That's what they do over here - they tear down the house - where there has been murder victims So, we're not alone in our feeling Cody Agree with Babs, there will be a bad aura for people that can pick that up
We're the only 2 oddballs, Ken...hahahaha I always knew you were a little strange @Ken Anderson but now I am too....I love it!
Both of you could very well change your minds if it really did happen to you.........move into a house and later find out later that there had been a murder inside the house, or told that there had been a murder in the house. Basically, until it really happens, how does a person really know how they will take it?
Since I don't believe in spirits, I'd probably not think about it. Only way I would worry is if there were a lot of murders in that neighborhood, then that would make me worry but what's a dead person who died awhile ago in the house going to do to me?
Years ago I sold real estate and one house that I had listed took forever and a day to sell. Not because of a murder but because of a suicide that had taken place in the home. Lots of curious lookers but no takers.
I think someone committed suicide in the house next door but before I moved here, my neighbor had no problem buying the house, she even had an inground pool put in a couple years ago....she lived there about 15 years and nothing bad has happened to her...in fact she's doing pretty well by what I see in improvements, etc on her property.
@Chrissy Cross, it's a mental thing, not a physical thing with some folks. Some people just refuse to rent or buy if a death or murder has been disclosed to them that happened.
That's too bad because they may be passing up on a great home, but if they can't live there, I guess they can't.
The crazy thing was that when I had that house listed many people wanted to see it....guess they expected blood or something. But seeing as the guy hung himself they left disappointed. Small town talk fired up imaginations.
I don't entirely discount the possibility of spirits being related to the dead, although I don't know how I would fit that into my Christian beliefs. For many, it's not so much a fear of ghosts that might put them off of buying a home where a tragic death, such as a murder or a suicide, might have occurred, but the simple fact of having their home associated with it. Back in the late 40s or early 50s, some drunk fell out of a window of the house we own, which was then a low-end boarding house, yet at least thirty people have told me about since we moved here, and that wasn't even an interesting death like a murder-suicide. I can imagine that it wouldn't take a fear of ghosts to discourage someone from buying the "murder house" down the street from me. Rather than being people who have moved to town and are now a part of the community, they would forever be the people who live in the murder house.