There’s a rumor circulating that realtors are required to inform future residents of a house’s history, but some say that’s not true. Realtors are under no obligation to tell anyone there was a murder in that house.
I went down a YouTube rabbit hole last night and Los Angeles is rich with history including infamous murders that have happened all over the city and in houses that have turned over to new occupants, and I just wonder how many of these people know about the history of the place they’re living?
How would you feel if [this](https://youtu.be/vA32L15H5Os?si=Ek22lfCb3WEzIxcg? t=13m50s) was your front yard, knowing what happened there in 1947?? 😦 You can read real quick about the Black Dahlia murder to understand the horror of this.
And the mansion where the Menendez brothers gruesomely murdered their parents August 21st 1989.
A family with small children live there now, and they demand complete privacy. WHY WOULD THEY EVEN WANT TO LIVE THERE?
Unless they’ve got their heads in the sand, wouldn’t it be impossible for occupants not to know the infamous history of that house? Furthermore, anyone wealthy enough to buy a mansion in Beverly Hills surely has the leverage to choose a non-murder house to live in if they wanted to.
Whatever the case, I really don’t think realtors are obligated to divulge any house’s history to future occupants.
Extra blah-blah from my own life:
All this reminded me of a house I lived in for a couple years in Maryland, from the first night we moved in, we were awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps in the hallway and up and down the stairs, I asked my husband if he heard that, he said yes he heard it. We were both too scared to go out and investigate, we stayed hunkered down in the bedroom, went back to sleep all night then went about our day the next day as normal.
I’ll tell you a few more things that happened in that house too, but TL;DR, in retrospect I think that house may have been haunted, and the owners who we were renting it from did come through to inspect it twice and they always seemed rather somber but I never thought anything of it until retrospect.
Sometime within the next couple weeks again at night we were sleeping and were awakened heard one of our children’s electronic touch-sensitive toys turn on, the toy is downstairs and everyone else is upstairs. Nobody downstairs. Freaked us out. My husband was brave, he went down and deactivated the toy.
Throughout those two years we lived there, every once in awhile I heard footsteps when/where there never should be footsteps, when I was alone, when no one else was in the house but me and the cat and we were both on the bottom floor, I heard footsteps upstairs, and something come crashing to the floor in the room above me.
Weird footprints appeared ON THE CEILING in one room.
I’ve lived in a lot of places all over the world and that’s the only house I’ve ever experienced paranormal things, except for the house I lived in Wyoming as a child too. A few weird things happened there.
But no realtor or landlord ever warned us of if there had been any murders or deaths in those houses, and in retrospect I suspect they may have been haunted. I don’t really believe in such things because that’s the only time I’ve ever experienced it, but hey, apparently it’s a thing!
There’s always a big unstated question in posts like this.
Which jurisdiction?
if any laws exist about this, you’re right it would probably be jurisdiction-based. I’m honestly not that interested in THAT depth of details, it’s just a casual curiosity if any place at all has any law about this then that would be interesting to know.
To anyone that doesn’t believe in ghosts, which I assume is most people, it’s not really relevant? Like, obviously if there’s any “questionable” stains on the wall or something still I wouldn’t be on board, but as long as the house was properly renovated afterwards I don’t see an issue.
It’s 2024 and minimum standard of living conditions generally require that homes are pristine upon transfer to a new resident. So let’s not worry whether or not there are “questionable” stains left behind, because there won’t be.
But what if you experienced what I experienced, in the middle of the night, the undeniable sound of heavy footsteps going up & down the stairs & hallway leading to all the bedrooms
I’m telling you this only happened once the night we first moved in, then I heard it a few times during the day over the next couple years,
but what if that had been persistent and never-ending 24/7, heavy footsteps up & down the hallway & stairs ALL THE TIME, I definitely would’ve been spooked and would’ve taken some action to figure out the source.
Would you not be spooked by the endless sound of heavy footsteps going up & down your hallway & stairs 24/7? Again this is just hypothetical to drive the point home, in reality we did NOT hear those noises 24/7, but we did hear them sometimes!
And another thing about that house, there was simply a bad feeling in there. I always kinda thought so subconsciously, then close to the time I was moving out, a friend came to visit and she told me there was a bad feeling in that house. It really was palpable. I remember we were standing in the dining room when she said that, and I agreed with her, I felt it too.
It’s not a matter of “believing” or “not believing” in ghosts, it’s a matter of whether or not someone has experienced something paranormal, and their threshold of tolerance for it.
Ghosts don’t exist, along with anything else paranormal. Case closed.
A friend of mine bought a house for $40k under market because a murder suicide happened there the year before.
He said, “that sucks, but it’s not like I knew them or anything”
I love it! I’d be fascinated to hear his daily experiences. Death is a normal part of the cycle of life, people have died and have tragedies probably all over every square centimeter of the surface of earth since the beginning of existence.
And heck, the animal & microbiome world is even less civilized & exponentially more brutal than our humans’.
Sometimes bad juju is left behind but it seems like usually not.
Well, considering that there is no such thing as ghosts or anything of the sort, I wouldn’t much care.
You are correct, 99.99% of the time we do not see or hear or experience such things. But every once in awhile, some perfectly sane rational people do experience such things.
If you personally haven’t witnessed or experienced paranormal things then you are part of the majority of people who haven’t. And that’s perfectly fine.
Yeah same. The only think I’d care about is if they left some sort of biohazard situation and decided not to clean up afterward. But I don’t think that happens.
Maybe getting a murder house could snag you a bit of a discount if you pretend you believe in that crap tho!
There’s a house in Nyack, NY that was the first to have a house sale voided because the seller didn’t disclose that it was haunted.
There’s a house in Nyack, NY that was the first to have a house sale voided because the seller didn’t disclose that it was haunted.
One of those moments the rest of the old continent would stop, look at the USA, & exclaim in unison: “Idiots”.
Much of the old world has gone that have existed for centuries and people live in them today.
What horrified you is basically part for the course for them.
*par for the course
As in the expected number of strokes in golf.
Well here’s a perspective from someone on your side of the pond:
I’m in Britain and there’s a lunatic asylum that they are about to close down, it was built in the Victorian times and it’s called Broadmoor and believe it or not they are gonna turn it into a hotel,
can you imagine that?
I’m a very spiritual person and have been since my early childhood I’ve just turned 59 years old and believe me you would think that they would demolish the asylum, because I can imagine that place is full of lost souls wandering the corridors,
it would be so much better to demolish and set the spirits free, because as long as it’s still standing although it will be a modern building, the spirits will forever see it as it was when they were in there.
It will be exactly the same for the people who lost their lives in this [Los Angeles Cecil Hotel] they should
demolish it also. Anyway you are right I would’ve thought that the people who drank the [corpse-contaminated] water in the hotel would’ve come down with some sort of terrible illness even life threatening I would’ve thought, I’ve heard that it’s easy to sue people in America,
well if I’d drank the water i would’ve ran straight out of the hotel straight into the nearest lawyers office, fucking right I would’ve. Take care of yourself buddy wherever you are in the world from Stevie boy in Britain
~ from a comment on this video on the haunted/cursed Cecil Hotel
