Would you buy this house?

[Matthew_T]

I would, but then I am desperate for a place to live.

Only suspicious people will say no. And people who dont like dead bodies (which is a bit surprising as you are almost always surrounded by them). I think the situation is just the same as some peoples opinions on blood. Some people dont like the sight of it, but they actually have it in and around them all the time. With death, it is always present.
The bodies arent in the house, so there is nothing really to fear. My house was built on an old campsite, where people have probably died in the past. We found a kids tricycle in the garden when we first developed it, so maybe a young kid died in our back garden. We arent worried (because I havent mentioned that idea to my parents yet).

I would probably feel uncomfortable with the knowledge that the bodies are there, but there is nothing wrong with them. They are dead after all.

N.B. I apologise if anyone gets upset by what I have put. It is not meant to offend. But people die, get over it.

 

[Speicher]

Make no bones about it, I would.

I think that would be a grave mistake.

 

[ColinJ]

My house was built on an old campsite, where people have probably died in the past.

Note to self: Cancel proposed camping holiday in North Wales!

 

[TissoT]

No it would nt bother me..... the dead wont harm you .. just the people who are living will..

 

[Cycling Dan]

Note to self: Cancel proposed camping holiday in North Wales!

Never go camping!!! Have you never noticed dead people always end up in tents.

 

[Matthew_T]

Note to self: Cancel proposed camping holiday in North Wales!

Just dont die in my garden!

 

[ianrauk]

I wouldn't mind, though when just asked Mrs Ian.. she said good God no!.

 

[classic33]

With the previous owners buried in the garden?
http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2014/jan/10/for-sale-four-bedder-previous-owners-buried-garden

That house doesn't appeal to me, but if it did I wouldn't worry. I'd turf over the graves, but presumably you'd have to mark their position or risk future owners making a horrible discovery. You know, like those dog or cat graves that come to light in a veg patch once in a while?

Any sign that the coffins never came out through a current doorway/window?

Confuse the dead
"Some cultures believed that a ghost could only come back through the way that they left. This led to bearing the dead through windows, and sealing them afterwards. Some houses in Italy and Denmark had special doors for the dead, which would keep the main doors "clean" from death. In some extreme cases, people would make a hole in the wall of a house, move the dead out through it, and then wall it up again, insuring the spirit cannot reenter the house"

Never speak ill of the dead because they will come back to haunt you or you will suffer misfortune.

 

[Cheddar George]

I would, but then I am desperate for a place to live.

Only suspicious people will say no. And people who dont like dead bodies (which is a bit surprising as you are almost always surrounded by them). I think the situation is just the same as some peoples opinions on blood. Some people dont like the sight of it, but they actually have it in and around them all the time. With death, it is always present.
The bodies arent in the house, so there is nothing really to fear. My house was built on an old campsite, where people have probably died in the past. We found a kids tricycle in the garden when we first developed it, so maybe a young kid died in our back garden. We arent worried (because I havent mentioned that idea to my parents yet).

I would probably feel uncomfortable with the knowledge that the bodies are there, but there is nothing wrong with them. They are dead after all.

N.B. I apologise if anyone gets upset by what I have put. It is not meant to offend. But people die, get over it.

I found an old milk bottle in our back garden, so I reckon a milkman must have met his maker behind our conifer tree. Also half a dozen painter and decorators judging by the amount of paint covered sticks we have.

 

[Arch]

My parents once bought a house where the prior occupant hanged himself from the loft hatch. Don't know which is worse.

Any house over 100 years old has probably had someone die in it. What's the problem?

I don't like that house much, but if it was one I did like, the graves wouldn't bother me. Someone I was at Uni with bought a converted church, and every so often a finger turned up in the veg patch. She just reburied them. But then, we were all archaeologists, so it was just work to us!

 

[Peteaud]

Any house over 100 years old has probably had someone die in it. What's the problem?

I don't like that house much, but if it was one I did like, the graves wouldn't bother me. Someone I was at Uni with bought a converted church, and every so often a finger turned up in the veg patch. She just reburied them. But then, we were all archaeologists, so it was just work to us!

There is a house a few miles up the road that was an old church, still has the graveyard.

No way would i ever live in a place like that, or even visit it in the dark. Imagine being a pizza delivery driver and going there.



Bad juju

 

[Globalti]

If I had the money to blow on that ghastly house the bodies wouldn't bother me at all; I once buried an out of date chicken in the garden and we didn't suffer any smells or land heave.

 

[dan_bo]

When we first moved in here we found a bear pit in the yard with bloody spikes still in it. Didn't put us off mind- it was good and cheap.

 

[Peteaud]

Anyhow, everyone knows it is only building on old Indian burial grounds you need to worry about.

What about old spivey point?

 

[JayMac]

Some families have skeletons in the closet, atleast if you buy this they are in the back garden!


Sigh... not my best!