In an age when people can buy a $100 million apartment in Manhattan and $25,000 houseboats on the Ohio River, there might as well be a service to find houses where people have been murdered, or committed suicide, no matter how morbid

DiedinHouse.com is a service for buyers who want to look at homes where someone has been murdered or a suicide has happened. It is presumably a small market, so likely DiedinHouse.com. It has gotten a great deal of media coverage, mostly likely because of people’s interest in the morbid, more than buying possibly haunted houses.

For those who are fascinated by ghosts, the service claims it has a utility to find them:

DiedinHouse.com is the first of its kind, web-based service that helps you find out if anyone has died at an address before you decide to buy or rent the property. The site is also used by paranormal investigators, ghost hunters and those who believe they are experiencing paranormal activity.

The site owners presume that sex offenders should be added to the list of:

Each DiedinHouse.com Report Includes Past Fire Related Incidents, Reported Meth Lab Activity, Records of Death Occurrences and a List of Names Associated to the Address!

And, the sex offender service is in the works.

Not surprisingly, the “Amityville Horror” house which is for sale in Amityville, NY, and was the location of a famous horror movie is the poster child for DiedinHouse.com. In reality, it is a bad example for the site’s value, since the deaths there were only fake.

On the other side of the morbid interest coin, there are those who believe property values can be cut by homes in which people have been murdered. It is something which should be discovered by a normal home inspection. However, the existence of DiedinHouse.com may be a sign that is not true

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