Would you live in a house where a mass murder had taken place?

[raccoon]

I don't think I would. If I were living by myself, for sure I wouldn't.

[reyd reid reed]

1. Only if

it has enough closet and cabinet space.

:P

[raccoon]

3. You're very practical, reyd. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

44. Who's going to open the closet door ...

and look inside?

Double that if the closet door needs oil.

Wooooooooooo!

[bicentennial_baby]

2. If it had a really nice kitchen, yes

:D

[idgiehkt]

58. I love this answer

:rofl: :hi:

[qnr]

4. Sure, it would keep the neighbors away. n/t

[Tyler Durden]

5. Cabinets, good kitchen, keeps away neighbors....

Sounds like my dreamhouse.

Why? you know such a place? East Coast, Say, Virginia would be nice.

[qnr]

8. Norfolk or Virginia Beach... Dogs, Sailors & Neigbors stay off the grass! n/t

[Tyler Durden]

18. Spent almost 6 years there. Aparment on OCEANSIDE.

loved it.

[BlueIris]

53. AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH.

I would have driven myself crazy with fright.

[reyd reid reed]

6. Heh...

Especially if you suggest that visitors ignore the sounds coming from the basement/attic/east bedroom/kitchen and that the 'spirits' only try to hurt people every once in a while...

:P

[qnr]

7. All just a few good-natured spirit pranks, insurance will probably cover it

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

9. Sure it will...

after all, isn't that what it's for?

:hi:

How've you been? I haven't seen you in ages!

[qnr]

37. Pretty good, moved down to southern Texas - how about you. how

have you been?

[reyd reid reed]

51. Did you just move on a whim?

How do you like it?

[qnr]

55. Nah, Mrs. qnr couldn't take the cold in Maine any more.

It's pretty nice, lots of things to do, relatively progressive. I just hate the heat.

[reyd reid reed]

71. That would be tough...

the heat. And the humidity. When we went to Texas on vacation about ten years ago, it was like breathing hot water.

[Connonym]

10. I don't think I would

but if it was a fabulous house and I got it for next to nothing? Well maybe.

[Tektonik]

11. Sure

I mean as long as it was discounted

[RebelOne]

12. Only if I could buy it at a really cheap price.

[AggieGal]

Dupe

Sorry

[AggieGal]

28. I was thinking the same thing.

[Wapsie B]

13. Better have an exorcism first.

:P

[Left Is Write]

14. It would depend on the house, the location, and the murder.

[unpossibles]

15. I would consider it at least, but am leaning toward 'yes'

We throw big halloween parties every year (also our anniversary), so it would just add to the charm perhaps? It would be kinda creepy though.

[pagerbear]

16. I have quite a few clergy friends who could do their house-blessing voodoo

I'll try to get my pagan friends to do their house-blessing voodoo, too. I don't know if my friends from any other religious/spiritual traditions have any similar voodoo rituals.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. I would, unless there's a likelihood that the killer would be back.

Otherwise, sure.

[xmas74]

63. I'm thinking, if the murder were big enough,

you wouldn't actually have to live there. You could turn it into a tourist trap instead.

[ghostsofgiants]

64. That is true.

[xmas74]

68. And you know I can always use a few extra dollars

in my pocket.

[LeftyFingerPop]

19. I would not. n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. I think it would be morbidly cool.

[leftofthedial]

21. you mean like earlier that evening?

or fifty years ago?

[raccoon]

23. Good question--because if it was very recent, the killer(s) might still be around.

I was thinking at least a few years ago.

[Deep13]

22. Not if I had to pay extra for it.

:evilgrin:

[KG]

24. as long as they clean up the mess...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Well, you know...

It's just a house!

Buildings aren't responsible for what happens in them!

We lived in a house where a girl had committed suicide....

It felt a little odd at first, and then ....we forgot about it!

So, yeah, I'd live in such a place... :shrug:

[El Fuego]

26. And what about the re-sale value?

I was going to say yes if the price was good, but you'd probably have a hard time selling it.

[Wetzelbill]

27. I doubt it, I have a wild imagination

When I was 13, my family moved to another state and we lived in our first house for a short time, and kids on the bus would act weird when we told them where we lived. I never found out, but I suspect something bad happened there. It always creeped me out.

[montanto]

29. I lived in a house in which

a man was murdered. I know its not "mass" murder, but it was murder.

[SacredCow]

33. Sure- why not?

When I run behind on the mortgage payments, I'll claim it's haunted, flee in terror, and sell my story to the media....

Oh, wait.... that's been done. Nevermind.

[anarch]

30. I don't know...do I have to clean up the crime scene?

If so, then probably not.

[scarlet_owl]

31. Yes, because what are the odds that it will happen again in

the same house? I would feel very safe.

Edited to add a question mark

[LSK]

32. no, I wouldnt

I have seen too many horror movies/ghost stories on TV.

:scared:

[skygazer]

34. I don't think that would be a huge consideration for me

We had ghosts here for years - they made a lot of noise downstairs. Banging doors and sounds like moving furniture, sometimes it would sound like someone walking up or down the stairs and once or twice we distinctly felt someone sit on the sofa with us. Sometimes we'd hear voices - they always sounded like they were quarreling except when we heard a child - the child always sounded like he/she was crying.

So I got into the habit of speaking to them. Every time I went downstairs, which seemed to be where they mostly hung out, I'd say hello, ask how they were doing, if it was too cold or hot for them, whatever. Over time, they got quieter and now we haven't heard them for at least a couple of years. I don't know - maybe they just wanted some validation. :P

I can share my home with spirits. It's all the same to me.

[enigmatic]

35. In a second

Especially if I could get it for a great price..

[rbnyc]

36. Probably not.

I think that ultimately there is a scientific explanation for things, but that doesn't mean I don't believe in ghosts. I do believe the laws of nature allow for something to exist along the lines of residual energy that we interpret as ghosts, and that this is more likely to take place in correlation with a traumatic event. I've experienced such energy before, and it's freaking scary. I moved from an apartment once for this very reason.

[spinbaby]

38. Night of the Living Dead

Once a realtor showed us a house where they had filmed part of one of the Night of the Living Dead movies.

No thanks.

[China_cat]

72. The farm house outside of Evans City?

My grandparents' dentist bought that right after the original movie was made.

[mike_c]

39. why not?-- I mean, I wouldn't want to clean up after it, but otherwise...

...it's just a house.

[Critters2]

40. Sure, why not?

I'll bet you could get it cheap, too!

I'm not superstitious about such things. When my grandmother died, we found that she had labeled everything in the house with the name of who she wanted to inherit it. The bed had my cousin's name on it, but my cousin wouldn't take it, because my grandmother died in the bed. My sister wouldn't take it either. So, I stepped up! It was a great bed, and I used it for 18 years (after my grandparents probably used it for 40 or 50). Last year, a supporting side beam became warped, and I had to get a new bed.
But it served its purpose just fine.

A house would do the same. I'd have no problem with it at all.

[Aristus]

41. I once lived in a studio apartment where the previous tenant, an old man,

had been found dead in his bed. The fact never bothered me while I lived there. The only thing that bothered me was the size. The apartment was so small, I had to step outside to change my mind! B-)

[Awsi Dooger]

47. That happened two months ago, down the hall from me

I returned from my Hawaii trip and the apartment at the end of the hall had a clamp on the door. I assumed it was due to lack of payment, but I found out a few days later the woman had died.

Get this, the body was apparently there for at least 2 weeks and perhaps a month before they found her. She was a white woman but the corpse looked black when she was found, after a neighbor reported bad odor. She hadn't lived there very long, maybe a couple of months, so I doubt she had friends in the complex. I certainly wasn't familiar with her. I heard she was a stripper in a local club and may have died of an overdose.

So far no one has moved into the apartment. My friend upstairs said a HazMat team showed up not long after they found the body, and then someone put a candle outside her door for a few days. Sad.

[Shine]

42. Only after there was some major clearing out of the bad ju ju

andthat would take a LOT of sage-burning....:D
plus, the house would have to be totally fantastic.

[mreilly]

43. No because crazies might stalk the place

If you recall the film the Amityville Horror, it was about a haunted house where six people had been killed. The murders really happened, and the house that the film was based on has been haunted to this day... not by ghosts but by thrillseekers and fans wanting to check out "the Horror House." For that reason I would not want to live in a house you describe. I'm not too worried by ghosts (though I will admit it might be pretty eerie lying in bed at night in a room in which someone died) but the thought that some nutjob might want to recreate the crimes, so to speak, in the same place would be a very significant factor in my mind. Sounds crazy, I know, but I think the crazy actions of some obsessed/deluded people out there pretty much validate my concerns.

[pitohui]

45. probably not

lightning does strike twice and if something happened once in a place, it's possible there is a reason, such as lots of drug use in the neighborhood

also if the crime was unsolved, there is no telling when/if you might get cops digging up your yard or house again or whatever, the female mass murdering police officer from new orleans they eventually went back and dug up a house where she used to live and yeah there was a body in the back yard

as someone else said, there is also the weirdo factor, if it was a famous crime you might have the fanboys coming around taking pix of your house and who needs that

all in all i would have to get one HELL of a bargain to put up w. it

[raccoon]

67. I understand the people who now live in the Clutter family house

have a lot of people like that coming around, "the fanboys coming around taking pix of your house."

[Mojambo]

46. Absolutely. n/t

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

48. probably not

I've got too vivid an imagination to attempt that.

[Fox Mulder]

49. Sure.

Then I could try to communicate with the ghosts that are "living" there.

[BreweryYardRat]

50. Sure. why not?

I'm crazy anyway.

[supernova]

52. Only if it had happened so long ago

that it was just part of town folklore, like at least a couple of centuries ago. Would just add to the air of the place.

If it were a recent murder, within living memory, I don't think I would.

[EstimatedProphet]

54. Only afterwards

cuz it would really suck to live there while it was going on.

[johnnie]

69. .

:spray:

[philosophie_en_rose]

56. Maybe.

It depends on the likelihood of being reinfested with mass murderers. And the view, of course. :)

[derby378]

57. Trent Reznor (NIN) did, at least for a little while

He once purchased Roman Polanski's old house in LA on Cielo Drive, the same house where Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski, and Stephen Parent were murdered by members of the Manson Family in August 1969.

Don't know where he lives now, but me, I could possibly live in a house where a murder took place, but it would depend on the severity of the crime. Not sure I could do Cielo Drive, even if I had the cash.

[Skittles]

61. that house has been torn down

Mr. Reznor thoughfully kept the door on which PIG was written in Sharon Tate's blood. :puke:

[johnnie]

70. He claimed he didn't know it was

:eyes:

Spent Razor is a goof

[MichiganVote]

59. No. I feel stuff too much sometimes.

[femmocrat]

60. No way. Never. Bad mojo.

I still "sense" the ghosts of the previous owners of this house, and we have been here 22 years!

Something like that doesn't leave a house. They should bulldoze it. Seriesly.

:scared:

[TK421]

62. Hell no...I wouldn't want to stick around and wait for the authorities to show up!

[barb162]

65. Never

But I l know people who have no problems with it if the house sold at a good price.

[truedelphi]

66. It depends. If the mass murder had occurred by endless playing of Air Supply - I guess most people

Wouldn't.