Would you live in this home??... (sad story)

Nikki_WantsIt

Back in the 70's there was a pregnant wife and mother, her son (2 I believe) and her daughter (4?) who were brutally murdered with a bush axe.... Her husband was the main suspect. They had the trial 2 years ago and I attended in support of her very elderly parents who attended my grandparents church. It was very sad and sickening... The man was charged with the murder of his wife, unborn child, son & daughter..... It was insane sitting in the same room as a piece of scum who did such a thing...
Anyways, the house is located in a nearby neighborhood. It's actually directly across the street from my cousins house.
People do live in that very house and they MUST know about what happened in that house... I mean, do realtors have to tell you when things like that have happened in your potential home?? If not, then they had to have known when trial time came.. the house was all over our local news.

My question is: Would you live in this house if you knew about this horrific (to say the least) tragedy?....

ScatteredThoughts

I would rather not know, and be able to pick a place without having something like that on my mind. All kinds of things have happened of which we are unaware.

Slight tangent - Read Ash Wednesday, by Chet Williamson. It is a horror story in which suddenly the apparitions of anyone who has died appear, in the exact spot where they died, frozen as in the moment at which death occurred..

MelsAuntie

Why not? It's just a house. As long as the bloodstains came out or the carpet was replaced, it wouldn't bother me at all.

Contrarian

Is it a nice house?

CrankMeUp

i am a wee drunklish...this is creepy.

Sublimely_Self_Righteous

Yeah. Probably.

diodelcibo

Yes , I don't see why not.

m76b

nope... I will be thinking about that every single minute:noway:

but that's me!

BeachIron

Was it sold at a tidy discount?

It's a house. A thing. It has neither a soul nor ghosts. With some estimates of over 100 billion people having lived and died on this earth, there is a very good chance that someone died in the general vicinity of wherever you may be standing at any given time. The water you drink has been recycled millions of times by other humans and animals as it is with the food and its base elements. Such is life and death.

Sublimely_Self_Righteous

nope... I will be thinking about that every single minute:noway:

but that's me!

I bet the ghosts would stare at the tramp stamp you're going to get soon lol

chocolate_totoro

Was it sold at a tidy discount?

It's a house. A thing. It has neither a soul nor ghosts. With some estimates of over 100 billion people having lived and died on this earth, there is a very good chance that someone died in the general vicinity of wherever you may be standing at any given time. The water you drink has been recycled millions of times by other humans and animals as it is with the food and its base elements. Such is life and death.

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BinaryPulsar

All kinds of things have happened of which we are unaware.

I agree with this. Lots of people live in homes that horrible things have happened in, and they just don't know. Sometimes you may never know, sometimes you can search news story archives and find out all kinds of stuff (some people find that interesting). It's life. It's still a good home. It's not the home's fault. The only problem may be that it might be difficult to make friends and have them over, if lots of people associate the home with the horrible memories and the friends they lost. In situations like that, it can be difficult for people to go into the home without breaking down and crying, as much as they want the people living there to be happy and not think about the bad stuff, some reactions are just hard to not have.

oldandhealthier

I imagine just about all older houses or flats has had someone die in them, it is just part of life. I know through the years I have lived in more than one that had a death in them.

slw87

Yeah the house didn't kill anyone...

teagirlmedium

I would live in the house. I have looked up whether or not the real estate agent has to tell people, I only found that they have to in certain states. That may have changed or what I found could have been wrong, I looked it up after watching a horror movie.

DanIsACyclingFool

I grew up on a property where the wife had allegedly poisoned her husband with mushrooms. We lived in Niagara on the Lake which was the site of MANY battles circa 1812 and terrible deaths. And I now live right where the Battle of Beaverdams (also 1812) took place. Nothing TOO scary has happened...(but that's another thread)

A property's history goes back far further than we tend to think...bad stuff has been done most everywhere at one time or another. They make fascinating stories and great midnight scare-tales. I wouldn't really want to live somewhere where something so brutal happened so recently, but I bet the price was reflective of the history. I might be able to put most things out of my mind and buy such a place.

But an multiple axe murder only a few years back...yi....I dunno. Same with those people that moved into the old mortuary in Connecticut...a little too Amityville-like I suppose.

BeachGingerOnTheRocks

Was it sold at a tidy discount?

It's a house. A thing. It has neither a soul nor ghosts. With some estimates of over 100 billion people having lived and died on this earth, there is a very good chance that someone died in the general vicinity of wherever you may be standing at any given time. The water you drink has been recycled millions of times by other humans and animals as it is with the food and its base elements. Such is life and death.

Profound.

DanIsACyclingFool

You know what's even more frightening?

That the murder happened in the 70's and the trial was in 2011!

danasings

This doesn't answer your question, but why did it take 40 years to bring the man to trial?

TavistockToad

When my husband and I were moving house the estate agents sent us the details of a house where a man had killed his wife and kids and himself.... It was a right bargain, but my husband refused point blank to go and look at it.

I would have gone to see if it felt creepy....

saschka7

I wouldn't...I just wouldn't feel comfortable. I'm probably being superstitious but....no. Even if it were dirt cheap, I still would not live there, especially if it happened recently.

SoViLicious

This doesn't answer your question, but why did it take 40 years to bring the man to trial?

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CapnGordo

... brutally murdered with a bush axe....

Sorry, but I find it difficult to believe that is possible. Maybe cause some nasty cuts, but...

BrainyBurro

speaking of which... i have a house for sale in a nice area in NY. good schools, high taxes. anyone interested?

DanIsACyclingFool

speaking of which... i have a house for sale in a nice area in NY. good schools, high taxes. anyone interested?

How are the houseflies out that way?

whierd

I would, but I don't believe in ghosts.

saschka7

speaking of which... i have a house for sale in a nice area in NY. good schools, high taxes. anyone interested?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

BrainyBurro

speaking of which... i have a house for sale in a nice area in NY. good schools, high taxes. anyone interested?

How are the houseflies out that way?

only bad in one of the rooms.

twinketta

This doesn't answer your question, but why did it take 40 years to bring the man to trial?

We had a similar situation in the UK and they have only just demolished the house. The reason being is that there could have been some questions later on and they would need the house as evidence.

Having said that, it was only a couple of years and they demolished `the house` and each one at either side of it.

Dogwalkingirl

Real estate agents where I am from (Ontario Canada) do you have to let people know if ANYONE has died in a house. It doesnt have to be a murder etc. My grandfather died in his house and we need to let people know when my grandma decides to sell.

I have a fairly active imagination so if I bought a house where something liek that happened I would think about it a lot. However, as others have said; it is a house. If I got it as a good price I would for sure buy it!

My aunt and uncle used to live in a house where native Canadians were apparently hanged. It was used as a pub/hotel back in the day. I love going to her house as people often said they saw things and heard weird noises. The house held a lot of history..its good for stories....better then living in a cookie cutter townhouse if you ask me.

melindasuefritz

NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!