10 Scariest Murder Houses That Actually Exist
The Dahmer House
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Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, having claimed seventeen lives between 1978 and 1991. The apartment in which Dahmer lived and claimed most of his victims is long gone, having been torn down shortly after the news of his crimes came to light. But the house in which he killed his first victim is still standing. Dahmer killed Steven Hicks in his Bath Township, Ohio family home back in 1978, at the age of eighteen. In 2005, the house was purchased by musician Chris Butler, who found success with a new wave band called The Waitresses. Butler allowed the movie “My Friend Dahmer” to film inside the house to lend the film a degree of authenticity.
The Dennis Nilsen Houses
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A notorious Scottish serial killer, Dennis Nilsen operated in North London and killed at least twelve people in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Nilsen would lure boys to his two London homes, strangle them, and then dispose of their remains in gruesome fashion. Both of these houses are still standing. Nilsen’s second home, located in the area of Muswell Hill, sold for nearly £300,000 in 2015. His first house, in the Cricklewood area of London, sold for £500,000 one year later, despite a warning on the listing asking prospective buyers to “research” the property. The owners of the Cricklewood home claim that they looked into it but that the house’s history doesn’t bother them.
The JonBenét Ramsey House
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The death of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was one of the biggest news stories of the ‘90s. In December of 1996, Ramsey’s father John found his deceased daughter in the basement of the family home, she having been beaten and strangled to death. The case received national attention and spurred countless theories, all of which have led nowhere; the case remains cold as of 2022. In 2004 - eight years after the unsolved homicide - the house was bought for $1 million, and the basement was completely renovated. The owners later tried selling the house throughout the late 2000s and 2010s, but had no success.
The Camden Ripper Flat
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Widely known as the Camden Ripper, Anthony Hardy killed at least three people between 2000 and 2002 and disposed of various body parts in garbage bins, resulting in his “Ripper” moniker. Hardy was eventually caught, pled guilty, and sentenced to life in prison. Hardy lived in a flat in the Camden area of London, so demolishing the entire complex was out of the question. Instead, Hardy’s flat was torn apart and renovated like new, ensuring that it lost all connection to the past and the grisly crimes that occurred within its walls. The flat remains standing on Royal College Street, and its current tenants refuse to speak to the media.
Conrad Aiken’s House
Poet Conrad Aiken had a troubled childhood. Aiken was raised in Savannah, Georgia by his mother and father, the latter of whom suffered from mental illness. On February 27, 1901, Aiken’s father took the lives of his wife and himself, and their bodies were discovered by an eleven-year-old Conrad. Aiken was sent to live with his great-aunt and uncle and later won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The home remains standing on Savannah’s East Oglethorpe Avenue, its brick exterior conveying its age. Aiken moved back to Savannah in his later life and partially lived next door to his childhood home.
Stephen Griffiths’s Flat
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Between June 2009 and May 2010, Stephen Griffiths killed at least three sex workers in the Bradford area of England. It’s believed that he partially cooked various body parts in his kitchen. Two years before he struck, Griffiths was seen reading a particularly graphic book that got the police’s attention. The police contacted the owners of his apartment complex, and they increased security with surveillance equipment. It didn’t work, and Griffiths later applied his macabre fascinations to the real world. Following Griffiths’s conviction, his flat was eventually renovated with a completely new kitchen and bathroom and rented for £360 a month.
Fox Hollow Farm
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Herb Baumeister was a businessman who owned a couple thrift stores in Indianapolis. He’s also a suspected serial killer believed to have claimed at least eleven lives. In the early ‘90s, suspicion for the deaths fell on Baumeister. His wife eventually left him over his unpredictable behavior and allowed the police to search their farm - they discovered eleven men buried on the property. Baumeister took his own life before these deaths could be officially attributed to him. The property is called Fox Hollow Farm, and it still holds Baumeister’s Tudor house. Many subsequent owners have claimed that the house is haunted. As of 2019, the place is owned by a couple who purchased it in the early 2000s for just under a million dollars.
The Edmonton Shooting House
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On December 29, 2014, fifty-three-year-old Phu Lam entered a house in the Klarvatten neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and shot seven people. Most of them were his relatives, including his wife and in-laws. After that shooting, Lam made his way to another neighborhood in the south end of the city and killed another woman. All eight victims died in the spree shooting. The first house with the seven victims was put up for sale eight months after the shooting occurred and was listed “as is” for $365,000. It was purchased, and as of 2022, the house remains standing.
The Kreischer House
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Built in the late 19th century, the Kreischer House was a gift from Balthasar Kreischer to his son, Edward. Found on Staten Island, New York, the house is noted for its gorgeous architecture and is included in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. However, it also has a chilling past. It’s believed that Edward haunts the property since he took his own life in 1894. Even more chilling is a story that occurred in April 2005. The mansion’s caretaker, Joseph Young, secretly worked for the mafia and killed a man on and around the property. The man was drowned in a nearby pond and his remains were burned in the house’s furnace.
The Amityville House
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While a very popular story that has captured the imaginations of millions, “The Amityville Horror” has long generated debate over its accuracy - or lack thereof. But one thing is undeniably true - the house was the site of a vicious homicide. In the very early morning of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed his entire family inside the Amityville house. Six people were killed, and DeFeo was sent away for life. The house remains standing and is a popular tourist destination on Long Island. However, no other owners have reported any paranormal activity, and the house was last sold in 2017 for just over $600,000.
