I was thinking of the case of this poor renovator:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/07/25/renovator_uncovers_mummified_infant.html
He was renovating a house, when he found a mummified baby stuffed into a wall.
A tragedy, but an old one: baby dates from the 1920s. I was thinking this would have a ... problematic impact on the sale price of the house, as a certain number of buyers would not want to buy a house with a hidden creepy secret if the story was widely known.
What says Languish? Would you care? If so, why?
No, but I would pretend that I care a lot when negotiating with the current owner. :menace:
I would worry if the corpse might have effected the structural integrity - causing mold or rot or something.
But the mere fact a baby died there almost 100 years? If you're buying an old home like that you have to expect that at some time bad stuff probably happened in that house.
Nah, wouldn't care (as long as it's cleaned up and all that, of course). But, like DGuller up there, I'd act like it when negotiating. Dead babies in the walls means some bucks off for sure.
Quote from: Barrister on June 09, 2016, 12:54:32 PM
I would worry if the corpse might have effected the structural integrity - causing mold or rot or something.
But the mere fact a baby died there almost 100 years? If you're buying an old home like that you have to expect that at some time bad stuff probably happened in that house.
To be fair, I don't think it is the fact that a baby died that most would find problematic, but that its corpse was stuffed into a wall. That (a) strongly implies that the baby's death was somehow illicit, and (b) it is creepy to think of its little corpse stuffed in the wall all those years.
My own response is a bit of a variant on DG's - I would not care, but others might, which could affect the resale price - hence, I would want a discount. :)
Alright, we now have establish that we are all willing to try to make money off the misfortunes of others, like any other asshole.
Quote from: Malthus on June 09, 2016, 12:59:03 PM
My own response is a bit of a variant on DG's - I would not care, but others might, which could affect the resale price - hence, I would want a discount. :)
:hmm: That's actually a better angle.
Do you get to keep the corpse?
Quote from: derspiess on June 09, 2016, 01:06:34 PM
Do you get to keep the corpse?
This house includes many extras like a refrigerator, washer/dryer, and mummified corpse!
Quote from: derspiess on June 09, 2016, 01:06:34 PM
Do you get to keep the corpse?
Mummified babies are, arguably, not a "fixture". :hmm:
Quote from: Malthus on June 09, 2016, 12:59:03 PM
My own response is a bit of a variant on DG's - I would not care, but others might, which could affect the resale price - hence, I would want a discount. :)
I dunno...I think the number of people that would want a discount would be exceeded by the number of freaks that would pay a premium because it would be cool.
That said, my residual Catholicism makes me superstitious enough not to want to live there; not because of finding a corpse, but I really don't need Casper the Friendly Ghost watching me masturbate.
Quote from: Malthus on June 09, 2016, 12:45:23 PM
I was thinking of the case of this poor renovator:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/07/25/renovator_uncovers_mummified_infant.html
He was renovating a house, when he found a mummified baby stuffed into a wall.
A tragedy, but an old one: baby dates from the 1920s. I was thinking this would have a ... problematic impact on the sale price of the house, as a certain number of buyers would not want to buy a house with a hidden creepy secret if the story was widely known.
What says Languish? Would you care? If so, why?
If the price goes down, yes, I would buy it.
Why would I buy a house with a hidden corpse?
I personally don't care. But the problem is that it is safe to assume that most Chinese care very much. I'll have real problem trying to sell it.
It would probably creep me out a bit.
Quote from: Monoriu on June 09, 2016, 05:33:34 PM
I personally don't care. But the problem is that it is safe to assume that most Chinese care very much. I'll have real problem trying to sell it.
That reminds me of an anecdote from one of the very early settlers of the Pacific Northwest. It was that the local Native American tribes had the custom of having to abandon any home/dwelling in which a person had died. Understandable perhaps, but I kept thinking that kind of taboo has to be a huge stunt on overall development for a primitive culture that relies heavily on a very basic, subsistence survival.
And, of course, the introduction of smallpox, and resulting mass deaths, made such a taboo absolutely devastating. And, in fact, Lewis and Clark's journals reference quite a fair number of abandoned villages/settlements along the Columbia River.
The Indians of the Pacific Northwest were hardly living a subsistence life. They lived a life of extravagant abundance.
Chinese won't abandon these places though. They still buy them, just at a big discount. Actually it is not a bad way to get your own place (relatively) cheaply, if you don't mind the fact that somebody was murdered in the place 2 years ago with her body dismembered in creative ways.
It sounds like a sitcom. Wasn't there a show where there was a dead kid in the wall but his ghost was friendly?
Nope, if a corpse was found there, it means that house isn't as good a hiding place as I tought. :ph34r:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 09, 2016, 10:46:46 PM
Nope, if a corpse was found there, it means that house isn't as good a hiding place as I tought. :ph34r:
Hey, it stayed hidden since the 1920s. That's a pretty good run. :D
Hey Malthus is the guy with the ancient antique house. Who knows what horrible things lurk below.
Quote from: Valmy on June 10, 2016, 08:45:10 AM
Hey Malthus is the guy with the ancient antique house. Who knows what horrible thinks lurk below.
Only in North America would a house built in the 1930s be "ancient". :lol:
Quote from: Malthus on June 10, 2016, 08:58:11 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 10, 2016, 08:45:10 AM
Hey Malthus is the guy with the ancient antique house. Who knows what horrible thinks lurk below.
Only in North America would a house built in the 1930s be "ancient". :lol:
:P
A adult corpse no.
A baby corpse.... depends on the discount.
Quote from: Tyr on June 10, 2016, 09:54:14 AM
A adult corpse no.
A baby corpse.... depends on the discount.
Why would the adult/baby distinction make any difference?
So long as they're a) no longer there or b) no longer smell, sure.
Yes
Quote from: Malthus on June 10, 2016, 10:21:11 AM
Quote from: Tyr on June 10, 2016, 09:54:14 AM
A adult corpse no.
A baby corpse.... depends on the discount.
Why would the adult/baby distinction make any difference?
Simple ghost logic.
Baby ghosts can't write things backward in the mirror.
Quote from: Razgovory on June 11, 2016, 03:17:31 PM
Baby ghosts can't write things backward in the mirror.
Ghosts are formed when bitter people can't move on from this life to the next. Baby minds aren't complex enough to be that bitter.
How the fuck do you know? You ever been a dead baby? How the fuck do you know they're not bitter?
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Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2016, 07:15:16 PM
How the fuck do you know? You ever been a dead baby? How the fuck do you know they're not bitter?
I snorted my diet coke out my nose. Ass.
:lol:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2016, 07:15:16 PM
How the fuck do you know? You ever been a dead baby? How the fuck do you know they're not bitter?
Simple, Tim's a ghost-writer.
For what, I have no bloody idea.
Quote from: Brazen on June 10, 2016, 10:55:05 AM
So long as they're a) no longer there or b) no longer smell, sure.
If the body went undiscovered since the 1920s, I doubt there was much of a smell to worry about.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2016, 07:15:16 PM
How the fuck do you know? You ever been a dead baby? How the fuck do you know they're not bitter?
:D
:lol:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 11, 2016, 07:11:37 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 11, 2016, 03:17:31 PM
Baby ghosts can't write things backward in the mirror.
Ghosts are formed when bitter people can't move on from this life to the next. Baby minds aren't complex enough to be that bitter.
I'd hate to face a tantrum from beyond the grave. :D
This is probably the worst thread i have ever seen here in languish.