Just reading some old news articles about the nice town I retired to a few years ago

About Ten years ago a man murdered his partner and kept her body in a freezer for a year or so ,It must have driven him over the top as he committed suicide in another room of the house , alcohol,pills and syringe .
It got me thinking who could live in a house with this past?,I couldn't

When my stepson committed suicide and we had to sell his home
in Santa Barbara, California, we came across this issue.

One buyer was horrified..'I cannot live in a house where someone
killed themself!'

At which point the realtor turned to her and said, 'These houses
are 45 years old, there have probably been many, many deaths
in every house.'

This always stuck with me.

It was a very hot real estate market at the time (2000) so we
were able to sell it before it even listed, prospective buyers
read the obituaries and figured a house might come on the market
so we had a long list to choose from..good thing too as we could
not have afforded even one months payment in that ritzy neighborhood
(Prince Harry and Megan just purchased there.)

Anyway, point is I think $$ rules the day such that even a bizarre
tragedy can get overlooked for the right property. Personally I
do not think it would bother me if twas long enough ago ;-)

Wouldn’t bother me so long as it had all been cleaned up with no trace left

When I moved into my last apartment, I had an eerie feeling like, “what happened to the last person who lives here?” I wrote that feeling off as hocus-pocus, but I should have been more slow and careful when I got it. It turned out there was a bad mold problem in the walls which had deleterious health effects.

The place was 100 years old.

Most people would like a new freezer

as long as it had been cleaned and there was no "pork" left in it. it can stay

I'd definitely have a new freezer too

No!! you can't back out now , you said as long as it had all been cleaned up

Well by cleaned I’d assume all the furniture and possessions of the former occupant had been removed

I would not consider living in a house if I knew someone died in it, whether it was due to a murder, suicide or natural causes, it's not for me.

I would prefer not to either!

I think real estate agents are obligated to tell potential buyers of a house, if someone died in it.

Just checked on sales records , since the incident 10 yrs ago it has changed hands 3 times

Maybe not for a natural death as lots of houses are 60+years old , but murder and body's in freezers is something different

I bought a house where a young teenaged boy died when climbing a tree, he touched a power line that was hiding in the tree.

This got me thinking about a boy that went to school with my daughter
that went home and murdered his mother, father, and two younger brothers.
I looked up the house and apparently they tore it down and just sold
the land. Still don’t think I could build a house and live there though.

Not knowingly.

When I split with my ex I rented a house for a few years. It wasn’t until I was there almost a year that one of my new neighbours told me a previous owner had died in the bathroom of natural causes. I would have preferred not to know that.

All of this just creeps me out.

A friend of mine shot his 11 year old son and himself, the house was social housing, for a few years it was rented for a week or two at a time to contractors working in the area , eventually it was demolished

Depends on the house and where it is. It would most likely be fairly cheap since not many would want to live there. If I liked both the home and the location, then yes I would live there. Before moving in though, I would do a thorough smudging and blessing of the house and surrounding area to cleanse and heal the energy. I'd do the same with any items I wanted to keep, especially if they were antiques or rustic looking items.