schneidts
Active Member
I can kind of relate to this. We bought a house last year...I was doing some renovations alone last summer before we moved in, and noticed a few unexplicable things. I was sanding drywall and creating a lot of dust. I went downstairs to get some tools and when I came back up there was a huge heart drawn in the dust on the floor (I didn't do it, and it wasn't there when I went downstairs). A few days later, my radio kept getting shut off in that same room everytime I went downstairs. Someone had to physically shut it off, because it's the kind that has a slider that you set to radio, and it was switched to off...this happened a few times.
Meanwhile, we were reading through our abstract and found that a woman had disappeared in the '40's, and that police speculated that she 'wandered too close to the river, which was higher than usual this year'. The next year the husband was remarried and sold the house.
Skip ahead to last week. I'm walking down the street and start talking to one of the neighbors about five houses down. It was the first time we met, she's pretty nice and starts telling me alot of neighborhood gossip.
After talking for about 15 minutes she says, out of the blue "what do you think about your house being haunted??" I start laughing hysterically. I said 'what do you know?' . She goes on and on saying the old owners swore up and down that it was haunted, and strange things always happened here...doors and cabinets closing themselves, lights on and off, etc...she even went on to say that it's rumored that a woman in the 1940's a woman was cheating on her husband, he found out, killed her and buried her in the basement. :scared:
Moral of my story...I don't know if it would have stopped me from buying the house, but I would have liked to have known about this...and I don't intend to disclose this to any potential buyers when I sell. Though, this isn't the same as someone getting murdered recently in the house, I thought it was worth sharing.
Meanwhile, we were reading through our abstract and found that a woman had disappeared in the '40's, and that police speculated that she 'wandered too close to the river, which was higher than usual this year'. The next year the husband was remarried and sold the house.
Skip ahead to last week. I'm walking down the street and start talking to one of the neighbors about five houses down. It was the first time we met, she's pretty nice and starts telling me alot of neighborhood gossip.
Moral of my story...I don't know if it would have stopped me from buying the house, but I would have liked to have known about this...and I don't intend to disclose this to any potential buyers when I sell. Though, this isn't the same as someone getting murdered recently in the house, I thought it was worth sharing.