Have you ever lived in a house/apartment/etc where you know that someone died?
Me: nope, not knowingly, though we've lived in many old, century+ homes, so I'm sure at some point we've lived in a house (or three) where someone met their end.
Yes. When I was 15 my grandma died of a heart attack in our living room while everyone was at school/work for the day. It was awful, but we never had that weird "someone died here" feeling. We lived/owned that house for 10 more years.
Yes. My parents moved into my mom's parents' home after they passed away. My grandmother died in the house -- peacefully, in her sleep. None of us are freaked out. Or superstitious.
ETA: I don't live there now, of course, but I did for 2 years. No big deal.
Post by liverandonions on Jun 20, 2012 14:24:19 GMT -5
Yes, our house we owned the seller's husband died there (heart attack I think) and the house we rent now I assume the prior owner died in-He was about 100 and had lived there forever. Our landlords bought it from his estate I believe. Someone committed suicide in my Grandparents house too.
Both of my grandparents chose to die at home in hospice care. I lived with them growing up and I never thought it was strange or creepy. But then again, maybe I am a bit strange and creepy.
Post by cheesierthanchedda on Jun 20, 2012 14:29:32 GMT -5
The first house we lived in when we moved from CA to VA had some seriously creepy shit going on, but we were renting so we may never know for sure.
*The master bedroom had visible blood splatters on the wall. It had horribly gaudy floral print wallpaper, so the splatter was camouflaged a bit, but even in pics, if you know where to look, you can totally see it. *Also in the MB, on the adjacent wall, there was a window. But only from the outside. The window had been bricked & wallpapered over, with the curtains still hanging! So if you looked up at it from the yard it looked like a dressed, but darkened window. But there was no window in the room. I always just assumed there was a body in there. *Whenever you were in the house alone you could hear footsteps. Human-paced/weight footsteps. It was YEARS after we moved from there that I mentioned something about the footsteps to my mom and she got all freaked out (and my mom is NOT a believer in ghosts, etc) and admitted that one time when my brother and I were spending the night with Grampa, she actually called the cops because she was SURE someone was in the house with her. The cops scoured the whole place and never found anything. When I confirmed that I had frequently heard the same footsteps she wigged.
The house I lived first was built by a paranoid guy who thought someone was coming to kill him. He didn't die in the house, but my parents swear that he came back after he died. The house I practically grew up in, on the same farm, someone died on the kitchen floor.
All of the college houses I lived in, plus the house after college, were 100+ years old, so I'm sure.
The first house DH and I rented, rumor had it that someone died in our bedroom. The second house, someone committed suicide in an upstairs bedroom. Our current house is the original house on the homestead, so I'd be surprised, again, if someone hadn't died in it.
yep. the last townhouse lived in college. The guy killed himself on the patio after (a few weeks maybe?) his wife died of cancer. They were an older couple and had been together for years. We moved in a few months after the suicide. It wasn't creepy or spooky. My mom did go to town on the holy water though the first time she visited
Yep. When we first moved into my childhood home, the basement was furnished and someone had died in their sleep in the bedroom down there. The basement flooded, my parents tore everything out and years later fixed it up and made that same room their bedroom because they are CRAZY. I would never sleep in there, even if the guy apparently died peacefully.
But why?
My parents sleep in the room where my grandmother died. They don't appear to think twice about it.
Post by cheesierthanchedda on Jun 20, 2012 14:39:37 GMT -5
Ok, another story. But not about my house.
Shortly after moving to the house my parents currently live in, the next door neighbors' son killed himself in their back yard.
He lived close by and worked with his dad. He was ~32. He kidnapped his GF and held her hostage for several days. She got out and managed to flag down a minivan. She was barefoot and wrapped in a sheet. The BF caught up with her, shot & killed her, shot & wounded the driver of the van, then drove himself to his parents' house, walked straight into the backyard and shot himself.
My bedroom was about 15 feet away. I woke up to the dad screaming "Oh my God, why would you do that?! Why would you!? Oh my God!" Heartbreaking. They moved away shortly afterward.
Post by VeryViolet on Jun 20, 2012 14:41:10 GMT -5
Cheesier your post really creeped me out - like i wish I hadn't read it creeped me out. I cannot believe you lived there for any period of time. If I was your mom the first time I heard footsteps I would have moved into my car.
I grew up in a house that was over 200 years old. We had a history of some of the people that had died in the house but none were recent deaths. For some reason someone dying in my room 100 years before was less bothersome than if the previous owner had.
Post by cheesierthanchedda on Jun 20, 2012 14:43:03 GMT -5
Violet, my mom is a scientist. The fact that she willingly admits that one of the factors in moving from that house was because of the creep factor is HUGE to me. :shudder:
My dad's house (which my brother now owns as a rental) was bought from an estate. My dad knew the former owner, who committed suicide by shotgun in the shed in the pasture. I don't know if that counts.
DH's grandfather died in their house. His grandma lived there until she moved in with his mom. They still own the house but the family hasn't sold it yet.
Violet, my mom is a scientist. The fact that she willingly admits that one of the factors in moving from that house was because of the creep factor is HUGE to me. :shudder:
I know this was probably pre-internet and all of that so finding a rental wasn't as easy as looking at pictures on CL but did she see the house before you guys rented it?
Yep. When we first moved into my childhood home, the basement was furnished and someone had died in their sleep in the bedroom down there. The basement flooded, my parents tore everything out and years later fixed it up and made that same room their bedroom because they are CRAZY. I would never sleep in there, even if the guy apparently died peacefully.
But why?
My parents sleep in the room where my grandmother died. They don't appear to think twice about it.
I'd be more cool with it if it was a relative than a complete stranger. Something about my grandparent's spirit potentially being there vs. a total stranger's spirit is way more comforting/not threatening.
The first house we lived in when we moved from CA to VA had some seriously creepy shit going on, but we were renting so we may never know for sure.
*The master bedroom had visible blood splatters on the wall. It had horribly gaudy floral print wallpaper, so the splatter was camouflaged a bit, but even in pics, if you know where to look, you can totally see it.
Did you own or rent this place? Because if I rented a place that had blood spatters, it wouldn't be 30 seconds before I'd be on the phone with the landlord demanding biohazard cleanup. Ack!
The first house we lived in when we moved from CA to VA had some seriously creepy shit going on, but we were renting so we may never know for sure.
*The master bedroom had visible blood splatters on the wall. It had horribly gaudy floral print wallpaper, so the splatter was camouflaged a bit, but even in pics, if you know where to look, you can totally see it.
Did you own or rent this place? Because if I rented a place that had blood spatters, it wouldn't be 30 seconds before I'd be on the phone with the landlord demanding biohazard cleanup. Ack!
We rented. I was 9 when we left, so I don't know any details. I don't know if my mom ever noticed the stain until I pointed it out. It wasn't huge.
Post by peachdragon on Jun 20, 2012 15:01:52 GMT -5
Yes, I bought a house in which the previous owner had killed himself in the bathtub. No one told me, which I'm pretty sure is illegal.
I swear to you that it was haunted. Not in a malicious, poltergeist-y way, but in a creep-you-out sort of way. My roommate and I would find all of the cupboards open in the kitchen (they had little latches, so it would've been impossible for them to just swing open), and I once heard water running in the bathtub while I was home alone.
We performed a ceremony in which we told the spirits to go toward the light, and then the occurrences stopped.
ETA: I also heard footsteps upstairs in the unfinished attic, and then I heard someone say my name. This was the same night as the water running in the tub.
Post by amberlyrose on Jun 20, 2012 15:11:03 GMT -5
DH and I lived in MIL's house for about 6 months after she passed away in it.
We had a rental in college that was a huge old place built by the first doctor in the town. His 2 daughters lived in the smaller houses next door and his "office" was this rickety old shed thing behind the house. I'm sure with the age and the fact that he was the only doctor that someone must've died in the house or at least on the property.
Post by eightangryreindeer on Jun 20, 2012 15:12:31 GMT -5
Our home is over 100 years old so I'd be surprised if not.
It was also abandoned in the 70's apparently, our neighbor used to run around in here when he was a kid and the neighborhood was bad so who knows what used to go on...
Nigel's granny died in his room, she slept with the younger brothers (in her own bed) and one morning he woke up and she was dead.
Our home is over 100 years old so I'd be surprised if not.
It was also abandoned in the 70's apparently, our neighbor used to run around in here when he was a kid and the neighborhood was bad so who knows what used to go on...
Nigel's granny died in his room, she slept with the younger brothers (in her own bed) and one morning he woke up and she was dead.
OMG, I can't imagine how traumatizing that would be. Were the boys younger? (In a way I hope, since they were sleeping in bed with her, but then again I hope not since that would be rough as a child. )
Post by lazyphoque on Jun 20, 2012 15:24:36 GMT -5
Ali, that's awful. I'm sorry.
If your aunt is haunting anyone, I'm sure she is being awesome about it - hiding funny figurines in spots to surprise and amuse people, finding lost socks, and watching out for toddlers about to tumble down stairs.