would you rent a house that has had a body in the garden?

The_Drama_Llama

I grew up round the corner from the house where Denis Nilsen murdered and ate a number of young men in the 1980's. Unsurprisingly, the house stood empty for years...although looking on Zoopla now, it has sold more recently for the same amount as similar properties on the same road. People have short memories. Although I bet if they have trouble with the drains that Dyno-rod refuses to have a look!

poppysarah

There are ashes and a "shrine" in the back garden of the house across the road.
Up the road there's a house where a woman murdered her husband. She still lives there (After a spell in prison mind you!)

firstaspect

Catblue wrote: »

Anyone old enough to remember the Casa Bevron from Brookside Close?

Now that was class.

If I remember rightly he even wrapped the house up before presenting it to her?

Cyril

The_Drama_Llama wrote: »

I grew up round the corner from the house where Denis Nilsen murdered and ate a number of young men in the 1980's. Unsurprisingly, the house stood empty for years...although looking on Zoopla now, it has sold more recently for the same amount as similar properties on the same road. People have short memories. Although I bet if they have trouble with the drains that Dyno-rod refuses to have a look!

I know someone who put an offer in on Nilsen's flat and pulled out when she realised who had owned it.

tattyuk75

Murder or a suicide would make me not want to live there. I've watched far too many films like The Amityville Horror etc and my imagination would drive me insane with every bump in the night. A straight death in the house though would be ok though, I think I could handle that, a violent end is another thing.

dizziblonde

Catblue wrote: »

Anyone old enough to remember the Casa Bevron from Brookside Close?

Now that was class.

Was in the Daily Mail the other day that someone's bought the actual Brookside Close houses and shoved them up for rental!

My parents' house requires you driving under a bridge where there's a relatively regular set of jumpers - stepfather actually found a body on the way home one evening too... only issue was the police blocked the track along to their house so they were sat on picnic tables outside the pub in the dead of night waiting for the investigation to finish (with my mum complaining they didn't do it like that on CSI all the way through!).

MX5huggy

dizziblonde wrote: »

Was in the Daily Mail the other day that someone's bought the actual Brookside Close houses and shoved them up for rental!

Didn't click the link in the OP then?

Hazz

I could never do that knowing someone had been killed / comitted suicide there, I'd be constantly looking for any kind of spooky goings on and freaking myself out at the same time!

Someone on my mums road killed his girlfriend and then hung himself a few years back, hence shes on the move now :rotfl:on a serious note I shudder everytime I walk past that house in the dark now, what a wimp!

bluecowonthebus

If you've lived in a house that was built in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, then that's more than 100 years of life passing through and who knows what might have happened during that time!

charltonkeston

The dead won't hurt you, the living will.