r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • Jun 06 '25

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

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u/angrymoderate09 Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

it's a Christmas Miracle

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u/12108Ward Jun 06 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

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

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u/mrfluffy002 Jun 07 '25

And you're going to hear about it!

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '25

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/Zestyclose-Key492 Jun 07 '25

And the feats of strength!!

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u/NoPride8834 Jun 07 '25

Nobody leaves till they pin me!

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u/Spillsy68 Jun 06 '25

You’ll shoot your eye out

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u/Oo__II__oO Jun 06 '25

Can't wait for the Hallmark special!

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u/Dizzy-Bake9587 Jun 06 '25

…George Bailey would approve…

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u/RadioRa Jun 06 '25

i laughed WAY too hard at this

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u/squad1alum Jun 07 '25

The house on 34th Street?

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u/angrymoderate09 Jun 07 '25

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 Jun 07 '25

8 saves already. shows someone always willing to buy location based real estate imho

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u/InsuranceJerk Jun 08 '25

Land wars in Asia, going against a Sicilian with death on the line and landlording in CA. The don't do's of the don't do's.

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u/PM-me-ur-kittenz Jun 06 '25

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

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u/gsr5037 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/AlternativeFigure350 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/No-Apple2252 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 07 '25

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/AlternativeFigure350 Jun 08 '25

Also, are you in the business of reselling kids?

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u/No-Apple2252 Jun 08 '25

What no I'm trying to get a new dad, mine sucks

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u/AlternativeFigure350 Jun 08 '25

Ah! I’ll let him know!

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u/holyhandgrenadier Jun 06 '25

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/mnid92 Jun 07 '25

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/etsprout Jun 07 '25

Absolutely massive caveat there.

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u/Wallyworld77 Jun 06 '25

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] Jun 06 '25

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

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u/Wallyworld77 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/A_spiny_meercat Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

Rent it out to ghost hunters, make bank.

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u/BellacosePlayer Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

They absolutely should.

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u/anonymous237962 Jun 06 '25

Zillow link?

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u/negativeyoda Jun 06 '25

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/[deleted] Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/FortuneTellingBoobs Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/SSBN641B Jun 06 '25

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/lowballbertman Jun 06 '25

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/knit3purl3 Jun 09 '25

And it's an HOA. So immediately after buying it, you're gonna get slapped with fines because it's an eyesore.