Hello Everyone! Happy to the first Tuesday of November!
So I recently discovered the existence of this site:
Housecreep | Where walls talk: Murder houses, grow ops, sketchy apartments, haunted houses, and other stigmatized properties exposed.
It's where you can look up your address or surrounding addresses, or simply look around in your home city and province/state as a whole, to see if someone died in that respective location. Murders, Suicide, Suspicious deaths, Natural Deaths and any sort of stigmatized activity like meth labs and the like.
The site is still growing substantially!
Anyway! The point of all this is.....
Would you want to know if someone died in your current home? Would you want to know before moving into a new home? If your home has a past and you already know, how do you feel about it?
I live in a house that is around 160+ years old. I know people passed away in it; all from illnesses and old age. At least one child and some adults. They were all part of the family lineage and history of the previous owners and local family neighbors. Their small cemetery is on my property, ranging from the 1840's to 1950's.
It doesn't bother me because it appeared to have been a very happy home for generations, creating a positive atmosphere. I don't feel creeped out thankfully. All natural deaths, no murder suicides or abuses or anything.
When buying or renting a new place I would want to know ahead of time and would depend on the type of deaths (I know laws regarding disclosure vary in different countries, states, provinces, which is a whole other topic) Again a natural passing wouldn't be a problem, but suicides or murders is a tad more considerable. Weigh my options, price difference, how long ago it all happened, the result of the case, the history and safety of the area, renovations done etc etc I admit I am pretty spiritual so I would take that into account...but otherwise remember that a building is nothing more than wood and brick and can have a revived and normal life.
I think my limit would be if a straight up serial killer lived in a place and did disturbing deeds and body hiding in the home. Or a place where Satanic Cults fulfilled their activities. I wouldn't buy that! Nope nope nope. Even if the old home was torn down and a new one built (Like John Wayne Gacy's old lot) I still would be apprehensive Call me a flighty wuss but oh well! Not only eerie, but also very sad for the loss of those lives.
Altogether sentiments can really vary. When the question and concept was chatted about on my local radio station everyone varied from being totally creeped out to being entirely fine.
So I recently discovered the existence of this site:
Housecreep | Where walls talk: Murder houses, grow ops, sketchy apartments, haunted houses, and other stigmatized properties exposed.
It's where you can look up your address or surrounding addresses, or simply look around in your home city and province/state as a whole, to see if someone died in that respective location. Murders, Suicide, Suspicious deaths, Natural Deaths and any sort of stigmatized activity like meth labs and the like.
The site is still growing substantially!
Anyway! The point of all this is.....
Would you want to know if someone died in your current home? Would you want to know before moving into a new home? If your home has a past and you already know, how do you feel about it?
I live in a house that is around 160+ years old. I know people passed away in it; all from illnesses and old age. At least one child and some adults. They were all part of the family lineage and history of the previous owners and local family neighbors. Their small cemetery is on my property, ranging from the 1840's to 1950's.
It doesn't bother me because it appeared to have been a very happy home for generations, creating a positive atmosphere. I don't feel creeped out thankfully. All natural deaths, no murder suicides or abuses or anything.
When buying or renting a new place I would want to know ahead of time and would depend on the type of deaths (I know laws regarding disclosure vary in different countries, states, provinces, which is a whole other topic) Again a natural passing wouldn't be a problem, but suicides or murders is a tad more considerable. Weigh my options, price difference, how long ago it all happened, the result of the case, the history and safety of the area, renovations done etc etc I admit I am pretty spiritual so I would take that into account...but otherwise remember that a building is nothing more than wood and brick and can have a revived and normal life.
I think my limit would be if a straight up serial killer lived in a place and did disturbing deeds and body hiding in the home. Or a place where Satanic Cults fulfilled their activities. I wouldn't buy that! Nope nope nope. Even if the old home was torn down and a new one built (Like John Wayne Gacy's old lot) I still would be apprehensive Call me a flighty wuss but oh well! Not only eerie, but also very sad for the loss of those lives.
Altogether sentiments can really vary. When the question and concept was chatted about on my local radio station everyone varied from being totally creeped out to being entirely fine.