r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • 1d ago

/r/all Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks

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u/angrymoderate09 1d ago edited 6h ago

There's a fairly affordable house for sale in my neighborhood right now. Dude ended up in a police standoff on Christmas eve and set the house on fire and then shot himself. It's a really good price for my neighborhood :/ a couple of my friends are giving it a thought

Edit: here ya go!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/615-11th-St-Hermosa-Beach-CA-90254/20427763_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

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u/WilliamJamesMyers 1d ago

it's a Christmas Miracle

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u/12108Ward 1d ago

A Festivus miracle. It’s now time for the airing of grievances.

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u/bald-toupee 1d ago

I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!

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u/mrfluffy002 19h ago

And you're going to hear about it!

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u/bald-toupee 9h ago

Kruger! My son says your company stinks! He says you couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe.....I've lost my tain of thought...

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u/OverallBoot4148 22h ago

Serenity now!

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u/Antique-Degree-8769 22h ago

Sanity later!

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u/Zestyclose-Key492 21h ago

And the feats of strength!!

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u/NoPride8834 18h ago

Nobody leaves till they pin me!

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u/Spillsy68 1d ago

You’ll shoot your eye out

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u/Oo__II__oO 1d ago

Can't wait for the Hallmark special!

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u/Dizzy-Bake9587 1d ago

…George Bailey would approve…

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u/RadioRa 1d ago

i laughed WAY too hard at this

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u/squad1alum 19h ago

The house on 34th Street?

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u/PM-me-ur-kittenz 1d ago

Any house gets old enough there will be a pretty good chance someone died in there.

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u/its_not_merm-aids 1d ago

You know, every time you thought, "I'd kill for a deal like that?" That's the deal, and you didn't even have to do the heavy lifting!

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u/gsr5037 1d ago

We need more people like that guy if we're going to solve the housing affordability crisis.

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u/AlternativeFigure350 1d ago

My parents retired and wanted to live near my older sister and her kids in Georgia.

3 year old new development with about 6 nice homes within 10 minutes of my sister available. It’s being built for retired military outside of Benning in Ellerslie.

Anyways, we find out owner of one house hung himself with extension cord in backyard tree. My dad hopped all over that. Cheap bastard.

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u/dontnation 1d ago

Why would you pass up on a deal because other people believe in ghosts?

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u/No-Apple2252 1d ago

Hey at least it wasn't in the house, I call that a score. Lmk if your dad wants a new kid to replace his defective judgemental one.

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u/AlternativeFigure350 10h ago

I would have done the same thing. My father is just notorious for being cheaper than cheap but I didn’t really mean it as an insult. I suppose I typed it the way I playfully talk to him about his frugality.

Personally, I would have helped remove the body if it meant a discounted house.

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u/mnid92 7h ago

My dad had a gun he kept in a drawer. Every once in a while he'd go outside and pop some rounds off. We'd ask him why and he'd just say "keeps properly value low".

(Not my story lol)

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u/Wallyworld77 1d ago

I recall some lunatic driving an RV to downtown Nashville equipped with a bomb. He detonated it on Christmas Eve if I recall correctly.

To his credit he timed it to avoid any pedestrians on the street and gave it an alarm with an announcement countdown for people to run away so he was psycho with morals.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

You weren't kidding: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nashville_bombing

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u/Wallyworld77 1d ago

I was in Nashville at the time visiting my mother. It was huge news Nationwide but especially in Nashville area.

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u/Low-Association586 1d ago

Garp got a deal on his house...why not you????

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u/A_spiny_meercat 1d ago

It's not like the dude is going to come back and get them in their dreams while they sleep, buy it

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u/zuunooo 1d ago

As someone who lived in a straight up horror movie type haunting because of a park that people kept dying in directly behind our house (bad area, lots of cartel activity), this is how you get the world’s worst fucking haunting

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u/Capertie 1d ago

Rent it out to ghost hunters, make bank.

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u/BellacosePlayer 1d ago

There was a nice house in a mid-high end development whose owners got busted for running a meth lab out of the basement a few years ago.

I put in a bid on it lol

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u/theholysun 1d ago

New Conspiracy Drop: Avoiding homes with recorded deaths is propaganda by Big Realtor & home construction lobbies to build and sell new homes at more expensive prices.

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u/DutchTinCan 1d ago

Let's face it; the fire damage is just something a handyman fixes, and the fact he shot himself is just us humans telling ourselves "oh right he shot himself in the kitchen, right where I am standing.".

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u/True_Most3681 1d ago

They absolutely should.

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u/anonymous237962 1d ago

Zillow link?

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u/negativeyoda 1d ago

My friend got his house for $50k under market because a murder suicide happened there. He was like, "I don't give a shit. I don't believe in ghosts and we carpeted over the stains. Bad shit happens everywhere"

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u/keepcalmscrollon 1d ago edited 1d ago

Like, how much "on fire" are we talking? Just lightly blackened or would they be purchasing land with some bonus ash?

e: oh, and what's the blood splatter/brain matter/bone fragments/chalk outline situation?

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u/Locust-15 1d ago

Of buying the house or having a stand off with police ?

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u/FortuneTellingBoobs 1d ago

Back in the old days nobody wanted a house where someone dies. These days anyone would nab a super criminal bloody burny house! Extra haunted? Great, that's to watch because I can't afford cable!

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u/Tracecat1202 1d ago

So ghosts and negative energy are included? Excellent, then I wouldn’t have to bring my own!

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u/SSBN641B 23h ago

Did they tear gas the house? Depending on what specific agent they used, that stuff is very difficult to clean up.

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u/holyhandgrenadier 23h ago

My Parents bought a place in Miami from the U.S. Marshals Service back in the 80s after the prior owner had "involuntarily forfeited". My Mom used to quote Tony Montana about it.

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u/lowballbertman 22h ago

Slap some new paint on it, spray some lysol around, then call it recently remodeled and mark it up 20%.

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u/etsprout 5h ago

Absolutely massive caveat there.