Would it freak you out if someone died in a house you were about to move in to?
I just found out that the previous owner died in a house I am buying. He died of a heart attack.
This does not bother me at all. Isn't death just part of life?
A friend said she could never buy a house someone died in. When people came to look at the house next door to me that was for sale, they wanted to know if my neighbor died there or in the hospital.
Would it bother you?
Boomer is so 2005.
although it was a little different - this person committed suicide right before he was supposed to move out. i told him, go hang out there and see how you feel. go with your gut. he moved in.
hell, i figure with the age of the houses that i've lived in (101 years, 80 years, etc) someone had to die in them at some point. i guess the reality is you usually don't know about it.
"you can't get to freedom on Pharoah's chariot" - MLK Jr.
i feel the same way. I have lived in so many old houses that I just assume people have died there. I also assume that people have been born too, which cheers me up.
*petty thief extraordinaire*
* I'm all fight and no flight *
if he were murdered yes, but natural death, no.
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I would do a clearing of energy and a blessing.
People die in houses. Now, a violent murder may sway me.
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light white candles in my new living spaces, partly to get the other-people smells out, partly cause I'm a closet superstitious weirdo.
If the house doesn't seem like it's got a bad vibe, your family seems to like it and you think you will be happy living there, go for it. Bake some bread, get some children playing in there, light some candles, play some funky music, paint some walls (but not while the candles are burning...), the house gets a new soul.
it's jussst like buying stuff at salvation army-omeone may have died while looking at this lamp! someone may have fallen in love while wearing these pants! i know homes encapsulate enery more than a ratty old sweater but it's still there...it actually would freak me out more to have a new home, i' have to rush around from room to room, filling it up with my emotions.
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I don't acually know if he died there but I do konw that he and his wifemlived there for thiry years. I like knowing that the walls have seen a lot.
i assume somone has died in it at some point, or at least suffered the thing that eventually killed them. i once lived in a civil war era row house with a dirt-floor basement. i used to wonder who was buried under there. once we found animal bones in there. so nah, death doesn't bother me. if there were a murder, that might be bad mojo, but regular old death wouldn't be a problem for me.
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no it wouldnt' bother me, unless it was a violent death, like a murder.
my grandma died in my parents' house, so I suppose it never seemed wierd to me to live in a house where someone had died.
my parent's house is well over 100 years old, so no doubt others died there as well. I like a house with history though.
No, I might think about once in awhile but unless it was violent nope.I'd live there. I mean if a house is around long enough eventually someone will die in there.
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I'm with you; death is a part of life. I mean, people have to die SOMEwhere.
The only thing that would bother me is if someone was violently killed in a house, because of the bad energy that tends to hang around. Then again, our attic was seriously creepy, and nobody (to our knowledge) had died there. However, a teenage boy lived up there, so we chalked it up to all the teenage angst.
I do a smudging for every new space I move into. I lived in a house that was built by a couple who both died in it (not at the same time) Sometimes I would feel the man's presence downstairs (which was his architecture office) but nothing creepy or menacing.
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our house is 110 years old....I imagine at least one person died here. The thought didn't strike me until after we had moved in, and my husband went out of town for a week, and I started feaking out about the house being haunted. For a science geek, I have a really irrational fear of ghosts.
I completely agree with the other posters - if the house feels comfortable to you, don't worry about it. I can't imagine a better place to die than in your own home, you know? (Unless it was violent, as others posted).
just about a year ago we made an offer on a fabulous house. it was warm and cozy and really beautiful. but something about it just did not sit right with me. i got a funny feeling walking around the yard. so i did a little poking around and found out that the husband had died in it just two years earlier. he slipped on the back deck and bled to death right there. i was pregnant at the time, and thus a little nuts, and insisted that we withdraw our offer and keep looking, which is what we did.
not sure if i would make the same decision if i weren't pregnant. but just a few weeks after the new owners moved into that house there was a huge storm. it knocked down a massive tree next to the deck, through the roof and into the living room. not that the two are related but man, what a drag to deal with that mess!
on how they died. Natural causes would be ok, murder would hurt my heart. I am sensitive to feelings/sensations left by others. I once briefly lived in a house that felt tight and gloomy and oppressive, later I found out that 2 people had been shot and killed there.
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Thanks everyone for your input.
I agree - a violent death would scare me. THe first time I walked into the house I loved it and felt very much at home. So, this new news won't change anything.