WARNING: Morbid Topic

[Elle23]

Thankfully, the 3 homes my husband and I have owned were all bought new construction.

Apparently you’ve never seen Poltergeist!

 

[caylene44]

My sister bought their house in 2007.
My niece was born in 2008.
I believe in 2010 my niece mentioned an old lady.
My sister then found out the old lady that lived their prior died int he house.

Ugh, kids are usually the ones who experience the paranormal! Because I'm such a baby, I will freak out if this happens to me.

Lots and lots of people who are terminally ill have it in mind that they want to die at home. Personally, I think it's an awful idea, but it does happen often. Most of those houses change hands eventually. Any number of us could be living in a house where someone died.

There have been three poeple who have died in our house. The man who built the house and then both my grandmother and grandfather who died years apart both on hospice care. We have never had any issues...

I do believe in houses being haunted though...I just don't think it has to do with someone dying in the house.

@ronandannette and @AuntieMe3, true! I guess it is more commonplace to live in a place where someone died. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much.

 

[caylene44]

Also, I really appreciate everyone's words of wisdom. I recognize and understand that I'm a very irrational person (about a lot of things) but I'm still freaked out about it If anything, now I'm even more paranoid that I'll experience the paranormal wherever I live next

 

[ronandannette]

Ugh, kids are usually the ones who experience the paranormal! Because I'm such a baby, I will freak out if this happens to me.
@ronandannette and @AuntieMe3, true! I guess it is more commonplace to live in a place where someone died. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much.

I wouldn't like it either; would certainly never choose it and prefer not to know if it's happened in my current home. That's only one reason I'm uncomfortable with people dying at home. Take a couple for example - how do you continue to sleep in the bed in the room where your beloved spouse died?!? And if there are kids involved, it's NOT how I would want them to remember about the family home. This scenario took place recently with dear friends of ours. I 100% kept my trap shut (would never say anything to people who want this) but I shudder just thinking about it.

FWIW - this has nothing to do with ghosts or whatever; me and mine don't believe in any of that.

 

[SC Minnie]

My xSIL sister bought a house several years ago. She didn't know it at the time but the lady that lived there was murdered in the home by her grandson. She hasn't seen anything unusual happen and has been very happy in the home. Her life is actually much calmer and settled since moving there.

 

[L&Lfan]

To each his own but both my parents died peacefully at home. I would much rather have preferred that, than in the hospital or nursing home hooked up to tubes and machines. It was a blessing that they were able to pass that way. Not everyone gets to...

 

[caylene44]

My xSIL sister bought a house several years ago. She didn't know it at the time but the lady that lived there was murdered in the home by her grandson. She hasn't seen anything unusual happen and has been very happy in the home. Her life is actually much calmer and settled since moving there.

Wow, that's horrible. But, I'm glad that she has found peace in her home!

To each his own but both my parents died peacefully at home. I would much rather have preferred that, then in the hospital or nursing home hooked up to tubes and machines. It was a blessing that they were able to pass that way. Not everyone gets to...

That's definitely so true. I think it's most people's wish to die peacefully. That really is a blessing ❤

 

[Southernmiss]

To each his own but both my parents died peacefully at home. I would much rather have preferred that, then in the hospital or nursing home hooked up to tubes and machines. It was a blessing that they were able to pass that way. Not everyone gets to...

At the end of my grandmother's life, she had a 3 week rehab stay in a nursing home. She adamantly wanted out of there. My cousin had cared for her in her home, but it was that event that made us realize she was too much for the family to care for. We moved heaven and earth to find her a 24 hour sitter to stay in her home with her. She lived for another year and a half and was so happy to be in her home. She was fortunate that she had been frugal all of her life and had the savings to afford the sitter and that her son was able to help with the costs of the sitter. It was one last wish that we could offer to make her comfortable.

 

[hereyago]

Don't realtors have to disclose if someone has died in the house?

Not in every state.

 

[ronandannette]

To each his own but both my parents died peacefully at home. I would much rather have preferred that, then in the hospital or nursing home hooked up to tubes and machines. It was a blessing that they were able to pass that way. Not everyone gets to...

I understand, which is why I would never try to dissuade anyone who wanted to. Hospice facilities have been an amazing blessing to us and our loved ones in more than one instance though. It's very different that acute hospital care and those nurses/doctors are God's hands on earth.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Well, excuse me while I go cry now. Lol, kidding. But yes, very true. Or someone else mentioned that their home was built on Native American land.

Maybe the house was built over a cemetary where they moved the headstones but didn't move the bodies?

 

[amberpi]

The house I grew up had the owner die in it. That wasn’t the weird part - when we moved in all the doors to the bedrooms (but one) had chain locks on the inside, which had a deadbolt to the hall, all 3 floors had bars on the windows, barb wire around the fence. I remember all the workers fixing the crazy lady. Also, while more modest by current standards, we lived in a neighborhood of surgeons and lawyers so it wasn’t exactly fancy, but certainly boring upper middle class.

 

[smokeyblue]

It's pretty common now of days for people to use hospice care and pass at home.

Now to really blow your hair back, people die in hotels way more than one would imagine. I dated a guy who was a hotel GM and 3 people had passed away between the 3 hotels on property in the previous year. We are talking well-known chain motels in a nice area.

 

[LSUmiss]

Caylene, that was nice of your friend to not tell you, since she knew it would bother you, but I have to ask. Why do you see the the end of someone's life as the beginning of them haunting their old house? If you have ever seen anyone pass, it's not morbid at all. I've sat bedside and held hands of a loved one and it's a beautiful thing and a time of honor to watch someone's life come to an end, all the days and nights, come to a finale surrounded by loved ones. I, for one, do believe in an afterlife and I found the book 'Imagine Heaven' was mind-blowing.

Regarding sounds in your house, chances are you had flying squirrels in your attic, or regular squirrels or mice/rats. Dogs have an amazing sense of hearing and smell and would definitely be alert to any critters.

As you move from house to house, there will be all sorts of things that occurred in those houses, Adultery, lies, cheating on taxes, gossip, alcoholism, drug use, pornography-addiction, animal abuse, and violent tempers. If you believe these things leave 'energy' then I suggest you walk through your houses and speak life and love and if you are a person of faith, pray through that house.

But no, I do not for even one second believe someone passing from this life into the next would be a reason for fear/concern.

My dad died here at home in our house. I WISH he would “haunt” us. I would give almost anything to see him again.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

I’m pretty sure my house is haunted. Doesn’t seem to be a evil entity but there have been times I have felt someone squeeze/brush my shoulder when there is no one there. Occasionally will also catch a shadow in the corner of my eye.

 

[caylene44]

It's pretty common now of days for people to use hospice care and pass at home.

Now to really blow your hair back, people die in hotels way more than one would imagine. I dated a guy who was a hotel GM and 3 people had passed away between the 3 hotels on property in the previous year. We are talking well-known chain motels in a nice area.

Ugh, never even thought about this. The other one is college dorms! There were a few when I went to school that people died in. I heard a rumor they don't put anyone in those dorm rooms for 5 years (probably because by that time, there aren't many people left from that time period to remember). I lived in an old dorm so who knows, maybe someone did die in it.

My dad died here at home in our house. I WISH he would “haunt” us. I would give almost anything to see him again.

Aww ❤ Like I said, my family is really superstitious so I hope he comes to visit you!

I’m pretty sure my house is haunted. Doesn’t seem to be a evil entity but there have been times I have felt someone squeeze/brush my shoulder when there is no one there. Occasionally will also catch a shadow in the corner of my eye.

Yikes, that is creepy! Whatever may or may not be in our old house was definitely not evil, just weird stuff.

 

[lovin'fl]

My great grandma died in my grandparents house on the toilet. I hated going to the bathroom there after that.

My DDs are now in a house in PA with 2 other college girls, renting, for the next school year. It was built around 1962. They swear it's haunted (doors close on their own, they hear scraping dragging sounds in the attic, they think their bedroom doorknobs are being turned in the middle of the night). I had to stay on phone with one DD all night when she was alone and terrified.

If you think you live in a haunted house...DO NOT watch the show 'Haunting of Hill House'.

 

[blana]

My parents moved into the house where my grandmother passed away several years after she passed. I've slept in her bedroom, where she died, many times since and it's now the room my dad uses most of the time, since it's downstairs. I've noticed many weirder occurrences in New houses than in Granny's house.

 

[caylene44]

My great grandma died in my grandparents house on the toilet. I hated going to the bathroom there after that.

My DDs are now in a house in PA with 2 other college girls, renting, for the next school year. It was built around 1962. They swear it's haunted (doors close on their own, they hear scraping dragging sounds in the attic, they think their bedroom doorknobs are being turned in the middle of the night). I had to stay on phone with one DD all night when she was alone and terrified.

If you think you live in a haunted house...DO NOT watch the show 'Haunting of Hill House'.

I would too.

Oh man, your poor girls! I wouldn't want to be home alone either.

My sister recommended that show to me but I'm too scared to watch stuff like that. Haha.

My parents moved into the house where my grandmother passed away several years after she passed. I've slept in her bedroom, where she died, many times since and it's now the room my dad uses most of the time, since it's downstairs. I've noticed many weirder occurrences in New houses than in Granny's house.

I don't think every house becomes "haunted." Not even sure if ours was, just a lot of weird coincidences maybe.

 

[msjprincess]

My house is over 100 years old. I just assume at some point someone died. It doesn't bother me.