Crime Scene House Buying

neverdespairgirl

3v3 wrote: »

If Smudge sticks work for the poster ... who are we to deny it works when it clearly works for them?

My rational, scientific side despairs.

ruggedtoast

Going back to the OP, you'll always be known as the family who lives in the murder house. People will always be speculating who sleeps in what room. Random strangers will send you parcels of smudge sticks.

When friends and family visit they'll be all, eek, and if you ask someone to come over and they say they are busy,are they really busy or is it due to your murder house? You'll never know.

Why dont you ask the neighbours what its like being the people who live next to the murder house? That might give you some idea as to whether you actually want to live in the murder house.

Just to enrage NDG a bit more, I actually do think places have atmospheres. I was in a place called Danau Toba on Indonesia once with my wife , and we made a shortish hike to this village which is mostly famous for a long history originating as a centre for human sacrifice hundreds of years ago.

The village itself was a dour, unpleasant place with a failing economy comprised of souvenir sellers hissing at us when we walked past them without stopping.

The centre piece is the sacrificial altar off to the back of the village and I was surprised when no one apart from one persistent small boy followed us in there. Its not much to see, a couple of blocks of stones, one with a channel carved in for the blood and the other scored and grooved from the axes they used.

The little boy jumped around them asking for money for this and that.

The last head would have been chopped hundreds of years ago and it was broad daylight, but it was honestly the most creepy and disturbing place I have ever been to. There was a palpable feeling of oppressive malice in there that we both disliked immensely. We were glad to leave that village straight away.

GDB2222

I once had a client who told me that she could sense there was a void beneath the room we were sitting in. This happened to be the meeting room of my office on the ground floor of a converted Victorian house with a cellar, so she was perfectly correct. Very spooky! Well not, not really, as she'd walked up 15 stairs to get to the front door. Maybe she believed it herself that she had special powers? Or was she an arch bull-shitter? I don't know.

TehJumpingJawa

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

2) If you live in a close nit area you are going to have more of a problem than in bigger areas. Memories in some areas last longer than others.

Easy solution to that one - kill all the neighbours :beer:

Marvel1

Unless it's a new build, every house has it's histiory, it doesn't bother me.