Checking if someone died in your house

antrobus

randomi15 wrote: »

...How can one find out? Typing full asdress in google and search?

Or ask the neighbours.

Cross 18 Crown Hill Bristol off your list.

Tigsteroonie

We are just discussing a certain murderer's house that is up for auction here next week. They didn't commit the actual murders in the house. Nice looking 2bed semi. Could be a bargain to the right buyer.

The last house the Ex and I bought in Scotland, the lady had died. The only trouble we experienced was somebody telephoning, drunk, in the middle of the night to say that it was "her house" and we shouldn't be there. Yep, the phone company had given us her number too! We quickly changed that.

It bothers us so little that somebody may have died in our house, that we are going on holiday later this year to a converted chapel We're hoping it's haunted.

marksoton

iantojones40 wrote: »

Don't forget suicides too!

A friend of mine bought a house largely because it had a lovely balustraded mezzanine level overlooking the living room, found out soon after moving in that a previous owner had hung themselves from it!

That's an extreme way of carrying out a structural survey....

kiddy_guy

Very quick way of telling if somebody has died in your house.

Follow the bad smell and look for a decomposing body.

Never gone wrong with that method...

Ithaca

We bought out house via a probate sale, so we received copies of the previous owners' death certificates in the solicitor's pack. Both previous owners appear to have passed away at home (a couple of years apart), just part of the cycle of life.

bouicca21

Would I move in to a house where a murder had taken place? Only if the murderer was no longer there.

There was a much publicised and still unsolved brutal murder in the 1960s in an area I lived in until recently. Everyone had forgotten about it and no one seems bothered about living in the house.

Even a new built house could be constructed on the site of a murder or death by natural causes ... People don't always die in houses.

dc197

Goodness, don't tell my wife about this search. She'll ask the solicitor to look into it for the house we're buying. I had to hold her back from asking about ghosts.

robatwork

Just don't buy anywhere in Midsomer and you should be fine.

ariba10

How are you going to manage if you have to go into "Hospital."?

----I believe quite a few people have died in there.---

Mr.Generous

why draw the line at murder? what about any other infamous or horrible crime? best bet do a self build - that's the only way you can be sure.