caylene44
Aspiring Disney Travel Planner
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- Aug 19, 2015
We bought our first house at a good price
Owners ten month old son died in his crib and parents wanted to sell and move away
Second house we bought also had deaths in the house
Owner’s husband and father both died in
their bedrooms 6 months apart
Knowing that info above did not affect our decision in buying the houses
The infant deaths really get to me, so so sad
I wouldn't be too bothered to live in a house where someone died of natural causes. A violent death, that may be another story. I'd just not be able to not think about it. When I was little, my parents bought a big, gorgeous old home where both of the owners died in the house (many years apart, both of natural causes). It never bothered me a bit. However, when I started talking to the Lady of the House, my Mom had a problem with it and we sold that house faster than you can say Haunted Mansion.
Hahahaha. Yeah, I'd be that kind of mom too. Funny thing is I'm obsessed with old homes, but maybe not the best idea if I'm trying to avoid ghosts.
I agree.
When I was a child we moved into a new house with no deceased tenants. I used to get the creepiest feeling in the basement, and wouldn’t go downstairs unless the lights were on. I even had a nightmare one night that dismembered body parts were floating up the stairs and into the rest of the house. After we moved out, my mom told me that one day, while she was downstairs doing laundry, she felt like she was being watched. She turned around and there was a man standing there dressed in the style of the 1920’s. She just stood there, and after a few moments, he disappeared. She never saw him again. I don’t know what was on the property way back then, since it was rural until the neighborhood started in the late 1960’s.
Wow, that's spooky!
I live in the NE...the NE is full of very old towns with very old homes. Lots of houses in general have had people die in them. But most old houses could easily have had several people die in them. Of course, if it makes you feel any better, most of them have had several people born in them, too.
I think I like the idea of people being born in the homes much better ☺ I live in WA, so as a "young" state, there aren't a ton of old homes. I think the oldest homes here are early 1900's and I've only known a few people who have lived in them. Most people I know live in 90's or later homes so less chance for people to die in them. Our home happened to be 1949 so an older one for our area.
We used to pass a grand old house when I was young. It was huge and expensive, but for whatever reason, I always felt creeped out by it. I didn't share that feeling with anyone. One day as we passed it, I asked my mother who lived there and mentioned that they must have a lot of money to live in a house like that. She said they did have money, but she would never go in that house because it was built on top of a very old cemetery. My mother would be almost 100 if she was still alive, but she remembered headstones being mowed over when she was a child, so the house could be built. She said the cemetery had been very old even then, and that these people had so much money that no one told them NO when they decided THAT was the perfect spot for a mansion. Creepy feeling explained.
For my part, I'd never live in a house someone had died in, except for a loved one. We have built several houses, and are on site daily, so I think we are safe from mystery construction accidents. We only bought a used home once. But I researched it enough to learn that no one had died in it.
I didn't even realize it's permissible to build over cemeteries, that is crazy.
My house is 90 years old. We actually read in a book on our town's history that the original owner died here.
That's kind of cool! The original owner must have been important enough to make your town's history book.