Could You Live In A Murder House?

Never.

Maybe not an infamous one like the Manson house (which no longer exists anyway) or the DeFao house in Amityville, NY, but a regular house where there once was a murder? Sure, as long as they change the carpeting, and painted over any blood stains on tbe walls.

A hard no

R2 The Cielo Drive house has been demolished but the LaBuanca house on Waverly Drive in Los Feliz is still there.

Yes, but it depends on the house. I saw videos of the Chris Watts house and it had a terrible darkness to it and very cheaply made, no way would I live there. If it is a good deal for an otherwise beautiful and well-made house, then yes. I don't really believe in ghosts, but I do buy that some places have bad energy for one reason or another. If you go far back enough, someone probably died in the area your house was built.

^ * LaBianca

No. Or a hotel room but I guess you have no way of knowing. I wouldn’t fly on the Southwest plane that lady got sucked out of either. The previous owner of my house did die here in her old age from cancer. That doesn’t bother me. It’s the violence I think because I wouldn’t spend the night in Neverland for all the tea in China and I’d rather not have a room someone was raped in or committed suicide in.

I googled my address a few years back and found out a resident in the 1950s died here. But where? The kitchen? The bright and light front bedroom? The cool and dark back bedroom? In the old-fashioned bathtub we still enjoy today?

It was a lady, and she has never returned.

Interesting timing, OP. Look what went on the market just this week

Is that also the house where he imprisoned Ronnie Spector?

I know someone who lived in a house where a teenager OD'd and the father committed suicide. He got the house for next to nothing but had some issues selling it later. You have to disclose murders/suicides to prospective buyers and he had two back out. Eventually he sold it for a huge profit.

It depends. If it was a non-notorious murder, sure. A famous one, I'd be afraid of drive bys, trespassers, tourists, etc. And it depends on if I felt spooked or not. One famous murder house I'd avoid is the one where Jean Harlow's husband Paul Bern was killed. Just looking at pictures of it gives me chills. This was the one where she changed her story twice, never talked to the police, was conveniently "away" (for reasons that kept changing) the night it happened, the murder wasn't reported until more than a day after MGM's fixers combed through the place, and it was ruled either murder by his common law wife who then conveniently killed herself. Someone on line did research into the common law wife and the usual narrative about her falls apart. I think she, as was Bern, was killed by the mob - her so they could pin it on her. I think the mob killed him because she was mobbed up to the gills (her stepfather, and she was a longtime girlfriend of Murder Inc.'s Abe Zwillman). Her mom and stepmom were draining her income, Paul Bern was broke but had several annuities, and California recognized common law marriages. Getting rid of Bern AND the common law wife left the annuities to his so-called leal wife, Harlow. He was worth more dead than alive. Don't think she planned it or did it, but went along with it, and knew exactly why he died.

Depends. Would I get to be the one murders people in it?

Nope

Can you imagine people filming your house all the time?

And Jay Sebring, who was murdered in the Tate house, owned the Jean Harlow/Paul Bern house when he died.

Double whammy.

No, and also no to houses built on cemeteries that have moved the bodies.

R10 No. That was somewhere else.

As long as it wasn't done by Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick, I'd be cool with it.

Fuck NO

I couldn't live in a house where someone committed suicide either.

My parents had a rent house-a very nice one with lots of space and a pool- and the daughter of the tenants committed suicide. These people could not believe my parents needed rent money after several months of grace. They thought their misfortune would give them free rent until they chose to pay.

So...no.

There's a whole section of Forest Lawn Glendale that's scheduled to be reclaimed and used for low income housing in 2021, but I think it's just mausoleum spaces, not bodies being unearthed.

No, I couldn't. My house had a death (my Mom's) and it makes me very sad to think about, but I don't think about it that much . She loved this house, so she ended up dying where she felt she belonged.

No! My neighbor's wife committed suicide after the asshole husband left her pregnant with three small children. Ever since then, no family lasted a week in that place without poltergeist running them off in the night. Even the houses on either side became infested and became vacant until a developer tore them down to make new parking spaces for apartments nearby. They were new, beautiful homes. Pity.

The house next door was the site of a murder-suicide about 10 years ago. Without going into a lot of detail, a number of weird things have happened since, including a massive mold infestation that required complete removal of some walls and the floor surrounding the scene of violence. The tenants there suffer regular, minor misfortunes. It's very creepy.

This thread is becoming a writer's paradise.

That's not my job. I'm not a writer. But here are story lines.

I might but I would never be there on the anniversary of the unfortunate occurrence.

I live a couple of blocks away from this house in Louisville. A gay couple murdered a guy they brought home and buried him in the basement. It was on an episode of the First 48 several years ago. It has been renovated and looks really nice, I would live there.

Sorry OP, I am not trying to divert away from your topic. However this is sort of on the topic in this thread because this is creepy.Check this out. Someone bought Abigail Folger's bed when she stayed at Sharon's house on the night they were murdered. Gosh! people are sick! Since I'm posting this, I'm curious, Does anyone know what happened to ALL of the furnishings from the Tate house and the La Bianca house as well?

Murder memorabilia is big bucks

My husband has a co-worker who is an actor. She's part of a theater company that does lots of unusual work in unusual places.

While we were waiting to go into a property where one of her plays was being performed we overheard someone say that the place had been the home of GARY HEIDNIK!

I was completely freaked out and have never gone to another of her plays.

I don't think I could. At this point I don't believe I could live in a really old house, unless I know the complete history.

I know someone who got a good deal on a lovely home with all the bells and whistles. The prior owner was shot inside the house; suicide by cop. I just couldn’t live there. Not ever.

I could. I'm not superstitious at all. My parent's bought their house brand new back in the 60's and over the decades, I've since came to learn of various neighbors dying - some by suicide, no murders though (that I'm aware of).

Murder Houses UK is a very interesting documentary. I wish it was a regular series.

No none has been murdered in my house by anyone ever! Why are all up in my bussiness OP? What kind of question is this!

Thanks for the link r35! That was interesting.

[quote]It depends. If it was a non-notorious murder, sure. A famous one, I'd be afraid of drive bys, trespassers, tourists, etc.

I agree, a famous murder house would suck because of trespassers and tourists. I remember some article where people who lived near Nicole Simpson Brown's house condo complained about the constant drive bys.

No, never ever ever. My sister and her husband spent a night in the Lizzie Borden house (which is now a b&b) and I could not have done that.

[quote]I've since came to learn of various neighbors dying

You've since came?

I've since come to the conclusion that your grammar is dreadful.

I'm not ot superstitious but I'm dark. So I could and I'd love to.

I found blood spots and bits of crushed glass in a 20-yr. old Mercedes I bought at a cheap car lot once. It was winter so I didn't clean it out til spring. It was black with gray interior and smelled musty.

I was glad to find an $800 car at the time, but it just creeped me out til I donated it to charity.

;[quote]No. Or a hotel room but I guess you have no way of knowing. I wouldn’t fly on the Southwest plane that lady got sucked out of either. The previous owner of my house did die here in her old age from cancer. That doesn’t bother me. It’s the violence I think because I wouldn’t spend the night in Neverland for all the tea in China and I’d rather not have a room someone was raped in or committed suicide in.

I've heard that hotels will change numbers around if a murder or suicide happens in a room. Several years ago, I saw some video of people staying at the hotel room where the singer Selena was shot. There was also a Selena fan site where people talked about staying at the room and someone claimed they saw Selena's ghost.

In 2008, there was the Greyhound bus murder in a Canada. A man with schizophrenia started stabbing a guy next to him. He also hacked up the guy's body. Greyhound cleaned up the bus, replaced the seats, carpet, and renumbered it and put back into use. The victim's family was pissed about that.

I have but didn't know it until after I had been there a while. Hmm wonder if the housemate that told me the story might visit this site.

The estate where gay serial killer Herb Baumeister strangled some 25+ men has been on the market for years.

Burnt bone fragments are still scattered around the grounds.

I know its been torn down but I could never have lived in the sharon tate house after. The owner lived in it off and on for 20 more years, sometimes in the guest house renting the main house out and sometimes in the main house. He said he felt surrounded by peace and love in the house............so guess different stokes for different folks. I read that at some number of years after the murders the house was rented to people that didnt know of he houses fame..........a big big no no. They immediately vacated. I also read some comments from a construction worker that was on the site at the time it was demolished and he said it was a beautiful house but there was an overwhelming sadness about the place.............I guess it is just how peoples emotions show thru, some can deal with it, others cant.

There is a house that is down the street where the Tate house was located is haunted by the Manson victims. They can't understand why the house down the street from the Tate house is haunted when the murders didn't happened there. There was a program on this haunting. Apparently the man that lives in this newly built house down the street from the location where the Tate murders occurred, his house is haunted with their ghosts for some reason. The man that lives in the house invited people to his media room to watch a movie one night. The lights went out ,and they started to watch the film. All of a sudden they heard talking and whispering coming from the air vents which led upstairs. The owner of the house said I am going up stairs to check out what is going on. In the mean time, his guests were sitting down stairs in the media room waiting for him to come back. The talking through the vents grew with intensity as they heard a women crying in a very horrible dread as another voice of a male was trying to keep her calm. The owner of the home sees Sharon Tate often walking casually through his hallway ,and when he goes to bed every night, the ghost of Jay Sebring appears at the foot of the man's bed pointing in the direction of the Tate estate with great concern as if he stressing for help. The man lives in the house to this day alone. I guess it doesn't bother him, EEEK!

R47 The guy who owns that house hosts tours and seances.

[quote]I couldn't live in a house where someone committed suicide either.

My parents lived in a house where my dad's cousin committed suicide in the garage. My great grandparents were the owners, In the mid 60s, they took in my dad's cousin after he had spent time in a mental hospital. He was 20 when he shot himself in the garage. My great grandparents moved out of that house a year later to live with other relatives in neighboring state. They asked my parents who were newlyweds if they would move in to help with upkeep. My mom said she wasn't comfortable at. My parents told my great grandparents they would try it out living there for a couple of months and if they did't like they would move out. My parents said that it was weird at first because they would feel uneasy whenever they went into the garage. They ended up living there for three years. My mom said there were several times that she felt a very sad vibe or energy in the house.

I'd probably be okay with it; it would depend on what being in the space felt like.

If it were a notorious case, living there would be encumbered by strange people always dropping by to take photos etc. A friend of mine used to work for Rudi Altobelli, and while she said the Helter Skelter house itself was sunshiney and idyllic, there were times when she was house sitting that people would jump the fence, or pour red paint all over the mailbox. Which was of course creepy.

So stuff like that might be hard to deal with.

I could live in the Labianca house. I love Los Feliz.

r50 I would worry about that, but at least you'd know what you were getting into in a notorious house.

My nightmare scenario would be something like r45 described. If a serial killer or multiple murderer lived there, no way would I go near it. Their victim counts are often not known, and you could be greeted by a knock at the door from the police with a backhoe, even after the killers are in prison.

And yes, I realize I sound like a selfish cunt, but still...