Writer's Block: Available: 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with hot and cold running chills

[erastes]

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Wouldn't bother me--live in a country which is loaded down with history and most houses that I'd consider the house of my dreams would have had some kind of brutal murder happen in them. If ghosts could really come back, we'd be knee deep in them over here.

on a slighly related note--did you know that there have been more assassinations in assassin's creed brotherhood online than there have ever been people alive?  slightly mind boggling. I have contributed a big fat zero to this, i have to say, although as a death statistic more times than i can mention....

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haunted by absence of ghosts

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

Lol, Erastes. Too true that Britain seems to be swarming with ghosts. When I lived in Surrey with my family 1973-74, we rented one-third of a huge house, Limnerslease, that was built for a popular Victorian painter, George Frederick Watts. My bedroom was the little third-floor sitting room with fireplace where he used to go to warm up and look at his huge canvasses through a window to his two-story studio. I always hoped to see the ghostly figure of GFW so I could say I had made contact, but no such thing. The problem, IMO, is that he died wealthy, successful & reasonably content. (His marriage to much-younger actress Ellen Terry was not a success, but they both remarried.) Common wisdom is that ghosts are troubled souls with unfinished business. So apparently not every square inch of the UK is haunted, despite numerous legends. (There is prob. a ghost called the White Lady in every village, if not every house). Different dwelling-places have different vibes or atmosphere, & I suspect a murder would have some influence.

[oceankitty1.livejournal.com]

Rent free? I wish I had such luck. Ghost or no ghost. My neighbor's house is one such. A few years ago the man building the house killed his wife and himself with a shotgun. It was a bloody affair, leaving two large holes in the wall of the bedroom. It took some time before the house was sold, but it went for market price.....(My neigbor is not complaining of cold spots but his kids are happy to tell ghost stories to their friends.)

[beckyblack]

I'd say yes. First, I don't believe in ghosts and second, if there was already one brutal murder there, what are the odds of another one happening in the same place? (in real life I mean, not TV, where this would guarantee there'd be another one!) It's the same theory as feeling safer when flying right after there's been a plane crash - because what are odds of another one happening so soon? Makes no actual sense I know.

[tim crowhurst (from livejournal.com)]

If ghosts could really come back, we'd be knee deep in them over here.

England has more ghosts per square mile than anywhere else on the planet. My grandparents lived in a village where the ghost of a riderless white horse used to canter through on a semi-regular basis. When my aunt's grey pony got loose from his field one night he cantered through the village to my grandparents' home, scaring many an older villager on the way!