Old neighbour keeps warning us about our house

[JosephieLury42]

My husband and I just moved in this remodelled house last month with our toddlers. It’s a Victorian-inspired home that we got for a low price. We were so happy and excited to this new life waiting for us. But our joy is disturbed lately by the old lady living next door. She’s been saying that our house is cursed or haunted or something. She keeps telling me to burn sage or do some ritual thing to drive away bad spirits. I know Lima women can be a little traditional given the abuelita was like that but my husband and I don’t really believe in ghosts or the supernatural. Should I just take precaution and follow what the lady is saying? We haven’t felt anything peculiar yet. How do I tell the old lady to lay off from us?

[carhill]

Welcome to LS....

 

Check with the other neighbors about the neighbor in question. If they confirm she's a kook, smile, be friendly and ignore her other than neighborly concern about her being safe if living alone. If there's a consensus that strange things have happened at your house, then engage professional help as you see being appropriate.

 

The lady my best friend bought their beach house from swore it was possessed and she even called a room off the walk-in closets in the master bedroom 'the scream room' because she would hear screams in there. We needed the sheriff to get her out of the house after it sold. She wouldn't leave. Nuts. I've slept all over that house and been there plenty of times when they've been gone and most assuredly it is not possessed. Either that or I'm a worse devil than they are.

 

Hope you enjoy your new home. Victorians are a favorite of mine.

[mrs rubble]

A house I used to live in, others said exactly the same thing, that it was haunted. Like you I don't believe in ghosts. However there was a child killed in the driveway before we lived there. While we were living there my husband and I both got really sick with stomach problems (husband had cancer). Then we sold the place and it was rented out to tenants, one of whom dropped dead suddenly a week after moving in, a fit healthy 30yo.

All these things make me think....hmmmm could it be haunted? I don't know, we did get the house blessed while we were living there, in case that would help.

[Gaeta]

In some places we are obligated to report if someone was killed in our home or if some type of haunting activity is happening. If it's not disclosed the sale could be cancelled.

 

 

 

If you don't beleive in these phenomenons then sleep on your 2 ears and tell your lady neighbor you've got everything under control.

[carhill]

Yeah, with certain exceptions, California has a three year rule on disclosing deaths in a residential property. One exception would be death from AIDS. The OP didn't mention death but that's a good question to ask the neighbors. One or more would likely know.

[preraph]

If you yourself haven't noticed bad energy in the house, then it's not likely to bother you. But by saying something to you this neighbor has put the fear in you where you will be listening for every little thing, so she may be the root of any bad energy around there.

 

My house housed a family whose father killed the sister-in-law and then himself but not in the house. I had already noticed that something bad had occurred in the house because of evidence I noticed. Locks on the outside of the teen boys door, teenage girl who wouldn't come out of her room for me to see it before I bought the house. Once I got the house I saw that she had nailed herself into her room and that her father had broken in, shattering her door and window.

 

I'm somewhat sensitive to spirits, but my overwhelming feeling was I needed to make the house happy again. I did have a talk with anything that might have been remaining and laid some rules down and I haven't had any problems here. I have only sensed the original owner a harmless lady a couple of times by my bedside by smell but her presence is not frightening. She is just remembering. I've had no indication of the other family.

 

Again, this woman has put a suggestion and that is what will likely make you think something is going on there, but if you just stand back and take in the house and everything feels good and light and unencumbered to you, I would ignore the old bat. I would not let her come into the house doing anything. If you wish you can tell her that you've already cleansed the house.

 

And of course if it would make you feel better, you could have your priest come and do a blessing. I wouldn't go throwing rituals around that you're not comfortable with though and I wouldn't let that old lady do it because she is the first bad thing that happened to you there.

[preraph]

By the way, talking about disclosure rules, because these rules started being made, many places have dealt with them by simply saying that the person died at the hospital when it was at all possible like when an ambulance was called. Because it's always been a problem for people if someone dies in the house, but someone has died almost everywhere whether it was within your walls or on the land before it.

[preraph]

It's entirely possible the old lady is simply trying to get you to hire her to cleanse the House too.

[d0nnivain]

Thank her for her concern. Burn a sage leaf. Tell her you did & that you are all fine.

 

Now ignore her & enjoy your new house.

[William]

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