Do You Have to Disclose Haunted Houses or Crimes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- I have bought a lot of crazy houses and some have said they are haunted. I have also bought houses that had crimes occur at them including murders. So did I have to disclose those crimes?
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Here was the first house after the repairs th-cam.com/video/jyP8AHcnTL8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jSGeuh28WJhWgVVa
In that first house, the worst "crime" is the pink walls and black lace curtains--ugh.
lol
Back satin or other fabric curtains would have worked better.
Now that's funny...
When I bought my house and pulled up the carpet there was an obvious outline of a human body in blood soaked in the cement. Evidently someone died and lay undiscovered for some reason. I did have some spirit encounters in the house, the dog would only stay in the bathroom, none of the rest of the house. Had a psychic out, we had a ceremony and things balanced out. Nothing going on now for 20 years.
This is insane you need to write a full storytime on this. My heart would sink
I lived in a house in the country that was haunted. That was never disclosed to me and so I didn't disclose it when I sold either. It was a woman wearing a long black dress with her hair in a bun. She would walk around nightly looking out the kitchen window and going to the door and just standing there. She didn't frighten me, oddly enough, so I just learned to ignore it.
The guy in Cleveland who kept three kidnapped girls for over ten years, his house was torn to the ground. It wasn't worth much anyway but the city felt it was better to raze it than to leave it
Just like the house of the pedophile doctor in lewes Delaware. It either was a historic building, a historic block or something but they tore it down completely, I was told.
So, in delaware if crimes and hauntings must be disclosed, then it had to be demolished. 🙏🏾
Yeah I remember that. There was a dude next door that saved the women He was a local hero there for a while and yeah the house was in a pretty bad state. Didn't he get one of the girls pregnant or something? And the dude committed suicide or something didn't he?
@patrickmccleary1144 I wonder if he committed suicide. I never heard that? 🤔
@patrickmccleary1144 he did get two if not all three pregnant but I think that only one child lived past pregnancy or infancy. I think they said he committed suicide but I know in Ohio prisons if the inmates find out you hurt a woman or child your days are numbered anyway so?
We have bought many properties. No ghosts🤷🏻♀️ Yes, basements and attics can be creepy, but it’s the hidden walkways behind walls that made me scratch my head. Mostly it was the dry rot people tried to cover up, water lines that had tree roots clogging them and the decks that were so dangerous you couldn’t chance to even walk on.
I didnt used to believe in haunted houses , until I leased one. Seriously . Interesting video. I enjoyed.
My late aunt lived in a Victorian twin. There was a ghost of a Victorian man who wore a top hat (like Lincoln). He was a scary ghost!
Here in Colorado you don’t have to disclose murder house. But the right thing to do is be up front.
Sold a triple murder house and buyer even brought in their own psychic . Respectful cleansing prayer and prep.
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Sat on house for about a yr. Did hit National news wire not as extreme as the Watts case.
Took a bit of a hit on price but beautiful house sells itself.
When working with a distressed property, be honest, and if called for a good spiritual cleanse. Plus common sense, if the 1st thing address Google search brings up is the crime/history.
That house is a beautiful pre-1920s with multiple additions. Love the added, unoriginal bathroom added onto the kitchen from when the home first got plumbing. The cut-in air vents and intra-floor returns must have been beautiful with all the original grates. It's amazing that house was left unchanged as much as it was; the only thing modern was basically the kitchen. The sloped bump-out by the built-in in the living room had to have been the original flue for the central coal furnace/boiler. That's a home I would have restored & maintained in a period style as much as possible
3:43 the cute shelving at sink window area, so vintage. Love it.
It would be almost impossible to find an older home that no one had died in. People die at home from age and illness and sometimes murder. But i wouldnt live in a home where a murder happened. If nothing else the negative energy from it is lingering
That is illegal
@investfourmore what's illegal?
I have seen suicides disclosed on properties I have looked at. I almost bought one of them but the bank
wanted more $$$ than I was willing to pay considering what had occurred there. Interesting video!
It may, or may not, be an issue. The cost of real estate? Buy it indeed.
Haunted houses are real and they are all over the place. Most are benign but every once in a while it can be a real problem. I once lived in an apartment complex and a lady came by all freaked out looking for my next door neighbor, an old lady. I told my neighbor when I saw her that this lady really needed to talk to her. After this, my neighbor asked me if I wanted to know why she was so freaked out. Apparently my neighbor, the old lady, told me that she and her older friend had lived in another apartment in the complex some years before. When they lived there they had a third roommate, an older gentlemen as well. This roommate had some serious health problems and his son had died in a car accident and then his daughter had developed cancer so he was very depressed. One day she and her other roommate went to the store and when they returned to the apartment found that this old man had shot himself in the head and committed suicide in his room. They called the police and had decided to move out into the apartment next door to mine. So this new lady came by because she had moved into this apartment that they had lived in where their roommate killed himself. The complex did not tell her when she rented it and she had no idea that had happened. The reason this lady freaked out was because she said really strange things started happening in that apartment such as lights going on and off, toilets flushing, noises, and the smell of whisky and cigar smoke. This lady said she didnt pay attention at first and didnt think to much of it. Then one day, the day she freaked out, the lady said she was in the kitchen and an empty glass sitting on the counter moved across the counter right in front of her and she almost lost her mind when she saw this. She had heard that my neighbor had lived in that one apartment some years before so came by to ask her what the hell was going on. So my neighbor told her, yeah, thats our former roommate who had killed himself there and he used to drink whiskey for the glass and smoke cigars. The lady moved out immediately . Most of the time, these things are harmless but not always.
Clarification. Haunted houses are real...to YOU! Not to everyone. Just stating that they are real, doesn't make it true.
I was skeptical about the paranormal too until I lived in a haunted house. Was a brand new house that I later found out had a murder on the property. It just didn’t add up that a new, modern house had these weird things happening. Like two people at the same time seeing a man appear in the basement for a second
@@ogalief Demonic presence is a more accurate description. And that is something I would never mess with.
@ 100%. We had a medium come in because it was getting so bad, and she had trouble telling if it was a demon, or a really nasty human. She decided on the latter. Thankfully I moved out (not because of the ghost though)
I'm sceptical but when I was younger I was doing night security on an old hotel in Liverpool. The grand. Just across the river mersey. The building had no water as it was turned off and early hours of the morning you would hear people talking in the toilets and the toilets being flushed. I thought someone had broke in and as soon as I opened the door there would be nothing. I also cleared a lot of glasses from behind the bar and boxed them up ready to be thrown away. Went back to the bar a few hours later and all the glasses were back on the shelves. In the staff quarters up stairs I would hear people arguing and doors slamming. Again I ran up the stairs to find no one there. I never seen anything but I heard a lot of things I can't account for. In my head I'm still trying to find a reason for it. I always had a feeling I wasn't alone in the building.
Disclosing hauntings is super subjective. I have always been curious about ghosts and been to many places that are haunted but have yet to ever pickup on anything. Some people flat out do not believe in hauntings. But a murder in the house would matter to me. I am fine with someone dying in their home but a murder would be a game changer for me but not for someone else. Disclosing allows a buyer to make an informed choice.
Our primary residence is spitting distance from the apartment building where the infamously bad film director Edward D. Wood died in 1978. I haven't seen any ghosts wearing angora sweaters. When we first moved to California we landed in Mira Loma, one block over from where the Wineville Chicken Coop m*rders took place in the 1920s, I didn't learn that fact until last year and that house never seemed all that creepy. I had a girlfriend who rented a house from Jill Gordon, the ex-wife of Derek & the Dominoes drummer Jim Gordon (RIP); my gf claimed that the house was haunted because Jim m*rdered his mother there in 1983. Decades later with the advent of the internet, I read the court dockets and it turned out that neither Jim nor his mother ever lived there.
Police body cam footage has some paranormal activity at the Chris Watts house. You can hear a laugh - see a child's shadow. - I really enjoyed this video. Very different from your normal ones.
That wasn't paranormal. The children were still alive and in the house still at that point. Well the welfare bodycam anyway....
That was Nichole Atkinson’s daughter playing in the play room on that police body cam footage.
It was not the laugh or shadow of a ghost child….
She had her teenage son and her two year old daughter with her when she called the police and they searched the house for the first time.
A house near me was a murder house. A teenage son killed his mother (a former classmate of mine) and his two sisters. So so sad. 😢
That air conditioning/heating air duct would have driven me crazy with exposed like it was during your narration of the video. I'm glad you drywalled it up probably a lot quieter now also I can't believe somebody installed something like that without finishing the drywall. Anyway good job on the remodel, I used to be an electronics technician and back in the early '80s there was a house in a very old neighborhood that still had the old gas lights and a ice box door on the outside You could drop a block of ice and it was all copper with the old Chrome nickel latches still intact. Most of the other houses had been remodeled but this one was pretty original early 1900s. Anyway my friends high school buddy that he had known for quite some time said his TV would turn off automatically when they were watching TV and the channel would change, And at the house was haunted. That his 4-year-old son would talk to an elderly man that wasn't there. He even described the elderly man. Anyway my buddy told me about it and I said it's just an old color TV that uses high frequency to change the channels and volume up and down. A trash truck can go by with a chain rattling on the road and it will change the channel on the TV or turn the volume up or down real common You could drop your change into a glass bowl in the kitchen and the TV would change I've seen countless examples of that. So I went over to check out the TV. It had no remote control devices on the inside I was like what the hell? And I checked everything out adjusted a few things put it back up against the wall made sure that it wasn't a switched socket. Turned it on set there and looked at it for a few minutes and the damn thing changed channels scared the crap out of me, I've never been a believer in ghost or anything I always thought that was foolish but that was weird! 30 years later I'm in Kentucky in a 220-year-old cabin. And I saw an old man standing by the stairs out of the corner of my eye and it was just like the little boy had described an elderly man that was balding wearing blue pajamas. Freaked me out! Anyway again good job on the remodels that last place looked like it was well over 100 years old.
I have lived in a haunted house or two. The first was when I was a kid. My mom rented it from my uncle who did lots if real estate deals. We used to hear footsteps in the attic. Slow and shuffling back and forth. No one was in it. We later learned an elderly man took his life after his wife died. Other things included things flying across the room and other strange sounds.
Your haunted house looks great. Wish you could gave gotten more period correct kitchen cabinets, but I imagine buying them would be expensive. The church had a weird layout.
Those cabinets looked like they were built with the house.
I rented an airbnb for a family function, i looked up the direction for this house,,a murder took place ,apparently, the victim was stuff in a closet, and his love ones have not heard from him ,so his family called 911,to do a wellness check,he had been there a week decomposed,of course we took that bedroom ,we didn't tell the family members, it would have freak them out!
Yes l rented one in Newmarket Ontario Canada the little boy was killed by his father and l still had the ghost till l put all my stuff in storage.when l lived there things used to fall off the wall that would take my weight 160 lbs and not move.....scary stuff .
There was a body found by a flipper in Grand Junction, Colorado earlier this year in a house they bought to renovate. It was stuffed in a freezer and Frozen for 20 years
I think it saw that on the news
@investfourmore yeah it was a big deal in Grand Junction. I do not believe the flipper disclosed the body being found. Hopefully the buyer knew.
@@awsomo53 I did see that on the news. Buyer didn’t know until the freezer was sold to clear out their new home.
@@RockyMtnKat a bit of detail. Flipper had a free sale to try to get rid of junk left at the property. The freezer was being loaded in someone's trailer when it opened. The buyer from the flipper didn't find the body.
@ Gruesome and tragic. Did they make an arrest yet?
That is why you should talk to the neighbors before you buy if possible. They can tell you a lot. My neighbor her family is the only one who has ever owned it. So she is a bit of a historian on her house and ours. With murders and shootings lots of the time you can Google the address or street name and find out. They usually make the news unless you are in one of the really big cities ( NYC, LA ETC)
Lovely house 🏠 but I would not own it
Only New York & New Jersey require sellers to disclose paranormal activity in a home.
Nine states have laws around the disclosure of a death on the property. In California, sellers must disclose a death on the property within 3 years. In Alaska, a death within one year must be disclosed. In South Dakota, sellers must disclose a homicide on the property. In Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey and South Carolina, sellers must disclose a death on the property only if asked.
After I bought my dream house, the neighbors told me it was a former meth lab
Jessie? 😂
That is definitely something that should be disclosed unless it was completely redone and retested
hope to god you bought a testing swab kit online, swab all your internal pipes, air vent openings/grills. Walls and floors. Then get a lawyer because only if EVERYTHING was gutted including the floor, your going to get very sick. there are whole STREETS empty in new zealand of old government houses because they all cooked meth. And because you have to gut everything to make them safe they just leave them to rot because its not financially viable. I smell a lawsuit
There’s one down the street from me and it sold for like half a million or 600 k something like that 😂 I heard that they’re not allowed to sell it unless they rip out all the walls and do like a whole thing to get it livable again
The watts house was beautiful. For everything it is, its still selling for cheaper than expected. Such a tragedy tho. 😭😭😭😭🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
4 lives snuffed out and for what???? 😢
If i was a flipper or agent, MORALLY, you should be telling them EVERYTHING. It doesnt matter about the laws in each state. Theyre SCAMMERS and are trying to make big money. They would be up for lawsuits if i was the buyer, and this would cost them way more and your reputation. Also, If i was a neighbor, i would tell the buyer EVERYTHING.
How are they scammers? Spending hundreds of thousands to make houses better and livable?
Youre buying a house at a cheap price, fix it up, and sell it, without telling the buyer the history. Yes, you spent money on fixing it up , but always profit when you sell it, when buyers dont know.
@summer2786 what history did I hide?
I signed a lease on a house about eleven years ago, and then a neighbor told me the previous tenant had killed herself in the house. The property manager stated she didn’t know. Wasn’t sure I believed that. I mean how could she not know? It was a tragic situation, but we moved into the house and never had any weird experiences there.
That is a beautiful house! What people did to it is a crime.
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Grandfather died in my grandmothers house on Coronado island. Haunted bedroom is ice cold. Rented a townhouse in El Paso it’s haunted. House in Phoenix haunted. I see dead people. I picked up a ghost in vistancia. Probably still in my Buick that couldn’t be fixed.
Firm believer in the supernatural here. Don’t live in a haunted house though, although we pray in our house daily. Interesting video though!
LOL man this reminded me of your video from several years ago. You remember just about every video had a swinging door that opens? lol It happened in one of your murder ones too LOL man what times. Been a long while since I visited this page. I feel hard on my face but back in the game and actually about to physically get a rental property here in the next few days.
Good luck!
We have a friend who has a haunted house in Fernandina FL. He falls into the ghost tour category. He does them every Halloween. 😊
I'm somewhat agnostic about houses being haunted (I think there is a scientific explanation that we haven't discovered yet, possibly overlapping intersections of time/space), so I wouldn't have any problem living in a reportedly "haunted" house. That being said, if there was a famous homicide that occurred there that still draws visitors (e.g., the Amityville Horror house), I think it's only fair to disclose that to a potential buyer so that they can plan to deal with it (or not).
It would be interesting for you to do a video on if you regret not buying a property or you regret buying a property. I have a coupe properties i regret not buying and least one property I regret buying.
About 30 years ago I looked at a house in West Bridgewater, MA. It was an older house that had been used as a medical office in pretty rough shape. I was interested and went as far as to read the P&S. Included in it was a statement to the effect that the second floor of the ell was in effect unusable because it was 'violently haunted' and some kind of entity would actually beat people up. (But this disclosure ensured the condition was not a reason for subsequent cancellation of the sale.) I passed - not because of the haunting - which only made me really curious - but because of structural issues I doubted I could afford to fix.
In Canada you do, I worked in real estate, if someone died in the house especially if someone was killed ❤
That house is haunted. I saw what you saw and I saw orbs as well.
If a client directly asks the realtor if they have heard that a house is haunted, do they have to answer ?
@lisafield6336 they don't have to answer but they can. If it was me I'd say I hear a lot of things about a lot of houses but I don't believe in that stuff
Oh hell no
I live in a murder house. No clue until after I bought it. I found out there was a fire here, the house was used to bootleg, and a guy living here was cutting down trees. One fell, and a branch pierced his eye. It he left it, they might have been able to save it. He panicked, though, and pulled it out, draining the ocular fluid.
So the tree murdered him?
@sheelfjohnson lol. That's under other incidents. There was a minimum security prison down the road. This is back in the 60s. A prisoner walked off at some point. Heidi in the shed in my yard. That night, he entered the house. I have no clue what exactly happened, but he killed her with a hammer. The neighbor found her.
The guy cutting trees only lost his eye.
If you don't know, you don't know. But if you know? It can come back on you.(Believing or not believing..it doesn't stop a haunt or not) I disclosed a suicide. In my opinion if it is fairly recent and you know? I have always disclosed. One house there were problems.Just because a crime or a suicide has occured does not mean it is haunted. You are correct 8 out of 10 times someone could have died in a house.
Floors look beautiful but sad you removed the special detail in the corners of the baseboards. Wish you had left them as they were historical details. Not sure I like what was done to the back wall in the room off the living room, made the closet bigger and put in bifold door's.
Remodeling sets off "activity". It calms down on its own after awhile.
Carpet is haunted 😂
Windows house on the left so nice
Looks like Loveland or Pueblo.
Massachusetts requires haunting be revealed.
Didn’t believe till I bought a house- it had a ghost.
Didn’t unpack- was going to move. Finally had some prayers, cleansing, etc. always played faith music. Most incidents went away- still had less major stuff happen from time to time.
Among other things, the freakiest noises.
Found out man who had lived there died in LR.
He was the neighborhood drug dealer.
Has a house ever been proven to be haunted
Murder Church could be made into an Escape Room . Apparently, folks pay to be locked in a room and find their way out.
As a rule of thumb, I assume someone has died in just about every house that has some age to it. In the house I grew up in, my grandmother and my father both died in the house ten years apart. Maybe others died before them. Who cares. As far as ghosts, I don’t believe in ghosts nor hauntings so I don’t care. If they do exist, they are more than welcome to share my space. HOWEVER, in Minnesota, if there is serious crime or murder that has occurred in the house, that must be disclosed. I would want to know if the house may have been owned or occupied by a drug dealer. I wouldn’t buy it because of the potential for problems with their rivals, customers or employees. I know of a beautiful place that nobody would buy because of that history. It may have sold by now, but was on the market for years with nary a bite. I think we all know it was the Watts house because I saw an article about the second sale. Popped up on my google feed.
Jeffery damer house in Milwaukee and apartment complex he lived in would it sell for more or less then market value same with oj Simpsons house
Dahmers dump smelled like burnt sausage.
Everything leaves an imprint of energy every where. Birth and death are energies that are part of life. Good and evil are part of life. Depending on our attitude and how much out of the box we can imagine, we can handle most things that come our way. However, I still think it's important if a terrific crime or horrendous death occurred in a home or its property, I CERTAINLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
I have a next door neighbor that is a real witch. Do I have to disclose that if I sell?
That can be a real big problem, move out and get away fast before you have an issue...
Na just a Karn.
I’m under contract to buy a 12 unit multifamily property that had a fire. In 2021 a 6 month pregnant woman was strangled to death in her bed and then the guy lit the bed on fire to try to hide the cause of death. A deal is a deal.
The house i bought, 2 people were shot in the master bedroom. They didnt disclose it. I found out from the neighbors . Only have to disclose if they died.
It's different in each state. In Colorado you would not have to disclose that
I believe Nebraskas laws require first sell after a death, you have to disclose.
Has far has im aware you have to disclose if there was a dead body in the house or if a murder was comitted you also have to disclose if the house was used has a grow op or drug lab .
not in colorado
I've experienced paranormal events.
Imagine selling the Amityville house. You could brush off the haunted part but those 6 bodies that were later there might do something to the purchase price. 😂
😏 I dont mention ghosts and presents i feel places. People over react when they would never know if i saif nothing. I had one job that everyone knew and one day I thought i saw a manager next to me. The person across from me saw the person and said something to him. 😂 We where the only ones to see him and people that had been around awhile told us they called him sam. He was just checking our work as he passed through.
It was totally my kind of house BEFORE it was remodeled…it lost it’s adorable character 😢
Please tell me you didn't modernize this house. Its so original downstairs, the bathroom sink, the hardwood floors, the pocket doors, the built-ins, front door. I hope you didnt change all that, omg the cpaw foot tub is gorgeous. And it will make the haunting much worse.
When you renovate old homes, the spirits do come out more cause they don't like the change.
Well very disappointed that the first house that we saw before renovations with the Pink living room and dining room,you didn't finish the tour of the home after renovations you cut to the weird so called church. We only got a distant glimpse of the down stairs bathroom off the kitchen and zero look at the second floor with the bedrooms and full bathroom that had the claw foot tub.
I wonder if the chris watts house had to declare the haunted closet? considering its written in police record That police had an incident in the closet area with body cam footage to match. Double whammy that one!
oh and when it got resold the price went up 30% you should have gotten it!
www.realtor.com/news/trends/colorado-house-where-chris-watts-killed-his-wife-for-sale/
The James Randi Foundation offered a $1 million reward for anyone with scientific evidence of the paranormal. Prize never claimed. 👓
My grandfather claimed ghost of former house owner. Don't believe but we joked that we inherited ghost and brought him home with us.
No such thing as haunted houses, so should be just fine
Why are ghosts always old-timey and dressed in Victorian-era clothes? Just once I'd like to hear of one hovering at the foot of someone's bed jawing on a cell phone.
haha, I have not seen it but I heard there is a funny show about ghosts with modern ones
Ghosts are not always old-timey and dressed in Victorian-era clothes. They come in all forms, and I have seen a few in my life time...
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James Randi Foundation $1 million prize to anyone with scientific evidence of paranormal. Still unclaimed.
The haunting phenomena is 100% real but what is not is if it is caused by the supernatural. I own a house I know is haunted. Like I said that doesn't mean it has to be caused by supernatural forces.
In Florida, you tell if haunted or murder occured
Is that the sally house.
Shane they ruined the charming original kitchen
I believe that some houses are haunted, but I don't think it's as rampant as some might make it out to be.
I wouldn't mind buying a house that someone died in, of natural causes, but if it's a m urder case, I would not want to buy the property.
There are people can take of it! Sorry it does happen!
Do You Have to Disclose Haunted Houses?
Get some counseling.
Did you watch the video?
Good luck
This house is so cute
This house is extremely haunted.
I have a ghost cat. ❤
Out of curiosity, how much of a discount were you talking as far as the Chris Watts house?
I do know the Chandler Halverson house in DeForest, Wisconsin was sold for 295k to a flipper who ended up selling it for $450
@@awsomo53 i don't remember. It was a few years ago. I tried to find the email or text and couldn't. I didn't want it at any price. Not just for resale but my onw mental health of being reminded about that over and over
I looked up the Watts house, it just sold for $650k after being reduced from a asking of $775k. Don't know what the comps in the area are.
Wow
Don't disclose the ones you committed?😆 I'm a sensitive-intuitive & ghosts/spirits/souls are real. They're our God-given essence.
No I would not buy 😒 it
But you sell it to other people 🙄
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Too much work to repaint not interested
Lots of drug addicts out there