Stigmatized property

[3] The types of stigma include: At least in the United States, the principle of caveat emptor ("let the buyer beware") was held for many years to govern sales.

[6] In Stambovsky v. Ackley the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, affirmed a narrow interpretation of the idea of stigmatized property.

Notwithstanding these conclusions, the court affirmed the dismissal of the fraudulent misrepresentation action and stated that the realtor was under no duty to disclose the haunting to potential buyers.

Their claims are supported by paranormal investigators such as Ed and Lorraine Warren and Hans Holzer, but dismissed as fraudulent by skeptics such as Robert Todd Carroll.

Another example is the house at 74 Surfside Avenue in Montauk, New York that belonged to Norman Kean, a Broadway producer who killed himself in 1988 after stabbing his wife Gwyda Donhowe over 60 times.

The Museum of the History of Tenerife , known locally as the Lercaro House, is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a young woman, the eponymous Catalina Lercaro .