--- title: DiedinHouse App Tells You If Someone Died In Your House description: Also tells you if there was ever a meth lab canonical: https://time.com/4085654/diedinhouse-app-death-address/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-23T21:41:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:18.124Z og:title: This App Tells You if Someone Has Died in Your House og:description: Just in time for Halloween og:url: https://time.com/4085654/diedinhouse-app-death-address/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This App Tells You if Someone Has Died in Your House twitter:description: Just in time for Halloween twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This App Tells You If Someone Died in Your House ## Video: Behind the Screams: A Haunted House's Scaring Secrets [Watch (HLS stream): Behind the Screams: A Haunted House's Scaring Secrets](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZZJrI5pS.m3u8) (3:25)  _Published 2013-10-17. Step into the shoes of Michael Jubie, co-owner of Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses, as he gives an inside look at what it's like to run one of the largest haunted houses in the nation._  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 23, 2015 9:41 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 23, 2015 9:41 PM UTC A new app promises to tell you whether someone died in a house before you buy it, so you know what kind of spooky shenanigans you might be signing up for. [DiedInHouse.com](https://www.diedinhouse.com/) will search for murders, suicides, suspicious or natural deaths that occurred at a particular address, as well as meth lab activity or fires, starting at $11.99 for a single search. That can help you decide whether you need to be actively worried about ghosts or not. The database has 4.5 million houses in it so far, according to Bloomberg Business, and customers have bought 30,000 house searches. Most people would want to know if someone had been murdered in a house they’re about to buy, but many states have lax laws about disclosing deaths and crimes to future buyers. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts law don’t require disclosure of former crimes on the property, and [Massachusetts law](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/this-startup-tracks-america-s-murder-houses) even says that “alleged supernatural phenomenon” don’t need to be disclosed in a real estate transaction. By contrast, South Dakota and Alaska require would-be buyers to be appraised of any murders or suicides on the property in the last 12 months, according to [Bloomberg. ](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/this-startup-tracks-america-s-murder-houses) In some high-profile cases, addresses are changed to conceal the morbid history of a home. That was the case with 755 15th St in Boulder Colorado, which was changed to [749 15th St ten years after 6-year old JonBenet Ramsey](http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/jun/25/features.magazine37) was murdered there in 1996\. 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