Haunted addresses on record in Mississippi
What Mississippi requires
Mississippi has a specific statute saying deaths, suicides, homicides, felony crimes, and hauntings on a property are legally "non-material" facts — sellers and their agents don't have to volunteer them and can't be sued just for staying silent. But if a buyer asks directly, the seller still can't lie: an intentional or fraudulent misrepresentation in response to a direct question remains actionable.
Mississippi Code § 89-1-527 is a dedicated stigmatized-property statute. It states that the fact (or even the suspicion) that a property was the site of a natural death, suicide, homicide, or felony crime is not a "material fact" for real estate disclosure purposes, and that failure to disclose it does not give rise to a criminal, civil, or administrative action against the owner, a licensed broker, or an affiliated licensee. The same non-disclosure protection covers an "act or occurrence" (which sources describe as including reputed hauntings or paranormal activity) that had no effect on the physical condition of the property, and covers the property having been owned or occupied by someone with a disease not transmitted through common occupancy.
Mississippi has no separate death-disclosure time window like California's three-year rule (Cal. Civ. Code § 1710.2) — the statute treats death on the property as categorically non-material regardless of when it happened, so there's no lookback period to track.
The "ask rule" is explicitly written into Mississippi's statute, not just implied by case law elsewhere: § 89-1-527(3) says the non-disclosure protection "does not preclude an action against an owner of real estate who makes intentional or fraudulent misrepresentations in response to a direct inquiry from a purchaser or prospective purchaser" about these non-material facts. In plain terms — silence is fine, but a direct lie in answer to a direct question about a death or a haunting can still be sued over.
No Mississippi-specific stigmatized-property court case comparable to New York's Stambovsky v. Ackley (the famous "haunted house" ruling) turned up in available sources, so none is cited here. The statute also separately covers sex-offender-registry information, which is outside this site's scope.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Mississippi.
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