Many people believe that ghosts are the earth-bound spirits of those who have been brutally murdered, or who have unfinished business.
This little story kind of follows those lines ~

'After purchasing our house, my wife and I learned that it had been the site of a very violent murder, a result of a drug deal gone horribly awry. The victim was stabbed repeatedly, and his body left to rot in the basement of our happy home. After the murder, the police and several cleaning crews were unable to remove the dark stain that had been left as the blood oozed into the porous concrete. To this day, the stain remains.
The first night in our house was pretty uneventful, but our dog, a notoriously heavy sleeper and none-too-alert watch dog, was unusually restless, and continued to whimper throughout the night. The next evening, during the characteristic "dark and stormy night" of scary-story lore, the electricity went out. I went down to the fuse box, located where else? --the basement. This is when I first noticed the dark stain on the floor. When I bent down to touch it, I retracted my hand immediately. The floor where the stain lay was extraordinarily cold. For an instant, I thought that there was blood on my hand, but thought the better of it, and went on my way to the fuse box.
It was a few months later when we learned of our basement's atrocities from a neighbour who had assumed we knew. I was not shocked to find out that the murder had happened in our basement, and the wet stain was the exact location where the body lay. To this day, the stain remains, and every once in a while, it does appear to be wet, and is always extremely cold-a reminder of that one terrible night before the house was ours. '

That was on The Shadowlands site.

So.........another 'blood-stain' story.......what do you all think?

Hammy x x x

I think I'd have moved...

Cannot stay in a house when there's been a death.

Took me months before I was able to go into my grandmother's house after my uncle shot himself there...

Scientists would have a field day with this one! I wouldn't like to live in a house where a murder had occured either. I dont suppose anyone knows the name of the prison where a former convict placed his hand prints on a wall about a 100 year ago and they cant remove it, I'm 100% sure it's in the US?

Alone? Hell no.. never will I be caught in that house alone.

Thankfully, that won't happen

And accually some prints have been examined, forenzicly and such.

interesting, call a professional cleaner. I saw it on TV once, where these professional cleaners who deal with the aftermath of murder and other gross out crimes with blood..etc. They come in a clean the place out.
If there is carpeting, yeah get rid of that.

Since the house was purchase most people who moved into a new home have the pipes clean by a professional too, but this is not crime related.

More icksome ghostly bloodstains, Hams?!

Actually, when this last came up, wasn't there mention of a fungi called (I think), Gory Dew, or something similar.

It could account for some of these incidents, but as is usually the way with hauntings, there will be cases that stubbornly refuse to be explained away. Which makes things more fun for us, I suppose!

Has anyone got a picture of this fungi? I tried looking for it last time, but drew a blank.

Aaaaarrghh this is soooooooooooo frustrating!
I know what it looks like - we have round here...........maybe I could snap some if I see it...........

For F***'s sake!!

Still no pictures of that damn fungus!!

Anyone? Please? Pretty please?

OoooooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Get her!

Oh Hammy, shall I photograph the Gory Dew on the wall?

that cold area you talk about is where the body lays.
motionless. it won't disturb you as long as you don't
poke your hands where they don'y belong. that ghost
relives it's death. it's a repeater. the same moments happens over
and over again. when the killer dies, he too wil repeat the
performance.

Another case of phantom blood?

Medieval manor house, Smithills Hall, nr Bolton, Lancashire, is where George Marsh, a Protestant minister in the dark days of religious persecution, was brought for 'examination' by Sir Robert Barton, and implored to recant his heresy. At Smithills there remains a footprint in a flagstone near the chapel, where Marsh is said to have stamped in disgust and rage at his treatment, a footprint that takes on a blood-like hue at times.

Basements are usually cold, if its a concrete floor then the area around the blood stain would naturally be cold from the ground no?

eww, freaky, that really happened well if you see a floating knife in your house all i have to say is ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunn!!!!
muybonitanegrita

Use decarb gel, not only will it remove the stain but also some of the floor too

hi cufflink,
the technical name for this fungus is palmelleae.maybe that will help find it on the web.thanks.

Red Snow and Gory Dew. The latter is a slimy damp-like blood which appears on walls. Both are due to the presence of the algæ called by botanists Palmella cruenta and Hœmatococcus sanguineus, which are of the lowest forms of vegetable life.
Couldn't find any images tho, but will keep hunting.