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"They have a sensation that this place is really creepy and I don't want to be here," he said. "We all have that radar. Mine is just more finely tuned."

The house where 6-year-old pageant queen Jon Benet Ramsey was found strangled to death in 1996 is now on sale for $2.3 million, according to press reports. Her murderer was never found.

His latest movie, "Lost Soul," is set in another realm, and Vescio, 41, said he is not so sure ghosts don't exist.

"If you see someone full of energy then they die and it's all gone. Where did that energy go?" he said. "That's the question we've been asking for centuries."

The intruder walked down the street and left the bloodied knife in a trash can. He later confessed to the crime after being questioned in a domestic violence case, according to Weinrich.

Their pregnant daughter was also attacked and required 200 stitches, but both mother and baby survived. Police later determined it was a political assassination.

Most people get the spooks from a house with a violent history, even if they don't believe in ghosts.

"Sometimes two dogs would unexpectedly bark and their ears would go up," he said. "But they never acknowledged any paranormal activity in the house.

Vescio said he would never even consider buying a home where a murder had taken place.

John Weinrich's parents fell in love with a stunning,ティンバーランド黒, one-of-a-kind 19th century home in affluent Wyncote, Pa., but never knew it had a grisly past until the real estate deal was close to settlement.

He said his parents weren't "really concerned" about the house's dark past, though they bought two guard dogs and a security system before moving in. They also brought in the Catholic priest who married them to "bless" the house -- inside and out.

Such superstitions are common, even among the secular.

The house sat unsold for a year.

"There are old superstitions and magical thinking and also illusory association," said Frank Farley, a Philadelphia psychologist who lives in the Wyncote neighborhood. "If a murder occurred in a place, it could occur again. They think, 'I don't want to risk the horror.'

"My parents moved to Cocoa Beach, Fla.,moncler jacket women, six years ago and there was an old guy who died in the house,ugg ブーツ販売," he said. "It freaks the crap out of me."

Most people know when they are in a space that is haunted by the paranormal, Farkus said.

Today, the house of horrors where serial killer Anthony Sowell murdered 11 women and buried them in his backyard, has been condemned by Cleveland's building and housing department, according to the Plain Dealer.

"In all honesty, a lot of people who are creeped out by this stuff buy it," said co-owner Jessika Gein of Jacksonville, Fla. "It's a weird thing to show off to their friends, and guests come over and look at it."

"My grandmother was religious and worked in a rectory down the shore," he said. "She left crosses and religious artifacts around the house. We had a priest come and bless the entire house -- inside out, from room to room."

"No one has ever raised the issue," he said.

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"The guy snuck in the back window on the Islamic holy day and ate cherries and spit them out as he waited,コーチ財布メンズ," said Weinrich, now 48. "Around midnight, he went after the wife and basically decapitated her with a Bowie knife."

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"Frequently, people will buy a house and they don't know violence occurred, but something feels really wrong," he said. 'I will tune into that. ... To me, demons are parasites that feed on human negative emotions."

"He got [Al-Faruqi] against the door and stabbed him 20 times," said Weinrich. "His last words were, 'Enough is enough,' and then he collapsed."

"We looked at it as a tremendous opportunity and we got it reasonably priced -- $239,000," he said of the eight-bedroom, five bath home. "The character and craftsmanship was irreplaceable."

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Real estate agents refer to such houses as "stigmatized properties" -- any place where a murder,ムートンブーツ ugg, suicide or sex crime has taken place.

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Weinrich said he would gladly tell a buyer the history of the home if they ask. But by law, he is only required to disclose that he is related to the seller,ugg サンダル, among other things such as details of structural issues.

But that hasn't stopped Internet hawkers from selling the soil from the home's grounds.

The home had been the richest in the area when it was built along with a massive three-story house and a carriage house for servants in the 1860s by a family that produced ocean liners.

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"[Lamya] was murdered in the office on the first floor," he said. "He came out of the bedroom and got ahold of the daughter. She had run down to help her mother. He slashed her up, but she acted like she was dead and protected her unborn child."

The writer Ezra Pound lived four houses over and the Stetsons [of hat fame] lived around the corner.

"They raised five boys and had many large family social events there, such as showers, pre- and post-wedding parties of 200-plus people, christenings of the grandchildren,asics men, big Christmas and Thanksgiving celebrations," he said. "With eight bedrooms, there was always enough room."

Today, Weinrich, who runs his own real estate company, is charged with selling the property that saw so much violence.

"People don't want to believe it's a problem, but a lot of people have dramatic encounters with ghosts," he said. Farkus charges by the square foot, with fees that start at about $200 for 2,000 square feet.

"People die have died through humanity and the ages in all different places," said Weinrich.

"We live in a sick world," said her husband, Eric Gein. "It's true that there is a fascination with dark history."

The Boulder,モンクレール販売店, Colo., home has sat empty since it was sold in 2008 by Tim Milner and his wife, Carol Schuller Milner, the daughter of televangelist Robert H. Schuller.

Surprisingly, realtors in Pennsylvania, as in other states including Vermont, are not required to disclose a home's violent history.

After the murders, when police investigators did a reenactment of the crime scene, Weinrich was there.

Dave Vescio, an actor who stars in horror movies, said he knows the feeling.

His elderly parents just found the expansive Wyncote home too big for their needs and decided to sell it after 24 contented years.

"The house has a lot of nautical themes," he said. "The doorknobs are from a boat. ... The ceilings, even on the third floor, are 10 feet tall."

But Weinrich dismisses those superstitions about ghosts haunting his family's Pennsylvania home.

He hopes buyers will look beyond the bloody crime to see its Gilded Age charm and grab it at a good price in a bad economy -- $589,000.

The townhouse in Los Angeles where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered in 1994 had so much bad karma, its address was changed from 875 to 879 South Bundy Drive. When O.J. Simpson sold his $5 million Tudor mansion in 1998, the new owner bulldozed the home and all the buildings on its property.

Just a year earlier, in 1986, Isma'il Raji Al-Faruqi, a distinguished Palestinian-American and Islamic professor at Temple University, and his wife, Lois Lamya, were slashed to death in their 323 Bent St. home by a religious fanatic.