To be cold and blunt, everyones got to die somewhere.
If you like the place and the deal is right .. crack on.

Would it affect your decision if an elderly person had died in their sleep and not been found for three weeks?

Most definitely. Hygiene reasons. Especially at certain times of the year. If a body has lain for any length of time pest control have to remove/eradicate all fly lathe etc dont they?

people die in them all the time

I have never died in any of the houses I have lived in.

I think if they’d died of natural causes I’d be alright, but suicide or murder is a bit too much I think

Another ‘No’ taking into family tie and you know exactly where it happened.

Top marks to ScottChegg for the best response so far..

A best mate moved into a bedsit where a woman had been stabbed 48 times. He got let off the deposit because he cleaned it up.

I thought crime scene clean up did that?

crime scene clean-up? John aka Igor cleaned blood, glue bags and hardcore porn mags out of his room before he moved in.

What if someone had died and not been discovered for 5 years? On an unrelated note, flat for rent in north Edinburgh.

you know you will see her hanging there when you stumble through to the bathroom for a piss in the middle of the night!

Hmmm don’t know if i could live in a house where a member of the family had died but as far as people dying in house my current house(which ive just sold) was built in 1873 and so far 5 people have dropped dead in this house including the three unmarried sisters who lived in it from the 40’s till the early 80’s (my mother in law does house history)

last house had the same situation, plus it was grotty. took a lot of getting the old vibe out(mainly lots of diy and making it your own). as i see it people live in houses and death is part of life. one might want to worry more about the previous x years and what they did/felt in the house. however if i had some connection to the person i might think twice.

But, it was the prospect of having to sell the house that made her hang herself from the attic hatch.
That bit’s structurally sound then

Sorry, but that made me snigger.
Returning to the subject It certainly wouldn’t bother me, it’s how the house ‘feels’ when you’re in it, if that makes sense. Irrespective of what happened in the house historically, houses can have an atmosphere that can make the place feel either cosy and loved or cold and unwelcoming or somehow threatening and it’s the feeling the house itself gives you that should be the deciding factor. I’m not talking supernatural goings-on, just there’s an indefinable ‘something’ about a place that can make or break it as a purchase.

ourmaninthenorth – Member

OK, some (in)sanity of STW speaks.

I’ll put it on the list. But, it was the prospect of having to sell the house that made her hang herself from the attic hatch.

Those that committed suicide will have their spirits linger at the location for sometime. Those that died of natural cause will not.

Suicide can create spirits that is fierce due to whatever anger that is still attached to them.

In your case it’s difficult to say since the decease is your wife’s relative so technically the house is still in family’s hands so her spirit might let you stay in peace. Other people might not be so welcome …

If you are uncomfortable then invite a priest that knows the way to perform rite for decease to move on peacefully. If the priest is inexperience then the spirit might simply get more agitated so make sure you know the priest has the knowledge to perform the rite properly. The objective is to get the spirit to move on peacefully.

Try the house out but if you feel really uncomfortable then move out quick before something happens because your gut feeling is telling you that.

For those who live in a house that someone died with no negative problems then there are three explanations to this. 1. the spirit moves on. 2. you deny or simply brush off or did not acknowledge their presence. 3. you are stronger in “spirit” hence nothing happens to you. But for a weaker person (weaker in spirit) they will be in for a ride … Children might be the first to acknowledge the presence, if the spirit is still there, due to their innocence but if they tell you about something just make sure you find ways to explain to them without frightening the hell out of them.

There you go the alternative views to those scientific minded brilliance.

🙂

p/s: or simply live in the house and get on with it by ignoring whatever is thrown at you or your family … by you know who.

What if someone had died and not been discovered for 5 years? On an unrelated note, flat for rent in north Edinburgh.

As I said earlier. Death etc, not a problem.

Body in the place for a while?

No.

Hygiene reasons.

The bin lid in the kitchen has stopped mucking about- only that night. Sis in law and mrshora aren’t even bothered or phased by the knowledge that someone lay overnight dead in our kitchen earlier this year.

Infact we kept the same kitchen units as they are (after all they are less than 1yr old) so why waste?

A friend of mine lived in a flat where there had been a notorious murder in the upstairs bedroom. In Wellington (Rufus Junior Marsh).

Anyway it so thoroughly gave me the creeps I couldn’t spend long in the place, and I especially couldn’t walk past the room where the murder happened to use the bathroom, well not on my own anyway.

They even had a Tohunga (Maori priest) come and lift the Tapu. One day we came to her house after work, nobody home, and heard noises from upstairs. Ran out the door and I never went back, she only did to move out.

No no no and no !

Although rationally, most houses must have had somebody die in them at some stage, my flat was built in 1831. But this isn’t rational stuff.

You know, one day someone on a forum could be talking about us in this way.

I think we’ve had two people die in our house. In fact the stain on the front room carpet might have well have been the last meal the previous owner was trying to enjoy while in his death throws.

Either way, it’s bricks and motar at the end of the day. I’d buy it.

Its not the dead you need to worry about………..

damn right, its the ones you think are dead but then come around halfway through the burial, thats a proper pain in the arse especially if you’ve just got the plasterboard up.

As others have said, a random wouldn’t bother me, but a relative might cause issues for the rest of the family.

…. my parents brought our family home after a suicide, according to my dad this meant a discount during neogiations! Apparently the previous lady occupant had slit her wrists in the bath, decided better of it, phoned the ambulance, but had locked the doors (which were quite strong), by the time the fire bridgade got there she’d spread blood all over the house and up the walls and expired 😐

I think my dad has a funny sense of humour as he put red wall paper up!

On a slightly weird note when I was little I used to see a ladies arms coming out of my bedroom wall (next to the bath room) – my mum got the vicar in to do a blessing on the house after it happened a couple of times. I was none the wiser as to why this freaked my mum out so much – the history of the house didn’t get slipped into conversation by my dad until I was 18 odd. My sisters still don’t know… 😯

Ewan, that reminds what another forum member told me about a lad who did the same who did this in a bath and changed his mind but died before he could make the call.

Awful.

“I think if they’d died of natural causes I’d be alright, but suicide or murder is a bit too much I think”

What about falling down the stairs and dying?

We thought the person we bought our house of died of cancer. Apperently though, so the neighbours have since said he died falling down the stairs, only a couple of weeks after his wife dies… was it suicide, or did the ghost of his wife push him down? There are dints all down the stair wall and we wondered where they had come from, now we wonder if they are where he bounced off the wall on the way down.

I don’t believe in ghosts and suchlike so I think I’d be fine with it.

As as has already been mentioned, people must die in lots of houses, but most times you wouldn’t know of it.

FunkyDunc – Member

“I think if they’d died of natural causes I’d be alright, but suicide or murder is a bit too much I think”

What about falling down the stairs and dying?

We thought the person we bought our house of died of cancer. Apperently though, so the neighbours have since said he died falling down the stairs, only a couple of weeks after his wife dies… was it suicide, or did the ghost of his wife push him down? There are dints all down the stair wall and we wondered where they had come from, now we wonder if they are where he bounced off the wall on the way down.

Accident can be considered as natural causes so are not that bad but the spirit will still linger on for a while and will eventually move on. They are not as fierce or intend to cause harm.

But suicide is a different matter as the spirit has an unsettled matter that could not been solved by him/herself so create strong attachment to the problem since s/he could not see a way out. Hence the anger within and might project the anger to the people surrounding them.

Victim of murder might be in between those two categories above.

The question is at the moment of death so if a person died in anger then that will be reflected in their spirit life.

Therefore, one should died with no attachment (no attachment to worldly worry) or be happy while departing from this world. Otherwise, that their spirit life will be of immense suffering whatever that is until such time as they are able to move on.

🙂

Duggan – Member

I don’t believe in ghosts and suchlike so I think I’d be fine with it.

As as has already been mentioned, people must die in lots of houses, but most times you wouldn’t know of it.

You do not have to believe in ghosts or suchlike so long as you are not bothered about things that happen in your house etc.

They are many people that died in the house but very small percentage died of suicide or murder.

MrNutt – Member
damn right, its the ones you think are dead but then come around halfway through the burial, thats a proper pain in the arse especially if you’ve just got the plasterboard up.

PMSL!

On another note you could try one of these…..

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-lampshade-that-drives-its-owners-mad-strange-truth-behind-20th-centurys-most-disturbing-object-2117357.html

spooky stuff!

Peaceful and timely death not a problem.

A house where someone had comitted suicide or a traumatic death had occurred…. No way would I choose to live in a house where that had happened.

the way I see it is once your’e dead your’e dead. Your’e just a lump of meat slowly rotting away. The only thing that lives on is other peoples memories of you so if she committed suicide in the house, its no different to a dog dying or a rabbit being gutted in the kitchen etc. Whats happened has happened and there’s no spiritual stuff going on like in that whatsit house of horror thingy.

It just a house, go for it.

Previous owner of my house lay dead in the bedroom for nearly 3 weeks…for real…then it lay empty for nearly half a year..
what the hell its just life, were all born and die somewhere…
However i did totally strip the Bedroom walls and re paper them and artex the ceiling, just to do a proper clean out 😉
main thing was there was no patio… 😮

Hmmm.. tragic suicide, because she didn’t want to leave the house, now you wnat to buy it? Can’t see a problem

Can’t imagine why a suicide in the house would cause a problem. Or any kind of death.

100 billion people have lived so far, lots of them will have died or been killed in houses. Ho hum.

Wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.

Family members might not be a problem but outsiders might be a differently story.

big-chief-96 – Member

the way I see it is once your’e dead your’e dead.

Everyone died but not everyone commits suicide … I think the description you are looking for is carbon. We turn to carbon when we died after a long time like the dinosaurs according to my mate who is a man of science.

So perhaps just try the house out as it might be okay but prepare to explain to the young ones if they ask. Also someone who is weak (health or mental wise) should be careful while in the house as s/he might be the next one to “go”. Most importantly do not speak negatively of the departed especially in this case.

Or simply adopts a scientific minds by dismissing everything you do not know until you experimented with it. Simple.

🙄

3 weeks? Unless the bedroom door was firmly shut there will be residue at least on the upper floor/landing etc. Remember when you “smell” someone as you break in? That’s their matter entering your nostrils.

As I said before- death. No problem. Decaying/fluids = no go for me.

Would you buy a house where a STW forum member had lived in the past? I have to say, for me, it would be a real no go. God only knows what sort of negative, cynical, self-centred, argumentative vibe they might have left behind. And remember, when you walk into a forum and smell the faint reek or self-righteousness, that’s digital particles of their brain entering your dietary system. Jeeezus, even the thought of it makes me want to top myself. Now where were we again?