My mother felt uneasy about a flat we viewed and was firm that she did not want it. I later found reports of two deaths by suicide in that same flat, years apart. How would you make sense of that connection?
Would that make you rethink the flat too?
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A strong gut feeling can come from small things you notice without consciously putting them together, like the way a place sounds or feels. That could explain why someone feels uneasy, but it doesn’t show that they sensed the flat’s history.
Finding out about the deaths afterward would make the experience feel striking. I’d still separate the feeling itself from any claim about what caused it.
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I’d want to know how reliable and specific the information was before drawing much from it. Even if the history checks out, the deaths don’t by themselves tell us there was anything unusual about the flat or that your mother somehow detected them.
But she didn’t need a paranormal explanation to decline it. If a place feels wrong to someone who might live there, choosing another option is reasonable.
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For me, the practical takeaway is that a home has to feel acceptable as well as look good on paper. The price and layout can be right and still not make it a place someone wants to live.
The later discovery is an eerie coincidence, but it doesn’t prove the feeling was a warning. It makes sense that the timing would stick with you, though.
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