escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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Of course. I designed it and had the prototype built in Crewe Works.

Of course. I designed it and had the prototype built in Crewe Works.
I can't wear watches. People often assume it's due to my own personal magnetism making the watch malfunction (at least, I like to think that's what they often assume).I've known men who swore they couldn't wear a watch because it would always go wrong due to some farfetched circumstance.
It was often their suffering an electric shock as a youth which made their body all charged or summat.
As I'd laugh in their faces the subject only ever came up the once.
This was in the days of mechanical watches. My guess was that as they'd stop if you forgot to wind them, and you'd then need to consult another timepiece to set them by, a less organised person might find it all too much trouble. Especially if Mum or Wifey were on hand to help with all that confusing stuff.
My watch and alarm clock were wound at 9pm every day. I wasn't getting caught out.![]()
A sweat-band over your watch for protection, was de rigueur amongst some of the hip kids in the 80s.I can't wear watches. People often assume it's due to my own personal magnetism making the watch malfunction (at least, I like to think that's what they often assume).
It's actually because I talk with my hands so vigorously that I'm always smacking my hands and wrists off desks, doors, walls, radiators etc. I've broken every watch I've ever worn.
Does anyone else feel the same?
I wouldn't feel comfortable living in a house where a multiple murder had happened, no. Haunted? yes but real big crime scene level stuff, no. I'm amazed someone's comfortable living in Dennis Nielson's old flat, no matter how many renovations it's had. Imagine if you had a problem with the plumbing there and had to call someone out.Not a haunted house but a murder house?
Someone I know has just sold a house that was in her family that had an awful murder in the 1960’s
A woman and her 3 children had moved in to her mother’s house to escape domestic abuse. One evening the father who had tracked them down came to the house, beat her, the 3 children and her mother to death with a hammer then killed himself. All members of the family were found all over the house, upstairs and down.
Another member of the family found them all the following morning when he called there for a cuppa. It was a terrible event and the house lay empty for a year or two before being offered by the council to my friends parents. They snapped it up as houses were difficult to come by. My friend grew up in the house and said none of them were ever bothered by the house’s history - it was a happy home.
Her parents passed away and she’s sold the house recently. It’s been such a long time since the events that I don’t think the new buyers needed to be told and I often wonder how I’d feel if after buying it I’d have found out.
I could never have bought the place, regardless of the passing of time I’d always be thinking of the events, especially in the small hours.
Does anyone else feel the same?
Where was that?.I once went to a place known for its tragic history.
But it felt a happy place.
Yup, it's a murder house. Someone I knew decided against buying a very nice house when she found out a woman had been shot dead by her husband in the master bedroom.For once in my life, I wouldn't be frightened of the ghosts in that house; I'd be far too angry at the murderer for that.
Suicide or murder, I don't know if I could live in a house with this type of background. Though it would have to be very recent history.Not a haunted house but a murder house?
Annoying if you're in the bath though.Wouldn't bother me at all, not one bit. I'd charge the gawkers 50p to peep inside.![]()
That's extra.Annoying if you're in the bath though.
Have to agree, I would definitely purchase the Amityville house. Also the Lizzie Borden murder house in Fall River, Massachusetts. But only for psychic investigators to tour and give their impressions. Right now we are temporarily residing in a home where several have passed on, and can't say we are comfortable here at all, it is strangely not a happy house.If I had Elon Musk levels of money, I'd buy as many as possible. The Amityville house being No 1 on my list, that house from The Conjuring, the black monk house in Pontefract, the Enfield poltergeist house .. I don't know what I'd do with them all once I owned them though. I'd buy The Golden Fleece pub in York and convert it back to a private residence for myself which would probably anger locals.
...Plumber sucks teeth a bit, then whistles...'Got quite a bit of a blockage there...its gonna cost you'...I wouldn't feel comfortable living in a house where a multiple murder had happened, no. Haunted? yes but real big crime scene level stuff, no. I'm amazed someone's comfortable living in Dennis Nielson's old flat, no matter how many renovations it's had. Imagine if you had a problem with the plumbing there and had to call someone out.
Wouldn't bother me at all, not one bit.
I think maybe that’s just tied up with the human lifespan perhaps. If we are living within the timespan of when a murder occurred, it can seem personal. If it occurred before we were born then it’s more ‘historical; and more distant.It's interesting that people would buy a house where a murder/suicide/nasty death had occurred say 100 years ago, but not if it had happened in the last ten year
My house has changed address - and I don't know what from! This has caused me huge problems when trying to look into its history. The first censuses (censi? censusi?) that I can access just have my village noted as 'Main Street' and then numbers, but because I don't know whereabouts they started counting (none of the houses have numbers now, they all have names or, like mine, a number but the name of the cottage row) I can't work out which is mine. The row was also known as Church Terrace for a while but I haven't seen that listed on any of the censuses either. So until 1972, when the entire row was bought up by a builder and given bathrooms and put on the mains, there is nothing to find! I would love to know who used to live here and who died here too (the cottage is around 200 years old, so I'm pretty sure there's a body count to this address).I can't remember now what it's called but there was (still is?) a website you can pay to register on and it will tell you if anyone's ever died in your UK house. I'll see if I can re find it. I can't find the website right now but we've got a framed Census of England and Wales 1911 copy on our downstairs bathroom wall that lists a James and Elric North, a married couple who lived in my house in 1911. James was 24, Elric was 22. James's occupation is listed as 'Restaurant Por Conquater' (or Condelator whatever that means) and he was from Middlesbrough. Elric's listed being from Norfolk. Ironic because in 2025, I'm from Birmingham and my Mrs is from Norfolk and is still in the restaurant trade. As far as we know, they haven't haunted us.
It's too bad there wasn't a landmark that was existent that could have been used to make a gestimate.My house has changed address - and I don't know what from! This has caused me huge problems when trying to look into its history. The first censuses (censi? censusi?) that I can access just have my village noted as 'Main Street' and then numbers, but because I don't know whereabouts they started counting (none of the houses have numbers now, they all have names or, like mine, a number but the name of the cottage row) I can't work out which is mine. The row was also known as Church Terrace for a while but I haven't seen that listed on any of the censuses either. So until 1972, when the entire row was bought up by a builder and given bathrooms and put on the mains, there is nothing to find! I would love to know who used to live here and who died here too (the cottage is around 200 years old, so I'm pretty sure there's a body count to this address).