Of course, there’s the famous house at 112 Ocean Ave in Amityville, NY.

 As for cemeteries – there is a very small one about 100 yards in the woods behind our house.  The gravestones only have the family’s last name and dates – sometime during the mid 1800’s – two of them only have “Infant” on them.

Look I won’t buy a house a 1/2 a mile from a cemetery, so if anyone died in a house. No Way!!

One of the differences between England and the U.S.  In England, a ghost ADDS to the value of the house.

mbrookes – there is a multitude of small burial plots in the Delta and it stands to reason yellow fever was the cause of many deaths – the mosquitos in this region are are relentless and they’ve got a very fertile breeding ground.

Another small cemetary that comes to mind is one I have to drive by when the Mississippi River is flooding and I have to take the high road to work – it’s under the river water and it kind of gives me the heebie jeebies – 

but then the river always subsides and everything returns to normal.
 

My wife’s father passed away (natural causes) in his home in SoCal in 2001. When we settled the estate and sold his house, we were required to give notice in the real estate listing of the circumstances of his passing, and in which room he actually did die. I thought that was a bit morbid, but apparently there are some legal requirements in some areas that demand the details be passed-on (no pun) to the buyer in a home-sale.
 
*** KIMM,  You would have trouble finding a home in many parts of rural Indiana, where family cemeteries are quite common on homesteads and farms all over the place. Our home is on a three acre lot, part of a 150 acre farm that was cut-up for sale in smaller lots about 10 years ago. On two of the adjoining lots (next to ours) are parts of an old family burial ground. I have no issues with the locations, but I wonder how any prospective future builder will construct his/her home on ground that may or may not be “occupied”???

Look I won’t buy a house a 1/2 a mile from a cemetery, so if anyone died in a house. No Way!!

One of the differences between England and the U.S.  In England, a ghost ADDS to the value of the house.

No big surprise. English people are Morbid by nature![:D][:D][:D][woot]

My sister-in-law’s friends bought the house of a family that died in a commercial jet crash.  Furnished.

I visited once and couldn’t stand it.

Chewie, I thought the same thing when I saw the TV news. I wouldn’t have bought that house.

In D.C.???  Chances are pretty good.

The house isn’t in DC, just outside in upscale Montogomery county MD. The guy was smart and just worked in DC.

Our house is a hundred years old this year. We moved in 30 years ago. About 15 years after we moved in, we learned that a previous occupant had killed himself in the basement some 35 years before. Well, it was a weird, sad thing to learn, but we had made it our home and nothing was here from that unfortunate event. So we stayed of course.

I don’t think I could buy a house that had been occupied by a family who perished in a plane crash, furnished no less. That I couldn’t do.

A former owner of the house I live in committed suicide in it. My husband knew her, and by all accounts she was a lovely charming person who got overwhelmed by misfortune.

I occasionally hear her walking in the hall, but she seems to be benign enough. It doesn’t bother me.

Wow, What a coincedence!As you say,what are the odd?
I too wouldn’t buy such a house. As you say,they have a lower sales value,and I believe that  by law it has to be disclosed to the potenial buyer,just like if a home is haunted. Years ago a couple bought a house in New York state, and later sued the realtor who sold them the house, because they neglected to to the people the place was haunted.This couple by the way,won the suit.

baileysoriginal, there are lots of small cemetaries scattered all over the Delta that contain many children under 3. This was due to yellow fever, which tended to take the oldest and the youngest. If you like old cemetaries (I do) check out the cemetary at Jonestown.

Look I won’t buy a house a 1/2 a mile from a cemetery, so if anyone died in a house. No Way!!

<<There are also cases where the property was purchased, but the house was demolished and replaced by another structure. >>

..Or mysteriously burn down, such as the infamous John List house in Westfield NJ (I can walk there from here).

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