Real estate agent Ina Angove prayed silently whenever she entered one Papakura house - not for help in securing a sale, but just in case the owners really were right about the home being haunted. The family who had just moved out had told the agent of some eerie goings-on in one room. "They said the room would get very, very cold and sometimes, in the middle of the night, they would be woken by sounds coming from it, sounds of people screaming or children playing, crying or laughing. "They said they could clean it up at night and then in the morning they would find the toys had been scattered around the floor." Ms Angove claimed not to believe in ghosts - "but I said some prayers when I went inside, just in case". She worried whether she should pass the tale on to potential buyers. It was a relief when the house went to a buyer who wanted to rent it out, so the issue never came up. "It was later sold again by another agent. I've spoken to the lady there now and she is very happy." The question of how much agents should reveal hit the headlines in Sydney last week when a Taiwanese family demanded their money back after finding their $800,000 home was the scene of a gruesome multiple murder three years ago. A family spokesman told the Sydney Morning Herald: "There is no way we are moving in there. My parents are devout Buddhists and they believe that if there has been a murder in the house ... there will probably be a really bad ghost living there and that really affects the fortunes for the next family that move in."
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