Taking things seriously ... you know, I will confess that when my husband and I bought our first house, I made our realtor do some due diligence about whether anyone had committed suicide in the house, or anything of the sort. She thought I was nuts for asking about it — but I had lived one summer in an apartment which I finally decided was haunted (and still think so, actually) and it was a very unpleasant experience! There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio....
(grin!) you’re right about that!
A good friend of mine bought a house in a really nice neighborhood in Auckland about ten years ago. Lived there for a couple weeks and found that he had trouble sleeping. Found out shortly thereafter that one of New Zealand’s most famous Tommy-gun murders had happened IN THAT VERY HOUSE half a century previously.
Later searches found dings in the walls and floorboards where the .45 cal machine gun bullets had made holes and dents and had been filled in.
He and his wife still live there.