Would You Ever Buy A Murder Scene House?

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I don't believe in ghosts as spirits of dead people,
but only pre-asphyxiation hallucination effects of carbon monoxide
from bad chimneys.

So it depends: Is the house in such a bad neighborhood that
people who live in it are at very high risk of being murdered?

As long as it was a good deal.

Conversely, imagine if you bought a "murder scene" house that just happened to be quite famous, how many people would come and bother you all of the time.

Maybe even vandals

No, I wouldn't. Even if there aren't ghosts there, sometimes I get a sense from a place. To feel that terror, that hopelessness, is something that I think would depress me.

I actually strongly considered it as one house we saw was lovely and a good deal.

However, the money from the sale was likely to go towards the defense of the woman who allegedly killed her husband, and the thought of potentially funding that made me uneasy.

Yes!

Because:
I don't believe in ghosts and hauntings and stuff like that. It's all psychosomatic.
It'll probably be a good deal, because fewer people would be willing to buy a house like that, for some odd reason.
A house is a house. I like houses. (nice ones, anyway.)

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When my husband & I bought our current house 17 yrs ago, we were told nothing of its past. It was neighborhood gossip that filled me in. The male householder blew his brains out in the garage shortly after he retired. His ghost still hangs around, keeping watch on the place, He approved of us when he saw our aquarium being moved in. He's even helped me with some "honey-do" projects.

Go ahead & laugh, if you like. That's my story & I'm sticking to it.

Assuming all other factors are normal/good, then sure why not? What happened there has nothing to do with anything. It's just superstition to think otherwise. Why, an animal(s) or even a person was likely murdered some time in the past on the very spot you're standing right now. What building/landscape was there at the time makes no difference.

*shrug*

yes..... probably, why not?!

Anybody remember Dorothea Puente? She was this white haired old lady who ran a boardinghouse for old people in downtown Sacramento, and killed between seven and nine of them with poison so she could steal their Social Security checks. Well, her house is now for sale. It's at 1426 F Street in downtown Sacramento, in a district known as Mansion Flat, because the governor's mansion was once nearby.

There was a big discussion on the local newspaper's web site as to whether it was worth buying. The house has been updated with granite countertops and new bathrooms, and like so many other houses in California, it's a foreclosure. It was sold for $560k at the top of the real estate boom here. It's worth, realistically, maybe $120k. It's a gorgeous Victorian cottage. It is, in many ways, my dream home. I can't afford it of course, but if I could I'd buy it. I'd definitely have a priest exorcise it first though.

The house has a larger than usual yard, and that's where she buried the bodies. It's a patio area now, and a parking spot for a car (or two if they were Hyundai Accents). The parking area is RARE RARE RARE in that part of town. The area was built long before cars, so on street parking only, first come first serve, but this house has a parking area. That alone makes it desirable. A surprising number of people said no way, while others were saying "it's just a house, people!". I might have a problem with the notoriety aspect, and gawkers and such, but the house is on a heavily traveled street, and 22 years later it shouldn't be a problem.

The area was really bad for a long time, a lot of flophouses and such, and on the 10th anniversary of the discovery the media asked the dude who lived there if he was scared of ghosts, and he said that the living humans in that area were far scarier than any ghost. The area has greatly turned around since, and the flophouses are now single family Victorians once again. It's definitely worth the price. It's a duplex, so it likely will be a rental, or somebody will live on the second floor and rent out the ground floor. (Old houses here were raised six feet off the ground due to floods; the ground levels of such homes are generally now living areas, the threat of floods having receded.)

HELL NO

Although a house in Portland does have a following.
It's called the Queen Anne Victorian Mansion in North Portland.

Yes, I know the thread is 3 years out since anyone has responded to it, but I am interested in this thread.

I would not be keen on living in a house that had been the scene of a murder. The reason is my concern over any residual blood or contamination left over from the murder being on the floor or walls, etc. Would I ever feel like it is clean to live there?

However, if the price was affordable, and it was for sale, and I had reason to live there, I would consider the Amityville Horror house. I feel as though it has been remodeled enough to have cleaned it from any murder evidence---I guess.

Though no murder has occurred in my house, there has been at least one death here. And my house has its own very interesting reputation that I would love to write a book about.

I would. If the supernatural doesn't exist, then nothing would happen and I got a cheap house. If the supernatural does exist, then I'd get to find out about it.

No problem. I've bought three in the last ten years (very cheap!), fixed them up, and then "flipped" them for a huge profit!

Each one was purchased by at least one goth-type.

I've (only half) joked that if I had the (stupid amount of) money, and if it came on the market, I'd buy the old Cobain house at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard, which is where he died (although the garage where he was found was long ago pulled down). Nirvana fans visit the park next door to pay their respects, because there's no official memorial to him anywhere in Seattle, but the local residents, who are mostly old money, have tried to put a stop to it (from what I've read, the people in that area really don't like the fact that any of the little parks down that way are public parks). I suspect that if a fan actually owned the house, it might be a slightly different story.

No, unless, maybe, it happened so long ago there's no way there could be a living person who knew the person(s) involved. Such as 150 years ago.

I wouldn't want the negative energy or lookie loos in a modern 'scandalized' property.