Post by OrangeBanana on Nov 12, 2013 10:34:25 GMT -5
My house is close to 120 years old.
I don't know if anyone has ever died in the house. I'm guessing at some point someone has with it being so old. There are people in my small town that could probably tell me every single owner of this house. There hasn't been many. I know we have solved a few questions of why stuff is like what it is in here by talking to some of older friends that remembers what our house was like years ago.
I asked my realtor last year (when I briefly put my house up for sale) if I had to declare something to potential buyers. She said only if someone had committed suicide in the house or on the property.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
The house that H and I are trying to sell had someone die in it. We didn't know until we had lived there for two years but it didn't really bother me. It's not like the lady was haunting the place or anything.
I've wondered this. Especially since my son's room has felt off to me since we moved in nearly 10 years ago. I can't put my finger on it - specifically the closet, where it is always colder.
Most likely. The records of our house go back to 1904 and there is a page long list of people who have lived there previously (our library keeps records of this). I would guess at least one of them died there.
I'm not sure. It was built in the 30s and listed for sale after the elderly female owner had passed away. Her husband had died a few years earlier. It is definitely possible that one, or both, died in the home.
I don't get any creepy vibes, though. I don't even think it would bother me if someone had, unless it was a tragic death or something like that.
Post by Miss Phryne Fisher on Nov 12, 2013 10:57:03 GMT -5
We are renters so I don't know.
But according to the book Anne's House of Dreams (my favorite book as a child), it isn't really a home until someone has been born, married, and died there. I kind of like that. I don't mind the idea of someone dying peacefully at home.
Post by BieberMyBalls on Nov 12, 2013 10:58:10 GMT -5
Not IN the house, no, but my landlady's mother owned this house and commited suicide on the property about a year before we moved in. I was creeped out at first, but I feel oddly peaceful here.
The duplex we lived in before this house was over 100 years old and definitely haunted. I hated living there.
I've been reading "The Year of Magical Thinking". The author brings up a good point about dying at home vs. dying in a hospital. Many of us are creeped out about a person dying in a house, but I'd prefer to go that way instead of in a sterile hospital.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
I live in an almost 175-year-old factory. I'm fairly certain some children met their gruesome deaths in giant machines during the beginning of the industrial revolution in the area I now call my living room.
My house is nearly 130 years old and was one of the original farmhouses in the area. I like to imagine all the babies that have been born here over the years, but I never thought about deaths until now. I'm sure people have died here, and it doesn't bother me. Somehow it makes this place seem more like a home that has seen many things over it's lifetime and that is kind of sweet to me.
Post by twodogsandababy on Nov 12, 2013 11:16:56 GMT -5
My house is fairly new and the neighborhood is pretty gossipy, so no, but I do know the baby that slept in my sons room fell out the bedroom window. Thankfully, he only suffered a few broken bones.
My job requires me to review a lot of death certificates. I would say at least half of the people I read them for pass away at home, generally after an illness. My grandma died in my aunts house after a long illness and I kind of think it is peaceful.
Post by fivechickens on Nov 12, 2013 11:23:00 GMT -5
No....or at least I hope not, the house was completed in August so if someone did die here...yikes!
My grandma passed away at home, the new owners know and I don't think it bothers them. My mom also passed away at home but my brother still lives there so no new homeowners to be creeped out. I am pretty sure her spirit is in my new house watching me raise my girls and laughing at me thinking about their teenage years and saying 'pay backs!!!!!'