Would You Ever Buy A Murder Scene House?

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Not really. The idea of if is kind of creepy enough as it is. Also, and I know it's crazy, but I kind of believe in ghosts. My family has a history of encountering some in the past, and if I live in a house with the spirit of a murdered one, it's really going to be creepy.

Dont know whether it would bother me or not.
But I cant help thinking of the closest thing that Ive ever really experienced to that.

Like many aspies I have had a long history with shrinks.

The shrink I went to in jr. high school was ineffective. The more I complained about him the more my parents were convinced he was doing me good,so the more they insisted on sending me to him. But finnally "he got too greedy'(as my dad put it) and started charging my parents too much. So for THAT reason they switched me to another shrink: a lady who turned out to really BE quite effective and helpful. My parents later apoligized for forcing me to go to the first one- for year after waisted year.

Dial ahead more than a decade later.

My mom told me that she just read in the news about a middle aged couple in the area who just been shot to death by their own son.

My mom heaved a sigh, and then told me the name of the family-it was the same rare name as that of the first (the ineffective) shrink I went to.

Turned out that it was indeed this same psychiatric social worker who had been murdered along with his wife by their son. The daughter ( whom I actually met once when I used to see him) confirmed to the police that her brother had mental problems and "that it had to be he who did it". Needless to say my parents and I were all stunned.

A day or two later when I was by myself I pulled out the newspaper and examed it, and reread it. Then my eyes focused the family's home address.
When I had been his client I saw him at an office in building-never had a notion of where he lived before. Then looked up the address in the street map book.

So what the hell- i got in the car and drove several miles to the suburban address and parked in front of the the home were Mr. so-and-so whom I had known for so long had lived- and where they had just been murdered.

Not sure why I did it. It was the home of a person whom I hated- who was associated with anger at my parents- and parents having regrets about- AND who had just been murdered-murdered by his own family member -who ironically had psychological problems. All this emotion wrapped in emotion wrapped in emotion!


I guess I was expecting to experience some kind of wierd emotional vibe in the presence of the house.

But...

Nothing.

I sat in the car and just stared at the modest sized house on the cul-de-sac on that early summer say. No vibes. No nothing. It was just a house.

Drove home kinda disappointed.

Ofcourse I mighta gotten the address wrong.

I'm skeptical of paranormal so I wouldn't be worried about it being haunted or coursed.. What would bother me most about buying it would be if the murder was famous or had some kind of legend/tale around town. I wouldn't like tourist stopping in front my house to look & knocking on my door. I also wouldn't like people in town to treat me like a pariah because I'm living there.

I have lived in many places. I think that the likelihood is high that at some point someone has died in one of the buildings I have lived in.

I would consider buying a home someone had been killed in, but I would want to make sure the security was very very good.

The only problem I've had with these "Murder Houses" that I've bought (and sold) are the tourists who just have to get inside somehow to "catch the vibes". Even after selling the properties, the new owners will occasionally report trespassers trying to look in through their windows, or people wanting to come inside to "look around" at the murder scene.

No, this is not about people like Naturalplastic, who seem to merely want to experience some form of closure over their own experiences. This is about those stupid people who, for whatever reason, seem to think that just because an infamous event happened, the place it happened in is automatically a tourist attraction.

What about spreading the rumor that a tourist was butchered there?

Sure. one of my family members owns a condo where somebody commited suicide in, they rent it out. people live in it etc..

Of course. Bad things happen everywhere, why give an event more power than it already has?