Do you know any history behind your house?

[Surpheal]

Not much to say really, house was built about 13 years back. My family is the only one to have lived in it since then.

However there is more clay under the ground around here than a pottery supply store. Anywhere that you may think to put a shovel in the ground and dig a hole, the first thing that you will hit after the grass is clay.

 

[hatseflats]

Apparently a Jewish artist live in the house I currently live in. She was German, probably fled from the Nazis (I live in the Netherlands) but was arrested and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 at age 46. Not a very comforting story.

 

[imnot]

Uh... The previous owner hit her cat with a broom and gave it to us when we bought it?
Thats about it.

 

[Chalacachaca]

I live in an apartment, all I know is that it was built in the 80's.

 

[Quaxar]

Well, I know that at least five Jews used to live here until deportation in... 1940?
I'm not sure right now but I can look it up. There's a commemorative badge embedded in the sidewalk in front of the house due to some art project about six years ago that fitted these things to every house in the district where Jews were captured by the Nazi.

I still have the wooden beams on my ceiling from where they apparently hung the meat.

...or the bodies.
Dum dum duuuum!

 

[Darren716]

My house's history is that my land lady's father built it and she lived here her entire life until she met her husband and they built an house right next door.

 

[Chemical Alia]

My house was built by my great grandfather, who was a brick mason, in the early 1920s. My grandfather and his twin brother grew up there, as did my mom and me and my sister.

My grandfather died in the room that is now my dad's office in 1972, and I think some other relative died in my bedroom at some point, don't remember who.

My dad's a carpenter and he put on an addition in the late 70s, and all of the rooms have gone through some big renovations over the years, including being converted into an upstairs and downstairs apartment and back to a single home.

I don't live there anymore, but my parents do. I'd love to own it and live there again someday, but right now I'm halfway across the country and don't see that changing anytime soon v:

 

[TerribleAssassin]

It was previously owned by a drug dealer, yeah, my area of town is looking good.

 

[Pick|Choose]

I do not know anything about the former occupants of the house I currently live in. But, my parents are in the process of moving into a house in Poland, which supposedly was previously owned by a Nazi.

Of all the houses I lived in though, the house of my childhood probably has the most interesting history. I don't know much about it either, but it has a bomb shelter, and there's plenty of used bullets buried in the ground beneath the garden (I used to find them when I was small ;P).

 

[Broady Brio]

Well, my family is the first ones to live here. So I literally have NOTHING to share.

 

[Esotera]

A guy ran over an electric lawnmower cord in our garden and died, which is actually used in the local school as an example of why people need to be careful of electricity. Then 20 years later an electrician also died from doing something with the wiring, leaving everyone to believe my house is haunted...

;_; it's been twenty years since the electrician died, I'm definitely next.

 

[karloss01]

House is at least 50+ years old and has had four previous families in it, all of which have prematurely died (both accidents and sudden illnesses). And it is believed that it is haunted.

When I was younger an old man would stand by my door and watch me as I tried to sleep, I now always have my back to the door. Every so often there would be a thudding on a wall that has no pipes or wiring running through it.

And once my dad had gone to the kitchen for a beer to see a woman standing at the top of our staircase, he said to her something along the lines of ?I don?t know what we have done to disturb you but we?re sorry.? And she vanished and hasn?t been seen since.

 

[WaysideMaze]

Mine is the only house on the street with internal brick walls, and not plasterboard, because the guy in charge of building the houses on this street built this one for himself.

 

[DanielBrown]

Considering that the apartment building I live in is only a few years old, and I'm the first one to live here, I know a bit.
There used to be a gas station here. Believe there was a hostage situation in it, where the hostage got killed in it, but I'm not too sure. Anyways, the gas station closed and they had to sanitize the ground since it was all messed up. Took a few years before they could start building and when they were almost done we got to move in.
I used to live 200 meters up the road before, so the change in envieroment is extreme!

Also, the tree outside my window is the only one in the entire area that looks crooked and dying. The grass never gets green either.
I think my presence poisons the land.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

The place I live now is built on the site of the old town midwifery building, so loads of people were born there, including most of my aunts and uncles, and it's also next to a cemetery - maybe they were going for a one in, one out kind of deal?

It's a lovely house though. The neighbours are quiet as the grave (bu-dum tish!)

 

[Rednog]

Old Indian burial ground that was defiled, used by a crazy witch to preform demonic practices, site of 4 grizzly murders, the last 3 owners all died horrible deaths....nothing really special pretty much like every other house.

 

[neoontime]

Had it built last may by I guess Mexicans. That's basically it really from the house and the contractors who built it.

 

[Queen Michael]

I know it all, because I lived in it while it wasn't a house yet and only a construction site.

Funny story, that.