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I also agree that the wife needs some serious psyhiatric help. While asking if a home has been the scene of a death in itself is not disturbing, this level she is taking it to certainly is.

Being an investor in an older historic area (Savannah), I come across what we call death houses all of the time. I've spent many countless hours in some of these houses - some of which have had dead people in them for many days or weeks. Not once have I fallen victim to any ghosts.

When I sell a house, I will disclose to the potential buyer that a death has occured in the home. I usually find that I don't have to disclose this death as it is usually public record. As this man and his wife has found, all you have to do is ask to see the incident report. I suggest any buyer utilize every available resource when purchasing a home - even calling the police to do a search on the address.

As far as the poster's children coming into contact with any biological matter, I can assure you this was cleaned up. Whenever a violent death occurs in a home, you can bet the medical examiner, funeral home, police, etc. will be contacting a disaster cleanup company. These companies have employees that are so well trained, they can completely clean a home in about two hours and you'd never be able to tell anything happened there.

For example, I recently purchased a home from an elderly woman's estate. No one had heard from this lady in months and the utilities had been shut off. After about five months when summer hit and the neighbors really noticed the smell, they called the police. This poor old lady had been on the living room floor in the hot Georgia heat for five months. You can imagine what she smelled and looked like.

Three months later when I bought the house from the old lady's estate, the smell was very much still there with a nasty stain on the living room carpet. A few coats of paint on the inside of the home and the services of a disaster clean up company, you can't even tell anything ever happened there. When I sold the house it smelled brand new.