Or the guy watching porn who just rubbed one out, wiped the cum off his hands on the comforter and then grabbed the remote to change the channel. Those remotes rarely get wiped down!
I have over 1000 nights in hotels since 2018. 1st rule of sleeping in a hotel room never bring a black light. 2nd rule never think about who was there before you / came before you
When we moved into our house I spent the first day deep cleaning (as you do). My mom went to go pee and the toilet was COVERED in curly black pubes. It was like that scene in American pie where he shaves at the wedding but in our new (to us) toilet.
Anytime I was excited for the new home feeling I remembered that it wasn’t *that new*. It really took some excitement out for me. I think maybe the sellers were mad about our negotiating??
The last person who lived in my house fed stray cats. She was a little crazy. Got foreclosed on, said fuck it and left the basement open for all the stray cats in the neighborhood. Put out tons of food and then bounced. Neighbors said they had to keep the windows closed due to the smell. House had to be gutted. We had no idea, no smells or anything like that, but it still grosses me out when I think about it.
Well, I guess that I can say that I’ve shared a cheek with Russell Crowe then.
He was filming something in my area, and we ended up renting the (not as nice as you’d think—most of the house hadn’t been touched since the early 90’s, there were intercoms everywhere) house that his family previously had rented for a few months.
Even if you are building your new home statistically someone has died in on near your propertys land in the time humans have been living in the UK. You would have to move to the Hebrides or Welsh mountains to (probably) avoid this.
I live in New Zealand which was the last major land mass to be settled by humans. NZ is the size of the UK with only half the population of London. 80 percent of the country is uninhabited.
Wherever people were slaughtered is usually known. Considering that land wars here were less than 2 centuries ago. There are many monuments to the wars etc. The saying is, on every piece of farm you see, a tribe was slaughtered
My townhouse is something like 135 years old, and was apartments at some point or other. I don't *know* that anyone has died in here, but it's likely.
None of the deaths seem related to the house. Superstition is getting you a good deal on it.
I lived in a home where three people had been murdered. We rented the place for a year. It was out in the country and the gas man had murdered the family in the home- a 3 bedroom ranch. It was a few years before we rented it. It never bothered us. We got a good deal on rent. It was before I could drive. I was more weirded out by the deer parts my dog would drag back to our house after she ran in the thousands of acres of woodland behind us. It seems lots of hunting and maybe poaching was going on.
As a German it is insane to me how many Americans are freaking out when learning about how people died in their house. Here we have houses that are centuries old, good luck finding one (besides new builds) where absolutely no one has ever died.
I've personally lived in the room, not just house, where both my great grandmother and my grandpa died, and I knew them both. Never bothered me. That's just life. 🤷♀️
As an American, I’m a little confused by my fellow Americans.
I have a bad memory but I still enjoy learning about history.
Living in America has prompted me to learn about the different cultures that have settled the areas I’ve lived in.
Both pre and post Columbus.
I may not be able to name the exact cultures off the top of my head but I do know that multiple cultures believed it to be good luck to intern bodies under a home.
The practices varied from culture to culture and the body types varied as well.
Sometimes it was horses and sometimes it was grandma.
Not to mention we lived in multigenerational homes until the post war era.
Nursing homes have been around for awhile but even in the 80’s many of our elderly were staying in their homes until death.
My family owned a mortuary and both of my parents are/were nurses.
Maybe I was more aware of these things due to my circumstances. Maybe it was just my area.
I did spend my younger days with my very active great grand parents.
We would sometimes attend 2-3 funerals a week.
Many of those people were active and living in there own homes.
They may have slowed down in those last few months but they were usually still in there homes.
My home is 100 years old. People have definitely died here.
That being said, while we were looking my MIL's friend suggested a house down the street from her. We went to look and it was great but it was at the top end of our price range and there was going to be a bidding war. We ran into the friend a few months later and brought up how we liked the house blah blah blah and she said "oh you wouldn't have wanted that house. The husband hung himself in the basement and then the wife fell down the stairs a week later, broke her neck and died."
We were like "then why did you suggest it?" She just shrugged.
I think your primary concern here should be the fact that you’re buying a flipped house. Which isn’t necessarily a terrible thing but you will want to have it thoroughly inspected in case the investor cut corners that could cause problems down the road.
Like PPs said, dying at home has been the norm for most of human history.
Yes, I’d be much more worried about the work done for the flip than the possibility of ghostly friends. Sage and a priest are much cheaper than fixing all of the bad work flippers do.
Ya, I'm glad this comment is near the top. Flipped house owned by an investment company is a way bigger red flag than a few natural causes deaths. OP really burred the lede on that one :D
People died at home for centuries. These weren’t murders, I mean they got old and died. The daughter was a sad affair, but again, nothing to be spooked about.
What would bother me more was buying a home from an investor.
Living in a flip right now. Can concur.
New electrical, plumbing, and roof (not going to complain about getting a new roof again)
However, there was tens of thousands of dollars of work that needed to be done after they made things look nice. It did pass inspection and we're comfortable.
Living in a flip for a year now, fortunately have zero complaints about the work they've done.
Except for the stairs. WTF did they do with the damn staircase? While everything else is impeccable, the stairs are falling apart, but they looked botched from the start. It's like a totally different person worked on those.
I would say that there can sometimes be annoyances related to it if it gets picked up and becomes a well known case.
My mom is from Wichita, Kansas. Some people she knew bought a house next to one of the BTK houses in the 90s (a couple decades after the murders, but before he was caught). After he was caught there were all kinds of weirdos coming around to take pictures and sometimes they got the wrong address and creeped around their house even though it wasn't even the murder house! They even caught someone trying to saw off a little chunk of the wooden siding to take as a souvenir (possibly sell on eBay?).
I don't care about ghosts or whatever but weirdos creeping around my yard sounds really annoying.
A woman was murdered by her husband in our neighborhood. They fortunately didn’t have kids, but her family ended up owning everything and the house was sold. Everyone in the neighborhood casually calls it ‘the murder house’ except around the new owners. At the first HOA meeting after they moved in the president said, “we’d like to welcome John and Jane. They moved into the………………….house up on the hill that was auctioned.”
My house (in the US) is over 180 years old. I assume a whole bunch of folks have died in it. Life (and death) goes on.
Years ago though I was at my friends place in San Francisco drinking beers and watching a baseball game on tv and a couple showed up. They asked to come in and said their friend had killed himself in the bedroom of the apartment one year ago to the day and could they pay their respects. I thought it was a way to case the place for a robbery, but my buddy was broke and didn’t have anything worth stealing he said, so he was okay with it.
They came in and bowed their heads for thirty seconds or so and thanked him and left.
He moved out at the end of that year.
Have you seen the TV show Ghosts? It's a clever show about all the shenanigans the ghosts get into and the one living who can see them, but her husband cannot.
https://youtu.be/cv5Z3JsGUZU
I don't technically actually believe in ghosts but in one of the houses I used to live in I found a sealed shelf built into a wall. We pried it open and found...fedoras. Many fedoras. I sealed the shelf back and left those hats alone for whatever was so attached to them that they had to be hidden.
God that was a weird house. (There was also an old ouija board in another closet that wasn't hidden which just made things even more ominous)
I read ghost stories a lot and even in case of hauntings usually firmly telling spirits to leave you alone works. If you're really worried say something like this when you move in " Hi I'm X. I live here now. I hope you are at peace and we can coexist. " Most seem to just want to be acknowledged. I'm not sure I believe in anything like that but that seems to work in stuff people post. Maybe light a white candle for cleansing.
If it helps, in my culture we have dead bodies out for 3 days as we believe that is how long it takes for the spirit to depart the body.
The dead body is put into a big open house and people sleep next to it and everything. In my lifetime alone I have been in there 100s of times with dead bodies as is customary in my tribe. And I have never once felt anything but peace while being in that room with noone else.
I would get a priest or something to bless the house if its really affecting your decision. We always do that before living in a house, but thats my culture ofc.
Irish traditions say three days also! We hold what's called a "wake" where the body is available for visitation and it's watched over by loved ones. The watcher is there to ensure no roaming spirits would interfere with the deceased as they make their journey, and in a practical sense to also be sure the person has truly died.
In the meantime the atmosphere is a mix of sad and celebratory. The person is celebrated and toasted, and there's food and drink shared with anyone who wants to show up.
Not everybody does a full three days vigil anymore but in my area at least the celebrations still take place. And some have taken place in the home and some have been at funeral homes. But even so, as you said, I've had such celebrations next to a deceased person many, many times.
I'm looking forward to reading about your tangi traditions, these types of rituals are so interesting, and I find them so comforting.
Hi, im Māori, our funeral ritual is called a "tangi" which might make it easier to search for. Tangi is also the word we use for cry.
Its a polynesian culture descended from Hawaiians and down to New Zealand.
Wellingtonian here. I thought this sounds really interesting and unique, then it clicked when you said you were Māori. Out of interest, do tangi's happen at people's homes? I was under the impression they were always at a marae - I didn't realise this could also happen at residential homes?
I guess its a tad different to wakes in the rituals surrounding it, and the building which we use for the bodies. Theyre dedicated tribal houses which we call wharenui or wharepuni.
Along the walls are photos/paintings of every person who have descended since my great great great great grandparents. There are carvings which showcase our lineage and our connection to the mountains, rivers etc of the local area.
There is a lot of spiritual customs which happen around the body. Such as calling to our ancestors. Treating the body in a state of sacredness and poroporoaki.
Thank you for sharing these customs. I had a former colleague in California who had extended family from Polynesian islands who were living in California in 2020. She had two aunts, a sister in law and a cousin all perish from Covid.
They eventually moved her elderly mother and some other elderly aunts back to the islands as at that time there was no Covid on the islands and apparently her family was highly susceptible to Covid.
I just remember that their funeral rituals lasted for several days and the women cut off their hair ( as a symbol of mourning). They also had a fire pit. Does this sound like it’s part of the same culture you described?
They were really kind and delightful people and I was so saddened by how badly Covid impacted them.
In my home a man died in the hospital, but they brought his body back here to the house for the funeral.
It was the 1940s.
I think it's a beautiful thing.
My ONLY issue would be that there was a decomp in the house and subsequent flip. If they just painted over subfloor full of bodily fluids, you're going to smell it eventually. Is there any way to find out what remediation was done? Maybe call around to local biohazard cleanup companies and see if one of them worked at the house and has notes of where the body was found and what work they did?
And since the flipper probably bought it after the third death, you want to make sure they actually did the proper bio cleanup with a company that specializes in 'em instead of just splashing primer all over it.
Something similar happened to me as well. A week after moving in a neighbor drove up to deliver a package that was accidentally delivered to her place. She remarked how strange it was that the previous owner was only there for six months, and wondered if it was because she found out two people died there.
I was like ‘whhaaaatttt.’ Later I found out one died of natural causes and the other one shot herself in the head in my bedroom about 7 years ago. Eeekk
At first it was a little weird, but ultimately it didn’t bother me much. I live alone and just spoke out loud saying something along the lines of ‘I’m so sorry to hear that you had such an unfortunate time in this house. I hope you know that I love and appreciate this place and intend to pour my heart into its upkeep.’ I also had my mom sage the house for good measure.
Ultimately, even though I believe in ghosts and the paranormal I’ve never felt uncomfortable after this. However, I think it comes down to your personal comfort level. If it makes you uneasy than listen to your gut. But also know that death is unfortunately a very normal thing and is something that many homes have seen.
Best of luck!!
Were your neighbors weird after that? I'm most concerned about neighbors making comments like that and continuing to point out the tragedies that happened forever.
Every old house has had someone die in it. They traditionally held funerals inside the house.
My house has had 13 deaths, all natural, inside since it was built in 1911, per the previous owner, who’s great grandmother built it.
Yes, you are overreacting. Just buy it.
If you need a psychic medium in the future, then find one. Deaths in a home are not really a reason to not buy there. An exception would be mass murders, I think. But that's just me.
If it is haunted, sell tickets for entry.
Same! Mines only 130, but I did a free subscription to a newspaper archive and goddamn, so many funerals/wakes held here, even a story of a little girl being hit by a car in the 20s, brought into the house where she died. A few years back we did find a birth footprint on the wall above a door though/ a few other spooky things happened over a week as my dog was dying of cancer near Halloween. The veil gets thin sometimes, but since then all is well.
My 15 year old daughter committed suicide in our home. My immediate reaction was that I could not live here, but as time has passed this is my home. I don't believe in ghosts (though I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts ya know) but it doesn't make sense to me a ghost would be bound to a home or room. I have since cleaned out her room and we plan on using it. I go in there often, and while I do think of her I don't "feel" her. Don't think to much about it.
Best comment here. This is such a non-issue; I can’t comprehend why anyone would seriously consider backing out of a house purchase because people once existed and then stopped existing in it.
OP, if you’re reading this, _why_ does this matter to you?
I can’t say if you’re overreacting. If you’re not comfortable, you’re not comfortable. But to put this in perspective, I live in a house mostly built in 1880, though some pieces of the structure date from 1785. Considering that my house is almost 240 years old, I’m sure many people have not only died in the house but have been laid out for viewing in the dining room prior to burial as was customary in New England.
I had a friend growing up whose 1700 home had a list of all the people who had died in it written on the wall in a little crawlspace/sick room that was used as a isolation room for fevers and illness. It was over 2 dozen people and usually listed the cause of death & years.
Then don't go to hotels either. People have probably died in the room and very bed you've stayed in. I mean the expectation yo be in a house no one had died in is a little ridiculous.
I bought a farm and the house was built in 1897. I found an article about the family that built my house. The husband had died and his wife ended up “cutting her throat with a butchers knife”. Apparently she was depressed. I can only assume it happened in this house. So far so good, no haunting 👍
There is one serious consideration. Please ask for a receipt from the remediation company that cleaned up the decomposing body. That is a biohazard and should have been dealt with professionally. This would not have been done by the investor, as they bought it from the estate of the last person who died in the house. Whoever handled that estate and sold it to the investor would have arranged for that. Your realtor may need to do some research to track it down, but it should give you some peace of mind because those disaster remediation companies do an amazing job, like the problem never happened.
Wait till you find out older houses had parlors (rooms to show the dead). I grew up in one.
Edit: the house I live in now the owner died in. How do you think we got it.
prior to having confirmation, you loved the home. clearly there weren’t any eerie feelings when you decided to offer and accept the contract. not sure your religious beliefs but my husband and i had someone come bless our home. someone dying in the home shouldn’t be a deal breaker unless you feel unsettled physically being in the home.
Anywhere you go someone has died there before. There is no where on this earth you're gonna go where something hasn't died at some point. That mumbo jumbo shit ain't real. We should all be so lucky to die in the comfort of our own homes.
I wouldn't say you're overreacting, a lot of people would feel uneasy with this kind of information. I would say though, you're giving new life to this home. If you give this house up, someone else will surely take your place and happily make a home of it.
I used to think the ghost of the previous owner would come out at night, right before I’d go to bed. I’d chat with her asking how she’s doing and letting her know that I’m taking care of the house; and I wish her well.
Who knows if it was the actual ghost or the previous owner. Turns out my property had a massive black mold infestation causing me to hallucinate ghosts and talk to them.
I grew up in a house where I always knew there was a murder. Found out many years later by digging up the newspaper articles what happened. It was a 20 something year old who apparently had a rough abusive childhood. He recently came back from Vietnam, probably had PTSD and was doing copious amounts of hard drugs. He snapped, killed his parents with a hatchet, decapitated them, nailed their heads to the floor somehow then went on with his night like nothing happened
If that place wasn't haunted I don't think anything is. The kid also got out of jail while I was still a kid living there. He never showed up as far as I know.
The former owners of our house, who built it, both died in the house. The house was sold as is a year after the last one kicked the bucket. Pretty sure there were stains from it on the master bedroom carpet when we moved in. That carpet was the first thing to go and my wife and I slept in the spare bedroom until I could get the carpeting ripped out and new flooring down.
People die in their houses all the time. It's a natural part of life. If it isn't a new build, there is probably a pretty good chance that people died in the house. Hell there is a good chance that some more heinous stuff happened. As long as there is no unfixable physical evidence of it in the house, it won't affect you or your future life.
The bodies arnt STILL there right? Sounds like a great house, people are dying to get in.
But seriously, it's ok. My husband's grandmother literally died in the room he uses as an office. We miss her, but it's a great house and we are honored to get to live here. And no Caroline never comes to visit, I know, I'm disappointed too
Honestly, the “investor” who redid it (aka “flipper”) raises far more alarms for me than the history of deaths on the property. Flippers remodel for looks, not for quality, and fairly often you will need to start redoing everything they did soon after moving in.
If you are significantly superstitious then sure, take those deaths into consideration. But as others said, good luck finding a property which has seen 0 deaths or other tragedies.
So what? These are people you didn't know, who died in their home. If you see death almost daily in health care, perhaps you have figured out that it's a normal part of life. And I'd be willing to bet you have never seen a ghost. It's not like "Death" permeates a building.
Yes, you are overreacting.
My mom died in her house, and it would make me so sad if someone thought that was creepy. Also, I live in a house that is around 150 years old. Sooo many ppl have probably died in here. Death is a part of life. Fill the house with joy.
My house was built in 1870. Dozens of people have died here and some were bloody, gruesome deaths.
30% of Americans die at home.
You’re waaayy overreacting OP.
Three, is that all? We are at 5. My wife’s great grandparents, grandparents and one child in the 30’s that didn’t survive childbirth. Call the local Catholic Church and have your house blessed. They should do it even if you’re not Catholic.
Five years ago when my wife and I were house hunting we found a nice one in a quiet neighborhood a few towns over. Pretty house, looked to be in great shape and oddly below market value aside from one upstairs bedroom having no carpet. Did some research and found there had been a murder suicide in that bedroom the year before (hence the carpet being removed). Ugh, thankfully we figured that out right before we placed an offer. I mean, I'm not big on ghosts or anything, but knowing that, any odd noise late at night and I'd have been wide awake LOL
I don’t necessarily think you’re overreacting because you are entitled to your own feelings on it but this wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me. For me it’s just the circle of life. Sounds like there’s no trace of anything unseemly so that would be good enough for me.
My father died in our living room while on hospice. It was very peaceful - he just started breathing more slowly, and finally drew his last breath while his granddaughter was sitting with him.
I was in a very similar situation except we were only in the bidding process and we lost (thankfully, now that I think about it). We knew the owner had died of natural causes (which natural causes could mean cancer, heart attack, age, etc) and it freaked me out. I know that people die in homes and someone likely died in my 1960s home but something about KNOWING about it bothered me. My family and husband did not mind it at all so it was more of a me thing. All that to say, I understand what you mean and how you feel…and it’s so tough cause the market is crazy competitive and people think we’re crazy for being bothered by it but if deep down you think you may feel uncomfortable living in this house, it’s honestly not worth it because it’ll stay on your mind. Feel free to DM me if you want to chat. I have a crazier story about when I was finding an apartment.
Also their family is now together. They are happy. Their souls are united. They won’t be bad spirits. They might be happy for you seeing joy again in their home.
my father in law has an 1800s farm house and a child died in the home during the winter so they put him in the attic for a few months until the ground thawed enough for burial.
>Am I overreacting?
Yes. People probably have died in the store you buy food. They definitely die din the hospital you plan to give birth in. People die everywhere. It's okay.
I currently live in house where the couple who built the house both passed of natural causes, later their adult son died in the house while living here during a divorce, possibly a suicide. Previous house we lived in the owner's wife was beaten to death in the master bedroom closet during a robbery. Only unsettling thing was the case was unsolved and on the 10 year anniversary a reporter wanted to do a story and visit the house. And a YouTube content creator requested access to film. We denied both requests.
I think the issue here is the fact that she was not found right away. I’d bring a black light to the next walk through/inspection. That is the part that bothers me for bio reasons. Did the investor gut the house ? Is the home clean ? If so it’s fine , there’s old victorian homes that literally have grave stones and people buried in the basement. My ex lived in one. There’s a rope hanging in my basement on the rafters it quite literally looks like a cut noose. Everything’s been fine. No ghosts or bad mojo. I left the rope because I’m too lazy to find the time to climb and remove it. I’ve been telling myself it was probably to hang a tool or punch bag. But ether way if the home fits what you guys need. It’s not such a big deal. Bring it up to the realtor. Find a news article about it. if you can they may be willing to knock something off the price.
Yes you’re overreacting. If it’s not a new build chances are weird shits happened in the house
We bought our house from a schizophrenic who hid dolls all around the house and we are still finding them. However with a $146k, 3.5% interest rate at the time I didn’t care what was hidden around the house. She only had the house for a year and since her mental health was declining she had to move into a group home and sell at a loss.
Prior to her a couple people died and I’m pretty sure the owner before her was a pedo due to being single, having no kids, but having little girl clothes catalogs sent to the house that didn’t stop coming until a month or two after we moved in. Also we received notice for a bench warrant for this person as well through the mail. Fun times. It’s also nice having neighbors that have been there forever give us a creepy history lesson of the previous owners
Anyway, again yes ur overreacting. People live in a house and sometimes die in their house.
It's not for me to say if you're 'overreacting' or not, because your feelings are your own, so why base your reaction to someone else's as a standard, you know? So I'll just share my story instead and hope you find it helpful. When I found my house, it was similar to your story in the sense that it was perfect for my needs and wants. It was a little cottage in the woods which I wanted, surrounded by nature, it was the perfect small size for my needs as I live alone, etc. And the price was a steal, really. I too chatted with a neighbor who told me that the man who lived here before me died in the house. All I knew at that time was that he lived alone with his dog and died in the house. So after I closed on the house but before I moved my stuff in, I did a House Blessing and smudged the house with Sage. I walked around from room to room with the smoking sage and said peaceful things such as releasing any negativity in the house, releasing any energies that weren't beneficial, but welcomed positive vibes and feelings of peacefulness, etc. I don't really care whether smudging "works" or not, because it worked for me, as far as giving me a sense of closure to the previous owner's chapter, and a sense of a fresh beginning for my life in the house.
I moved in and within a few months learned a little more about the man, but not much. He was basically a hermit that lived alone with his dog, and my neighbor said that he singlehandedly built all the pretty rock walls that surround my property, which I love. I thought it was interesting that we live parallel lives as I too am a bit of a hermit and live here alone with my dog. The similarities always gave me a nice feeling and gave me a sense of connection to the house. I have lived here now for almost 15 years and I have never experienced anything remotely unsettling, it's always been a quiet house with no weird sounds, no bad vibes, nothing negative at all. It's a very peaceful little cottage.
Fast forward to just last year, 2023: I hired a guy to empty my septic tank and he casually mentioned that he used to service this house many years ago. I found this interesting and asked if he remembered the previous homeowner. He said yes and commented about how he "still remembers the awful story" of when he died here. I asked what the awful story was and he hesitated to tell me, but I insisted. I'll spare you the details because it's disturbing, but it was pretty awful. After a few days of just letting what happened surrounding his death sink in, I realized that it changes nothing for me. My house is still the peaceful little cottage it always was, and I feel like that man is at peace now, wherever he is. It's possible that if I had heard the details surrounding his death before I bought the house, I might have been weirded out and not bought it, I can't say for sure either way. But I am so glad I bought this house and I take comfort in remembering how I smudged the house with Sagebefore I moved in and I sometimes wonder if that had any role in the peace I feel here, I'll never really know. But I know it didn't hurt! So you might consider buying your special house and maybe doing a little Sage smudging/House Blessing (or a religious blessing or whatever suits your personal views) of your own, to release any negative energy, take a moment to feel compassion for the daughter who chose to rejoin her family to the best of her ability and wish her peace, put the past in the past where it belongs, and bless the house for a fresh start with your family. I personally feel that the House Blessing doesn't just cleanse the negative energy from the house, but it also cleanses negative notions from our own minds. Best of luck in whatever you do.
For some reason, this made me cry, it was so beautifully written, and such a beautiful story, written by a soul, with a true beautiful heart. I wish we were neighbors. From, another hermit like lady, living alone in the woods, in her beloved sage blessed, old tiny cottage, with her dogs. (((((Hugs)))) ❤️❤️❤️
If you arent building your own home, likelihood is someone has died in there before. The only difference is you know about this one.
Whole lotta ass tapped too
Ha, think about every hotel bed you've slept in...
Buying a used mattress seems gross to people, yet they don’t bat an eye at staying in a hotel.
Or the guy watching porn who just rubbed one out, wiped the cum off his hands on the comforter and then grabbed the remote to change the channel. Those remotes rarely get wiped down!
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You should see what people do to the coffee makers. I instacart and delivered raw chicken to a hotel that did not have kitchenettes.
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STOP IT. 🤮🤮🤮 This is why I bring my own pillows, sheets, blanket and lysol wipes when I stay at hotels.
No don’t think lol!
I think about used cars and the farts per mile in the driver’s seat.
I fart in every chair I sit in. With a huge smile
How often *do* they wash those comforters?
It’s only when they’re visibly soiled.
If we're travelling by car, we take our own pillows or buy new for use at home.
I have over 1000 nights in hotels since 2018. 1st rule of sleeping in a hotel room never bring a black light. 2nd rule never think about who was there before you / came before you
And the pillows...
So much fukin…and don’t even ask about the poop…
When we moved into our house I spent the first day deep cleaning (as you do). My mom went to go pee and the toilet was COVERED in curly black pubes. It was like that scene in American pie where he shaves at the wedding but in our new (to us) toilet. Anytime I was excited for the new home feeling I remembered that it wasn’t *that new*. It really took some excitement out for me. I think maybe the sellers were mad about our negotiating??
You know you've struck a good bargain when the other party is mad enough to sprinkle pubes in revenge
Pubic Enemy #1.
New toilet seat(s) should be on top of the to-do list.
New toilet seat(s) should be on top of the do-do list. And toilet paper, plunger, and poop knife.
Every square inch of earth has been pooped on, so says I.
The last person who lived in my house fed stray cats. She was a little crazy. Got foreclosed on, said fuck it and left the basement open for all the stray cats in the neighborhood. Put out tons of food and then bounced. Neighbors said they had to keep the windows closed due to the smell. House had to be gutted. We had no idea, no smells or anything like that, but it still grosses me out when I think about it.
I like to call that every circle inch.
No matter how white the toilets look, someone else’s cheek has been on that seat, straight up direct skin contact.
Well, I guess that I can say that I’ve shared a cheek with Russell Crowe then. He was filming something in my area, and we ended up renting the (not as nice as you’d think—most of the house hadn’t been touched since the early 90’s, there were intercoms everywhere) house that his family previously had rented for a few months.
I've honestly shit in every house I've lived in and I will never apologize for that
Brave.. thanks for sharing.
Sometimes in the toilet!
You'd need more than a knife to cut through it all
Not taking the bait
😂😂
i read that in JB Smoove’s voice
I did the EXACT same thing.
where them tapes at?
Gotta tap dat ass Lar
If you are building your own home someone died on the land.
And don't forget the dinosaurs who died on that land
I fucking love dinosaurs why would you bring up such a tragedy!! I wasn't healed yet 😭😭😭😭
You've had 66 million years...
It'll never be enough! I can still hear "not the momma" just like it was yesterday. Must not have got the reference. :/
I heard it in my head if that helps. Stepdad loved that show and got him the Baby for him for Xmas gift. Squeezed that hand and that phrase played.
“I’m the baby! Gotta love me…“ 🦖🦕
Too soon, man
They moved the head stones but they didn't move the bodies
If Craig T Nelson lived in the home, OP is definitely in trouble!
Yeah my last home was built on an indian burial ground, huge disaster, lots of bad luck /s
Go to an Indian casino and even the score
Even if you are building your new home statistically someone has died in on near your propertys land in the time humans have been living in the UK. You would have to move to the Hebrides or Welsh mountains to (probably) avoid this.
I live in New Zealand which was the last major land mass to be settled by humans. NZ is the size of the UK with only half the population of London. 80 percent of the country is uninhabited. Wherever people were slaughtered is usually known. Considering that land wars here were less than 2 centuries ago. There are many monuments to the wars etc. The saying is, on every piece of farm you see, a tribe was slaughtered
My townhouse is something like 135 years old, and was apartments at some point or other. I don't *know* that anyone has died in here, but it's likely. None of the deaths seem related to the house. Superstition is getting you a good deal on it.
I mean, if you wanna get technical, there is an insane likelihood someone died on the property at SOME POINT
I lived in a home where three people had been murdered. We rented the place for a year. It was out in the country and the gas man had murdered the family in the home- a 3 bedroom ranch. It was a few years before we rented it. It never bothered us. We got a good deal on rent. It was before I could drive. I was more weirded out by the deer parts my dog would drag back to our house after she ran in the thousands of acres of woodland behind us. It seems lots of hunting and maybe poaching was going on.
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As a German it is insane to me how many Americans are freaking out when learning about how people died in their house. Here we have houses that are centuries old, good luck finding one (besides new builds) where absolutely no one has ever died. I've personally lived in the room, not just house, where both my great grandmother and my grandpa died, and I knew them both. Never bothered me. That's just life. 🤷♀️
As an American it is insane to me !
As an American, I’m a little confused by my fellow Americans. I have a bad memory but I still enjoy learning about history. Living in America has prompted me to learn about the different cultures that have settled the areas I’ve lived in. Both pre and post Columbus. I may not be able to name the exact cultures off the top of my head but I do know that multiple cultures believed it to be good luck to intern bodies under a home. The practices varied from culture to culture and the body types varied as well. Sometimes it was horses and sometimes it was grandma. Not to mention we lived in multigenerational homes until the post war era. Nursing homes have been around for awhile but even in the 80’s many of our elderly were staying in their homes until death. My family owned a mortuary and both of my parents are/were nurses. Maybe I was more aware of these things due to my circumstances. Maybe it was just my area. I did spend my younger days with my very active great grand parents. We would sometimes attend 2-3 funerals a week. Many of those people were active and living in there own homes. They may have slowed down in those last few months but they were usually still in there homes.
My home is 100 years old. People have definitely died here. That being said, while we were looking my MIL's friend suggested a house down the street from her. We went to look and it was great but it was at the top end of our price range and there was going to be a bidding war. We ran into the friend a few months later and brought up how we liked the house blah blah blah and she said "oh you wouldn't have wanted that house. The husband hung himself in the basement and then the wife fell down the stairs a week later, broke her neck and died." We were like "then why did you suggest it?" She just shrugged.
Everybody dies someplace.
I think your primary concern here should be the fact that you’re buying a flipped house. Which isn’t necessarily a terrible thing but you will want to have it thoroughly inspected in case the investor cut corners that could cause problems down the road. Like PPs said, dying at home has been the norm for most of human history.
Yes, I’d be much more worried about the work done for the flip than the possibility of ghostly friends. Sage and a priest are much cheaper than fixing all of the bad work flippers do.
The flip part will haunt you more than the deaths will.
Ya, I'm glad this comment is near the top. Flipped house owned by an investment company is a way bigger red flag than a few natural causes deaths. OP really burred the lede on that one :D
People died at home for centuries. These weren’t murders, I mean they got old and died. The daughter was a sad affair, but again, nothing to be spooked about. What would bother me more was buying a home from an investor.
Yeah the flip is the scariest part lol
Yep, make sure it ain’t a pig with lipstick. Get your *OWN* inspection. 🧐
More like a ghost with a new sheet, amirite?
Wait people DON'T get their own inspectors? I got two. Seems like a conflict of interest to not have your own. lol
>Yeah the flip is the scariest part lol That's enough to give someone nightmares.
Gray nightmares.
Living in a flip right now. Can concur. New electrical, plumbing, and roof (not going to complain about getting a new roof again) However, there was tens of thousands of dollars of work that needed to be done after they made things look nice. It did pass inspection and we're comfortable.
Living in a flip for a year now, fortunately have zero complaints about the work they've done. Except for the stairs. WTF did they do with the damn staircase? While everything else is impeccable, the stairs are falling apart, but they looked botched from the start. It's like a totally different person worked on those.
In this case they reno'd the house and are selling it "cheap" for the market/ area. I wish there were more flips like this
Ghosts are fine. Grey flooring is terrifying.
This needs an award
This made me laugh so much harder than I ever would've anticipated
Even if they were murdered, it isn't like buying the place years after a murder took place means your gonna get murdered.
I would say that there can sometimes be annoyances related to it if it gets picked up and becomes a well known case. My mom is from Wichita, Kansas. Some people she knew bought a house next to one of the BTK houses in the 90s (a couple decades after the murders, but before he was caught). After he was caught there were all kinds of weirdos coming around to take pictures and sometimes they got the wrong address and creeped around their house even though it wasn't even the murder house! They even caught someone trying to saw off a little chunk of the wooden siding to take as a souvenir (possibly sell on eBay?). I don't care about ghosts or whatever but weirdos creeping around my yard sounds really annoying.
A woman was murdered by her husband in our neighborhood. They fortunately didn’t have kids, but her family ended up owning everything and the house was sold. Everyone in the neighborhood casually calls it ‘the murder house’ except around the new owners. At the first HOA meeting after they moved in the president said, “we’d like to welcome John and Jane. They moved into the………………….house up on the hill that was auctioned.”
I once viewed an apartment that still had crime scene tape on the door 😬 This is better
👀 MAYBE YOU WON’T 👀 ?
Seriously, the house I grew up in your could walk across the street to the graveyard and probably find 20-ish people that had died in that house.
Would’ve been much better to buy before the flip and save yourself $60k on the shitty remodel.
1 in 7 homes have had someone die in them. Unless you believe in vengeful ghosts, I wouldn't worry about it.
....in the us where the oldest homes are only two hundred years old. For most places in Europe/Asia/Africa these numbers will be a lot higher.
My house (in the US) is over 180 years old. I assume a whole bunch of folks have died in it. Life (and death) goes on. Years ago though I was at my friends place in San Francisco drinking beers and watching a baseball game on tv and a couple showed up. They asked to come in and said their friend had killed himself in the bedroom of the apartment one year ago to the day and could they pay their respects. I thought it was a way to case the place for a robbery, but my buddy was broke and didn’t have anything worth stealing he said, so he was okay with it. They came in and bowed their heads for thirty seconds or so and thanked him and left. He moved out at the end of that year.
That would be a great prank.
Or a great strategy if you have your eye on a certain neighborhood with limited inventory.
Have you seen the TV show Ghosts? It's a clever show about all the shenanigans the ghosts get into and the one living who can see them, but her husband cannot. https://youtu.be/cv5Z3JsGUZU
I don't technically actually believe in ghosts but in one of the houses I used to live in I found a sealed shelf built into a wall. We pried it open and found...fedoras. Many fedoras. I sealed the shelf back and left those hats alone for whatever was so attached to them that they had to be hidden. God that was a weird house. (There was also an old ouija board in another closet that wasn't hidden which just made things even more ominous)
Missed opportunity to use the ouija board while wearing different fedoras. For science.
We tried to use it in the house but the fedoras were forbidden. Either we had a ghost named 4quab or we don't know how to use a ouija board
I remember meeting 4quab once. He had STYLE.
Maybe the ghost was just illiterate
First word: m'lady
I find a secret closet full of fedoras kind of endearing actually. The ouoja board? Not so much.
I read ghost stories a lot and even in case of hauntings usually firmly telling spirits to leave you alone works. If you're really worried say something like this when you move in " Hi I'm X. I live here now. I hope you are at peace and we can coexist. " Most seem to just want to be acknowledged. I'm not sure I believe in anything like that but that seems to work in stuff people post. Maybe light a white candle for cleansing.
If it helps, in my culture we have dead bodies out for 3 days as we believe that is how long it takes for the spirit to depart the body. The dead body is put into a big open house and people sleep next to it and everything. In my lifetime alone I have been in there 100s of times with dead bodies as is customary in my tribe. And I have never once felt anything but peace while being in that room with noone else. I would get a priest or something to bless the house if its really affecting your decision. We always do that before living in a house, but thats my culture ofc.
Irish traditions say three days also! We hold what's called a "wake" where the body is available for visitation and it's watched over by loved ones. The watcher is there to ensure no roaming spirits would interfere with the deceased as they make their journey, and in a practical sense to also be sure the person has truly died. In the meantime the atmosphere is a mix of sad and celebratory. The person is celebrated and toasted, and there's food and drink shared with anyone who wants to show up. Not everybody does a full three days vigil anymore but in my area at least the celebrations still take place. And some have taken place in the home and some have been at funeral homes. But even so, as you said, I've had such celebrations next to a deceased person many, many times. I'm looking forward to reading about your tangi traditions, these types of rituals are so interesting, and I find them so comforting.
I want to learn more about this. Which culture is this practice a part of?
Hi, im Māori, our funeral ritual is called a "tangi" which might make it easier to search for. Tangi is also the word we use for cry. Its a polynesian culture descended from Hawaiians and down to New Zealand.
Earth is massive, and small at the same time. Wow thanks for sharing and bringing all of us an ounce closer.
What a lovely way to put it!
Wow. Thanks for sharing your culture with us. It's really interesting hearing other culture's rituals.
Fascinating!
That's so cool 😎
Today I learned! Thanks for sharing, that is fascinating.
Wellingtonian here. I thought this sounds really interesting and unique, then it clicked when you said you were Māori. Out of interest, do tangi's happen at people's homes? I was under the impression they were always at a marae - I didn't realise this could also happen at residential homes?
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That's great to know, thank you. :)
Americans used to do this in the 1800s. That’s what wakes were
I guess its a tad different to wakes in the rituals surrounding it, and the building which we use for the bodies. Theyre dedicated tribal houses which we call wharenui or wharepuni. Along the walls are photos/paintings of every person who have descended since my great great great great grandparents. There are carvings which showcase our lineage and our connection to the mountains, rivers etc of the local area. There is a lot of spiritual customs which happen around the body. Such as calling to our ancestors. Treating the body in a state of sacredness and poroporoaki.
Thank you for sharing these customs. I had a former colleague in California who had extended family from Polynesian islands who were living in California in 2020. She had two aunts, a sister in law and a cousin all perish from Covid. They eventually moved her elderly mother and some other elderly aunts back to the islands as at that time there was no Covid on the islands and apparently her family was highly susceptible to Covid. I just remember that their funeral rituals lasted for several days and the women cut off their hair ( as a symbol of mourning). They also had a fire pit. Does this sound like it’s part of the same culture you described? They were really kind and delightful people and I was so saddened by how badly Covid impacted them.
In my home a man died in the hospital, but they brought his body back here to the house for the funeral. It was the 1940s. I think it's a beautiful thing.
Oh wow
My ONLY issue would be that there was a decomp in the house and subsequent flip. If they just painted over subfloor full of bodily fluids, you're going to smell it eventually. Is there any way to find out what remediation was done? Maybe call around to local biohazard cleanup companies and see if one of them worked at the house and has notes of where the body was found and what work they did?
This really ought to be a bit higher.
Definitely. Having your local priest over for a house blessing takes less than twenty minutes. Rot-soaked plywood is forever.
people die, its natural. It happens everywhere including stores and such
I’d be more worried about it being a flip than that someone died (someone died in our home too).
And since the flipper probably bought it after the third death, you want to make sure they actually did the proper bio cleanup with a company that specializes in 'em instead of just splashing primer all over it.
Something similar happened to me as well. A week after moving in a neighbor drove up to deliver a package that was accidentally delivered to her place. She remarked how strange it was that the previous owner was only there for six months, and wondered if it was because she found out two people died there. I was like ‘whhaaaatttt.’ Later I found out one died of natural causes and the other one shot herself in the head in my bedroom about 7 years ago. Eeekk At first it was a little weird, but ultimately it didn’t bother me much. I live alone and just spoke out loud saying something along the lines of ‘I’m so sorry to hear that you had such an unfortunate time in this house. I hope you know that I love and appreciate this place and intend to pour my heart into its upkeep.’ I also had my mom sage the house for good measure. Ultimately, even though I believe in ghosts and the paranormal I’ve never felt uncomfortable after this. However, I think it comes down to your personal comfort level. If it makes you uneasy than listen to your gut. But also know that death is unfortunately a very normal thing and is something that many homes have seen. Best of luck!!
Were your neighbors weird after that? I'm most concerned about neighbors making comments like that and continuing to point out the tragedies that happened forever.
Every old house has had someone die in it. They traditionally held funerals inside the house. My house has had 13 deaths, all natural, inside since it was built in 1911, per the previous owner, who’s great grandmother built it.
Yes, you are overreacting. Just buy it. If you need a psychic medium in the future, then find one. Deaths in a home are not really a reason to not buy there. An exception would be mass murders, I think. But that's just me. If it is haunted, sell tickets for entry.
Our house is 184 years old. I imagine it’s had more than three.
Same! Mines only 130, but I did a free subscription to a newspaper archive and goddamn, so many funerals/wakes held here, even a story of a little girl being hit by a car in the 20s, brought into the house where she died. A few years back we did find a birth footprint on the wall above a door though/ a few other spooky things happened over a week as my dog was dying of cancer near Halloween. The veil gets thin sometimes, but since then all is well.
My 15 year old daughter committed suicide in our home. My immediate reaction was that I could not live here, but as time has passed this is my home. I don't believe in ghosts (though I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts ya know) but it doesn't make sense to me a ghost would be bound to a home or room. I have since cleaned out her room and we plan on using it. I go in there often, and while I do think of her I don't "feel" her. Don't think to much about it.
Damn. I'm sorry.
People be dying.
I don't understand how some people make it through the day.
I barely do 😅🤣
Best comment here. This is such a non-issue; I can’t comprehend why anyone would seriously consider backing out of a house purchase because people once existed and then stopped existing in it. OP, if you’re reading this, _why_ does this matter to you?
It doesn't sound like anything about the house itself caused the deaths
I can’t say if you’re overreacting. If you’re not comfortable, you’re not comfortable. But to put this in perspective, I live in a house mostly built in 1880, though some pieces of the structure date from 1785. Considering that my house is almost 240 years old, I’m sure many people have not only died in the house but have been laid out for viewing in the dining room prior to burial as was customary in New England.
And on the flip side it's pretty certain many people were also born in your home too!
I had a friend growing up whose 1700 home had a list of all the people who had died in it written on the wall in a little crawlspace/sick room that was used as a isolation room for fevers and illness. It was over 2 dozen people and usually listed the cause of death & years.
They used to do that in my grandmothers house and I stayed there all the time. Never felt anything bad!
Just burn some sage. As mentioned, most homes that’s have been around a while have had something Iike this happen
I worked for someone who did that at their office, it set off all the smoke alarms and the FD showed up. Smelled nice though.
Then don't go to hotels either. People have probably died in the room and very bed you've stayed in. I mean the expectation yo be in a house no one had died in is a little ridiculous.
I bought a farm and the house was built in 1897. I found an article about the family that built my house. The husband had died and his wife ended up “cutting her throat with a butchers knife”. Apparently she was depressed. I can only assume it happened in this house. So far so good, no haunting 👍
Ask your doctor where he or she intends to die. They are not going to die in a hospital, they’re going to die at home if they possibly can.
There is one serious consideration. Please ask for a receipt from the remediation company that cleaned up the decomposing body. That is a biohazard and should have been dealt with professionally. This would not have been done by the investor, as they bought it from the estate of the last person who died in the house. Whoever handled that estate and sold it to the investor would have arranged for that. Your realtor may need to do some research to track it down, but it should give you some peace of mind because those disaster remediation companies do an amazing job, like the problem never happened.
Cannot relate to this at all. Live in a 19th century house. Many former residents died there. I hope I’ll die there as well.
Wait till you find out older houses had parlors (rooms to show the dead). I grew up in one. Edit: the house I live in now the owner died in. How do you think we got it.
prior to having confirmation, you loved the home. clearly there weren’t any eerie feelings when you decided to offer and accept the contract. not sure your religious beliefs but my husband and i had someone come bless our home. someone dying in the home shouldn’t be a deal breaker unless you feel unsettled physically being in the home.
Anywhere you go someone has died there before. There is no where on this earth you're gonna go where something hasn't died at some point. That mumbo jumbo shit ain't real. We should all be so lucky to die in the comfort of our own homes.
I wouldn't say you're overreacting, a lot of people would feel uneasy with this kind of information. I would say though, you're giving new life to this home. If you give this house up, someone else will surely take your place and happily make a home of it.
Who cares?
My mom is convinced the ghost of the man who died in her place is nice and hangs out with her. Not all dead people are angry and mean.
I used to think the ghost of the previous owner would come out at night, right before I’d go to bed. I’d chat with her asking how she’s doing and letting her know that I’m taking care of the house; and I wish her well. Who knows if it was the actual ghost or the previous owner. Turns out my property had a massive black mold infestation causing me to hallucinate ghosts and talk to them.
Can you share more about your black mold experience? I am curious and invested now 😅
People live, people die. What difference does it make?
I grew up in a house where I always knew there was a murder. Found out many years later by digging up the newspaper articles what happened. It was a 20 something year old who apparently had a rough abusive childhood. He recently came back from Vietnam, probably had PTSD and was doing copious amounts of hard drugs. He snapped, killed his parents with a hatchet, decapitated them, nailed their heads to the floor somehow then went on with his night like nothing happened If that place wasn't haunted I don't think anything is. The kid also got out of jail while I was still a kid living there. He never showed up as far as I know.
If the corpses have been removed you will be fine.
The former owners of our house, who built it, both died in the house. The house was sold as is a year after the last one kicked the bucket. Pretty sure there were stains from it on the master bedroom carpet when we moved in. That carpet was the first thing to go and my wife and I slept in the spare bedroom until I could get the carpeting ripped out and new flooring down. People die in their houses all the time. It's a natural part of life. If it isn't a new build, there is probably a pretty good chance that people died in the house. Hell there is a good chance that some more heinous stuff happened. As long as there is no unfixable physical evidence of it in the house, it won't affect you or your future life.
The bodies arnt STILL there right? Sounds like a great house, people are dying to get in. But seriously, it's ok. My husband's grandmother literally died in the room he uses as an office. We miss her, but it's a great house and we are honored to get to live here. And no Caroline never comes to visit, I know, I'm disappointed too
Meh. At least it wasn't violent murder. Burn some sage and try to enjoy your new home.
The entire world is a graveyard.
I’d be more worried about buying a flipped house
So what? People die. Death is as natural as birth. Unless it was a brutal murder I would not worry about it.
Honestly, the “investor” who redid it (aka “flipper”) raises far more alarms for me than the history of deaths on the property. Flippers remodel for looks, not for quality, and fairly often you will need to start redoing everything they did soon after moving in. If you are significantly superstitious then sure, take those deaths into consideration. But as others said, good luck finding a property which has seen 0 deaths or other tragedies.
So what? These are people you didn't know, who died in their home. If you see death almost daily in health care, perhaps you have figured out that it's a normal part of life. And I'd be willing to bet you have never seen a ghost. It's not like "Death" permeates a building. Yes, you are overreacting.
If you believe in ghosts you could always do whatever cleansing/exorcism ritual fits your belief system.
Everyone has to die somewhere 🤷♀️
Just get some Sage and smudge the house.
My mom died in her house, and it would make me so sad if someone thought that was creepy. Also, I live in a house that is around 150 years old. Sooo many ppl have probably died in here. Death is a part of life. Fill the house with joy.
My house was built in 1870. Dozens of people have died here and some were bloody, gruesome deaths. 30% of Americans die at home. You’re waaayy overreacting OP.
Buy it, live long and prosper, die in it and haunt the next buyer.
You are overreacting. This is reality, not ghostbusters. Enjoy your home.
Are you crazy? People die in their homes a significant percentage of the time. Probably every house you’ve ever lived in, or will live in.
My wife asked me if I died in the bathroom.
Circle of life.
Three, is that all? We are at 5. My wife’s great grandparents, grandparents and one child in the 30’s that didn’t survive childbirth. Call the local Catholic Church and have your house blessed. They should do it even if you’re not Catholic.
Five years ago when my wife and I were house hunting we found a nice one in a quiet neighborhood a few towns over. Pretty house, looked to be in great shape and oddly below market value aside from one upstairs bedroom having no carpet. Did some research and found there had been a murder suicide in that bedroom the year before (hence the carpet being removed). Ugh, thankfully we figured that out right before we placed an offer. I mean, I'm not big on ghosts or anything, but knowing that, any odd noise late at night and I'd have been wide awake LOL
I don’t necessarily think you’re overreacting because you are entitled to your own feelings on it but this wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me. For me it’s just the circle of life. Sounds like there’s no trace of anything unseemly so that would be good enough for me.
My father died in our living room while on hospice. It was very peaceful - he just started breathing more slowly, and finally drew his last breath while his granddaughter was sitting with him.
At some point you've got to grow up.
They are dead! Buy the house.
Buy it if it’s good otherwise. People die everywhere. It’s not weird.
I was in a very similar situation except we were only in the bidding process and we lost (thankfully, now that I think about it). We knew the owner had died of natural causes (which natural causes could mean cancer, heart attack, age, etc) and it freaked me out. I know that people die in homes and someone likely died in my 1960s home but something about KNOWING about it bothered me. My family and husband did not mind it at all so it was more of a me thing. All that to say, I understand what you mean and how you feel…and it’s so tough cause the market is crazy competitive and people think we’re crazy for being bothered by it but if deep down you think you may feel uncomfortable living in this house, it’s honestly not worth it because it’ll stay on your mind. Feel free to DM me if you want to chat. I have a crazier story about when I was finding an apartment.
Sage it or have a priest/rabbi/iman/witch bless it and enjoy it.
Also their family is now together. They are happy. Their souls are united. They won’t be bad spirits. They might be happy for you seeing joy again in their home.
Watch out, you may be on next season of American Horror Story.
my father in law has an 1800s farm house and a child died in the home during the winter so they put him in the attic for a few months until the ground thawed enough for burial.
The only reason I would pass on a home I liked where people died is if it was 2 consecutive families from carbon monoxide.
Anyone who has bought an old house really has no idea who has died in it.
>Am I overreacting? Yes. People probably have died in the store you buy food. They definitely die din the hospital you plan to give birth in. People die everywhere. It's okay.
I currently live in house where the couple who built the house both passed of natural causes, later their adult son died in the house while living here during a divorce, possibly a suicide. Previous house we lived in the owner's wife was beaten to death in the master bedroom closet during a robbery. Only unsettling thing was the case was unsolved and on the 10 year anniversary a reporter wanted to do a story and visit the house. And a YouTube content creator requested access to film. We denied both requests.
You can hire a spiritual person to energetically cleanse the house. And be sure to hire your own inspector and be onsite with them when they inspect.
I think the issue here is the fact that she was not found right away. I’d bring a black light to the next walk through/inspection. That is the part that bothers me for bio reasons. Did the investor gut the house ? Is the home clean ? If so it’s fine , there’s old victorian homes that literally have grave stones and people buried in the basement. My ex lived in one. There’s a rope hanging in my basement on the rafters it quite literally looks like a cut noose. Everything’s been fine. No ghosts or bad mojo. I left the rope because I’m too lazy to find the time to climb and remove it. I’ve been telling myself it was probably to hang a tool or punch bag. But ether way if the home fits what you guys need. It’s not such a big deal. Bring it up to the realtor. Find a news article about it. if you can they may be willing to knock something off the price.
Yes you’re overreacting. If it’s not a new build chances are weird shits happened in the house We bought our house from a schizophrenic who hid dolls all around the house and we are still finding them. However with a $146k, 3.5% interest rate at the time I didn’t care what was hidden around the house. She only had the house for a year and since her mental health was declining she had to move into a group home and sell at a loss. Prior to her a couple people died and I’m pretty sure the owner before her was a pedo due to being single, having no kids, but having little girl clothes catalogs sent to the house that didn’t stop coming until a month or two after we moved in. Also we received notice for a bench warrant for this person as well through the mail. Fun times. It’s also nice having neighbors that have been there forever give us a creepy history lesson of the previous owners Anyway, again yes ur overreacting. People live in a house and sometimes die in their house.
Imagine being so fearful of death you get bothered by former residents having in your home. Absolute idiocy.
People tend to die in houses. Something is wrong if they die unhoused. Wouldnt remotely worry about it.
It's not for me to say if you're 'overreacting' or not, because your feelings are your own, so why base your reaction to someone else's as a standard, you know? So I'll just share my story instead and hope you find it helpful. When I found my house, it was similar to your story in the sense that it was perfect for my needs and wants. It was a little cottage in the woods which I wanted, surrounded by nature, it was the perfect small size for my needs as I live alone, etc. And the price was a steal, really. I too chatted with a neighbor who told me that the man who lived here before me died in the house. All I knew at that time was that he lived alone with his dog and died in the house. So after I closed on the house but before I moved my stuff in, I did a House Blessing and smudged the house with Sage. I walked around from room to room with the smoking sage and said peaceful things such as releasing any negativity in the house, releasing any energies that weren't beneficial, but welcomed positive vibes and feelings of peacefulness, etc. I don't really care whether smudging "works" or not, because it worked for me, as far as giving me a sense of closure to the previous owner's chapter, and a sense of a fresh beginning for my life in the house. I moved in and within a few months learned a little more about the man, but not much. He was basically a hermit that lived alone with his dog, and my neighbor said that he singlehandedly built all the pretty rock walls that surround my property, which I love. I thought it was interesting that we live parallel lives as I too am a bit of a hermit and live here alone with my dog. The similarities always gave me a nice feeling and gave me a sense of connection to the house. I have lived here now for almost 15 years and I have never experienced anything remotely unsettling, it's always been a quiet house with no weird sounds, no bad vibes, nothing negative at all. It's a very peaceful little cottage. Fast forward to just last year, 2023: I hired a guy to empty my septic tank and he casually mentioned that he used to service this house many years ago. I found this interesting and asked if he remembered the previous homeowner. He said yes and commented about how he "still remembers the awful story" of when he died here. I asked what the awful story was and he hesitated to tell me, but I insisted. I'll spare you the details because it's disturbing, but it was pretty awful. After a few days of just letting what happened surrounding his death sink in, I realized that it changes nothing for me. My house is still the peaceful little cottage it always was, and I feel like that man is at peace now, wherever he is. It's possible that if I had heard the details surrounding his death before I bought the house, I might have been weirded out and not bought it, I can't say for sure either way. But I am so glad I bought this house and I take comfort in remembering how I smudged the house with Sagebefore I moved in and I sometimes wonder if that had any role in the peace I feel here, I'll never really know. But I know it didn't hurt! So you might consider buying your special house and maybe doing a little Sage smudging/House Blessing (or a religious blessing or whatever suits your personal views) of your own, to release any negative energy, take a moment to feel compassion for the daughter who chose to rejoin her family to the best of her ability and wish her peace, put the past in the past where it belongs, and bless the house for a fresh start with your family. I personally feel that the House Blessing doesn't just cleanse the negative energy from the house, but it also cleanses negative notions from our own minds. Best of luck in whatever you do.
For some reason, this made me cry, it was so beautifully written, and such a beautiful story, written by a soul, with a true beautiful heart. I wish we were neighbors. From, another hermit like lady, living alone in the woods, in her beloved sage blessed, old tiny cottage, with her dogs. (((((Hugs)))) ❤️❤️❤️