Would you buy a haunted house?

John_Jackson_2

While chatting about ghosts etc. I remembered an incident a while back where a couple were trying to sue the previous owners of their house for failing to disclose that it was haunted. They failed of course; and, I believe, went on to sell the house at a loss.

Then I realised that I had found a really good money-saving idea: buy a haunted house!

So...

If houses were going for sale in an area that you wanted to move into for £250,000 but there was one going for £200,000 because it was allegedly haunted, would you buy it?

Would you see the £50,000 saving as a skeptics' discount or would you not save the £50,000 for fear that you too would be haunted?

Davidboy

As I believe that spooks and such are load of rubbish, then I would buy. Ghosties are in the mind not in reality.

Take a look at Most Haunted on one the living TV channels, that will show you what a load of old tosh it is. Derek is a fraud, nuf said.

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aliasojo

Having lived in a house as a kid, where strange things happened that we couldn't explain...I'm afraid someone would have to pay me to live in a supposedly haunted house.

It wouldn't even be on my list of considerations no matter how cheap it was.

BoltonMinx

I dont know about haunted but when I first moved to Bolton, I needed somewhere to stay near work for a few months while I got to know the area. The first place I viewed was lovely, it was sharing a house in Great Lever with a professional female, 20 minutes walk from my new job and close to the train station at £50 per week all in.

Great I thought, moved in and within a week started feeling very uncomfortable. My landlady was lovely, the house was neat and tidy, lovely room, queit neighbourhood and I'd been sharing houses for a few years, so it wasnt missing my family or anything like that.

For the next 7 weeks I kept waking up suddenly, feeling as if something was in the room with me. Definitely wasnt my landlady as she was a bit of a party girl and was hardly there. It's never happened before or since but I was seriously freaked out. I started sleeping with the bedside lamp on, initially convinced it was just the darkness of the room as Im used to rooms that face the rising sun, even feng-shui'd the room!

I can tell you, I was so glad to move out as I was knackered from feeling tense all the time Never considered myself superstitious but no way would I move in a place with a bad vibe ever again!

theGrinch

maybe the couple and the house you referred to was where a murder took place. I heard about that case and disclosure.

comes down to the individual buying. its like asking would you buy next to a graveyard? some people would avoid it and others like the character.

once knew a couple that thought their house was haunted. strange (unexplained) things were happening and there was a heck of a lot of static....turns out the house was wired incorrectly.

safesound

As long as I felt comfortable there then yeah I'd buy one. I'm not a 'believer' as such but I do think there are energies (as in magnetic/natural etc) that we dont understand and they can manifest themselves as vibes/feelings etc so as long as I didnt feel anything wrong there I wouldnt give it a second thought... until the first night I was there alone :eek:

hopefulfooluk

I wouldn't touch a supposedly haunted house with a bargepole. There was a poltergeist in the row of terraces that I used to rent in, and it stole things (toothbrush, food out of the fridge, etc) and just made a nuisance of itself. You couldn't relax there either as regularly you felt like there was someone there with you, even though the place was completely empty.

There was an article in the newspaper about how it had gone into the barclays bank next door, too, and, as ridiculous as it sounds, started taking cash from the tills.

So there is no way that you could make me knowingly live in a haunted house even if you paid me.

loopy_lass

oooo not sure.... where i live, they built old folks bungalows on an old old graveyard.... ***gulp**** not sure if i would live there...

I do think most haunted is a load of trollop & having seen Mr Achora first hand, first hand, after seeing mr achora first hand (why does he reapeat himself) i think hes away with the fairies personally....

i have had some very strange experiences myself, like i know things about people and i know when someone has just died or is ill.... but then when i get woke up in the middle of the night when i think someone is stood at the bottom of my bed i think ... how strange & go back to sleep.....


loops x

cattie

There is no way I'd even consider viewing a haunted house, let alone buying it, no matter how low the price. I have friends who have cheerfully told me their cottage has a ghost & they appear to be rather chuffed about this, but it spooks me & I've been very anxious when at their place.

But there do seem to be people, especially those that live in very old houses that do quite enjoy the thought of having a ghost, as long as it isn't of the disturbing kind.

dragonsoup

Well my house is 200+ years old and yes some very strange things have happened whilst we have been here. I must admit though the house doesn't feel "creepy" and it doesn't much bother me although it can be very irritating when things "disappear" and then "reappear" in places they were most definitely not before.

So yes I would buy one so long as the vibes were not bad.

Mr_Skint_2

Yes I would have a haunted house and have regular tours, thus making money.