Would you be too scared to buy a house where you know someone died?

If nobody wanted to live in a "drug" house, Nanaimo would be a ghost town.

[photon]

Originally Posted by FireFly

What I find is a bigger shame is that people on this forum are generally close-minded about the possibility of anything 'other'... things they can't explain.

So does the idea that if you can't see it for yourself, it doesn't exist. Truely mind-boggling.

I don't think anyone said anything about not believing it if they can't see it, I bet most people would agree electrons exist but they've never seen them....

No one denies things exist that can't (yet) be explained, there's tons of examples of those things.

What really is mind boggling though is that you seem to believe in something despite the lack of credible evidence.

Do you also believe in the invisible dragon I have in my garage? By the same standards of evidence and logic you've applied to ghosts you must also believe in my invisible dragon.

Originally Posted by FireFly

And yet aliens are a belief that hasn't been proven but apparently it's more 'plausible' so people aren't looked down upon for believing in them.

Depends on what you mean by aliens... if you mean life on other planets, well of course. Life developed here, we have evidence of that, and there are billions of billions of other planets, so it stands to reason that if something happened once it's reasonable to expect that it could happen more than once.

If you mean aliens visiting earth in their little space ships, then no there's no evidence for that either, and I put that in the same place I put ghosts.. interesting fantasies created by the human mind but until there's anything resembling evidence not worth much time.

Look at it this way.. in the 350 years since Galileo we've gone from a geocentric model of the solar system to putting robots on other planets and studying them in great depth.

While in that same 350 years the understanding of ghosts has gone from nothing to.. well nothing. And not for a lack of trying.

I recommend The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan as a book to read.

[onetwo_threefour]

I think by referring to a Carl Sagan book your Nerd quotient just went to 100%...

(See the second nerd test for clarification)

[photon]

Heh, and that's probably his least nerdy book.

Don't worry I think my nerd level is pretty much known in these parts.

[RougeUnderoos]

Boy, Hollywood really has done a number on us. Lingering spirits, drugs in the walls...

I'd buy the house and the story about what happened there would be the first thing I tell all my new guests.

[metallicat]

A house right across the street was lived in by two elderly people, and their daughter. She did most of the yard work, and grocery buying, as the father had no legs, and the mother couldn't drive. Anyway, the man eventually went into an old folks home, and subsequently died. The mother became depressed and eventually committed suicide. My mom and the daughter found her dead. The daughter continued to live in the house, and it has since been sold and is up for sale again.

I couldn't live in a house where a family member died I don't think. Just because. I don't believe in ghosts, I just think it would be too creepy. If it was a particularly violent death, I would also have second thoughts, but if the deal was good enough, I think I would do it.

As for grow op houses, I think I would be staying away. I would be too worried about the house being in poor shape due to mold and other issues related to having had marijuana growing inside.

[BuzzardsWife]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

If nobody wanted to live in a "drug" house, Nanaimo would be a ghost town.

Are you from Nanaimo? I grew up there. I have a friend who lives in a nice older part of Nanaimo, not slummy at all, they have a nice huge yard, and next door to them is a crack house. It's really nice, with torn curtains for windows, freaky people coming and going. They don't usually all get up till around 8 p.m. One guy sits in the living room window all night and just stares. Another guy pops his head out the carport door every time you pull in. One night it was especially nice to see 2 crack heads making out on the top of the couch in the living room! Nanaimo is trying to make bylaws regarding these kinds of houses though.

[BuzzardsWife]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

A house right across the street was lived in by two elderly people, and their daughter. She did most of the yard work, and grocery buying, as the father had no legs, and the mother couldn't drive. Anyway, the man eventually went into an old folks home, and subsequently died. The mother became depressed and eventually committed suicide. My mom and the daughter found her dead. The daughter continued to live in the house, and it has since been sold and is up for sale again.

I couldn't live in a house where a family member died I don't think. Just because. I don't believe in ghosts, I just think it would be too creepy. If it was a particularly violent death, I would also have second thoughts, but if the deal was good enough, I think I would do it.

As for grow op houses, I think I would be staying away. I would be too worried about the house being in poor shape due to mold and other issues related to having had marijuana growing inside.

My friends Mom hung herself in her bedroom closet. 1 year later, Daddy moves his new girlfriend in the house and they still use the closet and the same bedroom. My sister cleaned the closet out after she died in it, she said there was fingernail marks all over the walls. Wonder if they at least filled the holes.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

My friends Mom hung herself in her bedroom closet. 1 year later, Daddy moves his new girlfriend in the house and they still use the closet and the same bedroom. My sister cleaned the closet out after she died in it, she said there was fingernail marks all over the walls. Wonder if they at least filled the holes.

That is absolutely fataed.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

My friends Mom hung herself in her bedroom closet. 1 year later, Daddy moves his new girlfriend in the house and they still use the closet and the same bedroom. My sister cleaned the closet out after she died in it, she said there was fingernail marks all over the walls. Wonder if they at least filled the holes.

Brutal! Sounds like she botched the hanging and just strangled herself instead.

[onetwo_threefour]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Brutal! Sounds like she botched the hanging and just strangled herself instead.

I think that happens a lot in home hangings. People don't realize that there should be a big drop, to either break the neck or cinch the noose really tight so as to cut off both blood to the brain and completely close the windpipe.

(I know that it's morbid that I know these things, but what can say I read A LOT!)

[The Yen Man]

What I've always been curious about is:

what's the difference between someone seeing a ghost and a schizophrenic?

[Gozer]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

What I've always been curious about is:

what's the difference between someone seeing a ghost and a schizophrenic?

Have you ever seen a schizophrenic and mistaken him for a ghost?

[ZDogg]

The triple murder house in Medicine Hat sold last year. I think it was at least $50,000 underpriced. I wouldn't really have an issue with buying the place in the OP but something fresh like the Med Hat house wouldn't fly with me. I bet everyone in the Hat knows where it is. I don't even live there but the times I have driven past I look over and get the creeps.

[BuzzardsWife]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

That is absolutely fataed.

What does that mean? Untrue? It's true. I don't lie, especially about things involving people I love. Answering someone else's question, all I know is at the funeral all of her neck was completely black. My sister said the clothes were all pulled off and so were the closet rods. It was through an attic hole in the ceiling of the closet, so she was high enough to hang but I think it was probably delayed due to the clothes grabbing and what not. I don't know, but it sure was sad and disturbing. But can you imagine staying in the house, in the same room, with a new woman?

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

What does that mean? Untrue? It's true. I don't lie, especially about things involving people I love. Answering someone else's question, all I know is at the funeral all of her neck was completely black. My sister said the clothes were all pulled off and so were the closet rods. It was through an attic hole in the ceiling of the closet, so she was high enough to hang but I think it was probably delayed due to the clothes grabbing and what not. I don't know, but it sure was sad and disturbing. But can you imagine staying in the house, in the same room, with a new woman?

well, I wanted to say ****ed but I already have one infraction for trying to break the language rules and from what I have seen on this site Fata is often swapped for the word starting with the same letter of the same length that refers to sex....

I was just saying it was messed, and there is no way I could live there.

[Burninator]

I would have no problems buying a property that had something like that happen in it. No disrespect to the deceased, but if the property had a lower price because of it, I would be all for it.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Gozer

Have you ever seen a schizophrenic and mistaken him for a ghost?

Larf.

[Ice]

There was a house in my neighborhood where an older lady died and her family didn't notice her missing for three weeks. By the time they found her the body was badly decomposed. The house went up for sale, and people got a good price for a beautiful house. The problem was, from what we heard, she had fallen out of a chair in a corner of the room and the carpet and walls were infested with maggots. When the purchasers found out about there being a dead body in there for three weeks, they backed out. It took about a year to sell the house and they ended up stripping the interior to foundation and studs and putting up new drywall and flooring before the new owner would close escrow.

As for me, if I found a good house in a nice neighborhood for a bargain I wouldn't really care what happened there as long as there were no residual cooties for me to deal with.

I'm in the process of selling one house and looking for a new one, whatever gets me a discount in a declining market is fine by me. The more hammered, the better. I'm going to replace everything anyway.

[MoneyGuy]

I'm not afraid to buy a house where someone has died or one that has spiders.