Would you live in a house with a past?

Let's say you're looking for a new house/flat to live in. How much do you care about the house's past? All other factor's being equal (apart from past events and the price) which one would you chose?

Someone famous grew up there (more than your budget) 5
Normal past (on budget) 49
Someone died there of natural causes (slightly below your budget) 8
People say it's haunted (a lot cheaper) 26
A violent murder took place (a lot cheaper) 24
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Comments ( 22 )
  • dappled

    I live in the church my great-grandparents got married in. I kind of like it.

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    • Sparkle6789

      how do you live in a church?

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      • dappled

        It's a church that is converted into a living space. It's still a church technically, but it isn't a church that people use as a church.

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    • Vetterman

      ^totally Cool!

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  • lovelovelover

    that'd be awesome if you lived in a haunted house! as long as they weren't trying to kill you and you had a roomate :P

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  • stone_love

    I think it would be freaking awesome to live in a house where a violent murder took place. Well, if the murder was cool/famous/twisted.

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  • enzyme1

    if the house was like 80% id probably buy it even if there was a violent murder, but depends on the neighbourhood as well, like if every other house in the street had some death in it due to crime i wouldnt buy it

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  • Ennue

    I'd love to own a house that someone was violently murdered in or was known to be haunted. So coooool.

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  • I've stayed (squatted really) at a house where at least 2 people have died (of natural causes). No ghosts, but no electricity or running water either.

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  • Subfinmatic

    I'd buy the haunted house so the "ghosts" can be my room mates :D. Then I won't be alone any more *assumes fetal position*

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  • Shadow209

    I think I have a ghost in my house :D

    I'm obsessed with ghosts so I'd really like to live in a haunted house. I'd never be lonely :)

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  • ariannel

    My house is 98 years old. I have absolutely no idea what all has happened in it but it was cute and cheap and in a good neighborhood so we bought it.

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  • vitamello

    It's getting haunt in hurr.

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  • Aleks85

    I want to live in Ted Bundy's house.

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  • Legion

    There's always wierd things happening at my house, especially when my neighbor goes to have her house blessed. nothing strange lately. its a 120 year old house that my great-grandparents built.

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  • Crisp

    Whe you live in UK you can live in a house that is hundreds and hundreds of years old, and you have no idea what went on in it over all the years.
    Death is natural..it happens to us all..guaranteed!! Best place to die is in your own bed..or maybe someone elses!!
    You can be standing on the spot where somoene died or where someone is buried and never kknow it.
    The Living will hurt you more than the Dead.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    one of my friends bought a house where someone died there of natural causes

    he didn't care. it was cheap... and personally i always felt like the place had positive energy

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  • cupcake_wants

    i don't wanna live where there could be spirits dwelling.. creepy!

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  • Wisdomthoot69

    When I was 6 years old I found a casket with a dead body in it and when my parents told me to go on daily time outs, i would spend the time lying in the coffin with the body and I would whisper story's hopping he whispered back. I don't live in that house anymore :s

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  • FocoUS

    The violent murder house because it's cheap.

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  • Sheisdelirium

    If I'm house hunting and I hear the house is haunted, my ass is out of there! BITCH, I'M NOT TRYING TO GET HAUNTED BY NO GHOST -YOU CRAZY,BOY??

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  • onyx132

    well since i alread live in a home with goust then yeah..its creapy and when i leave im not going to buy a house with out a prist blessing it first...

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