• kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    According to TheMovieDB there are at least 86 movies with “Amityville” in the title. This trope gets more mileage than you expect.

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    9 months ago

    Does that mean the rent is reduced? I’ll move in tomorrow! Bring in extra ghosts if it will save money!

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    9 months ago

    I mean, since the paranormal doesn’t exist unless the people in the house died due to some kind of environmental factor then the number of people who died there is completely irrelevant to the new residents, and does not in any way increase their likelihood of harm.

    Really it just lowers the rent or mortgage, an objective win for the new residents.

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      8 months ago

      I dunno, at 22 deaths of the entire families, the supernatural doesnt exist, but SOMETHING in that house is causing deaths

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        8 months ago

        Could have been rival gangs killing each other in the house for all we know.

        But I think anything of substance or concern would fall comfortably under the “environmental factors” I already made caveat for in my original comment

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          8 months ago

          Damn, I COMPLETELY overlooked the environmental caveat in your response on first read, my bad, that was essentially my point xD

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        9 months ago

        I’d also wire up all kinds of paranormal special effects shit to fuck with the people staying there.

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          8 months ago

          Who needs special effects? Just use the classic trick of carbon monoxide pumped into the house and let them hallucinate all kinds of stuff for free.

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      9 months ago

      It’s amazing how common this is. One of my old employers got a great discount on rent for office space in a central location because no one wanted to rent on the 13th floor.

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        9 months ago

        I wonder if non-Christian people do not mind living in 13th floors. That superstition of number 13 being unlucky is mostly believed by Christians.

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          9 months ago

          In Vancouver the buildings don’t have 4th, 13th, 14th, or 24th floors. So it goes from 12th floor to 15th floor.

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          13 being unlucky is mostly believed by Christians.

          More like westerns, the superstition started out in Mesopotamia.

          I wonder if non-Christian people do not mind living in 13th floors.

          Yes, but then they avoid “their” unlucky numbers. Like 4 in Japan.

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          9 months ago

          Weirdly, the boss was very Christian. I guess he valued money over his beliefs, and the superstitions of others?

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    9 months ago

    I couldn’t get into Hellraiser for this reason. Forget the demons or whatever they were, I was scared of that dirty dirty house. They didn’t even clean it before they moved in!

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    9 months ago

    I live in Europe in a building that is almost 100 years old. I’m sure at least 22 people have died in it over the years.

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    I live in a house with parts built in it from 1100. The down stairs used to be a stopping off point for knights on their way to the crusades. If people haven’t died in this place i would be really surprised.

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      8 months ago

      That is so so so coooooool. My place is a century old so its history is as exciting as beige bath towels.

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      My much more recent building from 1860 has certainly had a number of people die in it. It’s part of the natural history of any habitat imo.

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            I’m curious on the stats. I don’t doubt the likelyhood of home v. Hospital but just the mentality being a modern shift of the hospital is where you go when you’re sick. Especially rurally it was less common (doctors did more home visits).

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              The hospital will discharge you, they avoid keeping beds warm for those that will soon be dead. So unless they think your going to be back very soon, they will send you with a discharge plan to go die at home when at all possible.

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        8 months ago

        Can you imagine how low the sale price is with that many deaths? Those ghosts are probably more reasonable than buying a home these days

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    8 months ago

    Manner of death is important.

    Murder? Statistically its safer than any other house.

    Asbestosis? Run.