# Buying a house where a murder occurred **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917 "2022-04-16T13:19:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/21 "2022-04-16T20:25:59Z")
Here’s a story about it. > **[Michigan Woman Puts Up Grisly Halloween Decorations Inspired By Triple Murder...](https://allthatsinteresting.com/jon-siesling-house)** > > While Halloween certainly calls for blood-laden decorations, local Michigan residents are enraged by this grisly display. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/22 "2022-04-16T20:30:10Z")
There was a cleansing ritual at the detached garage of a house where a neighbor woman, a young mother hung herself. It wasn’t her house but she was staying there having grown up in the neighborhood with parents near by. Early one morning after there was a small group gathered by the garage door entrance, cold drizzle coming down and thick clouds of smoke coming from the circle, it felt meaningful to me as I saw them when I drove by slowly on my way to work. A smudging ceremony, I guessed. Next a small antler mount was installed above the door to the garage. It was there for a couple weeks then was gone. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/23 "2022-04-16T22:31:50Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I think you’re describing [the Christie murders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(serial_killer)). That’s it, but my exposure was from the Evans case, as the video I saw talked about how the wrongful conviction affected ending capital punishment in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/24 "2022-04-17T08:03:48Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > there is also the possibility that the police could show up **AGAIN** and started digging on your property It used to be said - possibly in the aftermath of the Christie case and one or two other sensational murder cases - that if you wanted your garden dug over, you could always give the police an anonymous tip-off ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/25 "2022-04-17T11:17:58Z")
You offer 1/2? I top it with 1/3! > [@digs](#): > > **If you bought the house, would you feel obligated to reveal that to anyone who came over?** Would you announce it before you invited people for Thanksgiving, or make an announcement as you were about to carve the turkey with a huge serrated knife? Thanksgiving? Nah, but I’d know how to get rid of those pesky kids at Halloween. > [@Chronos](#): > > When you’re living in a house that’s 500 years old, there’s a pretty good chance that there was a horrific crime committed there at some point in its history. I don’t think that murders are that common. Murders get measured in x/100,000 people, x usually being a single digit. Except El Salvador and South Africa and so, mostly small countries. Even the USA, second amendment and all, is not that bad. [Cite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate). ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/26 "2022-04-17T15:11:42Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > I don’t have much patience with the idea of haunted houses Oh yeah? Well, listen to this story— our first house together, my wife and I, was a 1928 era home that had only one other owner before she bought it- a husband and wife who lived in it for 60+ years. The husband passed first, dying of a heart attack in the backyard. Then a few years later the wife collapsed and died on the kitchen floor and her body was not found for a couple days. Every year we lived there, at the anniversary of the days between her death and the discovery of her body, we would see and hear… Absolutely nothing strange or unusual. No spooks or ghosties whatsoever 😅 ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-where-a-murder-occurred/962917/27 "2022-04-17T16:12:32Z")
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