All houses, the older ones, especially, probably have at least one nasty story in their history. If I knew about a particularly nasty incident, such as a brutal murder or suicide, before deciding on buying the home, I probably wouldn't go through with living there. Especially if it was a suicide, because it holds personal resonance with me, and I wouldn't be able to live there knowing someone had done that, especially if I knew the whole story. There'd be too much weirdness, given my own history with the subject. If I'd already bought the home before finding out, I'd have some serious thinking to do. I guess it would depend on the details of the house. Sometimes a place can feel so comfortable even a gruesome story doesn't faze you, but sometimes the place itself, with nothing extra to scare you, feels wrong. Buildings have their own personalities, with or without knowing their history.
Dead bodies in general aren't that odd. My parents' house is very old, old enough to predate funeral homes, meaning that wakes and viewings were held in what would have been the parlour at that time, so the bodies of dead family members were probably frequently displayed in the house. That never really bothered me, although other kids in my community used to think my house was haunted because it was so old and big and silent, one of those houses that creaks at night for no reason. I have to admit that even during my college years I was sometimes scared to be awake late at night. There's just something too eerie about a house with so much space and so much silence in the hours of the morning when everyone else on your side of the planet is asleep. Poetic, but creepy.
