I totally would. It's not like there are bloodstains and ghosts.

No. Also, imagine the kind of morbid fans that would try and seek out the place, if such a thing exists.

In general, I would never consider moving into a place with any known horror in its past, and certainly no hints of ghosts, etc. I have enough insomnia as it is! But I thought this Amityville Horror story had been debunked as a hoax years ago.

No way. Not even if it were free. I lived in a house where a murder occurred once and will never do so again.

@btoddster - from what I know of the place, a lot of people have driven by it, or driven out to see it, but that's largely subsided in the last few years because it's just been so long.

@leapkate - Amityville Horror as a ghost story has been debunked, obviously. But Ronald DeFeo Jr. really did murder his family there.

Never - bad karma, "morbid fans." I don't think that kind of notoriety ever goes away.

I sure would!

It's bound to be a bargain since so many others would be squeamish about it...
...and I love the Dutch Colonial style anyway - With some redecorating and new life & energy, it could end up to be a nice home with an interesting history.

subsequent owners have lived there saying nothing weird occurred; however, I for one would have difficulties sleeping in any space where such violence took place. it's just bad juju & even if it were my dream house listed at an irresistible price, I'd have to pass.

absolutely not. as a child, i pitched a fit when my parents tried to stop for the night at a hotel in gettysburg, pa. the thought of staying in a place so close to where so many people died really freaked me out at the time. i realize now that i was being an irrational 12 year old and that the battlefield is nothing to be afraid of, but i'm not sure i could bring myself to buy a property with such sad/upsetting memories.

Do you know what awful things happened in your current home before you moved in? Unless you're in new construction or know the original owners, you're always running the risk of living where something scaaaary happened.

I lived in a house for about 6 months before a neighbor accidentally tipped us off to the gruesome and deeply sad murder of that owner a few years prior (there was an interim owner that we bought from). It was disturbing and due to the net we unfortunately found out some of the graphic details and where it occurred in the house. My husband brushed it off; I was disturbed (maybe it was the pregnancy hormones?). Sold it due to a cross country move within a year, though I think we would have toughed it out if we did not have to move -- so many other charms to enjoy there. A friend recommended some sort of cleansing ceremony and though I'm not religious or new wavy, I could see the benefit in that. I'd rather be ignorant of what happened in a home (and my home now was built in 1911 so there is room for stuff to have happened...).

Fah-ree-ky. No.

No. There is a house in Silver Spring, MD where a man and his 9 year old daughter were murdered 10 years ago. This April there was another murder in the same house. I am thinking that there is such a thing as bad karma.

No. It's not about ghosts or bad karma to me (at least not directly), I just don't think I could ever forget that it happened. Especially if I knew where, every time I entered the room or walked over the spot ... it's disturbing me just thinking about it. I realize that odds are I probably walk over a place someone died on a relatively regular basis in life; the difference is I'm not aware of it.

Nope. The first time I saw a housefly in there or woke up at 3:15 AM, I'd freak out.

I don't think so. I'd be too aware of the past horrific violence that took place there, I think it'd stand in the way of making the place a new, healthy, happy home - it'd always loom in the background. And if it were a place like the Amityville house, where everyone knows what happened there, you'd never be able to escape it b/c everyone would constantly mention it and/or ask about it.

"Unless you're in new construction or know the original owners, you're always running the risk of living where something scaaaary happened."

Indeed - Then there's the land itself: where old battles were faught, old indian camps burned & people murdered, places where "witches" were burned, factories & farms where people were maimed and killed, hospitals where people died, old houses where women died in childbirth, fields and forests where animals hunted and ate other animals...

There's a building across the street from my office where a gunman barged into what was then a law office years ago and killed a dozen or so people before killing himself - Yet people work in that same building on that same floorspace every single day.

The Golden Gate Bridge is renowned for the numbers of people who jump off of it (not to mention the people who fell from it and died while building it) yet all that doesn't keep thousands of people from driving/walking across it and taking pictures of it every day...
...people have even died in Disneyland!

There is no such thing as a perfect/clean/nothing-awful-ever-happenned-here place - If you really think that's the case, you're only fooling yourself.

There is a difference between knowing and not knowing. Could I live in a house not knowing about the crime - probably. Once I knew, eek probably not. Beyond being squeamish about strange sounds etc., I think it could have a saddening effect being remind daily about someone else's torture/pain as you walk through that particular room.

Certainly, after...I think 30 years. That's long enough that people aren't still rubbernecking, and definitely long enough for the interiors to get a redo.

Just living on Earth means living on top of a history of both horror and glory. It's just humanity. That's okay.

Yeah, I'd want a dedicatory prayer said when I moved in. But that's true of any new place to live.

Depends on the crime (and the notoriety of it). We had a serial killer (one of three serial killers in the past ten years, actually) in my town a few years back and I still drive by the scenes of two of the murders (beautiful young women killed in their homes) and think about what happened there. I couldn't live in either of those places.

But I could probably get over something less insane making (seriously, I don't recommend being a young woman in a town where a serial killer is killing young women in the general geographic area where you live; it's not a whole lot of fun).

When I was house hunting, we used to joke about "murder rooms, " since so many old, renovated homes have a few crazy spaces. My dad is convinced that someone lived in the attic of my current place, especially since we found out that the previous owner's husband was schizophrenic and passed away (I don't think it was at the house). Anyway, we call the attic the murder room.

Maybe not such a high publicity incident...but low profile things can really only work to the buyer's benefit. The seller wants out of there probably. I DO believe in ghosts, and in my experience they've all been pretty nice. Maybe kind of annoying sometimes (turning water on while we're out or opening all of the drawers and doors and closets, etc.), but no reason not to live there. Any direct interaction with ghosts for me has been minimal. Now, a poltergeist or something throwing my stuff around, forget it.

My rowhouse is circa 1860. I'm sure people have died in it and funerals/wakes might have been held in it. Luckily in 10 years I haven't heard/experienced a thing. When I first moved in I thought about having a priest from the neighborhood church visit for a house blessing, but I thought it might stir up (supernatural) trouble.

You bet.

I'll be the first person to say sure, I'd live there. It's beautiful, I love the fact that it's waterfront home, and the past kinda makes it interesting, as well. Y'know, I'm a fan of the morbid, so maybe that's why I wouldn't mind living there. If I could afford it, I'd look at it.

The home my parents bought had someone murdered in it. It was never disclosed to them during the buying process. I had some friends come in and snicker that my parents bought a house someone was murdered in. What great friends I had!

RE @alzahra: "And if it were a place like the Amityville house, where everyone knows what happened there, you'd never be able to escape it b/c everyone would constantly mention it and/or ask about it."

For me that would be the main issue. It's one thing if someone was murdered or died in the house decades ago (in college I lived in a house that was partially burned and a woman died in the fire), but for something like THIS, no way. I live on Long Island about 10 minutes east of this house and I swear, you even SAY Amityville and people are already thinking about the incident. Plus it seems like everyone on this island knows everyone else somehow, so people would constantly be knocking in your door, asking to see the house...in short you'd never escape it. It's one thing when an incident is mentioned once, twice over the course of you living in the house, but something with this level of notoriety, even after all these years...forget it. Or actually, I should say, you won't be able to forget it.

Nope. My imagination runs too wild.

The house on your page and the house on the wikipedia page, explaining the horror (now I won't sleep tonight) do not match. Is yours just stock?

@LilyC - so true and too funny!

I think for me it would really come down to the way I felt when I was in the house (to that end, it would be nice to see the house without knowing the history beforehand). I'm a pretty practical, analytical person, as is my husband (an engineer), but we both feel that houses do have certain energies about them. Our house was once abandoned, and who knows what happened here, but we felt comfortable in it right away, and since our efforts to make it a home we both sense that it's "grateful," somehow. I can't explain it any other way. On the other hand, we once lived in an apartment that had a kind of hostile energy to it - we both felt we were intruding when we first moved in. But after a couple of years, that feeling went away.

Wow, I'm not usually so open with my borderline mysticism. But honestly, it's in part what motivates me to make a happy home, with help from sites like AT.

i'd live in it.

ghosts aren't real, people.

I feel like I read someplace that these people finally admitted they'd made up the entire story.

But maybe I'm taking crazy pills.

I wouldn't. Not because of "bad karma" or because I believe in ghosts or anything like that. But I wouldn't want to live in a house with a notorious past because I wouldn't want people driving past and stopping, going, "that's the house where X happened!" This would be especially true for a place like the Amityville house, but it would bother me for even a less infamous place.

People simply dying in a house doesn't bother me. Both of my mother's parents died at home after protracted illnesses. After that, one of my sisters bought the house and lives in it now. It doesn't bother me to visit her and it obviously doesn't bother her to live there.

There's not enough sage, incense or candles in the world. I don't believe in ghosts, but just the thought.... And I would think about it.

Past horrors wouldn't impact much on my decision to buy a house I wanted in the first place. But I would be interested in knowing the "morbid tourist threat" potential, and snoop harrassment might deter me.

There are no ghosts, so if there is no physical residue (stains, smells, etc.) I'd just consider past events of historical interest. Other people are haunted by their own imaginations, and it's hard to escape that!

you bet your ass! I mean, if it were a house in a strange town like this would be? It wouldn't connect with me the way it would if I lived in the town when it happened. Terrible stuff could happen in ANY HOUSE, but unless it makes the papers, you'd never know.

I grew up in a house built about 1740; I'm sure plenty of people died in it over the centuries. But it was fine; it was a really nice house to live in. So for me really the notoriety would be more the issue; are you going to have strangers coming by and staring at your place and wanting to see inside? For me that would be enough to not buy it.

I for damn sure would!! I would always have sleepovers with friends and family and wake them up at 2:00 AM while standing above them with a pitchfork in my hand...or KNIVES. I would be like a kid in a candy store!!

No, not for me. The bad energy is the least of it. As Britomart said, that can subside. How about the notoriety, and the crazy fans, and the public morbid details? I don't know. It just seems like this could never be a happy home. Too much information, unfortunately.

I'd have to pass. I found out that quite a few people died tragic deaths in my old apartment which was in an old greystone two flat. How did I found out? People were coming up to me as I was clearing my stuff out in the days after the building burned down. Everyone was telling me how brave I was to live there. I wasn't brave, I was ignorant.

My house is almost a hundred years old, so there's a pretty good chance something awful has happened here. But since I don't know for sure what that might be, it doesn't bother me. If I KNEW, it would get my imagination going, and I would start overthinking the whole thing...

But, if it were fantastic, and the price was right, I could probably live in a place where really awful things happened.

I would have to really love the house and the vibe and not be swayed because it's on "sale".

I don't see why not - unless it happened within the past five years, then forget it (only because of the publicity). But folks tend to forget...most people actually die/pass away/move on/whatever word you use for dying AT HOME. I live in a 70 year old home and would be willing to bet at least five people have died there. Does it bother me? No. Do I have blood dripping from the walls? No. Should it matter? Not to me, but obviously I can't speak for everyone.

No way, no how would I live there! My imagination would run way too wild and it would put me under too much stress.

@rbtoronto - the wikipedia picture is a side view, it's the same house.

"Nope. My imagination runs too wild.

The house on your page and the house on the wikipedia page, explaining the horror (now I won't sleep tonight) do not match. Is yours just stock?
posted by rbtoronto"

That is the side view on the wikipedia page.

No way. I recently saw a MCM in Seattle and the price was lower than expected. Listing agent was also the owner and was looking for a quick sale. Later he disclosed that the previous owner had committed suicide in the house.

My parents had a beach house that they rented to a man who was dying of AIDS and wanted to spend his last days near the ocean. A lot of their friends were horrified that they would choose to let someone die in their house, but I thought it was beautiful, though very sad. I can't remember if they disclosed that fact when they sold it later, but I don't think it tainted the house at all.

Sure would!

I'm not asking all to agree with me, but within my beliefs as a Christian... God can redeem any situation and he can protect from anything negative spiritually that might be hanging around a place.

So I'm ok with a place regardless of history. And I think it would be kind of cool to tell stories of the former "____" place.

I've also heard some freaky things about places after I'd lived there... but no problems during.

If a really horrible crime were committed in a home, and I knew about it, I would not buy it.

I'm spiritually sensitive. I don't care if you don't personally believe in ghosts or the imprints of souls or in supernatural forces. I do, and it's enough to disturb me.

In the end, home is about what makes US feel safe and homey.

But a house like that, at least, makes a great case for getting warm furries, like a good dog! So there's your benefit, right there.

Sure. No problem.

Hell yeah I'd buy it. I recall the ghost activity being a hoax, and I don't care about the DeFeo murders.

Absolutely. I'd buy it or rent it, if that was the option.

Interesting. I wonder how one would go about finding out if any kind of crimes had been reported at the house where one is living?

"My parents had a beach house that they rented to a man who was dying of AIDS and wanted to spend his last days near the ocean ... I thought it was beautiful, though very sad."

What a great and compassionate story - Thanks for sharing that with us, Emily.

Years ago, a friend bought a duplex and gave me a tour of it.
When he took me into the downstairs apartment, I entered into the living room and felt a sensation I'd never experience before - it was like stepping into a vacuum, where all the air had been sucked out. We went to lunch after, and I asked him if something strange had happened there. He couldn't believe that I had felt what I did - for someone had indeed been murdered in their very apartment.

He burned some sage and did some spiritual healing in the apartment and never had a problem.

"There is no such thing as a perfect/clean/nothing-awful-ever-happenned-here place - If you really think that's the case, you're only fooling yourself."

Even so, there is a difference between a place where people died and a place where a man violently killed his entire family. Kind of like a cemetery is a sad, creepy place, but you know it's only natural. A crime scene, on the other hand, is just unsettling.

For 3 years I rented an apartment above a funeral home. It was beautiful and inexpensive. Ironically, the old folks' home was directly across the street. I'd hate to be 90 with that window view! It was the original owners apartment, and they raised all of their children there. I lived there alone, and that place definitely had a "vibe".

There's a big difference between living where someone has died vs. living where someone was murdered! The latter would inevitably give me the creeps.

I have no problem with the former though. My family's home is the same house my grandparents built in the 40's, both my dad and I were raised there. When my grandpa was dying last year, he wanted to do so in his own home and everyone agreed that's how it should be.
We had his hospital bed set up in the living room and that's where he died, at home with family.
Ever since then, my grandma began taking her daily naps on the sofa in that same exact spot. I find it incredibly sweet though, not creepy.

Though some people might be creeped out if they looked up info on the house, because his ashes are there we had to register them so it now says there's a deceased person in the residence :P

How do you know something horrible didn't happen where you're living *right* *now*? Only no one knows about it... and you're living with ghosts... Wooooooo...

No I wouldn't even walk in the place... the shadows in the pictures alone look creepy.

The former owners took out the iconic windows that were made famous by the Amityville book and the movie. If I owned the house, I'd really be tempted to put the windows back in to restore it to its former glory. It really is a beautiful house.

A bunch of lower Manhattan is built ON TOP of an African burial ground, and tons of people spend way too much money to live there. I would def do it.

http://www.africanburialground.gov

Had a group of friends in college that rented a former funeral home. The room where the "prep" took place was still there.....creepy.

A youg boy died in my sisters pool. It was not disclosed before the sale because he was not pronounced dead until off the property.......VERY creepy!

I'm Greek Orthodox there are two types of house blessing services in our faith. There is the quick version and then there's the LONG version where you light a tea light at each wall and the priest paints a little cross with chrism on each wall as prayers are sung and read. In a way, it's sort of like an exorcism for a home. In that case, I think if I really liked the house and floorplan I would go ahead and move in but have the LONG house blessing done. I'm married to a priest, so this is easy enough to do.

I remember wanting to go by the Heaven's Gate Cult house like 10 years ago, finally was able to make it after locating the right street about 2 years ago... even though the house was razed, I still felt weird stopping to check it out... but I just creeped out anyway. I probably would buy it and raze the current house that's there only because it's cookie-cutter ugly.

Hell no! Yes, if you moved into a house that was older or not new construction, you might know what else happened there. BUT I would rather NOT know and would never knowingly move into a house where a murder occurred. I completely believe in ghosts and entities being left behind.

In a heartbeat. I agree that horrible things may have happened in the houses/on the land we inhabit now. We feel ok, because we don't know about them, but it doesn't stop it being a beautiful (to some) house in a great position.

It's something very sad that happened to those people, but a lot of time has passed and the murders happened to the people, not the house. I believe you make your own home, so it wouldn't bother me.

I'm just not one for ghosts/spirits or for believing that houses carry bad luck/energy because of what has happened in them.

I've always wanted to live in a replica of the movie house version of The Amityville Horror, with some changes of course. I'm a huge horror fan, but I'm sure I would love the look of that house anyway.

I just looked at the listing. The house is overflowing with oversized chintz upholstery and faux-country knick-knacks. So it's true: there really is an Amityville Horror.

No. First of all, I kind of believe in ghosts. Second of all, I'm a total wimp about scary noises and would be freaking out all the time. I'm not foolish enough to think I'm living in a home where nothing bad happens--it's almost 100 years old, so I'm sure people died here, etc. The difference is that I don't know about it.

No way. The enormity of the crime would creep me out too much. When I was about 12, my bedroom window faced another window of my next door neighbor across the driveway. My bed was against the wall that would look out that window. My neighbor rented out the attic, as an apartment...and the young man that rented it hung himself. His body was found in the room that had the window facing my bedroom. I was very bothered by that..and kept my shade down for over a year and had a hard time sleeping. I know deaths happen everywhere, but, for me, ignorance is bliss.

No. I would never feel like it was mine.

I would. My first (owned) house was a bargain because a murder had recently taken place in the Master bedroom. It never bothered me; actually, the house had a really nice vibe.

Who the frack cares, it's just a house. If I could get a deal on a house I would offer to clean up the blood spatter myself. People are silly.

The tourism thing would bother me...I just finished In Cold Blood and the current owners of the Clutter house say that people still drive up the (posted) driveway to get a glimpse of the place. All the way out in rural western Kansas over fifty years later. Although most houses that have had gruesome things happen in them are not immortalized by Truman Capote, so in that case I wouldn't really care.

My relative not only bought a house, in DC, where a murder occured and has permanent blood stains in the linoleum basement floor but she went to the murderer's trial for killing his wife every day. Yea, creepy.

If it was a really notorious crime that drew unwanted visitors, heck no.

If it wasn't a well-known murder, probably. (Though I would remove or cover up things like blood stains.)

I spent a year in an apartment where two people had committed suicide (years and years earlier - even the owner of the building didn't know). When I found out, I was a little freaked, but it was really not a big deal. Nothing bad ever happened to me, my flatmates, our pets, or our guests there, though someone DID crash a car through the window of the room where the suicides took place while the previous tenants were there...

About 10 years ago, my then-boyfriend was in the market for a house. Since he felt I was the more psychically sensitive of the two of us (hence, the one most likely to be bothered by residual energies of past inhabitants) he had me check out all potential homes for creepiness. He ended up buying a lovely old cottage where plenty of people had lived and died, but none in a horrible way. Hubby and I feel welcome, never threatened.
Conversely, my grandparents died a few years ago in their home, in a very bad way. I had the opportunity to take over the house, but I couldn't handle being inside it. That, coupled with the notoriety (lots of gawkers slowing down and squinting, some being so crass as to knock on the door and ask prying questions) led us to sell the house ASAP. The buyers did a complete renovation with hopes of flipping it, but nobody who knows the story wants to live there. It's vacant and unsold to this day.

Great, thought provoking post, AT!

@thorndale - I totally feel the same way. Somewhat unrelated, but still awfully scary: a cop was murdered in my backyard senior year of college. I unfortunately heard the gunshots, and basically had a panic attack every time I came home at night. Glad to have moved!

My parents house was built in late 1600 as a chapel. (The famous painter Frans Hals was married there) Then it was partly destroyed in a storm and was rebuilt as a house.I can't imagine in al that time that nobody has died there. It is even known as "the haunted house". Our family has lived there for two generations, but never experienced any ghost activity. Whe sometimes joke: "hm must be the ghosts", when the door closes suddenly because of draft.

My grandparents have bought their house more than 50 years ago for a real good price, because the previous owners killed themselves in that house (collapse of the stockmarket). It never bothered them, allthough my grandfather was very sensitive to those sort of things.

My point is: it doesen't matter what history your house has, as long as you live happy there.
But the curious people can be a pain in the *. We have had curious people asking questions about our house, even though nothing dramatic has happened. Just because it is old.

I forwarded this post to one of my best friends. Here's what she emailed me in reply:

"I don't understand why they bother to say any nice things about the house. I would just start the listing saying the following:

This is a crazy, scary house where terrible murders happened. It is filled with evil and likely horrible spirits. If however you are interested in buying this home please do not stop, just drive straight to the police because it is likely that if you have not already done something horrible, you are likely to do something horrible in the future.

They should probably just level that house."

So funny.

If I was going to live out my last years there, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. If I was considering flipping it for resale, I'd think twice-- as illustrated by these comments, many 21st century people are still as superstitious as Watusi tribesmen.

(You know-- belief in the supernatural is considered one of the hallmarks of mental disease!)

joe: doesn't look old. it's just classic. :)

Red room! Red room!

So, jim&jiji, you WOULDN'T stay at Chateau Lake Louise?

Me? There is NOOOO way I'd live there. I was scared of the dark when I was little. And when I was 8, we lived in a house that had a really weird feel to it. Everyone, even our dog, hated it.

'What are the odds of that ever happening again...' It'll be the safest house to raise a family in! -The World According to Garp, after a plane flew into a prospective house

I am from LI and this place has a stigma attached to it that many of you can't possibly understand. Not even if John Edwards came and "cleaned" the place out first. No way. Never.

Not sure I would be keen as I do spook easily, and a big practical worry would be being unable to sell it on if you wanted to move.

I'd live in it, but the house really isn't my style.

My husband and I really loved a house where a young girl and her grandmother were killed by the girl's father, who then ran down the street and killed his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. It was a great deal too. We just couldn't get over the history.

My gut reaction? No way! I believe that everything has energies, and I want nothing to do with any bad energies.

On the other hand, I live in Baltimore, and I wondering if it is really so different to live in a historic area that was the site of a battle or war? You can't visualize the violence as easily because you're not in the exact surroundings, and the act is long in the past, but the death and brutality is real. Though, a patriotic battle with positive outcome is seen more as pride and bravery than death I suppose.

My anecdote:
We found out just a week after moving into our new home that the one of the previous owners (the owner before the last one and then the bank, if you wanna get technical) had killed himself in the living room, with a gun to the head no less. I have found myself occasionally uneasy when staying here alone, but otherwise this home is bright, airy and happy, and I am more joyful and comfortable here than I ever have been anywhere else. If anything, I feel like it gives the house a little color and a little history.

Is the tragically violent history of this house more horrific than the wallpaper in its dining room? Because that color would give anyone nightmares.

Yeah, I'd live in any house I liked regardless of the history. Crazy people do crazy things because they're crazy, not because of the house they're in at the time.

If it was famous enough to attract gawkers, I'd need to know that I could fence the entire property and put up "No Trespassing" signs. If I wasn't allowed to, then I probably wouldn't live there.

I live in the area where Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka lived. Their house was pulled down after everything was over--I think the house was just a big physical reminder to the community of the horrible things that those two freaks did.
I'm not saying I'm afraid of ghosts or bad karma or anything, but I don't think I would have been willing to live in that house had it remained standing. I was a kid when it all happened and I remember being really freaked out by the whole thing. I think I'd always be conscious of what happen there, if I lived there. It would be depressing to have that on my mind all the time. I'm sure there are people out there who would be able to put it out of their minds, but I don't think I'd be able to.

The property taxes there would be enough to scare me away!

My husband and I were talking about this recently, because we are both big horror buffs. The movie side of it is cool, but I don't think I could get past knowing that several people were violently murdered there.

Our last house was 115 years old, and definitely had some strange things going on in it. Even visitors would notice odd things. And in the back room of the basement, where they must have kept the coal, it was just freaky. We would find strange things in there, and things moved around. Unfortunately, I don't know much of the history of that house and I don't know what happened there, but we have always felt that there is some residual energy from something bad.

Our house now is 86 years old and has a totally different "feel" to it. Shortly after we moved in, I found out one of the previous owners died in the master bedroom (of natural causes), but it doesn't bother me or creep me out at all.

The listing now begins, "Legendary Amityville Home." At least they're not lying...

I one a condo in a 1910 building. Recently some detectives came around asking if anyone lived in the building back in 1980 because they were investigating a double homicide cold case. When we lived there, my husband, who is tuned into such things, (and over the years enough has happened that I just have to believe him) saw ghosts all the time and knew two people had been murdered in the basement.... before the detectives called...

(Insert TV show COLD CASE music here)
Glad it was on a different floor than my condo.

I work in a historic building built in the 13th century which has seen some very tragic events over time.
I'm fairly agnostic about ghosts myself but working there has proven to me beyond all doubt that psychic investigators are making it all up - we've had so many wild contradictions from them, none of which bear any resemblance to documented events.

My father and his fiance were murdered in their home in Sarasota, FL this week a year ago by her ex boyfriend. It has ben hard enough having to travel down there to be in the home and even harder selling it. I would have wanted to hold on to the property because it still had beautiful memories spent with my papa but he put the house in her name so I didn't have a choice or the money to hold on to it. When it was up for sale I was pretty disgusted with the opportunistic and insensitive people who came by. The worst part is that the people who ended up purchasing the home didn't realize who I was and blabbed, "It's so terrible what happened here, those people's family's weren't even here to help." I forgave her ignorance but I also made a note to never be one of those people. It's about respect.

I grew up in a house where my mom's best friend from childhood committed suicide. Mom had always liked the house so she got it for a steal from her friend's family when it went up for sale. Nothing superstitious ever happened around the place but there was just always a negative vibe hanging in the air.

I live near the Amityville home, very cool listing. Also another home in the area came on the market, the home of serial killer Joel Rifken.

The people driving by and curiousity is a given and should be expected. I know people want their privacy, but that adds to the problem. If the current owners of the Amityville house werent so illusive and stepped up to an interview or two people wouldnt be so curious and might just get their questions answered.

For a few years I grew up a house where the previous owner has committed suicide. The house, was a huge bargain for that very reason.It was fine- except for the times I freaked myself out with the Ouija board. The the fact is 'things' to do with violence, death and dying have happened everywhere - and not to get all political, but this includes your dinner plate if you eat meat.

Not to buy, hellz no. But, I'd love to spend a night there though.

I'd be fine with it, I've known too many people (sadly) killed in their homes, and I think they'd be happy knowning someone was enjoying the space. Tehy were all lovely houses.

However I'm too poor to ever own a house so I'll probably end up renting for a while. But something crazy could have happened in this apartment and i'll never know.