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

[raccoon]

I don't think I would. I think it would just creep me out too much.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. When we were looking for a house

we (wife and 2 kids, 13 & 8) went with our realtor to this one house on a rural-ish cul-de-sac. We went in the house and looked around downstairs and it looked very nice. I had a strange feeling though, something very heavy and dark. I went in the garage and saw the side door had a chair wedged in front of it. Oh, I forgot to say that the alarm was set and the realtor had to turn it off.

We went upstairs and there were piles of stuff in some bedrooms and this one room to the right that had no windows and had a low sloped ceiling (like down to 3 feet, but up to about 12). I got the serious heebie jeebies in that room but didn't say anything to anyone about it. The upstairs was a bit messy for being shown but not trashed by any means.

When we all went back downstairs, without prompting my son(13) said "this house feels weird" and my daughter(8) said "this house scares me." My wife said she had the same feeling that I had, right when we walked in the door. I then told them about the chair in the garage and we left immediately.

I never did find any information on any abuse or violence that happened in that house, but the feeling we all got in there, independent from each other - something definitely happened in that house.

So, no, I don't think I could live in a house like that since we couldn't even stand walking around a house that we had no idea of what had happened in it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. My husband and I had the same type of experience.

We were looking at house with his aunt (a realtor). One was absolutely stunning from the outside. Up on a hill and surrounded by trees. It had tons of space and the rooms were the type that should feel open, airy and happy...only they weren't. There was an amazing sadness and creepiness about the place. I Googled the address, sure that something horrible had happened there, but never came up with anything. My husband and the kids had gotten the same odd feeling.

Now, after watching a billion episodes of "Ghost Hunters", I wonder if it was a fear cage...i.e. too much wiring.

[kick-ass-bob]

22. found the address again: 5308 Tywood Dr Garner, NC

I couldn't find anything on it. Someone else bought it, 14 months after we looked at buying it. Originally sold at $355 - which was way out of our price range, so I think it was in foreclosure too, looking at the tax records now since the bank took it in Feb-10. I think it was listing for ~260 2+ years ago.

http://services.wakegov.com/realestate/Account.asp?id=0320647&stype=addr&stnum=&stname=tywood&locidList=&spg=1&cd=01&loc=5308++TYWOOD+DR&des=LO48+GRISSOM+FARM+SUB+PH2+BM2004-00690&pin=1618423462&page=1



If anyone wants to waste some time searching for crimes around there, have at it :P

[csziggy]

51. Used to be a funeral home?

LORIS FUNERAL DIRECT
5308 TYWOOD DR
GARNER, NC 27529-7041
http://start.cortera.com/company/research/k9q1jqm9s/loris-funeral-direct/


And florist:
D&L's Exquisite Repass Catering & Gifts
5308 Tywood Drive
Garner, North Carolina 27529
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Visit the Website
Email: [e-mail]
http://www.lorichappellfuneralhome.com/fh/resources/flowershop/local.cfm?&fh_id=11943


And a PAC:
FD & MA of NC, Inc. PAC
http://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/cf_pdf/2008/20081028_69204.pdf


A shiny new lawyer (admitted to the bar in 2009)
Daryl Vincent Atkinson - Lawyer Profile
Daryl Vincent Atkinson
5308 Tywood Dr.
Garner, North Carolina
(Wake Co.)
http://www.martindale.com/Daryl-Vincent-Atkinson/157021183-lawyer.htm


Which explains this listing:
VENDOR ADDRESS LIST
Vendor DARYL V ATKINSON
Address 5308 TYWOOD DR
GARNER, NC, 27529-7041
County
AGENCY-INDIGENT DEFENSE
ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION-TRANS GRND-OUT STA,IN US
VENDOR PAYMENT LIST
Fund
NCAS Account
Payment Date
Invoice
Vendor
PO Number
Amount
INDIGENT DEFENSE SERVICE
TRANS GRND-OUT STA,IN US
12/02/2010
TR-10-10
DARYL V ATKINSON
$253.70
http://www.ncopenbook.gov/NCOpenBook/ContractsNCASPayeePaymentsList.jsp?payee_name=DARYL%20V%20ATKINSON&year=2011&ncas_company=INDIGENT%20DEFENSE&account_description=TRANS%20GRND-OUT%20STA,IN%20US

[spinbaby]

2. Once I toured a house with zombies

Okay, it didn't have active zombies, but they'd filmed one of the Night of the Living Dead movies in it and now it was for sale. We didn't buy it.

[RedCloud]

3. Switch to" will take place" and get back to me.

[LynneSin]

4. I couldn't even buy a house next to a graveyard and it was a nice house at a great price

but there it was - a graveyard.

Freaked me out.

[MrScorpio]

6. I grew up in a house right next to Elmwood Cemetery

No big deal

[LynneSin]

26. It is a big deal if I can't sell the house later on for the same exact issue

My friend was a commericial real estate agent and he was able to look at the history on the listing of that house. It was on the market for over a year and reduced several times to try and sell it. In fact I had that house on my real estate page favorites list and it took another 6 months until it sold for about another 10k less.

And I bought back when the market wasn't tanking yet plus other homes nearby in the neighborhood without a graveyard view were selling much better.

I think at one point I was ok with the graveyard because the house was such a steal but even my agent said that was what was tanking the price because the house was in good shape in a decent neighborhood.

[JonLP24]

9. There are some homes

next to a graveyard in my city that are very cheap. They're cheaper than those cheap apartments and they have a big yard and decent SQ for the price. I'd kill to live there.

[LynneSin]

18. You should have seen this house

New Kitchen, garage parking, small balcony off the master bedroom and bookshelves that lined the office.

It was a dream come true and it was $30k less than most of the other houses in the neighborhood.

I almost considered it thinking I could plant some large trees in the backyard to block the view but in the long run I just couldn't do it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. . tmi.

[Xithras]

13. Sure. Until the Zombie Apocalypse!

What will you think of your low real estate prices and quiet neighborhoods THEN? Huh smartguy?

;)

[LynneSin]

19. Seriously - whose house would they be invading first

I'd be dead before I had the chance to defend myself and get the hell out of the area.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. I am their overlord.

[davsand]

30. They make fairly quiet neighbors...

Well, mostly.

The area kids hanging out there trying to scare hell outta each other can be kinda annoying, but even that can be ok if you get into the act and go scare ALL of them...

NOT that I'd ever do something so mean!

:evilgrin:


____

My family lived just up the road from a cemetery that was a big favorite of the local teen set as either parking spot or a place to prank. We never had one bit of trouble with the residents, but the kids sure did make a mess sometimes. Used to piss me off to have to pick up beer cans they threw in our front yard when they left. We all got used to people asking us if it creeped us out to live there, and we did hear it pretty often. Your fear is a common one.





Laura

[GreenPartyVoter]

40. We lived across the street from a cemetery for a couple of years. It wasn't too bad, and actually it

was a very nice place to walk. Very peaceful.

[FloridaJudy]

61. At least the neighbors would be quiet. n/t

[MrScorpio]

5. How cheap is it?

And did they clean up all the blood and gore?

[RebelOne]

7. Yup. But only if all the bodies are gone. n/t

[BlueIris]

8. Hell, no.

I'm sensitive to negative energy in houses. My current domecile has enough problems and no violence has happened here, as far as I know.

[Xithras]

10. No, but I had a neighbor who did.

When I was a kid, one of my neighbors (who was in his early 20's at the time) shot and killed his dad in their home a few doors down from me. We didn't know them, but it was obviously a big deal in the neighborhood at the time. The house ended up sitting empty for a couple of years (I assume that it was because of the trial, but I was too young to pay attention to that at the time), but it did eventually get sold to a couple with kids, one of whom was my age.

I remember asking the dad at some point whether he knew what had happened in the house. He said that they did, and it didn't bother them, but it wasn't something they really liked to talk about.

It took many years for people in the neighborhood to stop referring to that home as "The house where Mr. Gomez was killed", and start thinking about it as "The Elliot's house". That probably bothered them more than the fact that someone had died there.

[charlie and algernon]

12. certainly not with mass murder

It'd be too wierd and I would never get comfortable. My mind would play too many tricks with me that I was seeing ghosts and whatnot.

[meegbear]

15. Friends of mine bought a house in L.A. where a man committed suicide ...

beautiful place. I didn't know about it 'til the second time I spent a couple days there; I told them about a wild dream I had and they said maybe it was the ghost.

[mentalsolstice]

16. My current home was a scene of a brutal murder

It occurred about six years before we moved in. It took place in the living room.

[Incitatus]

17. yes nt

[MorningGlow]

20. I lived in a house where worse occurred

Child abuse. I met the little boy when his parents and my mom talked about the purchase. He was SO cute and my mom was impressed with how well behaved he was. Well yeah--turned out he was terrified of his parents (adoptive, no less). While our parents talked, I went to play with him in the basement. It was a finished basement--linoleum, paneling, nice, not old or yucky--but it creeped me out something fierce. Turned out that was where the parents abused him so the neighbors wouldn't hear.

They ended up killing him in their new house, when they had only lived there a short time. His ghost came back to the old house and hung around in my bedroom (was his when he lived there). He used to steal my toys, but I didn't mind; I knew he was just playing, and he'd always return them when I asked.

I never much liked that house.

On edit: There's a house just outside of the village where I live now that's been on the market for quite a while. A teenager killed his cousin there accidentally (beer, guns, some misguided notion of Russian roulette, but the news reports never explained how it was manslaughter and not suicide). It's not listed on real estate sites; you just have to call the realtor's number on the sign. No takers. The sign's gone now. Not sure what they're going to do with the place.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. We lived in a house where the teenaged daughter had OD'd.

She didn't die there, but in the hospital.

We lived across the street from it. When the owners decided to live in another house they owned, they put the place up for rent and we rented it for a couple of years.

We even knew which room had been hers; we never felt anything creepy. We had our last child while living there, and felt very comfortable.

[XemaSab]

24. A guy died of natural causes in my living room

His ghost is a little bit of a firebug. :(

[Iggo]

25. Was the perp caught, and/or was the perp a neighbor?

[raccoon]

27. It was just a hypothetical question. nt

[Iggo]

28. So was mine. So was mine.

I guess what I meant was that it would depend on the circumstances.

[nolabear]

36. Or is the perp hiding in the attic?

Did you think of that? Hmmmm?

[Iggo]

47. Yikes! No!

I gotta turn in my Mr Smartguy card now.

[Broken_Hero]

29. Hmm, depends

more than likely not though, because of my wife's beliefs, but I do admit it would creep me out a bit too(living in a house where a atrocious murder/homicide took place).

[Tom_Foolery]

31. I lived in an old home that was built by a doctor in a rural area...

Some of his patients would come to the house for treatment, and some of them died there. The doctor died there, too. I never saw anything weird going on, but my daughter slept in the room where the doctor died. She had one of her friends sleep over one night. The next morning, the little girl came down and asked my wife who the man in the suit was. She described the man to us. When we asked some of the old timers in the little town about the doc, they told us that the little girl's description was pretty close to the doc. He also had the reputation of going into the attic to sip some whiskey. I found some of his old bottles up there. I never felt uncomfortable in that house. I loved the history of it.

[bluedigger]

32. Previous occupant of my apartment was shot in the back by her son.

She lived, though, so moot point, I guess.:shrug:

[Forkboy]

33. Yes, I'd even pay extra.

:evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. You would!

:rofl:

[frogmarch]

34. Not if the murder or

murders were bloody. It would creep me out to think there might be specks of blood here and there, or pools of it beneath the floors.
When we listed our house n South Dakota sale, our realtor asked us if anyone had died in the house. She said that SoDak considered houses where deaths, even natural deaths, have occurred to be "tainted dwellings," and that by law, sellers must divulge that information.

[raccoon]

64. Interesting! Thanks for sharing that. nt

[nolabear]

35. NOOOOO. Nonono. Noppity nope nope.

I wouldn't mind being by a cemetery but nossir noway would I live in a house where a murder had been committed. And I SWEAR I don't believe in ghosts or an afterlife. And I want it to STAY that way.

[av8rdave]

37. Depends...what's the price to market ratio?

[Throd]

38. Up until the police find out.

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. *snarf*

[Kaleva]

39. Not if i was the victim or one of the victims. That'd be a deal breaker for me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. I can see why you'd feel that way.

[Hotler]

41. Hell no! eom.

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. No. It would make me too sad.

[WinkyDink]

46. No way. Zero.

[dimbear]

48. In East Point Ga. a guy had been shot on my front sidewalk.

My next door neighbors had a cross burned in their lawn. I liked that neighborhood.

[Chan790]

49. I kind of did.

The house I grew up in was a huge 200 year old mansion my parents had gotten cheap (The location sucked. It gives meaning to blighted middle-of-nowhere) The house had been gutted by fire and killed all 11 inhabitants at some point in the 1920s. Arson was never ruled out. It was creepy as all hell.

[Tikki]

50. Sure....if all the mess is over.

Tikki

[Lindsey]

52. HELL NO! I totally pick up energy. There are even some stores

I can't go into.

[cwydro]

53. No.

But who knows what has happened in a place unless it is made public in some way.

But no. No way if I knew about it.

[HaroldHecuba]

54. Depends on how great the house is.

[quakerboy]

55. Depends

does it have hidden passages and cool stuff? High ceilings with good lighting, good insulation, solar panels, or other nice features? Was it remodeled after the atrocities had taken place? Is it in good shape, yet cheap, with room to grow vegetables? Is there still visible debri/damage from the events?

Strangely, whether this was the home of the murderer or just a residence where a someone was murdered would get a tiny bit of weight in my thinking, as would the nature of the event. If someone just happened to get killed there, say someone got drunk and stupid, I don't think it would bother me except in a practical sense(are there holes to patch, carpet replacing to do?). If it was the home of someone who went out stalking people to kidnap and butcher, that is slightly less ok. I think because of the miniscule potential that they could get out and come "home", or some copycat nut could want to revisit the events.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

56. watch Monster's Ball.

It shows the "Billy Bob Thornton Method for repairing recliners with the all purpose Redneck Tool - Duct Tape".

I am trying not to put in a spoiler.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

57. It's bad feng shui to live near a cemetery or in a house where violence happened.

Due to the bad vibes.

I can't even walk down the street in the French Quarter - the bad vibes from the bars, the strip clubs and voodoo shops really creep me out.

And those places are next to BEAUTIFUL shops with lovely antiques, nice art, etc.

I have never been anywhere else where the bad vibes and the good vibes are literally next door to each other.

[mvd]

58. No. I believe in ghosts, plus I couldn't get that..

history out of my mind. I do live close to a graveyard, but am the fourth house down - not the one next to it.

[democratinnashville]

59. HELL to the NO!!!! n/t

[democratinnashville]

60. HELL to the NO!!!! n/t

[FloridaJudy]

62. Does an attempted murder count?

If so, I lived in one for five years. Previous owner had been a chiropractor who went off his rocker and pulled a "Shining" number, going after his wife and kids with an ax. Fortunately, his family got away, and the little old lady next door held him at bay with a shotgun until the police arrived.

Nice place, once we'd replaced the bedroom doors and patched the ax holes in the walls. And having Miss Jones and her shotgun as neighbors was comforting.

[LeftyMom]

63. I'd buy this house.

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=76185

It's a lovely house. I'd be more apt to hold off based on the neighborhood (it's in Alkali Flat, which is the land of the shambling zombie homeless) than I would about the people who used to be buried in the yard.

[femmocrat]

65. No. Too superstitious. n/t