Death in house

DKLS

I bought a house from the estate of a chap who had killed himself in the house and it was a bargain.

I gave it no thought other than when I was re-painting the stair case railings and noticed where the paint had rubbed off.

Lord_Baltimore

tommytynan123 wrote: »

.......imagine walking through the front door with your 2 young children and finding your older daughter hanging from the staircase. Could you and, more importantly, your children remain in that house ? It happened to me and believe me it matters. It matters more than you can ever imagine.

There are no words.....my sincerest sympathy.

I hope you have been able to draw strength from your younger children and somehow found solace in their company after such an awful tragedy.

phoebe1989seb

I_have_spoken wrote: »

OMG, you live in Elvis' house?!

.....or my late Grandad's maybe? He died in similar circumstances

outofmoney

I have a real phobia of dead things. I have belief that the dead are truly dead and can do no harm, so it's not a fear, just a phobia. I just about hold it together at funerals but can't be anywhere near the coffin. I can't even walk over graves to get to my own fathers' grave.

It would freak me out to have a house I knew someone had died in. I have lived in a couple of older houses and realise someone may have died there, but I am blissfully ignorant.

If it does make you feel uneasy, then will it always have that effect? If yes, maybe this is not the house for you. If no, then go for it.

susan1

G_M wrote: »

Whenever I go into hospital, I always ask "Has anyone died in the bed you are giving me?" If they say yes, I insist on a different bed. Fortunately I've always found that the next bed on the ward that they offer me has never held a deceased person when I ask, so it's all worked out for me.

Mind you, they do come over all strange as they answer 'No' to my enquiry about the 2nd bed......

Do you really think there is a bed in a hospital in which someone has not died?


I have to say I would think twice about buying the house unless I really truly liked it.

Dukesy

susan1 wrote: »

Do you really think there is a bed in a hospital in which someone has not died?

Think the original comment was tongue in cheek, but as a nurse, I have actually been asked that question on more than one occasion! As beds shift from ward to ward around a hospital with no record of their movements or history, there would be absolutely no way of knowing whether a bed had held a deceased person anyway!

Old_Git

my first flat when I left home was in the top floor of 4 story house .
I lived there for a while and then move on .
Sometime later I bought a book off of murder stories .

There in the book was my old address .
The basement had been used as an illegal abortion clinic about 30 years earlier .

treecol

My Mum had just had her bathroom completely renovated after wanting it done for years. She was thrilled with the results. She then promptly died on the bathroom floor.
My Dad who has Alzheimer's found her. When hubby & I arrived we were kind of comforted she'd died in the room she'd loved the most. Dad came in to say his goodbyes to her as the funeral directors came in. He spent 10 minutes standing on her hand as he said his goodbye & for the 1st time in 62 years she didn't tell him off!
Been living here for 2 years & I can still picture her laying on the floor, but I'm not concerned by it. At least I remember her.

Kazza_Monkey

We used to live in a former victorian hospital conversion. Part of the flat was basement as well as ground floor. Obviously some where in the basement would have been the morgue. It never bothered us but my best friend would never use our loo and would rather go to the public ones down the road rather than go into our basement to the bathroom as she seemed to think it was haunted. we never saw anything or heard anything scary in the time we lived there. I can remember one person when they viewed our flat when it was up for sale saying how they felt it was haunted too, my comment to the estate agent was if there was a ghost they would have been good as the hospital was mainly used for injured soldiers in WW1. We sold at just below asking price. I guess its horses for courses. hope all goes welll with the move x