Want to buy this house? Over my dead body!

BlueVeranda

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

And there was me thinking about the owner burying the dog 

We sold my grandmother's old house last year. This spring she casually let slip there had been three dogs buried under the driveway. I did wonder if we should pass a note onto the new owner but decided it was maybe a bit late to mention it.

Slinky

BlueVeranda said:

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

And there was me thinking about the owner burying the dog 

We sold my grandmother's old house last year. This spring she casually let slip there had been three dogs buried under the driveway. I did wonder if we should pass a note onto the new owner but decided it was maybe a bit late to mention it.

I did tell the people who bought our house that our cat was buried where we had a garden bench, under a gravel area. It was an obvious place to put another bench as it catches the evening sun, so I hope he has not been disturbed.

fourmarks

Why didn't they just leave him in the freezer like normal people??

FreeBear

fourmarks said:

Why didn't they just leave him in the freezer like normal people??

Because if they are like me, the freezer is full of paper.

youth_leader

Our friends bought a fantastic farm/land in Norfolk, needed complete restoration.  One day they saw a nun kneeling at a spot in their walled garden ... seemed a relative of hers had been buried there. I don't think they declared it when they sold.

fourmarks

FreeBear said:

fourmarks said:

Why didn't they just leave him in the freezer like normal people??

Because if they are like me, the freezer is full of paper.

That hadn't occurred to me. Fair enough.

mlz1413

So if you don't have to declare,  the people who do buy it could sell it on without telling anyone?

What happens if you don't know and end up digging through the grave??
Do you have to leave it and refill? Or can you move at the point of discovery?

user1977

mlz1413 said:

What happens if you don't know and end up digging through the grave??

I think generally you call the police and then they come round, put up a nice blue tent and finish the job for you..

Bonniepurple

There was a house close to where I grew up where the former owner had been convicted of his wife’s murder but her body hadn’t been discovered by the time the house was sold. I do wonder what the new owners thought when the guy confessed to the location of the burial and the police turned up to dig in the garden!

Smalltownhypocrite

Bonniepurple said:

There was a house close to where I grew up where the former owner had been convicted of his wife’s murder but her body hadn’t been discovered by the time the house was sold. I do wonder what the new owners thought when the guy confessed to the location of the burial and the police turned up to dig in the garden!

Not remotely related but makes me think of a famous old mystery. 

There was a lady who had traveled and performed back in the Victorian era, no husband or children and eventually retired to a little thatched cottage in a English village. She was a bit of a hermit who kept to herself and only popped out for necessaries, then one day she vanished. 

The local publican raised the alarm after a few weeks as she stopped coming in to buy cigarettes and the police investigated. Her house looked like she just vanished, mid dinner (still on the table half eaten) book still open to the page she was reading but no signs of struggle or foul play.

They searched the house but she wasn't there, the house then stood empty for years but was searched many more times by police and friends. No suicide note, no signs of struggle, no theft, nothing criminal ever found. They swear they searched everywhere in the small cottage. They then found some money transactions that where large and strange and assume she just took the money and fled her life for some reason (in her youth she never stayed in one place).

The house stood abandoned exactly as it was as she still owned it (not declared dead) and many years later the thatched roof was damaged in a storm so they went to check on the property, and they found her skeleton... on the bed, in plain sight, next to a bottle of poison but it hadn't been there in any of the previous searches.

To this day its still a mystery as to how? The most common theory is that maybe mid dinner she had spotted a rat or squirrel in the rafters (open beam, no attic space) and went to set a poison trap and got stuck and died and then the collapsing roof dislodged her body which fell on the bed below... but with no attic just open rafters how could she not be visible in all those searches?

Imagine if the house had been sold on and you bought the house and then a skeleton of the previous owner fell from your roof after a few years though.