A funeral home near me was sold to developers who will turn it into condos (it's in a highly desirable area). Would you live there? 
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Would you live in a former funeral home?
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A funeral home near me was sold to developers who will turn it into condos (it's in a highly desirable area). Would you live there?
Prince Of Petworth » Guessing Game Over – Former Frazier’s Funeral Home to Become “4-5 unit multi-unit residential building”
I would, as a Supernatural fan say NO!
Can you say super haunted!!!!!!!! I would just for the experience...
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No way.
It's not that I think it would be haunted but I would just constantly think about all the people, I would become so fixated that it would just make me insane. I'd never sleep or be able to concentrate on anything but all those people...
Nope, could not do it.
It's not that I think it would be haunted but I would just constantly think about all the people, I would become so fixated that it would just make me insane. I'd never sleep or be able to concentrate on anything but all those people...
Nope, could not do it.
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A funeral home near me was sold to developers who will turn it into condos (it's in a highly desirable area). Would you live there?
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I'd have no issue with it. Although if someone were to sell me a house where someone was murdered, I'd be hesitant. I can't really explain rationally why I would make a distinction.
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Eh, I wouldn't live in a multi-home unit anyways. But old, creaky, spooky homes, no thanks. Even if I weren't afraid, I would have to deal with the kids getting freaked out. Nothing sadder than a child deathly afraid of something not "there".
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to the OP.. that place looks haunted... and NO way would I want to spend money to live there!
if the owner made it into a bread&breakfast with a weird theme.. it might be interesting to stay to see how it feels...
pretty please... give us more detail.
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to the OP.. that place looks haunted... and NO way would I want to spend money to live there!
if the owner made it into a bread&breakfast with a weird theme.. it might be interesting to stay to see how it feels...
pretty please... give us more detail.
Ok, here is a long story attempted to be made short. Hidden for those that don't wish to read it.
Background:
While in college, my girlfriend and I found a rental house that was built in the forties. It was one of those houses that didn't really have bedrooms, it just had rooms. 5 of them total, plus a kitchen and a bathroom. The landlords were not the most honest or trustworthy of people and they didn't do a whole bunch to make it really great, but the rent and location were pretty nice. They installed gas surface heaters in different parts of the house for the winter and window units for the summer (if you have ever been in Georgia in August then you know that window units are kinda worthless).
I am a very meticulous person. My purse, phone, keys, etc go in the exact same place every day. I do this without fail and I always have. While we stayed in that house I would constantly lose my keys or my phone or my cigarettes. I would find them in other rooms sometimes and other times they would be found in the dryer or in the freezer or in the bathtub or in the storage room off the garage (a place we rarely went due to the spiders). This had never happened before living there and it has never happened since living there.
I have heard from numerous people that they believe dogs and cats can see ghosts, not sure if it is true or not. Our dogs and cats were constantly barking at walls or trying to attack things in the house. One dog would constantly try to attack an end table that was over in a corner. When we eventually moved the end table he would simply attack the corner itself. He actually damaged the walls. The cats would freak out and hiss all the time at nothing.
My girlfriend, who has never been a really paranoid person, also commented often that she thought we were being watched. She often wondered if the landlord had installed cameras in the house and was spying on us. While I would not have put it past him I never found anything that would lead me to believe there was and the wifi cameras were not really accessible to average people back then.
On more than one occasion we both woke up to see the other person just staring at us. When this happened she would not speak to me at all and I did not speak to her at all. We simply stared at the other unblinking and eventually laid back down to go to sleep. When my girlfriend first told me I had done this I thought she had been dreaming. That of course changed when I woke up to her doing it. No movement, no sound just staring. I tried to talk to her and she did not respond. It really creeped me out.
Towards the end of your time there we found a stray dog and took him in for a few days before he was going to given to a new home. During that time there happened to be a holiday (one of the random ones you forget, but get out of school and work for). We woke up to the sound of really crazy barking from the stray dog (our dogs had kind of chilled by this point). So I got up to let the dog outside, figuring it needed to pee, but it refused to leave the room it was in. I gave up and walked to the bathroom. The second I walked in I heard a hissing sound. It turned out that one of the cheap heaters the landlord had installed had rusted through and was leaking natural gas into the house (we later learned that that particular heater had a huge warning label on the back about installing it in a bathroom, go figure). Had this been a normal day for me I would have been in that bathroom smoking a cigarette and starting the shower just an hour from that time. Since I have no sense of smell, I would never have noticed the gas and most likely blown up the house. Oddly enough our dogs didn't bark about the gas even though they were in a room right next to the bathroom. Also oddly enough, the gas had not reached our bedroom or the room that the stray dog was staying in, which was on the other end of the house from the bathroom. We still don't really know why that dog started barking the way he did, but we have guesses.
It wasn't until we started packing up to move out that we really started putting all the strangeness that happened in that house together. While we were packing up a truck one of the little old men that lived up the street came to talk to us. He was amazed that we had lived there for the past 5 years. He told us about the people that had died in that house. In the 40's the guy who built lost his wife there and hung himself (#1 & 2). A decade later another man shot and killed his wife there (#3). A decade later another man got into a fight with man and they both died there (#4 & 5). Another man had a heart attack even though he was perfectly healthy (#6). Then, in the eighties an eight year old boy died of the flu there (#7). There were 8 total, but I can't remember what happened to one of them. Needless to say we were floored and completely freaked about it. This was all confirmed later by several other people that lived on the street and some that had lived in that town their whole lives. We had had a number of people over during our time there and on more than one occasion someone had said that there was something "not quite right" about the house or the air around it.
Later:
A week after we moved out the landlord went into the house to inspect it. Apparently while in there he walked into the bathroom and the floor collapsed. The tub had been leaking water into the floors just underneath the tile for the last 5 years and it had given out. It was said on more than one occasion that it was amazing it had not collapsed while we were living there and that it didn't make sense that it hadn't collapsed a few years earlier.
During the much needed renovation it was also discovered that one of the main walls in the house had also rotted out. The wood burning stove that had been removed had apparently not had the chimney properly sealed up and water had been leaking into the walls for 5 or 6 years rotting out the boards. It only took one worker pushing on it to have half of it fall down.
After the house had been "fixed" a family of five moved in a few years later. They lived there for six months before the entire house burned to the ground with them in it. Faulty wiring was blamed, but the wiring had apparently not been changed since we lived there.
We know the house was haunted and going back and thinking on it a few people have said that the "ghosts" were trying to kill us with many of things that happened there. I disagree though. I think they were holding the house up for us and keeping us safe. The wall, the floor, the wiring and the gas could have easily been really bad news for either or both of us, but nothing ever happened to really hurt us while we were there. I think the stuff being moved was just the eight year old playing, but the rest of it was the other 7 keeping us safe. To this day, she will not talk about that house at all or anything that happened in it.
While in college, my girlfriend and I found a rental house that was built in the forties. It was one of those houses that didn't really have bedrooms, it just had rooms. 5 of them total, plus a kitchen and a bathroom. The landlords were not the most honest or trustworthy of people and they didn't do a whole bunch to make it really great, but the rent and location were pretty nice. They installed gas surface heaters in different parts of the house for the winter and window units for the summer (if you have ever been in Georgia in August then you know that window units are kinda worthless).
I am a very meticulous person. My purse, phone, keys, etc go in the exact same place every day. I do this without fail and I always have. While we stayed in that house I would constantly lose my keys or my phone or my cigarettes. I would find them in other rooms sometimes and other times they would be found in the dryer or in the freezer or in the bathtub or in the storage room off the garage (a place we rarely went due to the spiders). This had never happened before living there and it has never happened since living there.
I have heard from numerous people that they believe dogs and cats can see ghosts, not sure if it is true or not. Our dogs and cats were constantly barking at walls or trying to attack things in the house. One dog would constantly try to attack an end table that was over in a corner. When we eventually moved the end table he would simply attack the corner itself. He actually damaged the walls. The cats would freak out and hiss all the time at nothing.
My girlfriend, who has never been a really paranoid person, also commented often that she thought we were being watched. She often wondered if the landlord had installed cameras in the house and was spying on us. While I would not have put it past him I never found anything that would lead me to believe there was and the wifi cameras were not really accessible to average people back then.
On more than one occasion we both woke up to see the other person just staring at us. When this happened she would not speak to me at all and I did not speak to her at all. We simply stared at the other unblinking and eventually laid back down to go to sleep. When my girlfriend first told me I had done this I thought she had been dreaming. That of course changed when I woke up to her doing it. No movement, no sound just staring. I tried to talk to her and she did not respond. It really creeped me out.
Towards the end of your time there we found a stray dog and took him in for a few days before he was going to given to a new home. During that time there happened to be a holiday (one of the random ones you forget, but get out of school and work for). We woke up to the sound of really crazy barking from the stray dog (our dogs had kind of chilled by this point). So I got up to let the dog outside, figuring it needed to pee, but it refused to leave the room it was in. I gave up and walked to the bathroom. The second I walked in I heard a hissing sound. It turned out that one of the cheap heaters the landlord had installed had rusted through and was leaking natural gas into the house (we later learned that that particular heater had a huge warning label on the back about installing it in a bathroom, go figure). Had this been a normal day for me I would have been in that bathroom smoking a cigarette and starting the shower just an hour from that time. Since I have no sense of smell, I would never have noticed the gas and most likely blown up the house. Oddly enough our dogs didn't bark about the gas even though they were in a room right next to the bathroom. Also oddly enough, the gas had not reached our bedroom or the room that the stray dog was staying in, which was on the other end of the house from the bathroom. We still don't really know why that dog started barking the way he did, but we have guesses.
It wasn't until we started packing up to move out that we really started putting all the strangeness that happened in that house together. While we were packing up a truck one of the little old men that lived up the street came to talk to us. He was amazed that we had lived there for the past 5 years. He told us about the people that had died in that house. In the 40's the guy who built lost his wife there and hung himself (#1 & 2). A decade later another man shot and killed his wife there (#3). A decade later another man got into a fight with man and they both died there (#4 & 5). Another man had a heart attack even though he was perfectly healthy (#6). Then, in the eighties an eight year old boy died of the flu there (#7). There were 8 total, but I can't remember what happened to one of them. Needless to say we were floored and completely freaked about it. This was all confirmed later by several other people that lived on the street and some that had lived in that town their whole lives. We had had a number of people over during our time there and on more than one occasion someone had said that there was something "not quite right" about the house or the air around it.
Later:
A week after we moved out the landlord went into the house to inspect it. Apparently while in there he walked into the bathroom and the floor collapsed. The tub had been leaking water into the floors just underneath the tile for the last 5 years and it had given out. It was said on more than one occasion that it was amazing it had not collapsed while we were living there and that it didn't make sense that it hadn't collapsed a few years earlier.
During the much needed renovation it was also discovered that one of the main walls in the house had also rotted out. The wood burning stove that had been removed had apparently not had the chimney properly sealed up and water had been leaking into the walls for 5 or 6 years rotting out the boards. It only took one worker pushing on it to have half of it fall down.
After the house had been "fixed" a family of five moved in a few years later. They lived there for six months before the entire house burned to the ground with them in it. Faulty wiring was blamed, but the wiring had apparently not been changed since we lived there.
We know the house was haunted and going back and thinking on it a few people have said that the "ghosts" were trying to kill us with many of things that happened there. I disagree though. I think they were holding the house up for us and keeping us safe. The wall, the floor, the wiring and the gas could have easily been really bad news for either or both of us, but nothing ever happened to really hurt us while we were there. I think the stuff being moved was just the eight year old playing, but the rest of it was the other 7 keeping us safe. To this day, she will not talk about that house at all or anything that happened in it.
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Of course I would. The more important question is would the ghosts live with me?
BTW, why would a funeral home be haunted? The people didn't actually die there.
BTW, why would a funeral home be haunted? The people didn't actually die there.
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Technically that might depend on the age of the funeral home. If it was a really old one, plenty of people could have died there due to wrongful declarations of death.
Any of the more modern ones though, you'd be right.
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wow!... crazy...
so.. i am extrapolating...
something in the house killed all those people.. but those same people protected you 2 from that evil presence. ??
crazy world!
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wow!... crazy...
so.. i am extrapolating...
something in the house killed all those people.. but those same people protected you 2 from that evil presence. ??
crazy world!
Even after experiencing the strangeness that happened in that house I couldn't give you a definite answer as to what it was. We didn't have things flying around the house or attacking us or anything, it was just weird things that occurred. It was enough to make me believe in the paranormal, but not enough to make me call it evil or anything I'd call good, it just was. I do believe that whatever was in that house was protecting us, but I think it was along the lines of just keeping us safe, but not from anything in particular. Maybe they just liked us. Maybe they were perverts.
Maybe, it just wasn't our time. I just know that I still get a chill if I can't find my keys.The house is gone now, the property is still vacant and nobody has any plans of rebuilding there. The last I heard, nobody sets foot on it now. The city actually built a rec center with baseball fields and a swimming pool just on the other side of it and people still walk the long way around to avoid it.
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back about 10 years ago when I was house hunting, the Realtor wanted to show me a home that she thought I might like. The house itself looked nice, but in the lot next door, a cemetery. It was kind of freaky because there was a small white picket fence separating the yard and the cemetery. That house would be perfect 1 day out of the year, for hosting Halloween parties, but the other 364 days, every single sound you'd hear would have you on pins and needles.
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I thought you weren't the sort of person to lose your keys?
Maybe you just lost your keys back then the same way you lose them now? or maybe you current home is also haunted?
I don't lose my keys, but I do have kids that like to pick them up occasionally. I have also had them fall out of my pocket on the couch. If it had just been the keys, I would have blamed the water, there was so much wrong with that house and what happened in that house. I'm a natural skeptic so I blamed it on a lot of stuff over the years before I had to finally admit it to myself.
As far as this house goes, built in 2005 with no deaths, no burial grounds (Native American or otherwise) and nothing spooky. Trust me, we asked. It doesn't change the fact that I still gets chills sometimes.
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Like OTD I lived in a haunted house once. However we didn't have all the issues that it seems the house OTD speaks of. 2 of the biggest things we would find is that we would come home and the stereo would be almost full blast playing just white noise. A few times we woke up to the tv on again just about full blast and again just white noise. Did some research and found that a little girl (9) had died there of pox if memory serves me correctly. Any after finding out I bought a doll and put it on the couch and a childs book on the coffee table. besides finding the doll at different places the book never moved. guess she didn't like it. I think all of us were sad when we moved out of the house. we left the doll the book got left to cause we couldnt find it looked all over the place to. If anything I really wouldn't have a problem living in an old funeral home as long as I new. What originally creeped us out what that we didn't know that the place was haunted and finding stereo's on that you knew were turned off before you left was a bit freaky. The girl I was dating a the time loved doing research and thats how we found out. I lived in Savannah at the time the house is still in the downtown area last I heard that people have found the doll but leave it. and you can hear her crying at night. That was 20 years ago.
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A funeral home near me was sold to developers who will turn it into condos (it's in a highly desirable area). Would you live there?
Prince Of Petworth » Guessing Game Over – Former Frazier’s Funeral Home to Become “4-5 unit multi-unit residential building”
I would, as a Supernatural fan say NO!
Just get your salt rounds ready and you'll be set
I wouldn't want to live there or in any haunted house but I'd DEFINITELY want to spend some time there. I need some more reassurance that something else is there when we rot away. Nothing isn't good enough for me.
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I would live there, I don't know why you would assume that it would be haunted, because the people are already dead when they go to the funeral home. I was actually considering going into funeral services for my career, but the closest mortuary school is too far away. Also a lot of people are afraid of graveyards, but they are the most peaceful places, because all the people there are dead.
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I was going to point out that TV isn't real... but my argument is severly weaken following a recent visit to the USofA which seemed to be crammed full of every stereo-type American from the movies and TV!!
I don't doubt you one bit, but I am just curious as to what stereotypes you are referring. When the show Jersey Shore came out, I was laughing so hard because I have actually met people like that, and now the rest of the world got to experience the deep shame that I felt from knowing people like that really exsist.
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I was going to point out that TV isn't real... but my argument is severly weaken following a recent visit to the USofA which seemed to be crammed full of every stereo-type American from the movies and TV!!
Basically our favorite shows all are about zombies, vampires, and whatever bumps in he dark. So, I figure if they're that popular and so is reality tv, they must be true.
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Over the years there have been a number of people that have "explained" to me that it has more to do with the type of death than the death itself.
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We got good things, too. I can't think of any at the moment, but I'm pretty sure they exist.
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