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I don't know, I'd be put off not by a fear of anything coming to haunt me or anything, but if lets say I knew the story and someone in the house was tortured in the basement, it would probably cause me to connect that room with what happened most likely. I would find pretty tormenting in a way, I already get a lot of unpleasant unwanted thoughts which keep me up at night and to be frank I don't need anymore of them keeping me awake. < as weird and hysterical as that might may sound. :/

But then again the rational side of me says: "It's not the house that's evil, so there's no reason to let it get to me."
Possibly redecorate and turn it into a bar/mancave or something.

I'm not going assume though so my answer is still "I don't know."

Come to think of it, I do live in an evil house.

First it was a monastary, then a police station then abandoned, and now I live there for next to nothing.

House Frazzled has a lair where wiener dogs lie in wait. What could be more terrible?

Something actually frightening?

 Xenocidal Maniac wrote:
Forget Castro's place, how about Anthony Sewell's place in Cleveland? Way worse. The guy kept like a dozen or so rotting bodies strewn about his house for years. Apparently the stench emanating from his place was horrendous, but people thought it was coming from the sausage store next door.

I wouldn't live in Sowell's house because it's in East Cleveland!

But I was thinking if Sowell's house was in a neighborhood I liked, I'd have no problem living there... Just need some bleach and a good hard scrubbing.

Castro's house, probably not simply due to the work he probably did to keep those girls locked up, not up to code and what not.

I'd have no issues living in such a place.

Having lived next door to a home where repeated acts of violence and decay have occurred, I find myself saying no.

In my experience, severe emotional trauma is not just psychological, but in some way physically tangible. Not everyone gets it or feels it, but it's like a gut feeling. When you do, you just know.

Somehow reminds me of this:




In that the idea is that if you have something that belonged to someone 'evil', then that evilness is retained in it and you acquire it through exposure to evilness.

 Surtur wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
House with a history of murders and the like? Meh, boring.

Really the only kind of spooky structure I can think of is a large house in the middle of the woods. There's just something unnatural about a large man made structure in the middle of a forest.

Wasn't that the plot of the Shining?

Not really. The Overlook(read: Stanley Hotel) is on a massive estate surrounded by open space. There's some trees, but they would hardly classify as a forest.

The feeling of isolation in the book is due to it being accessible by small mountain roads and Stephen King intentionally writing out the fact that it's actually in a small town(seriously, the town's main street is a block away from the entrance to the estate, you could walk to food and the police station from the front door).

It actually has more to do with property value than it does bad juju. Usually few if any people are willing to move into a house like this so they often sit abandoned, let alone the fact that the entire neighborhood gains the stigma of being associated with the crime.

I would, but probably more out of stubbornness than anything else.

Thing is, I think that very few people actually do this, usually because people who are buying a house are part of a couple, and I think the odds of finding not one but TWO people who are willing to live in a house with a nefarious past, AND like the actual house, AND like the actual location, AND can afford it are fairly small.

We had a really, really gruesome murder in our area a while back, and the house it was in (which is a REALLY primo house in a REALLY nice location) sat vacant for a long time. It ended up getting sold for a fraction of its real value, because the inheritors were willing to accept ANYTHING to just be rid of the memories. As I understand it, lots of times in these situations the new owners will just demolish the home in order to salvage the loss. Obviously, though, I'm not an insider in any relevant profession here.

In the case of Castro's house, like many others have said, I'd be concerned by whatever modifications he made to the house. Getting it back up to code may not be cheap. I'd also rather not find body parts etc. when working in the garden, remodelling the house, etc. Also if you move into it with what is seen as unseemly haste after the notorious house goes on the market then it is more difficult to be able to forge any sort of relationship with your neighbours. Anyone coming to visit you may be a little put off too.

And that is without mentioning the people who might stop by just to gawk at the house because of its part history.

No, I would not live in a house that has an "evil" reputation. A house where a "simple" murder occurred would not be a problem for me, but not anything more twisted or macabre than that. Mostly just out of social courtesy, I guess. Such a house would be a constant reminder to the local community, and I wouldn't want a community to associate me with the acts that occurred within the house.

If anything, it's the less evil houses you gotta watch out for. Just read up on some of the things that have happened to people who moved into houses that used to be meth labs or marijuana grow houses. The mold, fungus, and chemicals that have penetrated into the structure of the house itself can be very hazardous.