that is said on Coast to Coast AM..but, again, that is opinion.

Yes, Wyv, that is your opinion, but the thread is not about "Coast To Coast AM" - its about whether one would buy a house that had a tragic past. Please stay on topic. Thank you.

 

[pax]

No. I could not live in a house where a violent murder occurred. I went on a ghost tour a year or so ago, and the guide took us to various sites. One she said she wouldn't point out the actual house but it was between these 2 cross streets. The husband had axed the wife to death (many years prior) and several people had bought/rented the old terrace since because it was "cool". Marriages mysteriously broke up, friends fell out, drug problems, drinking problems, domestic violence.

O, and most Australians would remember this case Katherine Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(no photos but not for the squeamish). No thanks!!!!

Edited to add: some people might think this is weird, but I visted Dachau , and even though it was a bright , sunny winters day it was like the buildings, the trees and the earth held the memory of what happened there. It was a thoroughly depressing and dismal place.

 

[Tom]

I was going to a PT that was near the Amityville Horror house. You can't stop drive by gawkers, who stop in the street an stare at your house. That was the real haunting of course as the house story was all a fake.

 

[Grumpy Cat]

No. I could not live in a house where a violent murder occurred. I went on a ghost tour a year or so ago, and the guide took us to various sites. One she said she wouldn't point out the actual house but it was between these 2 cross streets. The husband had axed the wife to death (many years prior) and several people had bought/rented the old terrace since because it was "cool". Marriages mysteriously broke up, friends fell out, drug problems, drinking problems, domestic violence.

O, and most Australians would remember this case Katherine Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(no photos but not for the squeamish). No thanks!!!!

Edited to add: some people might think this is weird, but I visted Dachau , and even though it was a bright , sunny winters day it was like the buildings, the trees and the earth held the memory of what happened there. It was a thoroughly depressing and dismal place.

I don't think you're weird at all! Me and my Ma have always been interested in ghosts and such. I'd love to stay in the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast. I sure wouldn't be doing any sleeping!

 

[Balkan1996]

Well, buying a place where somebody was massacred would be morbid, but wouldn't it be cool to have something like a medieval castle? With dungeons and a million rooms...
It would be intriguing to live in such a place, even if it has 'bloody' background. Of course, only if you consider 'ghosts' to be hallucinations.

 

[Sully]

As if being Aspie isn't odd enough, I don't think I'd also want to be the freak who lives in the haunted house. People driving by looking at you, teenagers daring each other to go in the back yard, too much attention.

 

[clg114]

I would not let the history of a house or so called paranormal activity affect my decision to buy a house. To me, the regular things that you would consider when buying a house, is what I would be looking at. Of course in my case, my wife would have just as much say in such a purchase. I'm pretty sure that she would not approve. I am not trying to be insensitive, but I saw nothing wrong with the photos that were posted. I see worse on the news and in the paper every day.

 

[Judge]

Even with the most conscientious forms of due diligence in buying a house, there are no metaphysical guarantees....

- Caveat Emptor.

 

[Flinty]

In this city? It's unlikely. Most of the murders here take place in one of two really undesirable neighbourhoods, so I wouldn't even want to live in the general area.

 

[Harrison]

Haunted houses don't bother me, they are usually haunted by one of two reasons -

1. the 'haunting' is just the residual energy of the traumatic event and can be dissipated.
2. The spirit doing the haunting is trapped, and is usually grateful to be released.

I usually find that if I hang my favourite picture up, they leave

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

Haunted houses don't bother me, they are usuall haunted by one of two reasons -

1. the 'haunting' is just the residual energy of the traumatic event and can be dissipated.
2. The spirit doing the haunting is trapped, and is usually grateful to be released.

I usually find that if I hang my favourite picture up, they leave

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That's so alarming, I won't even haunt my own house.

 

[Judge]

That's so alarming, I won't even haunt my own house.

Not every soul who passes is necessarily cognizant of their own death at the time. That would be alarming to me. To require assistance in "crossing over" with a great amount of time having already passed.

 

[Spiller]

Not every soul who passes is necessarily cognizant of their own death at the time. That would be alarming to me. To require assistance in "crossing over" with a great amount of time having already passed.

Just a thought..
One thing I notice, having had an interest in the paranormal for many years, is that we have a tendency to apply our perception of our world to everything else - ghosts, UFO's, faeries.. I think we limit ourselves and our understanding in this way - why should a trapped soul experience time as we do?
I imagine they can only be trapped by their own pain or sense of loss and it strikes me that, in that regard, that's no different to how we trap ourselves in life. Perhaps their apparent predicament is part of the learning process of being alive and they subsequently move on to where/when ever they're meant to be next when they are ready to.
Just because we experience time linearly may not mean that things work anything like the same way from such a different perspective..

 

[Judge]

I think we limit ourselves and our understanding in this way - why should a trapped soul experience time as we do?

Exactly. Living humans do tend to be ethnocentric beings in a broad way. Who are more apt to relate to everyone- and everything from only their own known perspective. The plane of existence they're on with a specific understanding of time, space and distance. And a science of physics to back it all up.

However for alternate planes of existence, things like time, space and distance may have profoundly different meanings. Or be void of them altogether.

In essence, "the living" occupy only one plane of existence. That our perception of what is really out there is terribly limited and skewed. That all too often we exclusively relate only to our plane of existence based on only one understanding of physics.

 

[Jaywalker]

Not every soul who passes is necessarily cognizant of their own death at the time.

They are dead nevertheless. Gone.

 

[Judge]

They are dead nevertheless. Gone.

Just transcending one plane of existence to another. Never really gone- let alone "dead".

 

[Jaywalker]

Just transcending one plane of existence to another. Never really gone- let alone "dead".

There's no reason to believe they are not gone forever. The matter of their bodies (and its associated microbes) are all that remain.